U2Man
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typhoon said:Did you really need to quote that whole thing to add a three-word comment? Did you really?
U2's only written around 100-150 songs (no, covers and solo projects don't count, much as U2 fans love to bring them out when talking about "diversity"; I remember someone here talking about how impressive it was that Bono did "Ave Maria," a "classical" song, probably not knowing that Paul McCartney has done entire albums of original classical work).
So you'd have to think every one out of two or three songs they've done was a classic to come up with a comparable list, which is how you get ridiculous things like "Numb" and "Discotheque" on roy's list.
Which was, incidentally, only 37 items long to my 52 (which already disproves KUEFC09U2's claim that "u will find the same number of U2 songs"); U2's had an extra twenty years, and you'd still have to scrape the barrel to come up with a comparable list.
Oh, and I was only listing their better known songs. Roy's list had a lot of obscure songs like "One Tree Hill" and "Miss Sarajevo." If I were going for resonance or such, I would've included some favorites like "For No One" or "Julia" and had an even longer list. Face it, these guys aren't getting touched (especially with U2 rolling out albums once every four years now); the only band that can compare is the Rolling Stones.
All I'm saying is, it's fine to like U2 better, but it's stupid to say the Beatles have been surpassed and are irrelevant now. They haven't, and they aren't. It's not like people still listen to their music because "it's classic, it's important, it's whatever"; their music still survives because it's honestly that fucking good.
And someone earlier was going off on this completely off-topic rant about how a band has to break up to have classics (really, so "Sympathy for the Devil" isn't a classic yet?) or how people complain U2 is too poppy now (only the indie dorks who think their music needs to be "obscure" and "experimental" to be good; I think their latter work is as good as anything they've done). No one had brought up any of these points before in the discussion, so I don't know WTF he was going on about.
I may have to hire you as a spokesperson, typhoon
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