The OOTS said:Bono's best lyric = BOOM CHA!
so moving and meaningful...
BOOM CHA not only represents the fear of death and signifying the end of the world it sounds good.........
The OOTS said:Bono's best lyric = BOOM CHA!
so moving and meaningful...
Matthew_Page2000 said:
Still, I'm starting to get sick of the naysayers. Not because I don't value their opinion (I do). But because the keep rehashing it over and over and over again. Enough already. We know that you don't love HTDAAB. We know that you're dissapointed. Why do you have to piss all over our parade about it?
It reminds me of 1997 all over again.
JOFO said:looks like someone has been watching dr. seuss's "how the grinch stole christmas" .....
jick, nice to see some positive comments from you.
cheers,
J
Matthew_Page2000 said:I remember really loving Pop when it came out. I had mono at the time and was too sick to do much of anything other than listen to the stereo. I must have heard Pop about 200 times in a row. And I loved it.
But then I went online... And the album was getting skewered by the fans. As of late the U2 fanbase has collectively decided that America just didn't "GET" Pop but that Europe loved it. That's not how I remember it at all. A small minority of the online fans loved Pop unconditionally. The remainder either liked it with reservations (it's good but it's no AB), were confused or just didn't like it that much.
I found myself defending the album on Wire left right and sideways. It was like trying to put out a forest fire. Every time you thought you were done a new flare-up would occur.
Then came the pathetic KMart press conference announcing PopMart. Bono prancing around with a "supermarket trolley." It was embarrassing and very difficult to defend to skeptical fans.
Not because it was U2 selling out (they weren't) but because it was sooo unfunny. I thought to myself that this was the first time Bono had ever resembled Jon Bon Jovi from 1987. Prancing around like a self involved prat in ridiculous outfits not realizing that people weren't lauging with him-- they were laughing at him.
Then came the disastrous (not to mention terminally dull) U2- A Year in Pop tv special. The (deservedly) lowest rated tv special in American history. I just couldn't figure out what was wrong with the bands instincts. How could a band responsible for such great tv as The Videos, the Cameos and a Whole Lot of Interference From ZooTV come up with something so boring, so self-congratulatory? How??
Then came PopMart night one in Vegas. U2's Waterloo. One of the worst shows they have ever played. In the past when the band had struggled live (The Joshua Tree opener for instance) their sheer enthusiasm and passion had won the crowd over. Not this time. They couldn't play the songs for cripes sake! It was obvious that they had no idea how to play the freaking BALLADS from the new album. If God Will Send his Angels and Staring at the Sun were disasters. Unmitigated disasters. The dancier material didn't work either. Discotheque wasn't a disaster but it was close. Bono couldn't sing Do You Feel Loved.
The online fanbase exploded. How could U2 spend over a year in the studio writing and rewriting these songs and not know how to play them?
It became harder and more discouraging for me to defend Pop, PopMart...the band themselves. Something had gone wrong.
I started to actively HATE certain Wirelings who wouldn't stop castigating the band and Pop. The endless whining about how terrible, insincere, empty, cheesey (you pick the adjective) Pop was was driving me crazy. The endless U2 Have Sold Out posts drove me into a lather. Couldn't those idiots hear the beauty in Please or Wake Up Dead Man? How was it possible that DYFL and Mofo didn't set their hearts racing. I just didn't understand.
I'm starting to feel a little bit like that lately. Only now it's the Pop fans who are making my fingers twitch. Obviously HTDAAB has been far more generously received than Pop was. The initial reviews are a wash (both were received warmly by critics at first). But HTDAAB is selling like hotcakes worldwide while Pop sold...well. Not great by U2 standards.
Also the fans are far more pleased this time around. There is a LOT less negativity.
Still, I'm starting to get sick of the naysayers. Not because I don't value their opinion (I do). But because the keep rehashing it over and over and over again. Enough already. We know that you don't love HTDAAB. We know that you're dissapointed. Why do you have to piss all over our parade about it?
It reminds me of 1997 all over again.