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Bands who tried to copy U2

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  • 15-03-2019 8:46pm
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    Stacksofwacks
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    I'm just wondering if you know any bands/artists who tried to copy U2's sound, not sure if this band did knowingly but this song sounds very U2-like.to me anyways!



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    orourkeda1977
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    Why would you copy that shower?


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    Stacksofwacks
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    Coldplay?


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    amcalester
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    Stacksofwacks wrote: »
    I'm just wondering if you know any bands/artists who tried to copy U2's sound, not sure if this band did knowingly but this song sounds very U2-like.to me anyways!


    Sounds more like Simple Minds.


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    Talking of Simple Minds. Simple Minds.


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    Wheety
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    Rattle and Hum


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    Stacksofwacks
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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
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    Slipknot, The Beatles and Mozart would be the 3 biggest imo.


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    Ipso
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Taking of Simple Minds. Simple Minds.

    What have Simple Minds and Pinochet got in common?
    They both committed atrocities in stadiums.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Aslan.

    Yer man Christy Digman even started wearing a leather waistcoat and a stetson... Pathetic


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    Discodog
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    adox
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    One U2 is bad enough..


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    Stacksofwacks
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    Actually once i think of it, U2's sound isnt that original at all, they ripped alot of their sound from Echo and the Bunneymen and just brought it to stadium level by imitating bands like Aerosmith


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    buried
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    U2 copied this bigtime. Listen

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    Church on Tuesday
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    orourkeda1977 wrote: »
    Why would you copy that shower?

    Because they're one of the biggest rock bands in the world?

    Early U2 is quite good, later material not so much.


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    buried
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    Achtung Baby is good album in fairness

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    hatrickpatrick
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    The Killers and Coldplay are very open about how heavily U2 and their usual production team of Steve Lillywhite, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois influenced their sounds. I never like to talk of "copying" when it comes to styles and sounds though, the music industry is getting too f*cked up around what constitutes "plagiarism" these days (The whole Robin Thicke v Marvin Gaye thing was utterly moronic to take one example) - someone creates an interesting sound, someone else embellishes it and creates a new one. Coldplay are U2 with an added element of lush and orchestral beats and arrangements, while The Killers are U2 but with far more prominent and deliberately "dancey" keyboard sounds.


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    buried
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    The 'Achtung Baby' LP is cool because it has all these 'Break' elements that were being utilised in mid late- 80's hip hop tracks from America that weren't really popular at the time over here. All the tracks on that LP have them, 'The Fly' 'Mysterious Ways' 'Even better than the real thing' the most obvious. Even 'Whos gonna ride your wild horses' has it. I don't know if that was Eno's doing but somebody definitely knew what they were doing. Made the LP really stand out for previous U2 fans and chart buying public in general over here that weren't used to the sample based break usage of hip hop music going on in the US. It really is a cool LP. Well worth another dip even today IMO

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    Azatadine
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    There were a few Irish bands around when U2 first started to make it big like:

    Light a Big Fire
    Cactus World News

    Bands like those really tried to copy the U2 sound I think.


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    buried wrote: »
    The 'Achtung Baby' LP is cool because it has all these 'Break' elements that were being utilised in mid late- 80's hip hop tracks from America that weren't really popular at the time over here. All the tracks on that LP have them, 'The Fly' 'Mysterious Ways' 'Even better than the real thing' the most obvious. Even 'Whos gonna ride your wild horses' has it. I don't know if that was Eno's doing but somebody definitely knew what they were doing. Made the LP really stand out for previous U2 fans and chart buying public in general over here that weren't used to the sample based break usage of hip hop music going on in the US. It really is a cool LP. Well worth another dip even today IMO

    pretty accurate run-down there. they owe a lot to whomever influenced those elements. still holds up today.

    have barely had more than a couple of good songs since then, never-mind anything approaching a good album.

    Dining out on Acthtung Baby since 1990 - nearly 30 years!


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    buried
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    glasso wrote: »
    pretty accurate run-down there. they owe a lot to whomever influenced those elements. still holds up today.

    have barely had more than a couple of good songs since then, never-mind anything approaching a good album.

    Dining out on Acthtung Baby since 1990 - nearly 30 years!

    Yeah G, I'd love to get me hands on some sort of book that documents what was going on the making of that LP. It's cool stuff. Got me into ambient music like Eno back in the mid-90's once I saw he worked on it

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    gammygils
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    The Joshua Trio :pac:
    Worst band ever


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    Rothko
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    buried wrote: »
    Achtung Baby is good album in fairness

    It's a brilliant album, by far their best.


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    NewbridgeIR
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    buried wrote: »
    Yeah G, I'd love to get me hands on some sort of book that documents what was going on the making of that LP. It's cool stuff. Got me into ambient music like Eno back in the mid-90's once I saw he worked on it


    The Super Deluxe edition of Achtung Baby (6CDs+4DVDs) is a great package. Decent book, photos, most of the remixes, the fascinating demos, B-sides, Zooropa, documentary, Sydney show, the Zoo TV footage etc.


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    cocky Bono stuff right here back then on the Zoo Tour.

    Best U2 Tour.

    https://youtu.be/Ry42AY3efqw?t=170


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    Stacksofwacks
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    Or did U2 copy simple minds? I dont know which one started the big jangly guitar sound with overkill of delay/reverb and breathy masculine vocals first


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    Mike Guide 69
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    Anyone remember that awful shower known as “Then Jericho” , think they were trying to copy the U2 sound as well, although they were probably more akin trying to rip off “ Big Country” too......


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    mistersifter
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    Keane tried it (badly) with "is it any wonder".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVe_KVzBFOo


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    tigerboon
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    Azatadine wrote: »
    There were a few Irish bands around when U2 first started to make it big like:

    Light a Big Fire
    Cactus World News

    Bands like those really tried to copy the U2 sound I think.

    The media might have been hailing them as the next u2 at the time but that's not the same as copying u2. Mr Twilight and CIA don't really sound u2ish.
    Besides that, U2 had some decent songs back then. Not like the crap from the Joshua Tree onwards


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    buser2x
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    not so much copying, but when I first listened to "the Alarm" I thought Mike Peters had a bono-ish voice


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    vicwatson
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    If anyone has heard Bono’s son new song - that’s a U2 copy


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