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It's appropriate that this idiotic post is the final one I'll respond to on this embarrasingly bad forum. No one -- least of all me -- has treated Bono (or anyone) as sacred in the recent part of this 'chat'. What I was attempting was a conversation about our respective opinions on a great...

I'm actually thinking of retiring myself from this entire forum -- the people like you make it unbearable and give a bad name to U2 fans.

Okay, I did. Thanks for policing and playing 'gotcha'. Hopefully, my subsequent posts have clarified my position. If they haven't, let me put it this way: R.E.M. = more diverse than Bryan Adams or Oasis. R.E.M. = less diverse than Van Morrison, The Beatles, Prince, Stevie Wonder

Yeah, I'm talking about "U2" in totality, not just right now. Remember, we're talking about a 30+ year history here? I was not attempting any such comparison. (But since you jokingly brought it up, Mike Mills pisses all over Adam.) I'll agree with that -- that track does swing. Again...

All right BVS, let's break down your (entire) post: Okay, I didn't say they're not diverse or sadly inadequate in diversity. I would say R.E.M. -- due to their artistic integrity and sheer longevity -- have been more diverse than a hell of a lot of rock bands. But they aren't particularly...

We all have different tastes. For me, personally, to have a long-lasting and perennial interest in a given musical artist, it helps if the artist is musically diverse. By musically, I do not mean lyrically, which seems to be the main criterion BVS is referencing. I'm not even sure U2 are that...

For an equally profound revelation, did y'all realize that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings??

Fair.

"Do I Do"....??

I've actually posted here before on occasion, but I rarely find music discussions on this forum that interest me. R.E.M. have been one of my favorite groups for twenty years. However, I still say they're not diverse or sexy. That's not knocking them, it's just stating my opinion on their...

5 is clearly not enough!! Well, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is one of my top 5 LPs ever, and it's a hard one to break into single tracks (disagree with the dude earlier who said it doesn't have good melodies -- I think it does!). Imagine is also great. The 1972 to 1974 stuff was later...

Re: Stones -- agree that Sticky Fingers is their best album. (But all 4 from '68 to '72 are essential.) Re: Stevie Wonder -- Talking Book, Innervisions, and Songs in the Key... are the peak. Hotter Than July is fine, and also the 4 new songs that appeared on his 1982 compilation/hits albums are...

"Belong" and "Daysleeper" are my pet favorite R.E.M. tunes. R.E.M. have never had much in the way of style, sexiness, groove, or diversity, but damn they're good at what they do!

We still haven't given this pending masterpiece a title. I suggest Rattle & Drum or The One that you Can't Leave Behind.

Brilliant.

The "Larry, Adam, Edge -- Who is the best?" thread got me thinking... What if Larry Mullen Jr. produced a solo album? Wouldn't it be earth shattering? Larry can sing and play drums. Dan Lanois can play guitar. Mike Mills from R.E.M. will play bass. And Gavin Friday will make extra percussive...

But which guy is the best in bed?

Yeah, his solo album is right up there with Thriller and Dark Side of the Moon... I mean, we don't know the details, but songwriter? Sorry, but deciding on which way to play a 4/4 drum pattern does not make you a songwriter unless you think Ringo wrote Sgt. Pepper.

I have never-ever 'reached' in the entire history of my entire life.

Isn't it hard to tell these two apart??

Ah, I had forgotten. But did he play it well? (watches it on YouTube) Yes, not bad (although possibly doctored for the video). For me, I cannot take any musical performer doing play-acting onstage. It turns me off, big-time. Bono here reminds me of Michael Jackson in the 90s.

The "Running To Stand Still" as performed on the ZooTV concert was not to my taste. I missed the more subtle textures of the 1987-89 performances, as well as the harmonica at the end. Most of all, though, I could not take Bono's hammy cheeseball Guns'n'Roses play-acting during the song. "Stay"...

This is a surprisingly hard choice. Blur -- I admire Blur for several things: 1) being creative and dynamic in style (much like U2) when their peers were reinventing the same wheel over and over; 2) having a really good guitar player (Graham Coxon); 3) being survivors -- the British music...

Excellent point, which needed saying. I sometimes get the feeling that Interference is obsessed with some false notion of U2 as arty-progressive rockers emulating Brian Eno's solo albums. They rockers, deal with it! What? They do???