People who think they don't like U2

Sardonicat · 11-04-2020 08:48PM

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 · 11-04-2020 08:51PM

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 · 11-04-2020 08:53PM

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 · 11-04-2020 08:53PM

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 · 11-04-2020 08:56PM

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 · 11-04-2020 08:56PM

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 · 11-04-2020 08:57PM

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.

11-04-2020 08:59PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:03PM

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.

11-04-2020 09:06PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:09PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:10PM

A few good songs, Sunday Bloody Sunday is class.

I still think Bono is a Pox though.

elperello · 11-04-2020 09:13PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:16PM

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.

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andekwarhola · 11-04-2020 09:18PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:29PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:30PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:34PM

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 · 11-04-2020 09:45PM

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 · 11-04-2020 10:13PM

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.

dotsman · 11-04-2020 10:27PM

I've never understood, nor respected, anybody who "hates" U2, or feels they need to comment on how "they don't like U2". It just comes across as really childish.

If their music doesn't appeal to you at all, that's great. If you like some, but not all of their songs/albums (well over 200+ songs), that's fine too. Mention any other band and if people like they they will say so or if they don't like them, they will simply say they are not "in" to said band. But mention U2 and certain people feel they have to proclaim their dislike. It's pretty pathetic.

And those who go on about Bono preaching, or not paying his taxes really don't have a clue what what they are talking about.

Sardonicat · 11-04-2020 10:29PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

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

I dunno. Ask Heidegger

andekwarhola · 11-04-2020 10:32PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

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

Also...

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andekwarhola · 11-04-2020 10:33PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

I dunno. Ask Heidegger

He's dead, unfortunately.

Sardonicat · 11-04-2020 10:34PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

He's dead, unfortunately.

Then I guess we'll never know.

darlett · 11-04-2020 10:43PM

I love them. Recent albums miss the mark but crikey what a back catalogue. Even looking thru the thread at people saying I only like this song, or that song, it's quite the list. The Joshua Tree just gets me every time.

As for people declaring the hate of Bono. Umm, yeah I know you do, but so? Recently there was lots of piss taking and **** talk after he released song for Italians singing on balcony. I saw far more claims that he was trying to somehow profit out of that THAN I saw praise for a €10million donation from the band. It wasnt surprising-I know many prefer to turn the knife, but it is also a bit odd.

Arghus · 11-04-2020 11:27PM

They have a fair whack of really great songs. I don't know how how people can deny that. Admittedly there's pretty much nothing of their output worth listening too post 2000, but, while I don't think I'd be too bothered about going to see them live or anything I wouldn't be silly enough to dismiss them as crap.

Bono tries too hard and is a bit of an arse, but if I'm plastered drunk and I hear The Streets Have No Name I don't really pay much heed to whatever I think of Bono.

Montage of Feck · 11-04-2020 11:28PM

I prefer the evil Bono.

Degag · 11-04-2020 11:55PM

Saw U2 live a couple of years ago. Like a few of their songs and it was nice to see one of Ireland's most successful bands in the flesh. But are they a great live band? No in my opinion. Far too much pontificating from Bono. Would i see them again? I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to do so.

Earthhorse · 12-04-2020 12:19AM

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

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?

It's the former. If I remember correctly the song is a tribute to his mother who would often wear that colour.

People who think they don't like U2

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