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People who think they don't like U2

  • 11-04-2020 07:33PM
    #1
    EuKaryMe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34 ✭


    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?


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  • #2
    daheff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,027 ✭✭✭daheff


    Nope

    Can't stand U2, Bono or their poxy music

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


  • #3
    com1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 464 ✭✭com1


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


  • #4
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


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


  • #5
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


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


  • #6
    wally1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭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


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  • #7
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #9
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭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


  • #10
    Abel Ruiz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭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


  • #11
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Early U2 is great.

    Later... not so much.


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  • #12
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,817 ✭✭✭✭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.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #13
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭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


  • #14
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,169 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    U2 are a poor man's Simple Minds.


  • #16
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,383 ✭✭✭✭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/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #18
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭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.’


  • #19
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,383 ✭✭✭✭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?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #20
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,032 ✭✭✭✭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?


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  • #22
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    ‘90s U2 then. Call it quits


  • #24
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭Be right back


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


  • #27
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,607 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #28
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,025 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


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

    How can anybody not love this?



  • #30
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,903 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Early U2 is great.

    Later... not so much.


    When he took singing lessons really it went downhill.


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  • #31
    Clegg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,600 ✭✭✭✭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


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