The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

[Nee Lewman]

This is my favorite penguin:

 

[Nee Lewman]

While I did enjoy Danny DeVito, I'm particularly (and pleasantly surprised to be) excited by Colin Farrell.

Mr. Farrell lives to excite you.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Kind of dead in here today. We could at least be talking about our favorite types of penguin. Everyone always says Emperor but I've always been partial to the Gentoo.

Rockhoppers!

 

[CrazyDiamond84]

Kind of dead in here today. We could at least be talking about our favorite types of penguin. Everyone always says Emperor but I've always been partial to the Gentoo.

Little Blue Penguins, easily.

 

[CrazyDiamond84]

Also, be nice to my little penguin band.

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Kind of dead in here today. We could at least be talking about our favorite types of penguin. Everyone always says Emperor but I've always been partial to the Gentoo.

Penguins are one of my favorite animals! Gotta shout out my favorite fictional penguin

 

[Nee Lewman]

4/4/24

U2 - The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree - U2 | Album | AllMusic

The Joshua Tree by U2 released in 1987. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

www.allmusic.com

 

[Nee Lewman]

I think U2 released 3 perfect albums and this is one of them.

 

[avecigrec]

The only U2 album I'd ever consider owning.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Also, my poor wife. She dislikes U2 and this week my daily listening projects have also subjected her to Poison and Skid Row.

 

[Nee Lewman]

The only U2 album I'd ever consider owning.

I have most of them on CD. I only have Achtung! Baby on vinyl. Surprisingly, that is not one of the three.

 

[avecigrec]

Also, my poor wife. She dislikes U2 and thus week my daily listening projects have also subjected her to Poison and Skid Row.

Bless our wives for what they put up with from us!

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Also, my poor wife. She dislikes U2 and this week my daily listening projects have also subjected her to Poison and Skid Row.

You’re dead.

 

[Bohnjaggs]

The only U2 album I'd ever consider owning.

I only own Achtung Baby and I don't even like U2

 

[jamieanderson1968]

I have everything up to Unforgettable Fire. My roommate was a big U2 fan and bought Joshua Tree the day it came out and played it non-spot, so much so that I never what to hear it again.

 

[Joe Mac]

I think U2 released 3 perfect albums and this is one of them.

I don’t know that I could say U2 have a perfect album. That thing they do where all the big hits are front loaded means they’re all a little unbalanced. This one suffers from that but is probably the most consistent album they released. War and Boy are probably the two albums of theirs that I enjoy the most.

 

[Whiteout75]

I kinda enjoyed Penguin Cafe Orcestra. I listened while I was grading papers and it gave the whole experience a cinematic sheen.
The Joshua Tree is my second favorite U2 album. Achtung Baby is their masterpiece imo. I’ve never really got on the “hate U2”-train either. Sure, their output since “Pop” has been pretty uneven, (or bad even), but that happens to most acts as they get older. But the run from War to Zooropa (yes, I rate that as one of their greats) is pretty untouchable.

 

[Joe Mac]

I’ve never really got on the “hate U2”-train either.

Let’s be honest a lot of it, rightly or wrongly, is Bono.

 

[Whiteout75]

Let’s be honest a lot of it, rightly or wrongly, is Bono.

Yeah, you're probably right. And he surely comes off as a pretentious prick, and I've laugh hard at a lot of Bono jokes through the years. But he's also a millionaire who actually gives a fuck and tries to make a difference, and puts his money where his mouth is most of the time, so I really got nothing against him.

 

[dbarila]

Let’s be honest a lot of it, rightly or wrongly, is Bono.

U2 is my favorite band and I recognize that Bono can be annoying/egotistical/embarrassing.

Also, The Joshua Tree probably isn't even a top 5 U2 album for me. For reasons you said earlier, it's very front loaded. The radio hits got way overplayed and the back end has some weaknesses.