The_acrobat
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The vitriol directed at U2 is based on their refusal to get off the stage. It's hurting their legacy with younger generations.
Olds still love the shit out of U2
Precisely! If Led Zep had continued to regularly tour and release music until this very day (in a parallel universe where John Bonham hadn’t died), you wouldn’t see Led Zeppelin posters in every college dorm room across America (even though those kids don’t know more than 10 LZ songs at best). U2 are in a league of their own at this point, no band has ever done this. Even The Rolling Stones have only released 1 album of original music in the past 20 years.
The closest thing to U2 is Bruce, but he seems to have accepted his place in the universe more than U2 have. He knows his new albums aren’t going to have hits.