You bring up some interesting points.
This really struck me funny.
Oh and why do people keep saying SUC is pop? Its a very rocking song.
Stuck in a web you cant get out of!LOL
Oh and why do people keep saying SUC is pop? Its a very rocking song.
as an aside – bono talking about turning the spiderman songs into a u2 album, and saying it would be their “most accessible”, one that could feature other artists... Think about it. You know it’s going to be people like this. Get ready for u2 featuring justin timberlake “stuck in a web you can’t get out of” or some shit.
More Eno/Lanois please, less Will.I.Am (after all, how seriously can you take anyone who insists on putting periods between the syllables of his name?).
Well said. Obama's already typical American conservatism in his foreign policy, bombing innocent people in Pakistan and supporting Zionist policy in the Middle East by refusing to negotiate with a democratically elected group. Bill Moyers did an excellent discussion on the immorality and unhelpfulness of bombing:Judging from the two Will.I.Am songs I know - his smarmy, sycophantic, fawning, puke-inducing, mind-numbingly banal, pseudo-messiah worshipping, aesthetically fascist Obama campaign songs - I'm going to go with liability.
Unfortunately, of late, U2 (or Bono at least) seem enamored of mediocrities like this Will.i.Am guy, Kanye West, Wyclef Jean, Beyonce/Destiny's Child, The Killers, Snow Patrol, etc. (anyone remember Third Eye Blind? U2 were big on them circa Pop; where are they now?).
More Eno/Lanois please, less Will.I.Am (after all, how seriously can you take anyone who insists on putting periods between the syllables of his name?).
Well said. Obama's already typical American conservatism in his foreign policy, bombing innocent people in Pakistan and supporting Zionist policy in the Middle East by refusing to negotiate with a democratically elected group. Bill Moyers did an excellent discussion on the immorality and unhelpfulness of bombing:
Bill Moyers Journal . Pierre Sprey and Marilyn Young | PBS
Also, why does Bono name drop people AFTER they're famous and multimillionaires?! Cate Blanchette, Coldplay, Beyonce, Jay Z, The Killers, Oasis. He even mentioned Pulp (who is amazing) in 1997 because they were big back then and then never again. It's like a sickness with him. How about bringing unknowns to fame, Bono, like Radiohead does? That actually might be a goodwill gesture instead of just showing off and ingratiating yourself with celebrity.
Well said. Obama's already typical American conservatism in his foreign policy, bombing innocent people in Pakistan and supporting Zionist policy in the Middle East by refusing to negotiate with a democratically elected group. Bill Moyers did an excellent discussion on the immorality and unhelpfulness of bombing
Well said. Obama's already typical American conservatism in his foreign policy, bombing innocent people in Pakistan and supporting Zionist policy in the Middle East by refusing to negotiate with a democratically elected group. Bill Moyers did an excellent discussion on the immorality and unhelpfulness of bombing:
Bill Moyers Journal . Pierre Sprey and Marilyn Young | PBS
Also, why does Bono name drop people AFTER they're famous and multimillionaires?! Cate Blanchette, Coldplay, Beyonce, Jay Z, The Killers, Oasis. He even mentioned Pulp (who is amazing) in 1997 because they were big back then and then never again. It's like a sickness with him. How about bringing unknowns to fame, Bono, like Radiohead does? That actually might be a goodwill gesture instead of just showing off and ingratiating yourself with celebrity.
Thanks for the "well said," but you are mistaken if you think Obama is "conservative". As for those who oppose American actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I'd like to know what they would like to do to eradicate alQaeda and other Islamic extermists? Opposing the Iraq war is one thing - it was arguably not an absolutely necessary as a response to 9/11 and could have been handled better militarily and politically (though I don't think any sensible person could argue that the Iraqi people as a whole are not better off without Saddam, Qusai and Uday running the show!), but opposing US actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan is another thing altogether, intervention in both places was absolutley necessary after 9/11 (again, however, things could have been handled better in some cases - being too friendly toward Pakistan, the main safe-haven and harbor for al-Qaeda and Taliban, for example.) One must distinguish between unintended civillian casualties as a result of legitimate military actions and terrorist actions that have as they sole aim the killing of as many civilians as possible.
As for Hamas being "democratically elected," that does not make them a worthy or legitimate negotating partner. The National Socialist were democratically elected too? Should we therefore have "negotiated" with Hitler over control of Europe and the fate of the Jews? Hamas (and Hezbollah in Lebanon) are brutal cleptocratic terrorist organisations (like the PLO, now so-called Palestinian-Authority), they rule by force and intimidation (numerous reports are available of they way they abuse and intimidate Palestinian Arabs who oppose them). Like the PLO (especailly under Arafat) they mouth democratic platitudes when speaking to Western leaders and media, but their real principle is "one vote, one time" (after which tehy will never voluntarily relinquish power. Hugo Chaves has also implemeted this principle in Venezuela) Hamas' charter still calls for the elimination of Israel and contains numerous anti-Semitic passages. It is simply inconceivable for one to think that negotions can be opened on a truly just basis with Hamas when they insist on the elimination and utter destruction of their purperted negotiating partner (Would you "negotiate" with someone who said his chief aim was to kill you? No, you'd do whatever you needed to to stop him from killing you, with all necessary force.). Then again, they way you use "Zionist" as if it were a self-evidently bad thing to be, indicates that you probably do think we should have negotiated with the Nazis in the same way you wish to negotiate with the fascist anti-Semites of Hamas.
Finally, Bill Moyers is hardly an objective source for news and information. He has a long track record of extreme Leftism and is a former LBJ and Carter operative.
By the way, whilst surfing on the web I came across this bit on recording with U2:
Excerpt of an MSN interview:
Switching tracks, in Rolling Stone, Bono praised you for your remix on "Magnificent." How did working with U2 on their new album come about?
It was summer in the south of France. I was DJ'ing in St. Tropez and [Interscope Records chairman] Jimmy Iovine called and said, "Hey Will, why don't you take a car and come meet me at Bono's house." I was like, "All right." So I took a car and went to meet him at Bono's house. Cindy Crawford was there and George Clooney. I was like, "What? This is crazy." We had lunch and Bono says, "Hey, I'm playing the record for people." People left and Bono was like, "I want to change something on the song. Hey Edge, get your guitar out." So I'm standing there watching them. Then they started asking me all these questions and they said, "You want to come back tomorrow, we're going to start recording some more." I was like "Cool, all right, sure." The vibe was so dope. I felt like a family member they hadn't met. I'd met them at Jimmy's house, but this was my first time vibing with them.
What happened next?
They were like, "What are you doing the whole month of November? Do you want to come out to London with us to record?" What? Hell yeah, right? So I did that. We recorded on "Magnificent" and "Crazy Tonight," [which] we did in the south of France. The name of the song was [originally] something different. I was like, "What was the lyric you said there: 'I know I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight?'" That's the hook right there. [I said] "If you're not going to use that can I have that? Can I sample it before it even comes out?" I was so enthused by that sentence.