dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
^ bit harder now to make something totallt new when you are 33 years old as a band, and have exhausted just about every creative outlet available to a rock band
Excellent find!!
This bit is brilliant:
">If 'The Fly' is any indication of the rest of 'Achtung, Baby' and
>U2's musical direction, I think we can fashion 4 caskets, and label
>them: Bono, Edge, Adam, and Larry. U2 is dead. What an unimaginative
>piece of garbage. "
I laughed out loud at that post!
Internet was there before the WWW. In 1991 people could subscribe to newsgroups like these and post there. It was sort of the predecessor to the Forum concept nowadays. groups.google.com has Usenet archives dating back to 1981..
The Fly was and sounded different, revolutionary and fresh. It wasn't the 80s U2 updating their sound, rather it was a damn shocking new band with a new musical style, direction and sound.
There's nothing, absolutely nothing new, nothing we haven't heard before from the U2 catalog in Boots. It's pretty much Vertigo 09 version with Pop-like production.
Have you guys never seen Wargames? The internet has been around for quite a while.
The Fly kicks ass - I can't believe people in 1991 thought it was techno garbage... (Wait til they hear pop : P)
Also, the internet existed in 1991?? Really?
I think it's cool to read that the diversity in opinions and discussions in 1991 was very similar to what we see happening now with GOYB..
U2's 'The Fly' - Are you JOKING? - rec.music.misc | Google Groups
Melon50
Wow i look at that old thread about The fly and it feels like you could just replace the fly to GOYB and the thread would be a brand new thread about GOYB! This is a very good indication that this in years from now will be viewed like AB is viewed now. The funniest post was that someone said that MW was supposed to sound like WOWY and someone even said U2 was dead! gee that rings a bell from yesterdays postings doesn't it?
I would hate to be in a setlist party with these guys from 1992-93... "Zoo Station again as the opener!!"
That's awesome. The best part from me looking at the Usenet files was to see that one of the main guys was posting from Unversity of Virginia account... and I know him. I too, was a student at UVA in 91. And a Usenet user. ; )
Is it possible to be old and yet retro-cool at the same time?
Wow i look at that old thread about The fly and it feels like you could just replace the fly to GOYB and the thread would be a brand new thread about GOYB! This is a very good indication that this in years from now will be viewed like AB is viewed now. The funniest post was that someone said that MW was supposed to sound like WOWY and someone even said U2 was dead! gee that rings a bell from yesterdays postings doesn't it?
Wow i look at that old thread about The fly and it feels like you could just replace the fly to GOYB and the thread would be a brand new thread about GOYB! This is a very good indication that this in years from now will be viewed like AB is viewed now. The funniest post was that someone said that MW was supposed to sound like WOWY and someone even said U2 was dead! gee that rings a bell from yesterdays postings doesn't it?