I lol'd.

No more previews, just leak already.

That's nice but all I want to know is when do the tickets go on sale and where are they playing?!?!?!?!?!

Bono sucks, U2 sucks, your favorite band sucks, I only listen to underground recordings of hobos belching into empty jugs, etc.

/oblig
//Likes U2

Most idiotic self-destruction in musical history:

"When Love Comes to Town"

B.B. King shows, by contrast, what it's all about on that track. What were they smoking? It's like the ugliest girls in the school hanging out with the hottest.

Lynoitus: Bono sucks, U2 sucks, your favorite band sucks, I only listen to underground recordings of hobos belching into empty jugs, etc.

Totally not a false dichotomy.

Yay a U2 thread. Time to cue the hipper-than-though U2 haters who are torn up that U2 is more successful than their favorite band.

Nastyboy: Yay a U2 thread. Time to cue the hipper-than-though U2 haters who are torn up that U2 is more successful than their favorite band.

I'm not hip, but I hate what they've become. Talk about pretentious bands...Jesus Hitler Christ, come on now.

Nastyboy: Yay a U2 thread. Time to cue the hipper-than-though U2 haters who are torn up that U2 is more successful than their favorite band.

Also, for being a self-styled "nasty boy", you sure like some queer music. It's like Nelson Muntz going wild over Andy Williams.

Nastyboy: Yay a U2 thread. Time to cue the hipper-than-though U2 haters who are torn up that U2 is more successful than their favorite band.

As usual, Liters Love U2.

Also, U2 just sucks for reasons beyond hipster snobbery. They just don't make interesting music. At all. It's the same reason why Nickelback is popular - if you make the same song 15 times in a row, morons will love it.

Nastyboy: Yay a U2 thread. Time to cue the hipper-than-though U2 haters who are torn up that U2 is more successful than their favorite band.

awww, did someone just rip on your favorite band? :(

I love U2. I bought two tickets a few years ago for 50 a piece.

Sold them for 250 a piece.

Marla Singer's Laundry: I'm not hip, but I hate what they've become. Talk about pretentious bands...Jesus Hitler Christ, come on now.

This.

The only two U2 albums anybody needs are Boy and War. MAYBE The Joshua Tree. That's it.

FlyingPig: Marla Singer's Laundry: I'm not hip, but I hate what they've become. Talk about pretentious bands...Jesus Hitler Christ, come on now.

This.

The only two U2 albums anybody needs are Boy and War. MAYBE The Joshua Tree. That's it.

REALLY love the early stuff. Some people just don't know when to move on though. I can name at least four.

omahatattoo: I love U2. I bought two tickets a few years ago for 50 a piece.

Sold them for 250 a piece.

wow, I didn't think U2 was good for anything.
You have enlightened me, sir.

I love u2 and the more pretentious they are the more albums I buy. I love it. Bono's the man. o0o0o0oo he's a rich rockstar that struts around o0o0oo00 he cares about the environment and donates millions of dollars worth of time and money to charity and good causes o0o0o0o0o0 burn him!

YEAAA YEAA YEAAAAA

Tell ya what, sell as many albums and concert tickets as they have and see if you're not just a bit pretentious yourself. When you accomplish as much as they have you're not acting like you're better than everyone else, you ARE better than them. I'd say they should stop being to pretentious when they start selling fewer and fewer albums.
Also, as for them "recording the same song 15 times," so what? Even if they do record the same song 15 times it's still better than all the other crap out there. Not only that but people rip them when they change (90's U2, or for that matter anything past their first few albums) and then rip them when they don't change (All That You Can't Leave Behind). Which is it people, same old stuff or new stuff? You can't rip them for doing BOTH.

Marla Singer's Laundry

Also, for being a self-styled "nasty boy", you sure like some queer music. It's like Nelson Muntz going wild over Andy Williams.

Did I say I was a fan? I couldn't care less about them. I just think most of fark U2 hate borders on hysteria and stupidity.

FlyingPig: Marla Singer's Laundry: I'm not hip, but I hate what they've become. Talk about pretentious bands...Jesus Hitler Christ, come on now.

This.

The only two U2 albums anybody needs are Boy and War. MAYBE The Joshua Tree. That's it.

to work off these two statements: you really can't play the "Pretentious Indie Hipster" card when U2's probably about as pretentious as it gets and were indie darlings in the early 80s.


I don't quite get the hate for U2, but I also don't get the love for their last few by-the-numbers albums.

meteorite: Tell ya what, sell as many albums and concert tickets as they have .

Don't have to be able to lay an egg to tell if one is rotten.

FeedTheCollapse: I don't quite get the hate for U2, but I also don't get the love for their last few by-the-numbers albums.

They did their 90's albums (which I personally loved) but most people hated because they were different than their previous stuff. They learned their lesson and then started making albums that they knew people would like by going back to their older stuff which so many people claim are so great. Like I said before, I'd rather take a song rerererererecorded by U2 over most of the other crap that's out there now and apparently I'm not alone in this opinion.

meteorite: They learned their lesson and then started making albums that they knew people would like by going back to their older stuff which so many people claim are so great.

U2's last two albums are NOT "back to their older stuff". They stopped being weird, but now they just make bland radio pop.

El Chode: It's the same reason why Nickelback is popular - if you make the same song 15 times in a row, morons will love it.

So startlingly ignorant I don't know where to start.

One of the band's hallmarks, one of the thing sthat has earned them critical acclaim for years upon years, has been repeatedly reinventing their sound. Love them or hate them, either is fine by me, but to deny this is to pretty much announce your ignorance.

FlyingPig: meteorite: They learned their lesson and then started making albums that they knew people would like by going back to their older stuff which so many people claim are so great.

U2's last two albums are NOT "back to their older stuff". They stopped being weird, but now they just make bland radio pop.

Which judging by the critical and popular response seems to be working out ok for them. They tried experimental stuff. It didn't work. They make the stuff people want to hear. It is well received. Why wouldn't they?
Also, the standard of weird is different now than it was 20 years ago. What's normal today is quite revolutionary back then. Not only that but, amazingly enough, men in their 40's sound a bit different than young men. Shocking isn't it? Especially when you consider that most of their audiance has aged too. The horror of it all.....

U2 should hang it up. Their music blows lyrically and melodically (Uno, dos, tres, catorce?, meaning 1,2,3,14!), and Bono is a piss ant who wants to be granted sainthood. They absolutely suck, and it's okay if you like them. But their music means nothing to me.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: U2 should hang it up. Their music blows lyrically and melodically (Uno, dos, tres, catorce?, meaning 1,2,3,14!), and Bono is a piss ant who wants to be granted sainthood. They absolutely suck, and it's okay if you like them. But their music means nothing to me.

Wow, a band should just hang it up if they don't meet one person's approval. And people talk about U2 being full of themselves!

Stops the presses, U2's music doesn't mean anything to "TeddyRooseveltsMustache"!

U2 sucks, by the way.

meteorite: TeddyRooseveltsMustache: U2 should hang it up. Their music blows lyrically and melodically (Uno, dos, tres, catorce?, meaning 1,2,3,14!), and Bono is a piss ant who wants to be granted sainthood. They absolutely suck, and it's okay if you like them. But their music means nothing to me.

Wow, a band should just hang it up if they don't meet one person's approval. And people talk about U2 being full of themselves!

I'm not the only person in the world who has nothing but disdain for U2. Their songs all run together, and Bono really is not a very good singer. I'm sure their last few albums were auto-tuned, because the man lacks talent. If I could sum up U2 in a sentence fragment, it would be "depressing, lousy music for teen movies".

meteorite: Like I said before, I'd rather take a song rerererererecorded by U2 over most of the other crap that's out there now and apparently I'm not alone in this opinion.

sorry, but I won't let "the other crap out there" set the bar that low. If newer U2 is the best you can find, that's pretty sad. I can't say newer U2 is bad, but it's not terribly interesting.

shoegaze99: So startlingly ignorant I don't know where to start.

Yes, because a headline where the singer describes the music in the terms of a previous album is clearly indicative of their ability to reinvent oneself.

At least AC/DC has the big balls to admit they only really have 8 songs

Rolling Stone greenlight trifecta complete.

/Who's the admin who works for RS?

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

I will reserve judgment of the latest U2 discoontil such time as I have heard it, and have formed an opinion.

meteorite: They tried experimental stuff. It didn't work.

Didn't work for who? Their trilogy of 90s albums are excellent.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: I'm sure their last few albums were auto-tuned

Bono's worn-out, cracking voice begs to differ.

Came for the Yea, Yea, Yea ... left satisfied !


/// U-2... shoot it down.

I think I am the only person in the world that actually purchased a DVD copy of "Rattle and Hum"

/actually used "Hawkmoon 269" for my wedding video
//funny thing is, I'm more of a passive, greatest hits kind of U2 fan

amoricanCrowe: I think I am the only person in the world that actually purchased a DVD copy of "Rattle and Hum"

You think wrongly.

FYI, Under a Blood Red Sky is finally out on DVD.

I'm in the "doesn't care for recent U2" camp. But Achtung Baby is one a best farking albums ever made. In any genre. Upon release it was roundly trashed by a lot of U2 faithful, but history has definitely been kind to it. For some reason (to my ear, anyway), they just went straight to Suck after that. But that album was incredibly ballsy and defiant both in tone and in departure from that 'U2 sound.' And the tour was pretty mind-blowing, too.

Already Disturbed: meteorite: They tried experimental stuff. It didn't work.

Didn't work for who? Their trilogy of 90s albums are excellent.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: I'm sure their last few albums were auto-tuned

Bono's worn-out, cracking voice begs to differ.

Stay Cool Babylon: I'm in the "doesn't care for recent U2" camp. But Achtung Baby is one a best farking albums ever made. In any genre. Upon release it was roundly trashed by a lot of U2 faithful, but history has definitely been kind to it. For some reason (to my ear, anyway), they just went straight to Suck after that. But that album was incredibly ballsy and defiant both in tone and in departure from that 'U2 sound.' And the tour was pretty mind-blowing, too.

Don't get me wrong, I think their 3 albums from the 90's were their best. Most people, however, didn't particularly agree though, at least with the last two.

BTW, the girl I took to "Zoo TV" in '92 or so actually said, "Bono is so sexy I'd fark him in front of my mother."

There wasn't much for me to say to that. I do remember thinking, "Jesus, I'm standing right here!" I guess it doesn't matter, because I got some later that night and poor Bono had to be content with his millions of panty-drowning female fans. Sucker!

Is this the thread where all the kids who've heard three U2 songs on the radio whine about how they all sound the same?

/Achtung Baby sounds like nothing else on earth
//Boy is a classic Echo and the Bunnymen-Joy Division-new wave crossover

I wish U2 would have stuck to their Joshua Tree guns. That album was incredible and a nice edition to their impressive catalog at the time. Ever since Discotheque, however, they have done nothing but stain their once impeccable record. Maybe this one will turn things around. One can hope.

El Chode: It's the same reason why Nickelback is popular - if you make the same song 15 times in a row, morons will love it.

OK, don't like U2 all you want, but to say they descend to Nickelback suckitude, or that they write the same song over and over, well, that's a special kind of fail.

Nastyboy: I just think most of fark U2 hate borders on hysteria and stupidity.

This. It's like you all just make up shiat and see what sticks.

Stay Cool Babylon: For some reason (to my ear, anyway), they just went straight to Suck after that.

A lot of people feel that way. But "Pop" is actually a concept album (a fact that, AFAIK, the band has never talked much about), and after I finally understood it, it became a lot more listenable.

(Hint: watch the video for "Please", then go back and listen to "Do you feel loved" and "Playboy Mansion".)

Radiohead sucks.


/Wrong thread?

Most idiotic self-destruction in musical history:

"When Love Comes to Town"

B.B. King shows, by contrast, what it's all about on that track. What were they smoking? It's like the ugliest girls in the school hanging out with the hottest.

But Bono wrote that song, for BB King.

Best albums in order

Actung
War
Pop
Zooropa
Rattle & Hum (just delete the bad songs)
Joshua (no more, no more, please)
Unforgetable Fire
ATYCLB
HTDAAB
Boy
Passengers
October (one good song)

"The point is," he said, "that people like you and me, Slartibartfast, and Arthur--particularly and especially Arthur--are just dilettantes, eccentrics, layabouts if you like."
Slartibartfast frowned, partly in puzzlement and partly in umbrage. He started to speak.
"...." is as far as he got.
"We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford.
"...."
"And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."

/or, don't argue with U2 homers.
/signed, a U2 homer.