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04-22-2009, 07:35 PM | #1 |
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You too? Yeah right.
So I've come up with a theory. If you are over 30, and you think U2's new music is good, original, and relevant, then you are a pathetic loser.
By "new music" I mean their music over many years now. How many times am I going to have to read about pathetic losers "scoring" $300 U2 tickets over the next several months? My friends (and enemies), meet the new Rolling Stone / Billy Joel fans. They are the forgettable ones, paper in the wind. Settles, yellows, flakes, and breaks into dust. Be gone, cretin. |
04-22-2009, 09:10 PM | #2 |
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I believe U2 peaked with The Unforgettable Fire. Each album since was worse than the previous.
I would pay to see U2 only if I could be assured that nothing written after 1984 would be played.
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04-22-2009, 09:14 PM | #3 |
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I can see an argument for TUF. I personally think they peaked at Achtung Baby, and then fell off a cliff.
Rattle and Hum is forgettable. But TUF, JT, and AB are among the best albums of our generation. |
04-22-2009, 09:54 PM | #4 |
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There were a few songs on Joshua Tree that were very good, but I didn't like Achtung Baby at all.
My theory on those who liked AB is that it was released when they were in high school/college and U2 was at the peak of their touring career and this was their formal introduction to U2. The band found a niche that fans of several genres liked. I was introduced to U2 when Boy was released, my soph year of high school, so I much prefer their earlier work.
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04-22-2009, 09:55 PM | #5 |
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AB broke some new ground. Nothing they have done since has.
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04-22-2009, 10:14 PM | #6 |
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04-22-2009, 11:15 PM | #7 | |
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Achtung Baby came out my freshman year at the Y. Great album and the last one I bought of theirs, or even listened to. Bono's zooropa persona or whatever it was just turned me off to him and them. I've heard their newer songs on the radio and I'm just like, "meh".
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04-23-2009, 05:58 PM | #8 |
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Since when does good music have to be groundbreaking? An old canard of pretentious fools.
U2 has created some very good music since AB -- very good. Maybe not groundbreaking, but very good. Rembrandt painted how many self-portraits, all dark and light?
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04-23-2009, 07:07 PM | #9 |
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What a relief--I'm not a loser on this count. I loved Joshua Tree back in its time (what did I know?--it was junior high), but otherwise I am mystified about their staying power in the music world.
OTOH, I do still love Billy Joel. . . |
04-24-2009, 01:39 PM | #10 | |
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