Bono has bad taste in music, really. He says everyone is stagnating and the real innovation is in hip-hop. Let him listen to all his boom-and-fizzle rap music, or the hip-hop music with drum loops and drum machines. Bono is a homie now.
During the POP era, Bono had this fascination for the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy and Beck. Looks like those three acts made music that is very very dated, not timeless. Where the hell are they now?
Check out Bono's singer selection in the all-star tribute for What's Going On, he got all the bubblegum pop artists he had been dissing leading up to the ATYCLB release.
Bono has also been notorious for liking "one-trick pony" bands like Radiohead, The Ramones, and The Clash. Bono does show some good taste in his love for Sinatra and Elvis, but who doesn't love them anyway?
oh jick, you make me laugh. how the f*** can you call the clash a one trick pony. you are so wrong. they understoud more than anyone that you can't stick to the same sound throughout your whole carreer. and radio head. hey sinatra is awesome but that is a "one trick pony" if i ever saw one.
My point is, don't listen to Bono when he talks about other bands or take it with a grain of salt. For some reason, Bono likes and listens to the crappiest or most one-dimensional bands ....yet he still writes good songs. I frankly don't care about what bands Bono likes or what bands he disses. He has bad taste is music. But who cares? It's not Bono's musical tastes that matter, it is the music he actually writes, and so far it seems U2 have been successful in writing good songs.
Cheers,
J