"Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit U2's ninth studio album, an unexpected-and contentious-zig-zag into sounds inspired by hip-hop and dance."
"For as long as they've been making music, U2 have been afraid of being boring. That might sound like an odd thing to say of a band whose most recent album is a nearly three-hour, 40-track compilation of acoustic covers of their own back catalog, but the impulse to stun, bewilder, and confound has been an animating motivation since their formation in Dublin in the mid-1970s."
"I do think that we live right now at a time, the fag end of the 20th century, where there's a lot of nostalgia, and the musical climate is like karaoke. People aren't liking things because they are great. They're liking them because they remind people of something that was great."
"It was a complaint that Bono sounded often around the release of Pop, U2's ninth studio album and-depending on what kind of U2 fan you ask-either their most interesting, most challenging, or least successful."
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