u2s albums are not as good as they use to be!
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shaun vox
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2Hearts said:
thats how i like my music
no mediocre bullcrap which atyclb and htdaab are!!!
jimmmm
Refugee
everyone's entitled to an opinion, and in mine, atyclb just edges htdaab out of my all time top 3 U2 albums, ab 1, & jt 2.
financeguy
ONE love, blood, life
With the exception of COBL and CFRT, which are good, I agree with Shaun Vox.
hedgehog
The Fly
My thoughts exactly.Numb1075 said:
They may not match the work U2 did at their peak, but they are still good albums.
Add to that, Love and peace or else and Elevation too.boystupidboy said:Beautiful day,walk on,kite,SYCMIOYO,vertigo,COBL,OOTS,yahweh,Miracle drug.Yeah u2 have wrote some shite lately
As has been said, not Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby quality, but they are anything but bad albums (and Im not ATYCLB's biggest fan to be honest, although I admit to being a fan of HTDAAB).
Besides JT, AB and Pop, HTDAAB is my favourite U2 album.
shaun vox said:
thats how i like my music
no mediocre bullcrap which atyclb and htdaab are!!!
Do you like Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad? When Love Comes to Town? The Sweetest Thing? Heartland? Running to Stand Still? (probably not, huh?)
Well, there's not much rock-n-roll in them, and not a whole lot of fresh ideas musically. For U2, the ideas were fresh b/c they hadn't done anything like them before, but they weren't anything new on the musical landscape. I see the same thing with Vertigo, OOTS, In a Little While, Wild Honey, A Man and A Woman. These are songs that sound nothing like U2's previous work, but yet they are accused of having no fresh ideas??
And yet my original point was that music can possess many different qualities than the ones you mentioned. I understand that's just your taste, though. My tastes must just be more wide-ranging.
Joshua87
Acrobat
00Kevin said:
Um look again.
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
MrBrau1
ONE love, blood, life
Joshua87 said:
I checked for him, still a pretty damn good record.
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
MrBrau1 said:
Sure... if you're fine with reaching for the volume button every now and then.
MrBrau1
ONE love, blood, life
Zootlesque said:
All records are loud nowadays. Aimee Mann's new record is just as loud as U2's.
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
I appreciate the new stuff too. Just don't like the production.
david
ONE love, blood, life
Nothing is as good as it used to be.
Get over it.
Get over it.
jimmmm
Refugee
david said:
nothing is as good as it used to be, when the sun used to shine all summer, snow fell in the winter, and you could always leave your front door open all the time
progress isn't always a bad thing, and in my opinion U2 have progressed by and large, for the better, how many artists with a back catalogue like theirs are still producing anything of the quality U2 are, in fact how many new bands are, and please don't say Radiohead, or Coldplay, the formers best days are well and truly consigned to history, and the latter, well I just fail to see anything at all
XHendrix24
Refugee
shaun vox said:
..You're complaining about the new music being bland and not having fresh ideas, and yet you constantly rant and rave about the aural abortion of Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots that is Velvet Revolver?!?
And for reference, HTDAAB shits all over War.
As for ATYCLB...well...it had a few moments of brilliance. Probably 3 or 4 really good tracks. Beautiful Day, Walk On, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (if that's counted) are really good. And Stuck In a Moment's good acoustic. Hell, even Elevation's a fun rocker. Say what you want about the rest, but these tracks (and most would say Kite, though I'm not too fond of the song) are noteworthy.
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
XHendrix24 said:
..You're complaining about the new music being bland and not having fresh ideas, and yet you constantly rant and rave about the aural abortion of Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots that is Velvet Revolver?!?
What I get out of it is that Shaun Vox doesn't care for new ideas or innovative music. He just wants balls out rock n roll in the likes of:
That's the truth plain and simple.
Gimme a break. They're 45 year old men trying to keep it's fanbase happy and get new fans at the same time. Obviously their peak was durring Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, and Achtung Baby, but how on earth are ANY band suposed to come out with material that good, not considering age? And if you think HTDAAB was worse than Zooropa... 
I won't start a war hear for those of you who do, but there is no way "Numb" should be compared to ANY of HTDAAB's tracks. Why can't you guys give U2 a break? We all liked them better during different time periods, and that's great, but some do like their new stuff better than their old stuff.
I personally think Boy was better than October, War and UF, but that's just because I play guitar, and Boy was guitar-heavy. If I didn't play guitar, I'd probably like War the most, and would say after UF was released "What is this crap?"
Not most 45 year old dudes can come out w/ an album as powerful as HTDAAB and have it sell 9 million coppies (I'm just guessing, I think that's what it was last time I checked)
I won't start a war hear for those of you who do, but there is no way "Numb" should be compared to ANY of HTDAAB's tracks. Why can't you guys give U2 a break? We all liked them better during different time periods, and that's great, but some do like their new stuff better than their old stuff.I personally think Boy was better than October, War and UF, but that's just because I play guitar, and Boy was guitar-heavy. If I didn't play guitar, I'd probably like War the most, and would say after UF was released "What is this crap?"
Not most 45 year old dudes can come out w/ an album as powerful as HTDAAB and have it sell 9 million coppies (I'm just guessing, I think that's what it was last time I checked)
WinnieThePoo
Refugee
"45 year old men trying to keep it's fanbase happy and get new fans at the same time"
that's called a retirement
slash and co still play pretty well ,
sometimes a bit too loud and disorganised , but
they wrote something called "Slither"
ATYCLB/HTDAAB u2 will never top that
they have no guts , balls were cut off for some reason
no bravery , but freaking rich, rap-alike attitude
oh look m we can fill the stadiums
oh look , we can sell records
oh look , we on mtv
that's called a retirement
slash and co still play pretty well ,
sometimes a bit too loud and disorganised , but
they wrote something called "Slither"
ATYCLB/HTDAAB u2 will never top that
they have no guts , balls were cut off for some reason
no bravery , but freaking rich, rap-alike attitude
oh look m we can fill the stadiums
oh look , we can sell records
oh look , we on mtv
MrBrau1
ONE love, blood, life
WinnieThePoo said:
Lay off the bong.
WinnieThePoo
Refugee
love and peace or else is a tribute to glam rock , and pathetic one
after Bullet , the fly or dirty day
vertigo was not so bad , until they changed the lyrics from interesting to banal , and made sure that it will fit standard pop radio format of 3 mins
after Bullet , the fly or dirty day
vertigo was not so bad , until they changed the lyrics from interesting to banal , and made sure that it will fit standard pop radio format of 3 mins
MrBrau1 said:
I can understand you comparing Love and Peace or Else to Bullet the Blue Sky (the live one anyway) and The Fly. I agree that The Fly is much better than Love and Peace or Else but...
I can't see any way that Drity Day is better than it, lyric, music, energy, Love and Peace kicks the shit outta it.
Zoots
Blue Crack Supplier
Dude.. have you listened to Dirty Day (live) from ZooTV Sydney??? Kicks so much ass... 
MrBrau1
ONE love, blood, life
Zootlesque said:Dude.. have you listened to Dirty Day (live) from ZooTV Sydney??? Kicks so much ass...
It does. But the album recording is one of the worst things U2 ever put to tape.
WinnieThePoo
Refugee
MrBrau1 said:
But the album recording is one of the worst things U2 ever put to tape.
there is not much of a change , not all good songs should be that loud , you know
MrBrau1
ONE love, blood, life
LJT said:I always get the strangest feeling i kill threads hmmm
Keep up the good work. You've just killed a "New U2 Sucks" thread in disguise. There are hundreds like it for you to exterminate.
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