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noughties
-Saw U2 live from Paris on telly last night. -Just couldn`t take it, maan. This is a vey calculating group. -Taking no risks. -Always sticking to the roots of rock `n roll. That`s why they`ll never be Emerson, Lake & Palmer. What posers! Ok, they have some good songs, but seem to want to be Chuck Berry for the internet age.
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LeonidP
Their first albums were great, imo.
Definitely! I was a huge U2 fan back in the day ... U2 and Psychedelic Furs were my 2 favorite non-Stones bands.
Boy & October, I played them to death! And I still liked them for a while after that (Rattle & Hum is one of my all time favorite albums). But then they did that POP album which I could barely listen to. After that, I really never listened to them again much, I think I downloaded their later albums after that, and gave them each a listen or two but that was it.
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keefriffhard4life
funny i thought POP was the last album that sounded like U2 tried to create something and not just retread old ideas
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Socrates1
It was way too POP sounding for me. That's how I remember it.
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RollingFreak
I'm a fan of U2, but definitely they get on my nerves at time. Haven't seen them live in 10 years, was offered tickets to this tour ..
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LeonidP
funny i thought POP was the last album that sounded like U2 tried to create something and not just retread old ideas
Agreed, they just didn't do a good job with it, the songs are terrible.
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LeonidP
It was way too POP sounding for me. That's how I remember it.
Yes, the thing is, I did give the more recent albums a listen or two and they actually aren't that bad from what I recall. They stop the ridiculous experimental crap. But the problem for me is ... that I lost so much interest in them (and find Bono to be too preachy) that I don't really care anymore.
But still, every once in a while, I'll play Boy/October (I had them back to back on a 45 min cassette back then, I wore that tape out), those are still great albums. And Rattle & Hum, that has about 8 or 9 songs that I love ... songs like All I Want, God Pt. 2, Angel, Love Comes To Town, it's simply great!
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Palace Revolution 2000
I Love the POP album. The songs are actually very strong.
I don't think U2 can be accused of playing it safe. They play all new songs; constantly radically re-inventing their stage show. I mean - Bono rides a bicycle. On a massive stage they strip it down with edge on a old piano, and only Bono on a mike. They bring up people from audience a lot, and one never knows how that will go. So it's not that.
IMO it is just the quality of the songs, and esp. the lyrics that has gone down, down. This medium tempo adult kind of crap; with always that one obvious single that has nothing to do with rest of album. They have sort of painted themselves into a corner; where Bono wants nothing more than to be considered one of the Great thinkers like Dylan, Lennon, and he has carefully built this platform for him and the band - yet he doesn't really have anything to say.
This is the fate of post generations; you have to find ways to become original and derivative. I thought this is also why Edge stumbled in the film "It will get loud".
I didn't get one sentence in OP's post: that part about ELP. Would it be a good thing to be like ELP??
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Socrates1
Rattle & Hum is a classic album too.
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DandelionPowderman
Their first albums were great, imo.
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dcba
Rattle & Hum is a classic album too.
Methinks they have NO classic albums, only classic songs ("New Year's Day" "With Or Without You" "One").
That's the main flaw with U2 (which disqualifies them as a great timeless band) they haven't a classic album in their catalogue, nothing of the caliber of "Sticky Fingers" or "Bringing It All Back Home".
But Bono is a master of self-promotion/self-agrandizzing schemes.
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keefriffhard4life
Rattle & Hum is a classic album too.
Methinks they have NO classic albums, only classic songs ("New Year's Day" "With Or Without You" "One").
That's the main flaw with U2 (which disqualifies them as a great timeless band) they haven't a classic album in their catalogue, nothing of the caliber of "Sticky Fingers" or "Bringing It All Back Home".
But Bono is a master of self-promotion/self-agrandizzing schemes.
Joshua tree is a classic
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Palace Revolution 2000
I didn't get one sentence in OP's post: that part about ELP. Would it be a good thing to be like ELP??
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DandelionPowderman
Rattle & Hum is a classic album too.
Methinks they have NO classic albums, only classic songs ("New Year's Day" "With Or Without You" "One").
That's the main flaw with U2 (which disqualifies them as a great timeless band) they haven't a classic album in their catalogue, nothing of the caliber of "Sticky Fingers" or "Bringing It All Back Home".
But Bono is a master of self-promotion/self-agrandizzing schemes.
Joshua tree is a classic
I'm not a big fan, but there is no doubt about Joshua Tree being a classic.
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keefriffhard4life
Joshua tree is a classic
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Palace Revolution 2000
I Love the POP album. The songs are actually very strong.
I don't think U2 can be accused of playing it safe. They play all new songs; constantly radically re-inventing their stage show. I mean - Bono rides a bicycle. On a massive stage they strip it down with edge on a old piano, and only Bono on a mike. They bring up people from audience a lot, and one never knows how that will go. So it's not that.
IMO it is just the quality of the songs, and esp. the lyrics that has gone down, down. This medium tempo adult kind of crap; with always that one obvious single that has nothing to do with rest of album. They have sort of painted themselves into a corner; where Bono wants nothing more than to be considered one of the Great thinkers like Dylan, Lennon, and he has carefully built this platform for him and the band - yet he doesn't really have anything to say.
This is the fate of post generations; you have to find ways to become original and derivative. I thought this is also why Edge stumbled in the film "It will get loud".
I didn't get one sentence in OP's post: that part about ELP. Would it be a good thing to be like ELP??
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potus43
They are boring