Shuttlecock XXVI: There is no Boner only ZUUL!

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I'd love to be a fly in the wall during that conversation:

Edge: So this album was kind of a failure, but we could still develop these musical ideas further in a more organic and natural form.
Boner, the Liar: Nahhhh, I think we're good. How about I write some on-the-nose, saccharine lyrics that pass as honesty and sprinkle some actual decent shit in there somewhere?
British Adam: Yeah! And then we'll send a song to be in Tomb Raider!
Edge: As long as I get to digitally interact with Angelina Jolie, I'm down.
Boner, the Liar: Splendid. I'm going to campaign for an entire continent, see you all in 6 months. I'll fax you when I'm done writing "Wild Honey." That shit's going to be intense.
Larry: I fucking hate everything.

I love this.

 

[zoney!]

Who faxes now anyway? Every time I get an email from someone that says "Did you get my fax?", I want to write back, "Try emailing it to me instead, grandpa".

there are laws in Canadia?

I fax shit to Canadian Customs regularly.

 

[Irvine511]

and the last time U2 really took a real risk, musically speaking.

ok, honestly, this is the line of thinking that bothers me most about Pop, an album i like.

i was listening to Prodigy, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Moby, et al, back in 1997. it was totally Shuttlecock trying to trend monger, and it blew up in their faces.

sure, the songs are good live, but i really feel like the album is U2 playing dress-up.

 

[coolian2]

this is why nobody likes the elderly

 

[martha]

I tell ya, put Discotheque on and try, just try, to stay under the speed limit on a two-lane highway in the middle of nowhere.

Can't be done.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

I tell ya, put Discotheque on and try, just try, to stay under the speed limit on a two-lane highway in the middle of nowhere.

Can't be done.

or see if you can resist the urge to blast the song.

i forget when i bought pop exactly, it was either april or may of 97. i remember i had it by the time i saw them, but i didn't buy it the day it came out. i've loved it since i first heard it, but it's never been my favourite album. that title has always belonged to achtung baby. hell, i remember sitting at home trying to find ways to cure my boredom that summer break and i ranked all the u2 songs from favourite to least favourite. i wish i could still find that list. all i remember is lemon was #1.

 

[No spoken words]

Pop is better than Irvine thinks but worse than the worshippers think.

Mofo live is a fucking monster.

Oh, and, hey guys, JessicaAnn is back on the site. So, yeah, um.

 

[Irvine511]

i like Pop. i just think that it's the Radiohead of U2 albums. only you, careful discerning listener, understand what they were on about.

or just on.

 

[martha]

or just on.

THEY DON"T DO DRUGS.



fcl

 

[coolian2]

THEY DON"T DO DRUGS.



fcl

i'll believe that when they provide an adequate explanation for love rescue me.

 

[Irvine511]

THEY DON"T DO DRUGS.



fcl

Bono gets upset, really upset, when he smells people smoking the pot at his shows. they're obviously not there for the music.

WE ARE ONE

 

[martha]

jesus, I thought I clicked on this thread and saw a numbered poster and nearly did the movie-style NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then I realized it was the Sarah Palin thread. I thought I was gonna need to do cpr on myself.














But I have to confess, I'm one of those tight-asses who hates the smell of pot smoke at concerts.

 

[Irvine511]

But I have to confess, I'm one of those tight-asses who hates the smell of pot smoke at concerts.

but do you judge? do you imagine Bono making a "just say no" speech to the kids right after the second song?

because there are some who do.

 

[corianderstem]

I haz a sad relating to the now-former Surfer Boy.

Who wants to cheer me up?

 

[Irvine511]

I haz a sad relating to the now-former Surfer Boy.

Who wants to cheer me up?

 

[martha]

I haz a sad relating to the now-former Surfer Boy.

Who wants to cheer me up?

Oh crap. And I mean that.

 

[martha]

but do you judge? do you imagine Bono making a "just say no" speech to the kids right after the second song?

because there are some who do.

No.

 

[corianderstem]

Thanks, guys.

Same old story: girl meets boy, girl and boy have lovely times for two and a half months, girl loses boy in tragic blimp accident, blah blah blah.

Rats, phooey and a big, heavy sigh.

 

[Irvine511]

girl loses boy in tragic blimp accident

man, if i had a dollar for every time that's happened to me.

 

[corianderstem]

I know, right? Maybe it's a sign that I need to give up my blimping hobby.

 

[Irvine511]

I know, right? Maybe it's a sign that I need to give up my blimping hobby.

i've been trying to quit juggling knives for years now.

 

[corianderstem]

Well at least until we have a pinko commie utopia universal health care. Then you might be able to pick it up again.

 

[coolian2]

that sucks cori

i didn't realise you were going out with james may though. i'm impressed!

Showbiz - News - May unhurt in 'Top Gear' airship stunt - Digital Spy

 

[martha]

girl and boy have lovely times for two and a half months

This was nice, though, right?

 

[Irvine511]

Well at least until we have a pinko commie utopia universal health care. Then you might be able to pick it up again.

now that the public option is apparently dead, Memphis will no longer be my assistant in my wildly popular knife throwing act we perform Tuesday nights at JR's over on 17th street.

we do a great routine set to "9 to 5." the whole bar sings along.

 

[martha]

DAMMIT!!

fcl

 

[phillyfan26]

Let's play some music that's worth of dancing to. Right now.

 

[corianderstem]

I have no idea who James May is. But thanks all the same.

It was very nice, and at least it got me back on the dating horse after two and a half years.

Oh well.

 

[coolian2]

I have no idea who James May is. But thanks all the same.

drat!

 

[Irvine511]

Let's play some music that's worth of dancing to. Right now.

Tumble outta bed and I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
Yawnin', stretchin', try to come to life
Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'
Out on the streets the traffic starts jumpin'
And folks like me on the job from nine to five