U2 - Songs of Innocence (1 Viewer)

[MaxThreshold]

I love this album. Best since the 90s for me.

Although, I did like All That You Can't Leave Behind.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Bono bashing is the worst shtick going. Seriously.

No ####ck. He goes after big companies he sees as avoiding their tax responsibility while his band does the exact same thing. You can like his music and thats just dandy, but he's a raging hypocrite.

Screw U2.

Biggest sell outs in the history of modern music

What exactly do you mean by "sellout"? Are they not supposed to profit off of their music? Is there a set $ amount they are NOT supposed to go over in order to remain in "non-sellout" status?

I'm not a fan of the term sellout, but I think in the case of U2, it goes without saying that at some point, they, by Bono's own admission, became too worried about having hits and singles and getting to the top of the charts, instead of not worrying about that stuff and letting the chips fall where they may. It seems like they've pulled back in that regard to some extent on this new album, as Bono himself admits that the charts are broken, although the first two tracks sound like attempts at writing their typical U2 anthemic tunes. Get On Your Boots from the last album sounded like a clear attempt to write another Vertigo-like hit, although it flopped (mostly because the song sucked swamp ###).

 

[bagger]

Better or worse than Pop?

 

[Jalapanose]

Better or worse than Pop?

About the same IMO. 8.25/10

I've always been a big Pop fan, like S of I, it has some of Bono's most personal lyrics.

 

[Kumerica]

Adam Scott & Scott Aukerman's latest "U Talkin' U2 To Me?" podcast from last week.

 

[rockaction]

They were just one of a series of British and Irish new wave bands that came out of the late 70s and early 80s: the Boomtown Rats, the Police, Squeeze , Ultravox, the Cure, the Clash, Siouxie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears , and so many many more. Among these I didn't even find U2 to be especially interesting, just another band with a few hit songs that was part of an era of music. If you asked me at the time to predict the one band from this era that would still be selling out arenas and albums 30 years later, U2 might have been last on my list. Just amazing.

I'm pretty damn sure The Cure could sell out the Hollywood Bowl. Again. And that the Clash would sell out an arena the size of an entire Midwestern state if they were still around.

And mistaking U2's appeal for most of those bands is sort of foolish.

 

[El Floppo]

They were just one of a series of British and Irish new wave bands that came out of the late 70s and early 80s: the Boomtown Rats, the Police, Squeeze , Ultravox, the Cure, the Clash, Siouxie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears , and so many many more. Among these I didn't even find U2 to be especially interesting, just another band with a few hit songs that was part of an era of music. If you asked me at the time to predict the one band from this era that would still be selling out arenas and albums 30 years later, U2 might have been last on my list. Just amazing.

I'm pretty damn sure The Cure could sell out the Hollywood Bowl. Again. And that the Clash would sell out an arena the size of an entire Midwestern state if they were still around.

And mistaking U2's appeal for most of those bands is sort of foolish.

You're missing Tim's mind-numbingly pedantic, inherently patronizing, bull#### point.

So am I.

 

[urbanhack]

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[Officer Pete Malloy]

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[Tom Servo]

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[Hilts]

Foo Fighters drummer: U2's new album 'Sounds like a fart'

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/foo-fighters-drummer-says-new-u2-album-sounds-like-a-fart/

 

[Todem]

Better or worse than Pop?

Certainly better overall but very average effort in the overall catalog.

 

[Kumerica]

Foo Fighters drummer: U2's new album 'Sounds like a fart'

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/foo-fighters-drummer-says-new-u2-album-sounds-like-a-fart/

Please. Has he heard the new Foo Fighters album?

 

[Apple Jack]

The HBO show from Paris is not good, it is great.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I enjoyed it, but Mullen and Clayton both look like they'd be totally fine if the other two said, "Let's retire tomorrow."

 

[Apple Jack]

I enjoyed it, but Mullen and Clayton both look like they'd be totally fine if the other two said, "Let's retire tomorrow."

So, just like they looked in 1983.

 

[Apple Jack]

Nobody does this better than they do. I was at the first NYC show after 9/11, maybe six weeks later. It was astonishing. They were born for these occasions. Forget the fact that this is a phenomenal show in a vacuum. Send them in as medics and its church. A shot of beauty and kindness to the core of humanity. Nobody does it better.

 

[Apple Jack]

Audiophiles are going to lose a nut on this. Engineer types. This is mic'd and mixed beautifully. Impressive considering the show just happened.

 

[Kumerica]

After watching the Eagles of Death Metal's emotionally raw and vulnerable interview on Vice, and then seeing Jesse Hughes, Dave Catching, and the rest of the band slowly spring back to life playing "People Have The Power" with U2, 16,000 fans, and a worldwide television audience on their side is something to behold. Hair-raising, eye-watering stuff. And I love U2 all the more for graciously leaving EODM with the stage to themselves to play their own tune to close out the show. Simply beautiful.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I enjoyed it, but Mullen and Clayton both look like they'd be totally fine if the other two said, "Let's retire tomorrow."

So, just like they looked in 1983.

LOL, pretty much.

Nobody does this better than they do. I was at the first NYC show after 9/11, maybe six weeks later. It was astonishing. They were born for these occasions. Forget the fact that this is a phenomenal show in a vacuum. Send them in as medics and its church. A shot of beauty and kindness to the core of humanity. Nobody does it better.

So true.

 

[El Floppo]

Nobody does this better than they do. I was at the first NYC show after 9/11, maybe six weeks later. It was astonishing. They were born for these occasions. Forget the fact that this is a phenomenal show in a vacuum. Send them in as medics and its church. A shot of beauty and kindness to the core of humanity. Nobody does it better.

I wss at that nyc show too, in the heart right in front of the bass player. Pretty amazing goose bumpy show.

Where was the Paris show shown?

 

[El Floppo]

Sorry... reading etc. Hbo

 

[Capella]

Beautiful version of every breaking wave.