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Who has U2 copied? Rhianna?
I can almost hear Bono's hiccups when he starts singing: Umbrella - ella - ella - ella ....
Who has U2 copied? Rhianna?
Again, that's not what I said. They haven't yet. But that might be a scenario if they are going to pursue this 'we need to be played on the radio and in the clubs' course.
They aren't done yet but I think this is U2's last decade. Of course they can prove me wrong if they want to.
^ Agreed. I believe they'll release another album in 2013 with a world tour in 2014-15, and then another album/tour cycle at the end of this decade, to end their touring contract with LiveNation, and end their career at a nice, neat 40 year mark, with the band members being at or around 60.
At this point we only have 2 new albums left, and 3 at absolute BEST case scenario. Then, hopefully, the vaults will be opened!
you know what is the real issue?
Bono talks too much
I would also add: fans expect too much.
Hey, I respect your right to like the album, but the Beatles never released any songs as crap as New York or Grace. IMO ATYCLB WAS their weakest album ever. I don't think you'll run into any Beatles fans who'll say that about the White album.
Besides, Bono once said he´d not leave the band, that he needs it and he wouln´t like to become a soloist.
Bono is about to enter his mid-fifties. I think people in their fifties are allowed to not keep being held to statements or beliefs they made years in the past.
NLOTH U2's last album?
These guys can not go out on that note. Sorry, but NLOTH was a huge disappointment.
He says HTDAAB was a better album than NLOTH - thereby losing all credibility!
He says HTDAAB was a better album than NLOTH - thereby losing all credibility!
HTDAAB is a far better album than it gets credit for here.
That being said, the guy's premise is that NLOTH sucks without anything at all to back it up. We're just supposed to take the guy's opinion as universally accepted fact.
So what, he doesn't like GOYB.
No one here would argue that GOYB, SUC or Crazy Tonight represent U2's best output, but they're hardly as cringeworthy as, oh, I don't know, Coldplay's 2 current hits. To say nothing of the Bieber-Miley-etc crap that dominates today's radio. The only one that I wish wasn't there is SUC.
Either way, strip away the middle 3 or whatever you want to call them and you have a really strong album with, I think, the exception of Unknown Caller, which to me is mediocre.(I realize many here love it).
I don't see how
No Line
Magnificent
Moment of Surrender
White As Snow
F-Being Born
Breathe
Cedars of Lebanon
Represent anything but a band that not only has still got it, but is actually getting better with time!
That is to say nothing of 360 being the highest grossing, best attended tour in history and of the number of fans and reviewers who remarked that the 2011 shows were by far the best they'd seen from U2 in many, many years.
This is all journalist tabloid bs talk.(unfortunately, fueled by Bono, but whatever, who here doesn't expect that by now?)
U2 are going nowhere.
A year or 2 ago, I was really anxiously awaiting the next album and would flip out about any perceived delay.
The 2011 leg of 360 changed ALL of that immediately for me. For now, I am more than happy to savor an album and era as spectacular as Achtung Baby and will be happy whenever U2 decides to release new material and tour again.
Watching the AB opening barrage, seeing rare treats like Zooropa and Stay being staples and absolutely amazing performances of classics like Pride, One, Streets, Bad, I WIll Follow, Out of Control and 40 should be more than enough to make any of us proud of what U2 are still more than capable of doing!
Yes, HTDAAB is a better album than many people on this board think. ATYCLB is a far worse one than many people around here think too. But NLOTH is far superior to both. Also, I'm not onboard with the NLOTH middle-act hatred. Some great songs in the middle of the album!
While not a HUGE fan of Boots, I don't see the problem with Crazy Tonight or Stand up comedy. A few stupid lines in there, but nothing hateful at all. I don't get the hatred for those 2 songs, or NLOTH in general.
I agree.
I think the music and melody of Crazy Tonight more than makes up for the one or two dumb lines in it. And Stand Up Comedy is just a rocker. It doesn't have the best lyrics, but it's a fun song. (Elevation, anyone?)