26-01-2014, 23:40
It's Achtung Baby and then Joshua Tree. As a band all their early work is fairly solid however, I really think from the beginning they were a band who were always searching for who they were yet this search was always at war with another fight for who they wanted to be. This always turned me off from them. I think this is fairly documented on Rattle and Hum and became super evident over the tours encasing Achung through Zooropa, at which point dressing up in costumes and wearing make-up took importance over the music. A fairy boring, sonically dead band with a singer who is the rock version of Bozo the clown came soon after.