Originally posted by vanquish:I like the song October.
Originally posted by Doc32:[..]
That pretty much sums up my personal thoughts on the album
Originally posted by drewhiggins:I......... Far better than ATYCLB and HTDAAB.
Originally posted by vanquish:
I doubt that very much, despite the low standards of ATYCLB and HTDAAB.
At least they produced some hit songs.
October lies in the no man's land between U2's mainstream albums (like those two) and their more artistic ones (JT, Zooropa, Pop etc).
It's not pop and has no great artistic merit either.
Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
Just because an album produces no hit singles, doesn't mean it's not any good.
I couldn't honestly give a flying fuck about being pop (popular) and having artistic merit. Does everything by U2 need to be artistic? They're a rock band - what (true) rock bands are honestly making artistic rock that would be mainstream?
Artistic merit died in the 90s. Rock and roll doesn't stop the traffic anymore.
Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]
There is no way October comes close to the two aforementioned works. It just doesn't. There are really no memorable songs on it for me, and I don't like that it was regarded so high on the Christian chart.
Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
Just because an album produces no hit singles, doesn't mean it's not any good.
I couldn't honestly give a flying fuck about being pop (popular) and having artistic merit. Does everything by U2 need to be artistic? They're a rock band - what (true) rock bands are honestly making artistic rock that would be mainstream?
Artistic merit died in the 90s. Rock and roll doesn't stop the traffic anymore.
In mainstream and critical, it's about as far as you can get from the other well-known albums.
In being an interesting and unusual album, it's about as close as you can get from U2.
Originally posted by BonoGlasses:I really love October, i've had urges to listen to it as of lately and it comes across as really powerful to me, don't know why, I just love it.