I love U2

[George_Bonanza]

Who else does? If anybody hates them, I'd love to know why.

U2's my favourite band, alongside Pink Floyd. U2 may not be as cutting edge as they used to be in the 80's and early 90's, but they still make awesome, creative, and uplifting music. And of course, Bono's a great humanitarian, who not only talks the talk, but walks the walk, unlike almost 90% of lofty entertainers. I really love the song "Stuck in the moment..." because at the time, I was on the school basketball team, and I was getting down because I knew I was better than the starting guys but I just couldn't pull it in clutch time. Then I saw the MV for the song, with the kicker missing the FG and all, and I laughed and could totally relate to it. I also love "Where the streets have no name," not only because it's a layered song with a great riff, but because they play it every time my Vancouver Canucks take the home ice.

[JohnKleeb]

1. I do too

I wish I had more of their stuff though. I really loved bloody sunday "how long must we sing this song" and the hands who built america, I wish I could listen to them more.

[aquaman]

2. I like U2

Through the Joshua Tree cd, after that I lost interest.

[Kamika]

6. "how long must we sing this song"

That is in fact psalm nr 40.

:D

U2 is a pretty religious band but they still rock

[Boom_cha]

3. Me too

My favorite album is Pop. So many great songs on that one, imo: Wake Up Deadman, Please, If God Will Send His Angels, Playboy Mansion...

Btw, there's tons of live U2 in MP3 available for free at www.relivetheconcert.com
The sound quality varies but some of the recordings are excellent

[Kamika]

7. Gone

MY absolute favorite from Pop Is "Gone" they play it VERY hard at concerts and the new best of 1990-2000 has a remixed version that sounds abit more like the live version

[roguevalley]

4. I was in Dublin

in 1980 and picked up a disk. They actually saved my life over the years. Love that band.

[Kamika]

5. I love them too.

For a time i was OBSESSED with them.. everytime id get home from hs id put on elvis presley and america from unforgettable fire and just put it on repeat..

I actually became tired of where the streets, still havent found and with or without you because they been milked so much on radio and i had a unpleasant experience while listening to with or without so ill never like that song..

Where the streets and still havent found still caught me at the concert.

The bad thing about u2 is imo that they select their singles really porly. their last album had some INCREDIBLE songs like "when i look at the world" which i think FITS so well to todays events.. and walk on.. but instead they give out beautiful day and elevation as singles.. very poor choice if you ask me.

Other then that i think my favorite song is their very hard bullet theblue sky (which also really fits into todays events just change the country to iraq..) And Psalm nr 40. i also downloaded a cover of bullet the blue sky which is a INCREDIBLY hard version.. and i love it. I think my favorite albums are unforgettable fire, achtung baby, zooropa, then pop, joshua tree, all that you cant leave behind, then rattle and hum, war, boy, october.

Bono is imo the best lyrics writer that ever lived

Oh and my older sister has a personal letter from Bono she got as answer to a letter she wrote him :D


Ps they saved my life too :)

[HEyHEY]

8. I dig U2 all around...

But as a person with roots from Belfast, I have a special love for bloody sunday. Though I've never been there, I've heard the stories...again and again....and agian

[JohnKleeb]

9. I like that song too

Are you Irish Catholic like me or Irish Protestant. Seeing how you liked bloody sunday and talking to you in the past I envision at most you are a tolerant protestant who knows that the Catholics havent had it good. BTW I am part Irish you know, and also I found out where I am from, *music* its Galway if you must know.
"how long must we sing this song"

[newyawker99]

10. Congrats George_Bonanza!! 200 posts

:toast:

[Andy_Stephenson]

11. Isn't Bono a republican

errand boy now?

[Kamika]

12. nope

why would you say that

[Andy_Stephenson]

13. He went on that tour with

one of Bush's* stooges to sell his economic plan I thought...Richardson was it?

[tjdee]

16. Uh, NO--it was to talk Bush into spending money on Africa and AIDS

He DID NOT go ANYWHERE to further Bush's economic plan, of all things!

Ugh!

Patooey! Patooey!

And the trip was with O'Neill.

Bono said a lot of his friends gave him shit over talking at all with conservatives, but he said he'd have lunch with Satan himself if those people might get the relief they need.

[Andy_Stephenson]

17. Thanks for the

clarification!

[AntiCoup2K4]

28. And that's exactly what he did (have lunch with Satan)

Or at least Satan's ambassador to Earth, George Walker BushJr (666) :evilgrin:

[NWHarkness]

14. I hate them.

They are a gang of self righteous thugs, wiling to throw around their wealth to bully anyone who offends them in the slightest.

In the Negativland suit, a simple cease and desist order would have settled the case, but they went on a long term campaign to destroy the band, their record company, and any record dealers who did business with them, because you don't make fun of Jesus H. Bono and get away with it!

[tjdee]

29. Island sued, not U2, and then Negativland asked Edge for money, LOL.

Actually, a magazine set Negativland up with an extensive interview with Edge over just this issue, and it ended by them asking him for a loan. He didn't say no.


http://www.l2g.to/negativland/u2/the-edge-interview.html

Edge's position was that Island sued, they didn't hear about it until after Island sued, and they went to Island and said it was too heavy--in part causing Island to not seek damages but just legal costs.

[Breezy du Nord]

15. I think they're all right

They're new music isn't as cool as some of the old stuff, but "Beautiful day" was good.

[tjdee]

18. Love isn't even the word, LOL. I just adore them to pieces.

All four of them, just :loveya: They are in a very small group of male celebrities that make me downright dopey.

The music is good, and they're good people. Bono gets on his high horse sometimes, but conveniently enough for me, that high horse is usually the one I'm riding.

Their music has fit me through many years now, and I've even got a few of their side projects like Passengers, etc. Very talented group, they.

[George_Bonanza]

19. Bono is anything but a Bush conservative

On a Republican site, there were all these hate posts against the liberal celebrities, like the Dixie Chicks, Susan Sarandon, etc. Bono ranked very high there. His advocacy of causes like Amnesty International and African Debt Relief smack of liberalism to me.

They ARE pretty religious. In their Elevated Tour in Boston, Bono prays to Jesus a few times. But I think that's a refreshing departure from the status quo of rock'n'roll. Most rock bands are pretty atheistic I think.

My favourite lyric from them is from "I still haven't found what I'm looking for," where Bono sings, "I believe in kingdom come, when all the colours, bleed into one."

[George_Bonanza]

20. The Edge

I love U2, but I can't quite figure out why the Edge is so revered among guitar enthusiasts. I'm not doubting his greatness, but I don't know what he's good at. Could somebody please tell me? Because he doesn't seem like a conventional soloist.

[Kamika]

21. Hes good at EVERYTHING

Not ONLY is he a extreme guitarrist, Im willing to bet hes one of the best ever to be frank. But he can also play just about EVERY other instrument there is. AND he can sing and write lyrics.

The Edge has most likely meant most to U2 out of everyone. Even more then Bono.

[Character Assassin]

23. It's a bet you'd lose

There are innumerable guitarists who are far, far more talented than the Edge; he's just not a very technically gifted player.

What he has is a different way of playing, his own 'voice', as it were, and a unique way of looking at and addressing music.

THAT's what sets him apart.

[Character Assassin]

22. He changed rock guitar

He's revered because he isn't conventional.

There is a famous quote alledged to him, when he finally met his childhood hero, Clapton. As they shook hands, he stated "I've spent my whole life trying not to sound like you."

It worked.

[George_Bonanza]

24. I read that Edge's style is

That of creating a ambivalent environment of sound. Is this true? Can anyone cite any particularly impressive examples of this in a U2 song?

[Character Assassin]

26. Whoever wrote that is a musical dunce

'Ambivalent' environment of sound? Just off the top of my head, I can think of at least 10 distinct guitar melodies from U2 songs, each quite distinct and memorably voiced. Nothing ambivalent about that.

Are you sure this person didn't mean, possibly, 'ambient'?

[AntiCoup2K4]

25. Kinda goes with one of Bono's quotes about the band's early days

"We started writing our own songs right away because our covers were so horrible".

I would say it paid off. U2 remains one of the true originals in rock n roll. How many other bands in the 80's imitated them to one degree or another.

Another Bono quote from 1983: "Edge has influenced so many guitarists that we're now to the point where he gets asked if he was influenced by them! Every day there's more bands like flocks and flocks of stealers trying to do "A Day Without Me" for an entire album."

Not hard to read between the lines on that one.

And then there's Simple Minds, Big Country, and the one band who got tagged as a U2 clone, but shouldn't have, The Alarm. They were great in their own right.

[Character Assassin]

27. I don't think Big Country was anything like U2

Guitar-wise and, especially, percussion-wise.

Two very different bands and sounds.

The Fixx would be a better comparison