U2 on hiatus?

Alter-Ego · 26-10-2011 06:14PM

hondasam wrote: »

Heard on the news they are thinking about finishing as a band.

I'm having a fcuking great week so far and it just keeps getting better.

stovelid · 26-10-2011 06:23PM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

FUCK YOU BONO
.

Please don't do that.

He will be devestated to the point of making a new album about it.

anto2 · 26-10-2011 07:03PM

BONO=TURD !!!THE EDGE = BIGGER TURD !!!

dotsman · 26-10-2011 07:09PM

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

Badgermonkey · 26-10-2011 07:32PM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

In the pic below, what the hell is that monstrosity on Bono's left?...

http://www4.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Bono+Carla+Bruni+Sarkozy+9th+Nobel+Peace+Prize+E1UoQZ6K-qPl.jpg

It appears Michael & Liz Taylor got jiggy.

That mental image is actually more disturbing than the photo.

anto2 · 26-10-2011 08:08PM

dotsman wrote: »

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

U2 of course .:D..i mean you too !!!

super_furry · 26-10-2011 08:11PM

Do you ever think that when The Edge's wife if having sex with, she start's singing The Edge of Glory? I think if I was her I would.

It'd be great for her to be sitting up there bouncing around the place singing "I'm on the Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge!"

I'd say he'd get a nice little boost out of it too.

Dyr · 26-10-2011 08:11PM

hondasam wrote: »

Heard on the news they are thinking about finishing as a band.

They finished as a band some time in the 80's

oh yes I did.

Placebo Effect · 26-10-2011 08:14PM

dotsman wrote: »

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

Well in Ireland,it's very hard to get away from them, just a Media wankfest as no one dares slag them off.

Wish they'd go away personally.

opinion guy · 26-10-2011 08:14PM

I guess Bono wants to do more charity work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2OQxma_1ps

super_furry · 26-10-2011 08:15PM

dotsman wrote: »

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

U2.

Because they're ****e you see.

Gee Bag · 26-10-2011 08:18PM

If this gaggle of fvcktards split up then they wont be away touring the world......

If they aren't away touring the world then they'll be at home in Ireland....

If they are at home in Ireland then they will be on TV, in newspapers more often.....

In order to fill these interviews with meaning Bonocúnt will have to talk even more political guff....

Therefore, I hope U2 don't break up. (I feel dirty after saying that)

opinion guy · 26-10-2011 08:19PM

Gee Bag wrote: »

If this gaggle of fvcktards split up then they wont be away touring the world......

If they aren't away touring the world then they'll be at home in Ireland Tax Haven Land....

If they are at home in Ireland then they will be on TV, in newspapers more often.....

In order to fill these interviews with meaning Bonocúnt will have to talk even more political guff....

Therefore, I hope U2 don't break up. (I feel dirty after saying that)

Fixed that for you

lee_baby_simms · 26-10-2011 08:24PM

U2 are like The Simpsons. Forgotten but not gone. They should stop making records and just tour every few years.

They've been knocking out, by their own standards, below par records for a good 15 years now. The world doesn't need any more U2 albums.

Wibbs · 26-10-2011 08:25PM

I have to say I liked a lot of their earlier material and were serious contenders for best live band. If they'd called it a day after Achtung Baby they would have gone out on a high. They might have stretched to All That You Can't Leave Behind and they would be fine, but now I think it's really pushing it. Now they are still producing the odd good song(IMHO magnificent being one), but the ship has largely sailed. Now they're much more a cabaret band creaking on the spot on past glories and fancy stages.

It's one reason I always had a soft spot for the Beatles. Above and beyond their actual output, they quit while they were young, while they were well ahead and on top of the game, leaving people to wonder what if*. As a band they never became a cabaret band churning out the hits on more and more tours with more and more production to cover up the cracks of age. The Stones who I love sadly didn't follow that curve. I reckon if U2 had split in 2000, you'd have a lot less anti U2 rhetoric, especially in Ireland and they would be appreciated a lot more for what they did for music and indeed the view of Ireland abroad and the confidence that instilled in the 80's.

*I don't. I reckon they might have one good album left as a band, if they'd given Harrison more tracks(All things must pass, his first after the split is a cracking album)

kippy · 26-10-2011 08:31PM

Placebo Effect wrote: »

Well in Ireland,it's very hard to get away from them, just a Media wankfest as no one dares slag them off.

Wish they'd go away personally.

Lots of people slag them off - I'd say 90% of posts on this thread (and in most U2 threads on this site) are them being slagged off.......

I couldnt care less if they finish, love their early stuff, and can listen to their newer stuff but wouldnt be the end of the world for anyone, as with any band splitting up.
They'd be back in a few years anyhow for a reunion tour, its the thing to do nowadays since revenue from record sales dried up.

hatrickpatrick · 26-10-2011 08:52PM

U2 pretty much go on hiatus after EVERY album/tour these days. I mean there was a 5 year gap between HtDaAB and NLotH, when you think about it.

What I want to know is, what the hell happened to Songs of Ascent? I was really looking forward to that, why did they shelve it?

rolexeagle1 · 26-10-2011 08:56PM

It wont happen they signed another 10 year deal with Live Nation for 3 new albums and 2 tours worth a billion 2 years ago, no way they will go back on it, simple as!

Dyr · 26-10-2011 10:26PM

Wibbs wrote: »

It's one reason I always had a soft spot for the Beatles. Above and beyond their actual output, they quit while they were young, while they were well ahead and on top of the game, leaving people to wonder what if*. As a band they never became a cabaret band churning out the hits on more and more tours with more and more production to cover up the cracks

Most bands only have 4-5 albums or 10 years in them.... tops. U2 had less :pac:

hatrickpatrick · 26-10-2011 10:37PM

Bambi wrote: »

Most bands only have 4-5 albums or 10 years in them.... tops. U2 had less :pac:

O_o
Did you go to a 360 show? They were epic.

Unless you're implying that U2 only started being good in 1999, they've had a LOT more than 10 years.

suspectdevice · 26-10-2011 10:49PM

excellent news. the world could do without them

Dyr · 26-10-2011 10:54PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

O_o
Did you go to a 360 show? They were epic.

Unless you're implying that U2 only started being good in 1999, they've had a LOT more than 10 years.

I've never been to a U2 gig because they're ****.

Here's Henry with the science:

suspectdevice · 26-10-2011 11:01PM

not sure you can claim the higher moral ground mentioning rollins

Dyr · 26-10-2011 11:03PM

Rollins was as real as it got onstage in his day..unlike that phoney hewson.

Unfortunately he stopped screaming and started talking and things went downhill

suspectdevice · 26-10-2011 11:05PM

hewson - rollins?

no competition

both shit

Wibbs · 26-10-2011 11:26PM

suspectdevice wrote: »

not sure you can claim the higher moral ground mentioning rollins

Pretty much and feck all to do with U2. Rollins is an example of a low brow type with just that little extra that climbs above his audience. And that's not saying much. A screamer, ranting against the obvious, lauded by the oblivious, ultimately saying little that others have not said far better. To paraphrase a far better mind than his or mine, his original material isn't good and his good material isn't original. A lacklustre performer and a failed comedian, forever caught in some faux angry adolescent circle jerk. A teenage dirtbag trapped in a middle aged man's head. His likely response to my critique? Fuuuuuck you, maaaan, arrrrrrrgh!!*check out my guns*. Yea Wilde will get back to you Ted. In short, Rollins? My arse.

emo72 · 26-10-2011 11:50PM

I have to say it's really bad that some people are slagging the **** out of u2.

**** all the naysayers. A Dublin band that conquered the world. We took them for granted and now we slag the **** out of them? They have a fantastic body of work that went a bit ****ty in the last few years. So what? They got old, and lost their muse. But for jaysus sake the 80s and 90s and a bit of the noughties they were fantastic.

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

ballsacky · 27-10-2011 01:19AM

Hope they don't end up splitting.I should have liked to see them live at least once.

4leto · 27-10-2011 01:21AM

I have to say I love the group, their music only. But I am of that generation, music has moved on.

Still from a guy who went to a lot of concerts, U2 have always put on the best show.

Godsentme · 27-10-2011 02:05AM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

In the pic below, what the hell is that monstrosity on Bono's left?...

http://www4.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Bono+Carla+Bruni+Sarkozy+9th+Nobel+Peace+Prize+E1UoQZ6K-qPl.jpg

Face like a melted brick of lego.

Why, I believe its Michael Jackson!

U2 on hiatus?

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