U2

[Erin]

I had to start a thread on them.

What'cha think of the band? Bono? Larry?

 

[niki03]

They are the best!!!! I love them

 

[strawberry daiquiri]

Larry's my neighbour, as I told you before Erin!

I don't like very much of the music however.

 

[niki03]

^ Wow! Have you ever met him?

 

[fugfashion]

love them!! Too bad the Vertigo-concert was sould out in no time over here ..


but sometimes I'm just sick of them for a few days/weeks/months..

 

[susie_bubble]

I'm sorry, I think I'm the only person in the world who doesn't GET U2. I think Bono has a really inflated ego and the music is boring and a bit trite really. Sorry to any hardcore U2 fans.

 

[dazed&confused]

U2=amazing..what music!! I love their songs and their style

 

[flick]

They were my favourite band when I was growing up. I love Achtung Baby, Joshua Tree, Boy and October. I still love listening to those albums now, but I don't know if it is because those albums are nostalgical for me, because I really have not been interested in their new stuff for years. maybe I have formed a negative steroetype about them because they are older- but they have not seemed to really go forward for a while. I thought their last album was a step in the right direction though.

The lyrics of Running To Stand Still (frtom joshua tree) are maybe my favourite of any song:

So she woke up
Woke up from where she was
Lying still
Said I gotta do something
About where we're going

Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night

Sweet the sin
But bitter the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out

You've got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
You know I took the poison from the poison stream
And I floated out of here

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway
She brings me
Black gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging
She is raging
And a storm blows up in her eyes
She will suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand...

Still

 

[Erin]

I'm sorry, I think I'm the only person in the world who doesn't GET U2. I think Bono has a really inflated ego and the music is boring and a bit trite really.

I appreciate your opinion. But it's obvious that you have not listened to all of their material except their radio hits...

And Flick, Running to Stand Still. They played that live in concert a few months back, and it's always a very moving performance. There's a lot of hidden energy in that song.

And I recommend a U2 song that is pretty off-base for them... Lemon. Give it a shot.

 

[flick]

I really like lemon, I do like Zooropa and Rattle and Hum as well really, just not their new stuff, but i have not really given it a shot i guess... Do you like their last couple of albums Erin?

they are amazing in concert! did you see them? i went when i was about 12, and i thought bono was the coolest because he made prank calls during it.

 

[Erin]

Do you like their last couple of albums Erin?

Well, first, Pop was underrated in my opinion. But if you're referring to All That You Can't Leave Behind, it was a so/so album. I don't pull that out of the collection too often, but there are some beautiful songs on there if you give them a chance. "When I Look at the World", "Kite" and "Elevation" are my choice picks from there. Their latest was better than ATYCLB, though. Give "Miracle Drug" and "A Man and a Woman" a shot, two songs they really should have released ahead of "City of Blinding Lights" and "All Because of You."

they are amazing in concert! did you see them?

They were my first concert, when I was 13/14 back during Popmart. Amazing. Saw them during the Elevation tour, senior year of high school, and I've seen them on this tour. Probably one of the only bands I care to see live anymore, aside from Pearl Jam or Depeche Mode. And maybe Beastie Boys.

 

[niki03]

I just saw them in May in concert and it was the best concert that I have ever been to..i do like their old stuff better though..the last 2 albums are just ok for me

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Bono's severe deprivation of a shave and new pair of sunglasses aside, U2's mastery of lyrical mind-bleed in songs like 'Elevation' ("You make me feel like I can fly. So High. Just like a mole") has always put me off.

 

[DaraKaye]

I appreciate your opinion. But it's obvious that you have not listened to all of their material except their radio hits...

And Flick, Running to Stand Still. They played that live in concert a few months back, and it's always a very moving performance. There's a lot of hidden energy in that song.

And I recommend a U2 song that is pretty off-base for them... Lemon. Give it a shot.

Just got home from the Vertigo concert at Madison Square Garden, we were in row 2, it was absolutley amazing. i think bono tries hard, but at least he making a difference in this world and trying to help. More than i can say for alot of celebrities. i admire that!

 

[tes yeux]

I love their song, 'the first time '

they are amazing !!!

 

[smartarse]

in my humble opinion i think JOSHUA TREE was their best work by far. B)

 

[kills]

I love U2. I was at the concert in Gothenburg this year and it was so wonderful I almost cried

 

[Erin]

in my humble opinion i think JOSHUA TREE was their best work by far. B)

It's definitely been their most commercially successful work... but my vote goes to Achtung Baby.

 

[rollagasper]

Um... yeah. I don't see much in u2. Maybe it's because i've only listened to a few songs, but i just don't fee the connection that i get with some other bands like the rolling stones and the beatles. Plus, bono annoys me.

 

[Nemova]

U2... where do I begin?

They were THE band when I was 11. Until I got on my knees for The Clash (I'd known them forever but the click only came when I was 19), they were everything to me. They still are my favourite band (it's a three-way tie with The Clash and The Damned), each album has a meaning related to a specific time of my life (i.e. 'Boy' was the soundtrack of my 17's) and I've been listening to them a lot these days. "Achtung, Baby" is by far my fave album, the energy, the guitar solos, the lyrics (full of hidden meanings and messages, it took me 12 years to be only close to fully understand all of it). "Boy", "October" and "The Joshua Tree" come in a close second.

I agree that "Pop" is terribly underrated. I got addicted to it when it was released, I spent like a year listening to the album almost everyday. It has a good vibe.

I'll be brutally honest: I hate "All that you can't leave behind". It underestimates not only the band's capacity to deliver witty, heartfelt remarks on the world and human kind but also the audience's ability to understand and relate to Bono's concerns. It really put the band down artistically speaking. The only tracks I like (no, love) are "Beautiful Day" and "New York". "How to dismantle an atomic bomb" is a slight but consistent improvement, but it's still not U2 at its best.