Pop is definitely one of the top 3 U2 CDs for me. I was stunned when it was panned so harshly when it came out. I was revelling in the sound of the CD. NONE of the music is techno, not even mofo. For real techno music, find some Plaid or Orbital. Mofo has some industrial leanings, but it's basically a driving, rhythmic track which bursts with emotion. It is electronic in nature, but IMO, that doesn't make it techno.

This CD has what I consider to be the BEST U2 single ever, "If God Would Send His Angels". The remixed version on the single is a bit better than this album version, but the album version is no slouch.

Then you have Please with that glorious bassline and ominous sound and, what I think is hilarious, "The Playboy Mansion" which hauled out all the topical cheesy American society issues at that time.

There are some of U2's best melodies on this CD too--very very melodic CD including aforementioned "If God Will Send His Angels", "Please", and "Do You Feel Loved". This CD IS NOT EXPERIMENTAL. It is a good artistic statement by U2, but it is VERY listenable and deep nonetheless.

From the starting, accessible, track of Discoteque, on to "Do You Feel Loved", which is a real jam, through the closer of "Wake Up Dead Man", this is a GREAT POP/ROCK CD that was horribly and wrongly maligned for years. This CD is excellent.

After all that HTDAAB hype and the dissapointing, commercial and boring outcome, this album Pop is an awesome masterpiece.

Without a doubt, the most underrated ( even wrongly by the band !! ) U2 album ever. I'm 27 so I remember perfectly well those years. Pop, unlike what seems to be now, was acclaimed by all people, including U2 themselves. It's weird the fact that, having sold more than 9 million copies, having performed their most succesfully tour ever, Pop Mart ( even bigger than the famous Zoo TV ), etc, the band finally have decide to play safe and innocent music just for the charts, grammy and money. I still don't understand why they decided to sell out to that commercial world, by making safe, unexperimental and predictable albums like ATYCLB and HTDAAB.

Just Mofo alone is far better than anything both from ATYCLB and HTDAAB. U2 had many things to say, unlike what's happening now. Please is one of the truly best ever U2 songs, as well Staring At The Sun, Gone, Discotheque, etc. Don't listen to "new mixes" from the failed Best of 1990-2000, listen to original versions instead !!.

If you want to listen to the exciting and fresh U2, listen to these 90's albums.

Pop is the longest U2 album, and clearly one of the truly best, because IT'S AN ALBUM, not 11 songs for grammy awards, like ATYCLB and HTDAAB are. It's very dark, deep, different, etc, not the 2000 U2, a band who's just copying themselves trying to sound like "classic" 80's times.

You won't find any U2 album like Pop, because Pop doesn't sound like Zooropa, nor Achtung Baby, etc ( unlike HTDAAB, which clearly sounds like ATYCLB ) Pop itself is a whole new U2 era.

ENJOY IT

My title says it all. The record is brimming with genuine emotion, beautiful and complex imagery and music, and lyrics that are at once passive and fire-breathing.

Pop is a concept album of sorts, not musically, there are no recurring musical ideas or phrases, but thematically. The underlying theme in this album is humanity's increasing alienation and abandonment in the modern world. Pop is just full of intensity, innovation and originality.

Pop is a work of genius, non mainstream U2. It`s modern day Sgt Pepper.

I love this album. The whole record is absolutely glorious. This album is truly their last work of art. After this masterpiece, U2 misses the point of creative artistic expression and evolution, pertaining to a much more marketable and consumer-friendly mainstream. What a pity!.

IMO, this is U2's last defining moment. A masterpiece of emotional exploration; Pop is not an album to be missed.

If you have'nt heard this album, well your missing out on a lot.

To start of with......its actually the only U2 album that really "rocks" if you know what I mean.

I was pleasantly surprised when I actually heard some of the songs off this album that I had'nt heard before like "If God Will Send His Angels" "Please" "Do You Feel Loved" and "Mofo"

I've read how alot of people have written its

"U2 going techno".......mmmmmmm or maybe thats just what people and critics said at the time - in fact I doubt many people actually know what this album is really like, as its appallingly underappreciated and misunderstood if you ask me.

Probably just cause it was'nt a huge commercial success like "All that you can't leave behind" or the dissapointment

(on the whole as an album ) "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.

my opinion is that nothing on this album sounds remotley like techno at all, in fact it just simply is'nt techno at all.

The only thing you could call techno (even slightly) is Mofo and that is actually electronic rock.

The reason this is the "BEST" U2 album is because its

1. Not a commercial marketing scheme.

2. Its U2 reinventing themselves and pulling it off with fine style

3. Its the only U2 album that really "rocks"

4. It sounds great from start to finish

5. Musically it is varied and guitar wise it just pushes the limits of what you can do with a guitar "Big thumbs up to The Edge!"

Don't listen to the others who say its a failure because it does'nt sound like the original U2, they just don't know what to make of it.

U2s most impressive and addicting album.