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  1. I really love Monster
  3. So I think we can all agree that no other band has done what U2 did in 1991: releasing a groundbreaking, state-of-the-art album that broke with their 15 year career at their popularity peak, an album that still managed to give them new heights of critical&fan popularity and also crystallised in a critically acclaimed tour that's still recognised as one of the best music tours in history. Unique.
  4. Pearl Jam’s Self-tilted album (aka Avocado)?
  5. Her name was mentioned earlier but how about Madonna’s Ray of Light?
  6. I’m not a huge fan of it but would Some Girls by The Stones merit consideration? Also, I feel like Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks was a pretty big deal for someone who had already released a bunch of acclaimed albums.
  7. ...again, not trying to diminish AB’s status here. Just being trying to be "scientific" to ensure as many possibilities are uncovered.
  8. Originally posted by LikeASong:So I think we can all agree that no other band has done what U2 did in 1991: releasing a groundbreaking, state-of-the-art album that broke with their 15 year career at their popularity peak, an album that still managed to give them new heights of critical&fan popularity and also crystallised in a critically acclaimed tour that's still recognised as one of the best music tours in history. Unique.
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  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:So I think we can all agree that no other band has done what U2 did in 1991: releasing a groundbreaking, state-of-the-art album that broke with their 15 year career at their popularity peak, an album that still managed to give them new heights of critical&fan popularity and also crystallised in a critically acclaimed tour that's still recognised as one of the best music tours in history. Unique.
    This.

    Bowie constantly reinvented himself in the 70's: Diamond Dogs is different from Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane; Young Americans is still something else; Station to Station is yet another leap forward; the Berlin triology; and finally Scary Monsters.

    But Bowie wasn't a band!

    I also would argue that the shift from JT/R&H to AB was probably more drastic than any shift between any Bowie album and the next.

    What's peculiar about AB is not only that it broke with pretty much everything U2 had been up to until then - it is also its consistency (all terrific songs) and success. Bowie's output in the 70's was consistently stellar. But he only had one Big Album, Ziggy Stardust. U2 had two, JT and AB. And they're completely different.
  10. Yesssssssss.
  11. Originally posted by LikeASong:So I think we can all agree that no other band has done what U2 did in 1991: releasing a groundbreaking, state-of-the-art album that broke with their 15 year career at their popularity peak, an album that still managed to give them new heights of critical&fan popularity and also crystallised in a critically acclaimed tour that's still recognised as one of the best music tours in history. Unique.
    More like Eno/Lanois ,U2 were the poster boys for their sonic adventures.
  12. You're talking about the wrong album. The Unforgettable Fire thread is here.