1. It was a pleasure writing this. Hopefully my take on Acrobat wasn't too long and winding...
  2. Thank you all for sharing
  3. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Listening to this on vinyl tonight and am reminded by this article about how brilliant the trilogy on side 4 is - Ultraviolet, Acrobat and Love Is Blindness. We’ve recently shared thoughts on albums with the best opening three songs but is there any album, U2 or otherwise, that finishes as strongly as this?
    Think you might be right.
  4. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Listening to this on vinyl tonight and am reminded by this article about how brilliant the trilogy on side 4 is - Ultraviolet, Acrobat and Love Is Blindness. We’ve recently shared thoughts on albums with the best opening three songs but is there any album, U2 or otherwise, that finishes as strongly as this?


    There isn't. For my reckoning it's because the last three songs are a trilogy with a definitive beginning, middle, and end.

    (...but the ending ain't happy.)
  5. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Listening to this on vinyl tonight and am reminded by this article about how brilliant the trilogy on side 4 is - Ultraviolet, Acrobat and Love Is Blindness. We’ve recently shared thoughts on albums with the best opening three songs but is there any album, U2 or otherwise, that finishes as strongly as this?
    maybe Pop could be a strong rival in this on but AB is definitely stronger
  6. I think Pop's final three in their unfinished states just can't touch AB, but in songs as their own right - you have a point. The reason I have to disagree is the weakness of Wake Up Dead Man.

    It's not anywhere near its full potential as a song.
  7. All three of the last songs on Pop could have been so much better in a studio format but individually they're all incredibly great songs. Please and Velvet Dress were so impressive live that they became a different monster into songs we vastly appreciate to this day. But you're definitely right about Wake Up Dead Man - it just never felt finished.
  8. The three final songs on Pop are the highlight of the album for me.

    Nothing "unfinished" about them whatsoever to these ears.
  9. Originally posted by djerdap:The three final songs on Pop are the highlight of the album for me.

    Nothing "unfinished" about them whatsoever to these ears.
    Not even the bass part in the wrong key at the start of Please?
  10. It really is time for a 25th Super Edition of POP with all of the many versions. Fans are hurting right now, the kinda hurt only a proper remaster will fix.
  11. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this article - great reads across all of them.

    AB stands at the top for me. It’s the only album I own that at different times over the years 10 of 12 songs have been my “favorite” on the album at one time or another. I just never get sick of it.
  12. Pop essays next then? Volunteers, please send your intentions via postcard please.