The Band That Ate The World

[Harry Vest]

http://www.watoday.com.au/executive-style/culture/the-band-that-ate-the-world-20090518-b8fj.html

 

[mikal]

i stopped reading after he called Achtung Baby "terminal".

 

[gvox]

U2 was huge, but not huge enough for my liking. I remember nights sitting around with fellow obsessives listening to some bootleg B-side and saying to each other things like: "Can you believe what an amazingly great song this is?" — as if we were an obscure and persecuted cult and not fans of a global mega-group. I recall rifling through the music press for praise; occasionally I'd not find it and would feel slighted. Didn't the world have ears?

Drummer Larry Mullen jnr admitted later that it was a bad feeling knowing they were the biggest band in the world but not the best. I had to disagree with Larry there. I adored Rattle and Hum and studied the accompanying rockumentary like a sacred text.

It could just be that because U2 happened to me back then I mistakenly assume that's when U2 happened to everyone else. There was something about U2 and the late '80s that went together.

That felt like looking at an old diatribe I'd written in the late 90s.

 

[The Sad Punk]

It was actually a pretty decent article, though unlikely anything you haven't heard before.

 

[An Cat Gav]

It was actually a pretty decent article, though unlikely anything you haven't heard before.

I'd go along with that.

 

[A stor]

It was actually a pretty decent article, though unlikely anything you haven't heard before.

I thought so, too.