KUEFC09U2 said:yes and that proves what? he is flexable? has had a major operation in order to suck his own testicles?
Imagine Bono doing this nowadays
KUEFC09U2 said:yes and that proves what? he is flexable? has had a major operation in order to suck his own testicles?
shaun vox said:
i dont know what kind of music you listen to and i dont want to attack you personally!
just chill and know that some people dont like shit music!!
shaun vox said:well my point is that slash does not have to bee someone he is not to be played on the radio and tv he does what he likes.
and when you do that you make some kick arrss songs.
but when you want to only be on the radio and be a media darling you have to change your image and sound aka u2!
the thing about slash is that he does not give a fuck what people like you think about his image or sound hes been doing it for some time and still likes to do it! not like some other posers i can think of !
shaun vox said:well my point is that slash does not have to bee someone he is not to be played on the radio and tv he does what he likes.
and when you do that you make some kick arrss songs.
but when you want to only be on the radio and be a media darling you have to change your image and sound aka u2!
the thing about slash is that he does not give a fuck what people like you think about his image or sound hes been doing it for some time and still likes to do it! not like some other posers i can think of !
Carmanah said:I remember an interview, from the early 90's... perhaps it was the mid-90's. Bono, post-Zooropa, with his scruffy chin and blue glasses explaining that people aren't buying rock albums anymore because "the records are boring". I taped that interview on an old video cassette, now stacked somewhere in my parents garage in a cardboard box...
... and this is exactly the quote I hear Bono saying as I listen to How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb for the second time around. "The records are boring".
I remember Bono, while winning the Best Alternative Music Grammy for Zooropa, smugly shunning his competition, the Smashing Pumpkins, saying in his speech with a grin, that he'd like to see the Pumpkins sell out arena tours, suggesting perhaps that they could not. Of course, the Smashing Pumpkins then prompty released a successful double album that gained them fame and glory, and they sold out tours in arenas two years later.
I'm back to U2 and on the second song on HTDAAB. I almost feel myself wanting to skip ahead because the song is lacking the excitement or the substance that I used to crave out of this band. Is it too much to ask if the lyrics aren't screaming out to me anymore? I know that I go to Nickelback if I want radio-friendly formula rock, and I know that the context of this thought and associating U2 with it is sacriligious.
I read a review about coping with the second cr@p album (to which to my surprise, Pop was listed as the first cr@p album), yet, what I found even more alarming were the reviews praising HTDAAB as a masterpiece. It's amazing the difference in opinions.
I think my sister said it best when she told me that she's "more interested in what Bono's doing politically than what he's doing musically". We both sighed about it, and then I agreed with her.
I miss the exciting U2. With the occasional glimmer of magic in a few tracks here and there, I'm finding myself bored with this album. Oh, I'll give it another chance... and another, and another, etc, because it's U2. And the songs will grow on me because they're U2, but even then there's only a limit. That will only take me so far.
My sister, again, told me something quite telling tonight. She said, "I was watching U2's new music video on TV the other day, where they're in New York and perhaps it's a play on the Where The Streets Have No Name video, but they're on this truck driving through the streets of the city, and everyone is
freaking out and crying at the sight of them. But it only makes them look like they have big egos now... it actually looks silly. But the thing about this is, when I think back about it, all I can remember is their video. I don't remember the song. "
MrBrau1 said:
Right. Because up until 2004, U2 had no desire to be played on the radio. Only in 2004 did they have this desire, so they changed their music radically to have it get played on the radio.
But wait, critics of this record say it sounds too much like U2, which would be the complete opposite of changing their sound to fit on the radio. You can't change your sound (from the U2 sound) to fit on the radio, then still sound like U2. Can you?
shaun vox said:well my point is that slash does not have to bee someone he is not to be played on the radio and tv he does what he likes.
and when you do that you make some kick arrss songs.
but when you want to only be on the radio and be a media darling you have to change your image and sound aka u2!
the thing about slash is that he does not give a fuck what people like you think about his image or sound hes been doing it for some time and still likes to do it! not like some other posers i can think of !
KUEFC09U2 said:yes and that proves what? he is flexable? has had a major operation in order to suck his own testicles?
ElectricalVoice said:[B
The album isn't loud, so therefore it's not that good?
Frankly, I'm glad that this album isn't full of guitar solos. I don't like them.
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roy said:
The sad thing is these kind of teenagers don't appreciate great 'Pop' songs. They think Pop = Britney Spears and yet Slash is, somehow, bizarely, cool.
I would hazard a guess that those that don't like HTDAAB can't even appreciate the ultimate Pop band i.e., The Beatles.
-Macphisto-UK said:Maybe we should divide the forus.
Like half the forums for flamers and hald the forums for lovers.
The problem is U2 have that many fans who all joined at different stages and all want different things.
If you think of the different types of fans that Achtung Baby brought in compared to the Joshua Tree, wllthey are worlds apart in many ways.
And no one album release can really cater for the difference tastes of those fans. So some will like it, some will love it and some will loathe it.
shaun vox said:well my point is that slash does not have to bee someone he is not to be played on the radio and tv he does what he likes.
and when you do that you make some kick arrss songs.
but when you want to only be on the radio and be a media darling you have to change your image and sound aka u2!
Earnie Shavers said:I fall under the category of U2 fan who loves to see them evolve and change and push themselves.
MrBrau1 said:I fall into the category of U2 fans who like it when they write good songs(Kite, Gone, Crumbs, Bad, Zooropa, Acrobat, Tomorrow, etc.) The song is more important than the attitude. The song is more important than the experimentation. The song is more important than the guitar solo. The song is more important than the drum machine or the synth.
Zootlesque said:
So you want your fav band to have a boring discography full of well written songs and nothing else. Haven't you heard that Attitude is Everything? All those things you mentioned like the attitude, the experimentation, the guitar solos, the drum machines, new sounds are what add the spice to U2's music. That variety and sense of adventure is the primary reason U2 does things for me on so many levels that other bands don't. What's the matter with you, I thought you liked innovativeness when you mentioned the Beatles and Bowie as your other favorites?
MrBrau1 said:
I don't consider well written songs boring.
Zootlesque said:
So you don't like the Beatles for the bells and whistles of Sgt. Peppers or the imagery of I Am The Walrus? You don't like Bowie's zillion personas and sound experiments in Berlin? You only like the songs themselves?
Zootlesque said:
So you don't like the Beatles for the bells and whistles of Sgt. Peppers or the imagery of I Am The Walrus? You don't like Bowie's zillion personas and sound experiments in Berlin? You only like the songs themselves?