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  1. I still absolutely love NLOTH, Magnificent and Breathe
  3. With 68 pages on here, I may have posted this, lol, but on the Deluxe albums thread, I noted in full detail that NLOTH should have been this instead:


    Soon
    Breathe
    Magnificient
    Window In The Skies
    No Line On The Horizon
    Get On Your Boots
    Stand Up Comedy
    Being Born(Hold The Fez Please)
    I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
    Winter(Star Trek Opera Theme ending removed)
    Moment Of Surrender
    Cedars Of Lebanon

    And the album has aged well for me. I have listened to it at least 100 times since 2015, and SOI much less...
  5. stand up comedy is the best song of the album
    i'll go crazy if i don't go crazy tonight is a very good song
    get on your boots worst single
    breathe is not too good as I thought
  6. Very fond of NLOTH - listening to it again just now. Would be even more fond if they'd ditched Boots, Crazy, and probably Stand Up too. Stand Up might have just made the cut if I'd had a say, but only just. IMO Boots and Crazy are average at best, don't interest me at all, and Stand Up jarred with the rest of the album. Winter should have made it onto the original listing (i.e. not just Linear - still amused that I never got 'round to watching that, by the way..).
  7. First album I bought with my own money haha
  8. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Very fond of NLOTH - listening to it again just now. Would be even more fond if they'd ditched Boots, Crazy, and probably Stand Up too. Stand Up might have just made the cut if I'd had a say, but only just. IMO Boots and Crazy are average at best, don't interest me at all, and Stand Up jarred with the rest of the album. Winter should have made it onto the original listing (i.e. not just Linear - still amused that I never got 'round to watching that, by the way..).
    I can give you a full review of Linear in a few words: Much much better than 5 Cent Hotel where some people walk around Mumbling and Bumbling, with no story or plot or reason to exist. Linear is the complex story of a man riding a Motorcycle around for hours for no apparent reason, so you can watch it, and ponder the creation of Oven Mitts, and other important things. That sums up Linear
  9. Originally posted by pleasegone:[..]
    I can give you a full review of Linear in a few words: Much much better than 5 Cent Hotel where some people walk around Mumbling and Bumbling, with no story or plot or reason to exist. Linear is the complex story of a man riding a Motorcycle around for hours for no apparent reason, so you can watch it, and ponder the creation of Oven Mitts, and other important things. That sums up Linear
    amazing work.
  10. When you are young and discovering a group and their work for the first time, the way that music imprints on you is magical. I totally get why some people love this record, but I don't feel that way.

    I wonder if there are any fans, for whom 1987-1993 were the magical years, that champion NLOTH?
  11. Terrible record which on the initial recordings had greatness, a gigantic mess full of a midlife crisis for all involved.
  12. The album has grown on me a lot. It is probably one of their greatest albums in my opinion. But it's one I have appreciated more with time, and hearing it again I would say it should be in my top 5 not lower.

    The album reminds me a lot of The Unforgettable Fire, which experiments with a lot of U2's sound in helping U2 create new soundscapes.

    There's a part of me, that is still very curious where the next album after NLOTH would have went had they stuck with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, given that U2 experimented with their sound on that album and developed some really interesting layers to their sound that I hadn't really heard since Achtung Baby.

    If there is one criticism for their last 2 albums it would be that I wished to have heard more of that layered sound developed from NLOTH.