juliaguliaxo94
War Child
I like the Monkees, too...
They made pleasant, fun music. And their show was..well, corny, but cute.
They made pleasant, fun music. And their show was..well, corny, but cute.
... and I LIKE the Monkees!
I honestly do think a good chunk of their music is better than they get credit for.
But that's neither here nor there, so I'll shut up now.
Btw, I didn't even know who that guy was before I came into this tread, so my interest in what he has to say about Bono and U2 is exactly zero.
No need to shut up, I like The Monkees too, apart from that awful comeback a few years back!
Did you see them at the Universal amphitheatre?
I'm so glad I got to see INXS with Michael Hutchence
What's he going to do, sarcasm them to death?
San Diego Sports Arena.
I'm so glad I got to see INXS with Michael Hutchence
That, or shock them to death with his hairstyle.
I don't know much about PIL but as far as I'm concerned the last decent thing Lydon did was Open Up with Leftfield back in 1995. That is a quality tune
But not as old as some.
That, or shock them to death with his hairstyle.
Come on! When has Bono got off on someone popular just to make a headline? When has Bono made a commercial for something other than the band's music?
boo, i'm jealous.I had forgotten, but so did I. In Jersey, supporting "X". Soup Dragons opened.
I'm old.
But not as old as some.
San Diego Sports Arena.
I'm so glad I got to see INXS with Michael Hutchence
Jealous...
San Diego Sports Arena.
I'm so glad I got to see INXS with Michael Hutchence
I had forgotten, but so did I. In Jersey, supporting "X". Soup Dragons opened.
I'm old.
But not as old as some.
But it did promote their tour and their music as well
It's hard to find a tie in with butter.
I have to admit to me a little John Lydon/Johnny Rotten goes a very long way. I can almost make it through a PIL song, but have never, ever liked the Sex Pistols. They might be influential/important, but I've always found his bands (and his voice) mostly unlistenable.
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that without out and out naming it he's skirted around the topic in interviews saying he's looked over the edge and managed to pull himself back from it (or something to that effect, in the context of a discussion on Bad, RTSS, Hutchense, or something). I can't be bothered looking up whether it was heroin specifically, but it was a vice and it clearly was part of a 'life experience' that informed his lyrics.
Also, you don't necessarily have to do a drug to have a life experience with it. Serious addiction - especially leading to death - affects not just the user but everyone close to them.
Blackberry ad to help subsidize the 360 tour.
Butter ad to pay the start up costs for a PIL reunion(Lydon said as much).
Very, very close if not identical in my mind. Only difference is one showcases a song and the other showcases Lydon's personality.
Bono is on record(in the 00's) as never having tried Heroin. (IMO, Bono has "flirted" with more drugs than his public persona lets on.)
He's written several songs about it. Is it judgemental of him to write so many songs about his friends problems with the drugs and not having tried it himself? IMO, there's 5-8 songs that are hardly insignificant in the U2 catalogue about the topic.
Identical? Did people go to the PIL reunion to see and hear butter? Did PIL get new fans because they were already fans of butter?
Did people go to the 360 tour to hear U2?
If that makes them identical then you live in a much different reality than I...
U2 were on record during the ZooTv tour that they would NEVER accept corporate advertising for one of their tours. Their opinion did a 180 for the fund the 360 tour.