Underrated Record Club #3-U2's Pop
"It starts out at a party and ends with a funeral." This is the way Bono once described Pop , U2's ninth album. Released in the spring of 1997, it went on to sell more than 8 million copies worldwide and spawned the massive and daring PopMart Tour. Yet with all that success and fame it seems that fans, critics, and even the band members themselves have issues with this album. Out of every album in their catalogue this one seems to divide fans more than any other. Some find it brilliant and daring, a strong statement of the band's depth and willingness to experiment while others claim it's an unfinished and overblown album that didn't live up to it's potential. As a diehard U2 fan I've always loved this album and the approach the band took. Just because it "ends with a funeral" doesn't mean it isn't worth attending. After the experimental and dark industrial sounds of Achtung Baby in 1991 U2 had proven themselves to be masters of rein...