Why are U2 fans so touchy when people criticize them?

[Wat_Tyler]

Who cares what others think. Why does the fact that I think Bono is a horrible, pretentious, self-obsessed, preening, not-particularly talented hack matter a damn to you? It's not as if I'm ramming it down your throat or anything.

On edit - I forgot goat-throttling. Sorry.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. What???? You don't like Bono????

What are you, a commie? I can't believe you posted that!!!!!

[HeyManThatsCool]

3. Simply Because

Bono is the shit.



Kidding. Really its because they are good. They aren't the worst thing to happen to music.... (Milli Vanilli....)


Plus, Bono wears those big Maphesto glasses and it makes all of us crazy!

[Midlodemocrat]

22. Well, truthfully,

... I can take or leave the music, but I like the fact that he is a bit of a humanitarian. Sits well with me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Because U2 is like their security blanket

because their brains aren't developed enough to find safety and satisfaction in their own works, so they have to attach their psychological and emotional worthiness as a human being to the supposed "goodness" or "worth" of a rock band.

Stupid people do it with sports teams. Less stupid people do it with rock bands. Generically stupid people do it with authors and composers.

[HeyManThatsCool]

4. What the heck?

Only someone stupid would say that shit.....
If I made fun of Liberace you might get mad too.







KIDDING

[driver8]

30. and others do it by making stupid generalizations...

Could you be any more insulting to people? Because you don't like U2 and other people do then we are stupid?

How is the air up their, your holiness??

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

35. and even stupider people obsess ober their hatred of a band

to the point that they feel the need to attack their fans in order to build themselves up

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. Not sure what you're talking about. I like U2.

Have ever since high school when WAR came out.

:shrug:

[Amaya]

5. Bono is God

:D

[Wat_Tyler]

6. God's fallen and he can't get up.

[Moloch]

7. I've noticed the same thing about Beatles fans...

You can't even say that most of their early songs were stolen from Black artists or they get in a hissy fit.

[Wat_Tyler]

8. They thieved a lot from Dylan and the Byrds, too.

Genius steals.

[HeyManThatsCool]

9. Forget U2 and the Beatles

if you bag on The Backstreet Boys IT'S ON.


I'll have to kick your ass.

[Wat_Tyler]

12. I WOULD NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER DO THAT!!!!!!!!

[Schema Thing]

10. Because the criticism isn't honest

Of course, their "fandom" probably isn't all that honest either, but that's another topic.

[Undercover Owl]

11. there was a time....

....when you couldn't criticize Pearl Jam, either.
(I did anyway)

[Mr.Green93]

13. Aren't they

a band for older people?

[HeyManThatsCool]

14. Oh Shit;.

Which one is the band for the elderly?

Pearl Jam, The Beatles or The Backstreet Boys?


Because I love PJ and the Beatles

[tuvor]

15. I'm not touchy about it.

They haven't done anything exciting for a full album since Achtung.

Having said that, Beautiful Day is sublime.

[HeyManThatsCool]

18. U2's WORST album

IMHO


Zooropa



I LOATHE THAT SELF INDULGENT SPEW

[Wat_Tyler]

20. Actually, I think that was their last good record.

[HeyManThatsCool]

24. Thats the great thing

Someone always has a different opinion.


I thought Zooropa (With the exception of Lemon, which I liked)
was total shit. I hated the Maphesto period & the Tour BLEW CHUNKS.... IMHO. It was complete overkill

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

36. wow-and that's my fav tour

maybe cos i'm into pop art and marshall mcluhan style shit

and i though mcphisto was funny, especially when he retires at the end of the tour and gives a rambling farewell speech

[driver8]

31. I concur... n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

34. that's my 2nd fav

dirty day gives me chills every time i hear it-and i think the title track was their stronges album opener ever

i prefer the experimental 90s u2 to the 80s stuff

[Fenris]

16. I don't give a fuck what you think about any band or musician.

And you shouldn't give a fuck what I think about any group either. It isn't just U2 fans - it's fans who can't take any criticism from others who don't share their taste. We're all different. Get the fuck over it and move on.

[Wat_Tyler]

19. Fuck - is that a Depeche Mode sleeve in your avatar?

[Fenris]

21. Yes

So shoot me.:)

[Wat_Tyler]

23. Probably sadder that I recognized it - one of the singles off Violator.

Enjoy the Silence?

(I have no room to speak - I'm the guy with an OMD single in my sig)

[HeyManThatsCool]

25. OMD & DEPECHE

are the best.


Violator is one of my favorite CD's ever.


As for OMD my fav song is "We Love You"

Maybe a Cheesy choice, but brings back happy mems

[AmandaRuth]

17. wus - you want drama?

time travel back to the mid eighties and explain to a grateful dead fan that there is more than one band in the world.

[tjdee]

26. Same reason Dean fans are so touchy when people criticize him?

:shrug:

;)

I think it has to do with just really liking someone.

When someone attacks that person/persons you have an affinity for/towards, you subconsciously feel that someone is attacking your good sense for liking that person/persons.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

37. dean bashing is always so juvenile

"but-but-but he screamed that one time! we can't let him be elected to anything!'

you know, that sort of thing

[jonnyblitz]

43. strong supporters of every candidate are touchy

interesting you choose Dean to illustrate your point. A Dean supporter must have criticized YOUR candidate at one time.

[Nitrogenica]

27. U2 is touchy because Bono's voice is a perfectly pitched agitator.

[NNadir]

28. I had a housemate who played U2 frequently while drunk.

I moved.

[driver8]

33. I had a roommate in college who only listened to the Moody...

...Blues. To this day, I cannot stand that freakin' band. I hate every song they have ever recorded.

I moved.

[NNadir]

38. I can relate. I had another roomate who made me hate James Taylor.

[miss_kitty]

29. Are you saying you find Bono tiresome?

I wish you'd commit there. Ambiguity is crazy making.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

32. because it's oh-so-hip to do so

it's just a piling on by people who want to whine about a band that's getting praise and decent sales. no one was whining about u2 a few years ago, not trashing them makes you subversive

a lot of gen x-ers do the same with the beatles, blindly hating the band just cuz their parents like them

[fishwax]

41. Actually, I think it's "hip" to whine about the "oh so hip"

a few years ago, when "pop" came out, everybody hated U2.

Nowadays, whenever anyone complains about something that used to be cool, the defenders claim that the protestors are only trying to be hip or edgy. That may be the case in some instances, but the broad generalizations just seem like a way to dismiss criticism without having to consider its merits.

There are some people who've never liked U2 and some people who've never forgiven them for "selling out" with the Joshua Tree almost twenty (!) years ago. There are also plenty of people who used to like U2 but don't like what they're doing now. Nothing wrong with that. I don't happen to be one, as I love pretty much the whole catalog, and I even think that the much-maligned Pop is a masterpiece of sorts. I haven't entirely gotten into the new album, but I figure I probably will. Bono's grandstanding and ego do tend to get on my nerves, but I generally don't let it interfere with my enjoyment of the music :D

As for the Beatles, I think they could do no wrong from Revolver onward (some of the early stuff is pretty off the shelf). I know some folks who don't like the Beatles, some have their reasons and others maybe just haven't listened with the right kind of ears. But it's pretty condescending to dismiss gen x-ers who don't like the beatles as blindly hating the band just because their parents like them. Truth is, I don't know a single gen x-er who I think would fall into that category. Back in 11th grade I had some younger friends who approached it that way (one actually tried to argue that Vanilla Ice was more musically significant than John Lennon :wtf:), but they all grew out of it eventually :7

[Wat_Tyler]

44. Or perhaps, we just think they're past their prime?

After all, they are 25 years into making albums. The Rolling Stones were at Steel Wheels by that point.

[Squeegee]

40. Sing is Bono X 1000

If you think Bono is a horrible, pretentious, self-obsessed, preening, not-particularly talented hack, Sting is all those multiplied 1000, IMHO.

[Amaya]

42. Yay!

Somebody had to say it. STING SUCKS! :D

[fishwax]

45. Agreed, Sting is decades past his best work

never cared for his 90s brand of easy listening ...

[StopTheMorans]

46. because they don't like having the truth thrust in their faces

:evilgrin:

[RandomKoolzip]

47. Because U2 fans, like my nipples, are quite sensitive.

If *I* had a bunch of delay and chorus pedals at my disposal, *I* could sound just like The Edge.