Does anyone else think U2 are shíte

cruais wrote: »

Don't talk to me about u2!

Am sitting here in a panic the last few hours.

I got tickets and went to print them tonight, only to discover that I selected mail delivery. Booked on my sister's card and called her to be told she didn't receive any tickets.

I called out her address and I got the wrong poxy number of her house. So she calls to the neighbours on the road who received the tickets in January but didn't recognise the name and so sent the tickets back to ticketmaster.

Customer service closed so will have to try in the morning to sort the situation. Gutted.

Did you get sorted?
Hope so

I was a big fan in the day, and remember getting the Joshua Tree on the first day it was released - not at midnight, mind you. Every time I hear the intro to Streets Have No Name, I get a spine-tingling flashback to being at the rear of the pit in the RDS around 92 for one of their gigs. I saw them first in the Phoenix Park, then the Croker gigs in the 80s, then the RDS - great shows and special moments when there wasn't a huge amount of good news for young people in Ireland.

Looking back, they were better imitators than innovators. In their early stuff, you can hear clearly where they were ripping off Joy Division or the Bunnymen or others of that era.

Fair play to them for their achievements - musical and commercial. They were the one Irish band of that era who really hit the big time, and they worked hard for it. The tax thing does piss me off, given yer man's lecturing about 3rd world problems. Maybe if they payed the normal rates of tax then Governments would be able to do something more for the 3rd world?

I got a freebie to their last tour in the Point, and it was a great show, very visual, though the new material doesn't do it for me. I really wouldn't bother doing a big Croker gig again after the last Springsteen one. The sound quality is pretty sh1te - they're just not built for music.

Like them or loathe them, Dublin would be a very different place now if they never existed.

Yourself isit wrote: »

Of course they are crap compared to Beethoven. However any judgement of them as a rock band has to be subjective.




Why though? The world is full of stuff people like you don't like. Just live your life.

Because the title of the thread was.........'Does anyone else think U2 are shíte'........not.........'Does anyone else think U2 are a great rock band'.

So possibly I am in the right thread.

Although it is boring and your right I have better things to do then comment on sh*te celebs with limited musical ability............Toodlepip.

I was never a big fan particularly disliked their 90s stuff. They have about 5 or 6 songs that I'd listen to.

These 4 Dublin lads have rocked probably 2/3rds of the worlds cities over 5 different continents over a 40 year period, filling thousands of stadiums with an average of 50,000 + along the way....an extremely rare achievement...

They are playing their hometown tonight in what can only be a very special night for them and their families....

Bono busks on Grafton Street most years...has always been a proud Dub/Irishman....

And yet our own complain about whatever bull**** enters our head first...tax...Bono's opinions...whatever....whenever they are mentioned...

Cities much bigger than Dublin haven't produced anything remotely as successful....

If I have any problem with U2 it is that we haven't produced more like them!!!

Vinculus wrote: »

Like them or loathe them, Dublin would be a very different place now if they never existed.

Go on, caller.

Have always liked I will Follow and New Years Day (Studio version) and their first live album Live under a Blood Red Sky was a cracker, wouldn't have been interested in their later stuff that much although I thought the Fly was a great track. I'll give you this they were definitely the second greatest act on the 1985 Live Aid day, Queen has the crown for that but U2 came a close second that day.

mzungu wrote: »

Croke Park would probably be empty tonight!

Croke Park would never have been redeveloped!

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't like U2.

But many years ago, I loved them.

Along with Simple Minds and to a lesser extent Big Country, they were kinda the music of my early teenage years...like so many other kids in Ireland in the 80s. Prefer the Simple Minds, but kinda stopped the fixation circa 1990/91 with the explosion of dance and house music. But used to love the way they reinvented themselves with every album from The Unforforgettable Fire up to Achtung Baby. After that it got a bit meh.

Speaking of 'our vintage'....

I remember Dublin in the 80s. Dublin in the 80s was kinda crap. Aspirations to greatness wasn't our thing. I was never a U2 fan, but I do remember the first night of their 1987 gig in Croker. I was a 13 year old. I wasn't at it. I was camping with the scouts up at Larch Hill. Two of the older lads had tickets. We had to cover for them while they snuck off to get a lift into town from a mate who'd 'borrowed' his aul' fellas car. They arrived back about 2am with tales to tell. They'd been to a concert. In Croke Park. What? Music in Croker? Yeah. Bleedin' deadly. And the band are from Dublin!

That kinda blew me away. I mean, 'famous' bands were from America, right? Was MTUsa lying to us every Saturday morning? So, while still not really a fan, and in the full awareness that most people reading this won't remember a time before we didn't really do or aspire to do much here... I appreciate the audacity of U2, and that they do what they do better than most that do what they do, and have continued to do it at the highest level for four decades now. They're not to my taste, but I'm kinda proud that they came from here.

Let the begrudgery commence. Bono blah blah anybody?

So you whingers didn't get tickets right.

What a night


What a show