The most underrated, most prophetic album of all time

Review Score: (10/10)
Words cannot express how much I love this album. Lyrically it's the best U2 album ( see Discotheque, Staring at the Sun, Please, Gone, and If God Will Send His Angels) to the 1997 point in their career. The songs all have PHATTY beats that won't stop. It's hard to pick a favorite song. Although currently it's the "unfinished" "If God Will Send His Angels" which sees Bono and the boys waiting for the big guy to send his soldiers to earth as a remedy to how messed up everything is. Great lyrics- "the next minute you're blowing a fuse and the cartoon network turns into the news- If God Will Send His Angels, sure could use them here right now." Personally, I like this extended version a lot better than the "perfected" single version. POP was a bit ahead of its time (typically U2) when released, but I think if it were re-released today, with proper editing, it would sell a lot more than in 1997, not that 8 million is bad. Track number 11 ("please") on studio album 9 (pop) - 9/11, "please" contains these lyrics "September, streets capsizing, spilling over down the drain, shards of glass, splinters like rain, you could only feel your own pain, october, talk getting nowhere, november, december, remember, we just started again." If that ain't a prophecy I dunno what is. So stop contemplating and go out and buy one of the most rewarding modern rock albums. If you like "The Fly" on Achtung Baby, then you will feel like this album was made for you. I just wish I would've been into U2 at the time this was released so I could've seen their greatest tour, POPMART, live. BTW, down with the Joshua Tree, and long live POP!

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