What´s the reason for their success? what was the secret recipe to what they cooked?
>what if post punk but top 40 music
>>130015583You mean like The Cure and Joy Division?
>>130015524chaotic good had bot farms in local dive bars
>>130015618the cure are goth you plebe.joy division is pure post punk though
>>130015618>if people like something it's top 40You are a retard
>>130015524>what was the secret recipe to what they cooked?11 herbs and spices
>>130015843They literally had top 40 hits, cunt
>>130015843u2 to joy division are like cold play to radiohead
>>130016012Joy Division has like 3 good songs and Radiohead are dogshit.
>>130015524coa
>>130015858the only true answer
>>130015524Their unique sound and timing. The mid 80s were the perfect climate for their "post-punk but make it positive and earnest". Their performance at Live Aid was the breakthrough.By the late 80s the market was getting saturated from all the bright, glossy sounding stuff in the pop charts and was turning to more rootsy sounds and aesthetics (see the turn from glam metal like Poison to sleaze rock like GnR, Springsteen's and Suzanne Vegas success, etc.) This was, again, the perfect climate for the new sound they had cultivated after War and Unforgettable Fire (big, cinematic, and atmospheric but rooted in americana and blues). The 3 opening tracks of The Joshua Tree being timeless was just the right boost they needed to superstardom.Then the 90s arrived and they managed to be one of the few 80s mainstream bands to not only adapt but arguably increase their momentum. The new ironic mega-rockstar posture, the groundbreaking ZooTV and Popmart tours, the fusion of their sound with dance, alternative, ambient and industrial influences, it all made for the best chapter of their careers, proving hugely influential (Radiohead and all the "post-britpop" bands that followed).
>>130021462Then came the 00s and after the commercial failure of Pop they stopped any and all kinds of risk taking and started churn out the safest possible tunes combining all their past sounds. The occasional chart hitting tune and huge tours managed to turn them into a money-making machine, but their reputation got completely destroyed from over-exposure and general corniness.
