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Been some quite brilliant music/albums as well as some less good, but Boy, October, War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa for me constantly showed a band progressing and exploring, trying to improve and stretch themselves. They seemed to lose their way a little for a bit in later releases, but Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence seemed to brings back again.
Always been a great live band, I've watched them from smaller venues in their early days, seen them at overseas venues, watched them at festival type events and their large stadium tours. I'm sure they will get a coating on here from some, but they for me had something a little different and original.
I never got into early U2, somehow too young to understand the political significance. My brother's friend who was 3 years older bought the Joshua Tree on vinyl. I was round there and loved it and he taped it for me. Running to stand still is one on the most beautiful songs ever. I later bought Rattle and Hum and Achtung Baby which I loved. Then Zooropa became a car crash to my love affair to U2. As a younger adult and spending a lot of mispent youth in Irish pubs around Kilburn/Cricklewood I then started to understand the significance of the earlier albums.
The Smiths, clearly, are superb. U2 also a good band. Don't let media hype put you off. You get a decent band, next thing the British media act like they're the only good band in history. Textbook UK media. What did they say yesterday, that it was 'a miracle' New Zealand qualified for the world cup final? A good effort, yes indeed, but a miracle? Hmmm, unconvinced. For me, the thing with U2 is the aggravating way Bono walks around with his sunglasses on acting as if he actually believes the hype. They're a good band, that's all. He's hard to like and clearly a pratt.
Somebody once told me that Bono was actually the tough kid in his school and when he heard a couple of the other kids were forming a band, he marched up and informed then he was the new singer whether they liked it or not. No idea of the veracity of it, but i liked it.
The Smiths, clearly, are superb. U2 also a good band. Don't let media hype put you off. You get a decent band, next thing the British media act like they're the only good band in history. Textbook UK media. What did they say yesterday, that it was 'a miracle' New Zealand qualified for the world cup final? A good effort, yes indeed, but a miracle? Hmmm, unconvinced. For me, the thing with U2 is the aggravating way Bono walks around with his sunglasses on acting as if he actually believes the hype. They're a good band, that's all. He's hard to like and clearly a pratt.
Somebody once told me that Bono was actually the tough kid in his school and when he heard a couple of the other kids were forming a band, he marched up and informed then he was the new singer whether they liked it or not. No idea of the veracity of it, but i liked it.
Best live band around. Only the stones can match their live longativity
Seen them live 5 times. Fantastic, overblown stage sets but So many memorable songs. Not many albums better than The Joshua Tree. I want to run, I want to hide.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime. (Mark Twain)
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To be fair everyone will have a different opinion. But having seen them live from their early days to now I am not sure I agree. I think they definitely went through a patch where it felt like they'd lost their way somewhat after Zooropa. But prior to that Boy, October, Was, Unforgettable Fire and the Joshua Tree I don't think were ever over-rated, but genuinely original and progressive albums.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. I am a massive Weller fan.
To be fair everyone will have a different opinion. But having seen them live from their early days to now I am not sure I agree. I think they definitely went through a patch where it felt like they'd lost their way somewhat after Zooropa. But prior to that Boy, October, Was, Unforgettable Fire and the Joshua Tree I don't think were ever over-rated, but genuinely original and progressive albums.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. I am a massive Weller fan.
Zooropa is a great album. They’ve had some high highs and low lows.
A gazillion times better that the fecking Smudgers.
These are facts.
These are opinions and no im not a U2 fan. I only like Achtung Baby. Saw them twice on the first album tour and decided they were not for me. Saw the Smiths 4 times, the last time at the Rock Garden. Their fans were bellends. They had some good tunes and I thought Morrissey was hilarious then. Now he's a div.
Bought their first single when it came out in, I think, 1976. They made some great music. Loved them for ages.
I think I would have gone off their music around Rattle or Hum even if Bono didn't develop an American accent overnight. And if, somehow, that didn't do it for me, then the tax-dodging would have.
Arseholes.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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