People who think they don't like U2

EuKaryMe

Someone told me recently that she wouldn't cross the road to see them. Aren't comments like this just people's way of saying that they're sick of Bono and what U2 has turned into. Realistically if they were to hear some of the U2 hits for the first time tomorrow, they'd probably be raving about them. Right?

daheff

Nope

Can't stand U2, Bono or their poxy music

If they were playing in my back garden I'd close the curtains.

com1

Yeah, but people generally find it hard to separate the music from the a-holes who create it

pablo128

The best U2 song was the one they did with Mary J Blige.
https://youtu.be/ZpDQJnI4OhU

Bobblehats

The greatest trick bono ever pulled was E-LE-VA-TION

wally1990

I know actually nothing about the bank members really but christ I think their music is poor

Could never get into it at all

Your Face

Im not a really a fan but never hated them and like a few of their songs.
I saw them live once and they were very good.

Post 1991 their music holds very little resonance for me. It was about that time when Bono disappeared up his own arse.

harry Bailey esq

daheff wrote: »

Nope

Can't stand U2, Bono or their poxy music

If they were playing in my back garden I'd close the curtains.

Don't like U2, but if they were in me back garden I'd probably cash in somehow. Either pack a few thousand in to the garden or more likely hold them to ransom

Abel Ruiz

I couldn't give a bollix.
I haven't heard bono talk bollix, is he on his twitter twittering about politics or something? I don't know much about their music.
I just don't give two fuks about this debate and how much people love/hate bono or love the old music but hate the new stuff since the new century.
Who gives a fuk. Cnuts. Piss off.
Poxy ****ing thread. Sake

Church on Tuesday

Early U2 is great.

Later... not so much.

EmmetSpiceland

I’m not a big fan of U2 but I don’t really “get” the hatred some people have for them.

One thing I will say, is that I, personally, think that ‘Pop’ is a very “underrated” album.

Bobblehats

Deleted User wrote: »

Post 1991 their music holds very little resonance for me. It was about that time when Bono disappeared up his own arse.

Achtung Baby with its 3 promo whammy. Bam-bam-bam and the subsequent tour that redefined live music but either side of that, no thanks

Sardonicat

Their early stuff does not hold up, nor does it capture the zeitgeist. The stuff from the 90s on is just so bland. Most notable thing about them is their touchy fans.

Trigger Happy

U2 are a poor man's Simple Minds.

Woke Hogan

Sardonicat wrote: »

Their early stuff does not hold up, nor does it capture the zeitgeist. The stuff from the 90s on is just so bland. Most notable thing about them is their touchy fans.

It doesn't capture the zeitgeist now? Well those songs are over thirty years old, they wouldn't.

odyssey06

Loved their stuff up as far as Pop even some of the less known stuff like October.

But can't stand the tax dodging preaching. They are too cool to pay taxes here but not too cool to hector and lecture those of us here with far less than they do about what to do.

If they want to make a difference, let actions like this speak for themselves:
- U2 HAVE DONATED €10 million to support health care workers battling coronavirus in Ireland.
- https://www.thejournal.ie/u2-donating-money-fight-coronavirus-ireland-5070790-Apr2020/

Rodney Bathgate

The albums since 2000 inclusive haven’t really registered. The odd decent single but no where near the earlier stuff.

Lots of excellent songs before that though.

As above, Pop was the last one I would remember, I like ‘Staring at the Sun.’

odyssey06

Sardonicat wrote: »

Their early stuff does not hold up, nor does it capture the zeitgeist. The stuff from the 90s on is just so bland. Most notable thing about them is their touchy fans.

Achtung Baby and Zooropa bland? If anything the opposite, too experimental maybe but I liked it.

Perhaps you are thinking of their stuff from All That You Can't Leave Behind and onwards?

Rodney Bathgate

odyssey06 wrote: »

Loved their stuff up as far as Pop even some of the less known stuff like October.

But can't stand the tax dodging preaching. They are too cool to pay taxes here but not too cool to hector and lecture those of us here with far less than they do about what to do.

If they want to make a difference, let actions like this speak for themselves:
- U2 HAVE DONATED €10 million to support health care workers battling coronavirus in Ireland.
- https://www.thejournal.ie/u2-donating-money-fight-coronavirus-ireland-5070790-Apr2020/

Can’t help thinking that they wouldn’t need to make a donation like this if the band corporation(s) paid their taxes here in the first place.

Ash.J.Williams

Abel Ruiz wrote: »

I couldn't give a bollix.
I haven't heard bono talk bollix, is he on his twitter twittering about politics or something? I don't know much about their music.
I just don't give two fuks about this debate and how much people love/hate bono or love the old music but hate the new stuff since the new century.
Who gives a fuk. Cnuts. Piss off.
Poxy ****ing thread. Sake

He’s on Twitter?

Rodney Bathgate

odyssey06 wrote: »

Achtung Baby and Zooropa bland? If anything the opposite, too experimental maybe but I liked it.

Perhaps you are thinking of their stuff from All That You Can't Leave Behind and onwards?

Achtung Baby and Zooropa would be my favourites.

Bobblehats

‘90s U2 then. Call it quits

Sardonicat

Woke Hogan wrote: »

It doesn't capture the zeitgeist now? Well those songs are over thirty years old, they wouldn't.

They don't capture the zeitgeist of their time. Which is obviously what I meant. The word, when used in English, is generally applied retrospectively, like when people say F. Scott Fitxgerald's work captures the zeitgeist they are referring to the 1920s, not the 2020s.

And some of their early.stuff is 40 years old. I mean, they were good once, but that stuff is stale now.

If you are interested in listening to something that captures the zeitgeist of early 80s Ireland, try The Blades.

Sardonicat

odyssey06 wrote: »

Achtung Baby and Zooropa bland? If anything the opposite, too experimental maybe but I liked it.

Perhaps you are thinking of their stuff from All That You Can't Leave Behind and onwards?

They just don't do it for me, sorry. Probably showing my age here.

Be right back

I don't think I don't like U2, I know I don't like U2!

ancapailldorcha

There are a few songs I do like and I could be persuaded that their older albums are quite good. I just can't be arsed with Bono's hypocrisy.

El_Duderino 09

I don't mind Bono. Did a lot of good work in the world. I don't care if he's a bit of a d1ck. South Park did a show about how he was the biggest turd ever laid in history. And they had some absolute bangers like the batman theme (hold me, kiss me, kill me, thrill me). But everything was given the same airtime no matter how shyte it was - and there was a lot of shyte towards the end.

So I'm completely over them and wouldn't dream of listening to a new album if they ever brought one out. But some of their stuff was good with a couple of belters.

begbysback

Under a blood red sky is probably the most underrated album ever

How can anybody not love this?

kneemos

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Early U2 is great.

Later... not so much.

When he took singing lessons really it went downhill.

Clegg

They made great music for a long, long time. I think Bono's heart is in the right place, but he's just woefully tone deaf.

Anyway, Lemon is their best song.

https://youtu.be/LZTNBdKNUek

Sardonicat

begbysback wrote: »

Under a blood red sky is probably the most underrated album ever

How can anybody not love this?

This is what I consider 'good' u2.

odyssey06

begbysback wrote: »

Under a blood red sky is probably the most underrated album ever
How can anybody not love this?

Phenomenal performance. Really captures the power and energy and passion of early U2 at the top of their game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_Live_at_Red_Rocks:_Under_a_Blood_Red_Sky

Rodney Bathgate

Clegg wrote: »

They made great music for a long, long time. I think Bono's heart is in the right place, but he's just woefully tone deaf.

Anyway, Lemon is their best song.

https://youtu.be/LZTNBdKNUek

When he says ‘she wore lemon’, does he mean she wore clothing that was lemon coloured? Or that she wore a large lemon costume? I always assumed it was the former. Anyone think is could be the latter? He would surely say ‘she wore a lemon’ if it was the latter, right?

ShatterAlan

I can't say that there is a single U2 song that I love or even one that I loathe. I kinda like all their crap. I really like BAD, SBS, Beautiful Day, Unforgettable Fire, One, ...Vertigo has a great thump to it. And while The Edge is no Jimmy Paige he has a very distinctive jangle on his guitar.


But Bono is a complete hypocrite and narcissistic fool. He preaches peace and then makes massive coin from his stock portfolio in the defense industry.



I'm glad my mate Lorcan shagged his wife in the 90's

Woke Hogan

Sardonicat wrote: »

They don't capture the zeitgeist of their time. Which is obviously what I meant. The word, when used in English, is generally applied retrospectively, like when people say F. Scott Fitxgerald's work captures the zeitgeist they are referring to the 1920s, not the 2020s.

And some of their early.stuff is 40 years old. I mean, they were good once, but that stuff is stale now.

If you are interested in listening to something that captures the zeitgeist of early 80s Ireland, try The Blades.

"Captures" is present tense, "captured" is past tense.

If you were trying to say they didn't capture the zeitgeist of the time, why didn't you say so? What you're trying (and failing) to say is absurd anyway. They were massive in the 80s.

Darc19

Never got into their music. (I'd be elo / Elton John genre), but will say that Bono has used his status positively and would give big kudos to him for that.

I don't understand why people have an issue with him - probably the usual begrudgery

ToddDameron

They have written a lot of great songs I think. Sunday Bloody Sunday, Stuck in a Moment, Where the Streets, Pride, One, Without or Without, Hold Me Thrill Me..Elevation, Vertigo etc etc. They can fill a set with hits or at least songs that have charted well. I wouldn't be a die hard fan, but they've consistently produced songs that I liked, albeit a lot of sh1te too.

Bono has a very good rock voice too that he doesn't really get much credit for I think.

wally1990

wally1990 wrote: »

I know actually nothing about the bank members really but christ I think their music is poor

Bank members? A very appropriate Freudian typo!

Del.Monte

Face it, there hasn't been any music since 1974 - the year that Rory Gallagher released "Irish Tour '74". Take that along with "Rory Gallagher Live in Europe" and Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" and you could survive on any desert island.
Hate in relation to U2 is too extreme, they don't even appear on the rock radar - the only band in history that couldn't play their instruments when they started and still can't.

I enjoyed achtung baby and in general enjoy their stuff well enough without being a fan or taking a point of playing it.

Seen them twice live as a guest if ticket holder. Good shows to be fair.

Not bothered by the band members except Bono. There's aspects of his personality I like but Jesus he preaches a lot more than he practices.

Woke Hogan

Del.Monte wrote: »

Face it, there hasn't been any music since 1974 - the year that Rory Gallagher released "Irish Tour '74". Take that along with "Rory Gallagher Live in Europe" and Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" and you could survive on any desert island.
Hate in relation to U2 is too extreme, they don't even appear on the rock radar - the only band in history that couldn't play their instruments when they started and still can't.

If I was on that desert island I would pray for a tsunami.

A lot of bands from that era started out when they couldn't play their instruments. John Lennon didn't know how to play guitar when he met Paul McCartney.

BuboBubo

A few good songs, Sunday Bloody Sunday is class.

I still think Bono is a Pox though.

elperello

Got to feel for U2.

First they made the major error for any Irish band, they became a huge international success.

Then they doubled down by not having the good grace to die young.

JohnnyFlash

Del.Monte wrote: »

Face it, there hasn't been any music since 1974 - the year that Rory Gallagher released "Irish Tour '74". Take that along with "Rory Gallagher Live in Europe" and Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" and you could survive on any desert island.
Hate in relation to U2 is too extreme, they don't even appear on the rock radar - the only band in history that couldn't play their instruments when they started and still can't.

andekwarhola

Sardonicat wrote: »

Their early stuff does not hold up, nor does it capture the zeitgeist. The stuff from the 90s on is just so bland. Most notable thing about them is their touchy fans.

If you don't do a quote unquote sign with your fingers when saying zeitgeist, did you even say it at all?

Woke Hogan

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

"this is real music, man"

The mid 70s were the worst time for rock music, live albums the worst examples.

18 minute guitar solos with no sense of composition or melody. Concert films with self-indulgent fantasy scenes. Institutionalised child rape in the dressing rooms. And that was just Led Zeppelin! Awful era.

Rothko

Darc19 wrote: »

I don't understand why people have an issue with him - probably the usual begrudgery

Nonsense

Del.Monte wrote: »

Face it, there hasn't been any music since 1974 - the year that Rory Gallagher released "Irish Tour '74". Take that along with "Rory Gallagher Live in Europe" and Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" and you could survive on any desert island.
Hate in relation to U2 is too extreme, they don't even appear on the rock radar - the only band in history that couldn't play their instruments when they started and still can't.

No music since 1974?

_Brian

EuKaryMe wrote: »

Someone told me recently that she wouldn't cross the road to see them. Aren't comments like this just people's way of saying that they're sick of Bono and what U2 has turned into. Realistically if they were to hear some of the U2 hits for the first time tomorrow, they'd probably be raving about them. Right?

Their early music was great.
Then the music went down hill as Bono’s opinion of himself went up. Their recent stuff is rubbish.

EmmetSpiceland

Del.Monte wrote: »

Face it, there hasn't been any music since 1974 - the year that Rory Gallagher released "Irish Tour '74". Take that along with "Rory Gallagher Live in Europe" and Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" and you could survive on any desert island.

It picked up again in 1979 with the release of Rainbow’s ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’.

JohnnyFlash

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

It picked up again in 1979 with the release of Rainbow’s ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’.

Toto also released their first album in 1979.