How about no?

shiatty bands
Doing shiatty covers
Of
shiatty songs

Damn.

Subby is getting pushy.

Since when did Achtung Baby become U2's best work and worthy of any kind of remake? IMHO that is one of the shiattiest albums they ever made. Its when they went from being Irish rockers to some artsy fartsy coffe house crap. Give me Rattle and Hum or give me death!

AB is the last U2 album I liked a majority of the songs on. I'll give some quick listens to see if I like. I'll always like that line from Zoo Station. "Time is a train, makes the future the past. You're standing in the station your faced pressed up against the glass.'

They all suck because, duh!

As much as I know they couldn't be worse than the original versions, I would allow you to remove my toenails with a pair of rusty, slipping pliers before I would voluntarily listen to any of this.

Covers of crap are still crap.

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Mugombie: shiatty bands
Doing shiatty covers
Of
shiatty songs

I'll actually admit to liking Achtung Baby, but the only one of those covers that was listenable was Damien Rice's version of "One."

Otherwise, they are terrible.

link is proper farked.

Sapper_Topo: Its when they went from being Irish rockers to some artsy fartsy coffe house crap. Give me Rattle and Hum or give me death!

So you're ranting about artistic self indulgence by promoting the album where the boys from Ireland pretended they were from the Mississippi Delta and recorded at Sun Studios?

Who is this? Patti Smith? She blows. Definitely no Marilyn Manson or Disturbed.

Or you can listen to Morrisey's most favourite album of all time (new window)

I'll give this a listen when I get home from work.

/not gonna hate till I try it

rudemix: AB is the last U2 album I liked a majority of the songs on. I'll give some quick listens to see if I like. I'll always like that line from Zoo Station. "Time is a train, makes the future the past. You're standing in the station your faced pressed up against the glass.'


Zooropa was pretty good though it had some crap on it.....POP was a bold move but musically doesn't hold up at all....ATYCLB was pretty good an dhas some good songs. Atom Bomb was basically ATYCLB's outtakes IMO.

I really, really, really liked NLOTH. Tremendously underrated. The great "mistakes" with that album are that it was produced as an album, a coherent "musical journey" (subtle?) that the listener should ingest in one stitting. I always say it was produced in an 70s/80s music industry model but in the iTunes "on demand" era. That hurt it. Second, they picked one of the second or third tier tunes ("Boots") as the single. Stupid move. "Magnificent" should have been the single. That is one of the best U2 songs of the last 20 years. That is one of the all time best U2 songs.

I don't think it was ever realesed as a single (they later tied "Crazy Tonight" to a Blackberry TV commercial, I believe, and by then gave up on any hope of NLOTH being a commerical hit so no more singles came out IIRC.)

I listen to NLOTH pretty regularly. I think it is farking outstanding. There's a couple of crap songs on it but by and large, "Unknown Caller", Magnificent, someo thers, some farking outstanding tunes on it.

/whatever happened to "Songs of Ascent"? Amazon's european sites said it was set for a May 2011 release and well, here we are in damn near November and nothing.

Sapper_Topo: Give me Rattle and Hum or give me death!

Yeah!! Rock on!! \m/ \m/

*BANG*

*thud*

rofl, it's a crybaby thread! Waaah, I dont like anything but what i like and covers blow, waaaaah.
Sometimes you Farkers make me wish I wasn't part of Fark.

Certain the obligitory 'welcome to fark' will be posted. Or some other related wah wah boo hoo defensive response. :)
Prove me right. PROVE ME RIGHT! ;)

InmanRoshi: Who is this? Patti Smith? She blows. Definitely no Marilyn Manson or Disturbed.

my favorite Patti Smith story.....she was on some tv show once, a tribute concert or whatever, and me and my dad were watching it. at one point, my dad goes, "who is he? He's really good. He can really sing." Holding back laughter, i'm like, "yup, he is really good, pop. He really is...."


InmanRoshi: So you're ranting about artistic self indulgence by promoting the album where the boys from Ireland pretended they were from the Mississippi Delta and recorded at Sun Studios?

It's a musical jair-r-r-r-r-r--r-ney.

yeah, in retrospect, they look like shiatheads. Who cares. we all do stupid shiat when we're 25. they had the misfrotune of preservng it.

CSB: the Sun Devil Stadium portionf of R+H were my first concert; on the silver screen, I was able to pick myself out. Not so much on the TV screen.

Whatever music it is I hate it. Whatever beer it is I hate it.

CavalierEternal: Link is f*cked

Try deleting all fark from the address and going there directly.

1. Nine Inch Nails, "Zoo Station"
2. U2, "Even Better Than the Real Thing" (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
3. Damien Rice, "One"
4. Patti Smith, "Until The End Of The World"
5. Garbage, "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses"
6. Depeche Mode, "So Cruel"
7. Gavin Friday, "The Fly"
8. Snow Patrol, "Mysterious Ways"
9. The Fray, "Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World"
10. The Killers, "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"
11. Glasvegas, "Acrobat"
12. Jack White, "Love Is Blindness"

Here are YouTube uploads of each song.

Link (new window)

That Depeche Mode cover of So Cruel is off the chizzain. Fark me if those lads aren't hitting their prime at 50.

All these band sound like U2, WTF????

InmanRoshi: That Depeche Mode cover of So Cruel is off the chizzain. Fark me if those lads aren't hitting their prime at 50.


Quietly a masterpiece on AB.

Larry's drumming is nonpareil, and Edge's guitar textures are amazing, especially the second half of the song.

that is perhaps one of Bono's best and most dynamic vocals ever.

rickythepenguin: a coherent "musical journey" (subtle?)

Not to U2 fans it isn't. ;-)

And I think I like Pop better than you do. Did nothing for me when it was released, now I go back to multiple tracks from it, like Discotheque, Playboy Mansion, If You Wear That Velvet Dress.

Achtung Baby will always be my favorite from them. No contest.

Sapper_Topo: Since when did Achtung Baby become U2's best work and worthy of any kind of remake?

It's not. It's the non-metal equivalent of the Black Album - it's an enjoyable listen but it's also marks a major shift away from the band's original concept (post punk protest songs) to a more commercially accessible pop sound.

Depeche Mode?

I liked Achtung Baby and still listen to most tracks pretty often. Tryin to Throw Your Arms Around the World, So Cruel, Acrobat, Ultra Violet (Light My Way), Until the End of the World, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses and Zoo Station are all really good songs. Not sure how interested I am in hearing the covers though.

The Joshua Tree is their best album full stop. Certainly one of the best albums of all time as well. Unforgettable Fire and Rattle & Hum are thoroughly great albums as well.

Once Bono went full-on Mephisto/Fly it started feeling like they were trying too hard to project an image to kerp up with the kids and I couldn't get into their music much after that.

I love how fashionable it is to hate on U2, then everytime they come through the US on a tour these same shiat-heads pay $100 a ticket and spend the next week on Facebook saying "ZOMG, U2 is soooo awesome" before they go back to going back to I'm-too-cool-for-your-music hater hipsters.

/You must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that.

I dig me some Patti Smith, Garbage and Depeche.

I still choose to sit this one out.

acefox1: Once Bono went full-on Mephisto/Fly it started feeling like they were trying too hard to project an image to kerp up with the kids and I couldn't get into their music much after that.

If you get a chance, watch the Showtime film "From the Sky Down." It's pretty apparent the band weren't happy with their serious, overly-earnest arrogant appearance after Rattle and Hum. Almost all of Achtung Baby (Mephisto/Fly) included is a reaction to this and an attempt to "cut down the Joshua Tree."

I love how fashionable it is to hate on U2, then everytime they come through the US on a tour these same shiat-heads pay $100 a ticket and spend the next week on Facebook saying "ZOMG, U2 is soooo awesome" before they go back to going back to I'm-too-cool-for-your-music hater hipsters.

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/just the way it is.

In retrospect... I guess I don't miss the Music tab at all. This thread is a good reminder of why it had to die.

Now all we need are a couple of slobbering TEM posts decrying "hipsters," and the whine-a-rama failfest will be complete.

Wow on all the U2 hate. Who knew?

Is it the cool thing now?

Anyway...love U2. Would like to pick up this CD somehow, although that may be a challenge in the states.

I like all of their albums to a greater or lesser degree.

Really love a lot of Pop which I think might be their most underrated album.

/Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I know...I know

rickythepenguin: that is perhaps one of Bono's best and most dynamic vocals ever.

Definitely some of Bono's best lyrical prose.

acefox1: I love how fashionable it is to hate on U2, then everytime they come through the US on a tour these same shiat-heads pay $100 a ticket and spend the next week on Facebook saying "ZOMG, U2 is soooo awesome" before they go back to going back to I'm-too-cool-for-your-music hater hipsters.

I guess I resemble that remark. I haven't bought a U2 album since AB and I'd be hard pressed to name more than 5 songs they've released since then but I've seen them a couple of times post 90's because they are one of the best live bands currently playing gigs.

jonathan_L: If you get a chance, watch the Showtime film "From the Sky Down." It's pretty apparent the band weren't happy with their serious, overly-earnest arrogant appearance after Rattle and Hum. Almost all of Achtung Baby (Mephisto/Fly) included is a reaction to this and an attempt to "cut down the Joshua Tree."

I need to see that. from Wiki:

While researching footage at their archives in Dublin, the director found unused video filmed for Rattle and Hum. Of it, he said, "You fall on your knees looking at this stuff-it's so rare and beautiful."[18]


A long time ago, a bootlegger that advertised in the back of rolling stone had several outtakes of R+H footage that at the time, was way out of my price range. There were 5-7 (if not more) VHS tapes advertised as "unused pro-shot R+H footage / PHiladelphia concert and street scenes", "unused pro shot Denver", "pro shot arizona non-concert footage" etc.

man i wish i'd had that now.

This cover album is even better than the real thing!

Really? No one beat me to this?

What about a U2 tribute album just covering "greatest hits"? Just imagine Justin Bieber's rendition of "Sunday Bloody Sunday".

rickythepenguin: I need to see that. from Wiki:

I was all set to send you the blog link where I watched it yesterday, but Youtubegeheimestaatspolizei has put an end to it. Guess I'd keep checking youtube, someone's bound to put it up again soon.

If you have Showtime, you can see it Saturday night. And then ad nauseum for weeks after as well.

Frankly, I can't remember the R&H extras being much more than them sitting in a limo, looking grim. But there's probably some I missed, as I streamed it while working.

jonathan_L: If you have Showtime, you can see it Saturday night. And then ad nauseum for weeks after as well.

oh wow, awsome. good looking out. didn't know that.

I haven't forgotten about the elbow show.....i'm just backlogged with shiat righ tnow.

If you've decided not to listen just let me tell you this...

Patti Smith's version of Until the End of the World gave me chills. Skip to that and skip everything else, which is about as flat & painful as you'd expect.

Snow Patrol's Mysterious Ways is the biggest fail.

\carry on

Anytime you hear U2 while in a bar you have to order an Irish Car Bomb.

/Don't blame me.
//I didn't make the rules.

I really dig the Garbage cover of Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses. The Killers, NIN, Jack White and Depeche Mode covers are okay.

/Loves me some Achtung Baby
//favorite U2 album

We need a sharp knees graphic but for music.... guess maybe a cross between sharp knees dude and the comic book guy from the Simpsons.

Granted, the two look pretty much to be the same guy... but you get the point.

I'm listening and most are decent enough for me to listen to. That's all I care about.