Who *hasn't* slagged off U2 or Bono?

The friendliest place on the web for anyone that follows U2.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
See posts with no answers
Clawgrabber said:
who cares if anyone knows "what the fuck" they are talking about regarding Pink Floyd --- a completely useless and dated band that has a history of collapsing under the weight of their own ego and has on more than one occasion made me want to blow me brains out... out of the sheer boredom of listening to their tepid "stadium rock"

the wall is a snoozefest through and through.
kudos for you for knowing more than someone about a band whose last contribution to modern music was the terrible THE DIVISION BELL almost 15 years ago.

BORING!
Click to expand...

:lol:
 
Clawgrabber said:
who cares if anyone knows "what the fuck" they are talking about regarding Pink Floyd --- a completely useless and dated band that has a history of collapsing under the weight of their own ego and has on more than one occasion made me want to blow me brains out... out of the sheer boredom of listening to their tepid "stadium rock"

the wall is a snoozefest through and through.
kudos for you for knowing more than someone about a band whose last contribution to modern music was the terrible THE DIVISION BELL almost 15 years ago.

BORING!
Click to expand...


:| x infinity
 
What, they have modern music in Kansas??? In Australia, Kansas is synomymous with little wooden farmhouses and lots of tornadoes, just like in the Wizard of Oz :happy:

OnFire said:
Oh yeah, back to the topic. The following celebrated musicians have never slagged off U2:

Brian Jones
Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Click to expand...

I believe Beethoven had nice things to say about U2. And he was deaf! :D
 
blueeyedgirl said:
I believe Beethoven had nice things to say about U2. And he was deaf! :D
Click to expand...

:lol:

I won't say it. But I could. :wink:

(and you just know there are people who really do think it)
 
U2jer said:
Robert Smith said a not-so-nice comment in a guitar magazine interview after their most recent album came out, something to the extent of The Cure aren't a band that changes their sound, that he doesn't really respect ones who do, and gave U2 as an example.
Click to expand...

Robert Smith is a damn clown. Is he about 50 looking like Edward Scissorhands? Yeah, the Cure were great when you have absolutely no idea of any music in the "alternative rhelm".
They have been quite useless for many years and keep this melodrama surrounding them all the time about breaking up or staying together. I´m sorry to say, but they suck now. This is coming from a fanatical Cure fan in the 80´s and I even saw them in 92.
 
GibsonGirl said:
"Rock 'n' roll in stadiums is genuinely awful. These concerts are just like Tupperware parties - held in honour of the Great God Tupper - with 50,000 people, only they don't buy Tupperware, they buy hot dogs and T-shirts and occasionally look up to watch those disgusting video screens that are all out of sync and make you feel sick and torture you. It's funny how people try to work their way around the greed of it all. Like U2 whose rationale is [feigned Irish accent] 'Ooh, we have to play in stadiums 'cos all our fans want to come and see us'. Well, fine; give your fans a really shitty show in a stadium - but for fuck's sake don't charge them 25 quid for it!"

- Roger Waters, 1992


Although that's not as harsh as some others. I love Ian McCulloch. :lol:
Click to expand...

Maybe it would have done him good to go see the show. Maybe he could have loosened up and stop whining about his life, dominating and destroying his band and stop taking himself so seriously.
Also, ZooTV was simply amazing. Honestly, I think it bettered The Wall. Zoo TV was quite prophetic and well done considering the technology of the time. The Wall was a great concept on paper, but I think that Waters weight just crushed that band and it was WAY to indulgent.
Sorry Gibson Girl to take it out on your hero, because your comments here are some of the best. But Waters just grates on me to death.
 
Different strokes. :up: And yes, Zoo TV was an amazing production...yet people still keep misinterpreting that quote. It wasn't an attack on the actual content of the tour, it was an attack on the fact that it was (for the most part) done in stadiums. Different matter entirely.


Moving on, I had a quote from a magazine where Ian McCulloch called Bono a wanker, but I can't find it now. :sad:
 
Mogi said:


Robert Smith is a damn clown. Is he about 50 looking like Edward Scissorhands? Yeah, the Cure were great when you have absolutely no idea of any music in the "alternative rhelm".
They have been quite useless for many years and keep this melodrama surrounding them all the time about breaking up or staying together. I´m sorry to say, but they suck now. This is coming from a fanatical Cure fan in the 80´s and I even saw them in 92.
Click to expand...

Excuse me, since when does who you look have any relevance when it comes to the quality of music. The Cure are one of the best alternative bands ever. Anyone who discounts that has no idea of any music in the "alternative realm." Robert Smith has a point about messing around and changing your sound too much. U2 is simply a bad example because they have been successful at it.

:ohmy: I'm more shocked by what posters have said about other artists than what other artists have said about U2. :huh:
 
Talkin bout Mr Waters , he will be playing in Brazil on Stadiums in March
 
Last edited:
Bono and U2 are easy targets (just aim for the mega screens and inflated lemons).

Yet I am hard pressed to find rock stars in any major band that aren't whiney little bitches, self important wannabe philosophers or raging egomaniacs.

That's why U2 is so big, they are 3 for 3!
 
I'm not going to be surprised if people here don't know about Pink Floyd. This is a U2 forum after all! Sometimes it doesn't seem like it. lol.
 
J_NP said:
Talkin bout Mr Waters , he will be playing in Brazil on Stadiums in March
Click to expand...

The vast majority (roughly 95%) of the shows are in indoor arenas. Sometimes you have to take what you can get when you're scheduling concerts.


I do sometimes feel sorry for U2. They ARE easy targets, both musically and in terms of Bono's high-profile poverty crusades. I don't think it really bothers them though, as they never rise to all the slagging that gets directed their way. And I guess that's all that matters - they usually don't retaliate. That shows maturity on their part.

Still, some of the things that other bands say about them can be a bit amusing...
 
GibsonGirl said:


The vast majority (roughly 95%) of the shows are in indoor arenas. Sometimes you have to take what you can get when you're scheduling concerts.
Click to expand...

:up: not only that, but he's playing countries that U2 have never(and will never) visit: e.g. China, India, Peru, Colombia, UAE and many others.
 
ntalwar said:
U2 have never(and will never) visit
Click to expand...

How can you state that for sure? I thought Bono even said that they'd like to tour India and other asian countries at some point. :hmm:
 
MrBrau1 said:


It's class. U2 have it in spades.

Some others? Not so much.
Click to expand...

Well, it's great and all, of course. I could never see U2 bitching about another band, at least not by name. They come across as being odd in the rare event that they do hurl abuse at another artist or genre. Even so, I sometimes like my rockstars to come in a nice Arrogant Arsehole package. It's all part of the business. Rock 'n roll wouldn't be rock 'n roll if artists weren't constantly making snide remarks at one another.
 
That comes down to the question that Axl Rose answered pretty well. Is rock n roll only for bad boys??? He said "Nice boys don't play rock n roll". Looking at U2, clearly he was wrong! :wink:
 
I like The Cure quite a bit, what bugged me about what Robert said was that his own band has altered their sound through out the ages, their early stuff a la Boys Don't Cry was poppy, whereas Bloodflowers (amazingly underrated and ignored IMO) is quite grand with long epics and instrumental bits, and some of their most recent stuff has been quite hard rockish.
 
U2jer said:
I like The Cure quite a bit, what bugged me about what Robert said was that his own band has altered their sound through out the ages, their early stuff a la Boys Don't Cry was poppy, whereas Bloodflowers (amazingly underrated and ignored IMO) is quite grand with long epics and instrumental bits, and some of their most recent stuff has been quite hard rockish.
Click to expand...

Boys Don't Cry really isn't a very Cure album. They replaced one of the band members after that record which resulted in their signature sound. The Cure are built around instruments with and sometimes without vocals. Seventeen Seconds, Disintegration, Wish and Bloodflowers are the best illustration of the Cure's sound. Those albums are spread out over twenty years. The Cure's sound rarely changed and when it did (their last album) the results weren't very good. So I wouldn't say that Robert Smith was being hypocritical.
 
who cares if anyone knows "what the fuck" they are talking about regarding U2 --- a completely useless and dated band that has a history of collapsing under the weight of their own ego and has on more than one occasion made me want to blow me brains out... out of the sheer boredom of listening to their tepid "stadium rock"

most of All That You Can't Leave Behind is a snoozefest through and through.
kudos for you for knowing more than someone about a band whose last contribution to modern music was ACHTUNG BABY almost 15 years ago.

BORING!


:lol:

:dance:
 
Screwtape2 said:
Seventeen Seconds, Disintegration, Wish and Bloodflowers are the best illustration of the Cure's sound.
Click to expand...

You forgot the 2nd best Cure album of all time!: "Pornography".


Pornography :drool: :combust: :drool:


"Cold"
"A Strange Day" :combust:

"One Hundred Years"

"A Short Term Effect"

"The Figurehead"



Ahhhhhh, the good 'ol days! :sad:


:wink:
 
Last edited:
Bob Dylan has slagged U2/Bono about 3 times and each of them was spot on.

-Dylan giving Bono a history lesson on Irish music backstage circa 1985
-Dylan getting pissed at Bono for not knowing the works to Tambourine Man
-At a 1990(?)concert, Dylan prefaced Watchtower with "Here's a song U2 did recently, but with the CORRECT words"
-Dylan wouldn't speak to Bono for about a year after Bono revealed some information derived from a private conversation to a music magazine.

I hope Dylan never got to hear U2's version of Maggies Farm!!!
 
Canadiens1160 said:
who cares if anyone knows "what the fuck" they are talking about regarding U2 --- a completely useless and dated band that has a history of collapsing under the weight of their own ego and has on more than one occasion made me want to blow me brains out... out of the sheer boredom of listening to their tepid "stadium rock"

most of All That You Can't Leave Behind is a snoozefest through and through.
kudos for you for knowing more than someone about a band whose last contribution to modern music was ACHTUNG BABY almost 15 years ago.

BORING!


:lol:

:dance:
Click to expand...

You win the thread.
 
Zootlesque said:


How can you state that for sure? I thought Bono even said that they'd like to tour India and other asian countries at some point. :hmm:
Click to expand...

Exactly what I was gonna say
 
Could we all just be civil and respectful towards each other so that this thread doesn't have to be closed?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

prbiker15
U2:UV Boxscore Discussion
Replies
20
Views
1K
DeVaul
DeVaul
K
U2 Show Logistics Question/Theories
Replies
7
Views
734
lazarus
lazarus
O
Better late than never “they” say…
Replies
1
Views
277
Headache in a Suitcase
Headache in a Suitcase
cobl04
Kiss the Future documentary
Replies
11
Views
3K
MrsSpringsteen
MrsSpringsteen
W
A Boy Falls From the Sky is some U2's best work
Replies
3
Views
2K
zoocarolina
Z

Latest posts

Back
Top Bottom