GibsonGirl said:
So, just because people have something negative to say about U2's abilities as musicians, they "need to learn more about U2," then? Nice. I suppose owning every U2 album, many audio bootlegs, tonnes of books and live footage from almost every one of their tours makes me very uneducated about U2 as a band.
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep - she can go to Interference to find them.
DarkAcrobat said:Ok, thanks, you has been very fast to answer.
Kaiser Chiefs = Sucks
The Killers = Sucks
Snow Patrol = Sucks
Gelbison = Emmpfh ?
Youth Group = Eeer ?
The Living End = E ?
Fraz Ferdinand = Sucks , sometimes
Travis = Makes me sleep,, zzzzz
The Flaming Lips = Excellent, underrated
Secret Machines = Great band too
The Beatles = OVERRATED
Jeff Buckley = No , thanks
John Mayer = No thanks
The Arcade Fire = Overrated, bad histeric male vocals, however they got some good things.
DarkAcrobat said:My favorite band is U2, no other band can to touch them.
Headache in a Suitcase said:the people who hold u2 up on an all holy, do no wrong pedestal are just as silly and annoying as those who do nothing but tell you how they're not really good yet hang around a u2 message board..
is any of the four members of u2 the greatest at what they do? no... are any of them the worst? no. they are the best at doing what they do. they're the best at being u2. would any of them have had the same level of success in other bands? who knows... unanswerable question, because they aren't in other bands.
bono's voice from, oh, 1985 to 1995, was up there with anyone's... mercury, bowie, whomever else you wanna mention. it is not on that level... since then his voice has changed, due mostly to hard living i would imagine, and while it's still quite good, it doesn't rival the perfection of, oh i dunno, do they know it's christmas bono voice... which is absolute perfection.
the edge is the tom hanks of guitar players. he's not over the top like a pacino or deniro. he's just brilliant in how he fits in to his role. if he went off and started doing all these speed riffs and solos, well, u2 would not be u2 anymore. that's not them.
u2 is great because of their synergy as a group... the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. that's what makes them what they are.
ultimately it's personal preference. i much prefer the sound of u2 to that of radiohead or pink floyd, which bores me into wanting to shove paper clips through my ear drums. to some, that would make me stupid. good for them.
pentax said:I'm not a musician but how capable, as far as drum filling, shredding in a technical sense is the Edge, Larry and Adam.
I'm not looking at comparisons with other musicians just them on there own abilities. I personally think that they could perform well.
It would be great to hear and see more of this style in their music.
Cheers.
Rob33 said:U2 is the greatest artistic creation ever
Adam is average for his position, not unlike Ringo.
[Edge] also writes 90 percent of the music in U2, which goes a long way.