#41

I wasn’t just referring to that thread. You’re talking yourself into the cannon.

#42

I know Bono has turned into a twat, but it’s probably because of the bang on the head he took when he fell off the stage in 86. On account of standing too close to the edge.

It’s a one

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#43

Red hill mining towns a really good song
Shame bono’s so annoying

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#44

Ok let’s get this out the way then. They’ve been irredeemably shit for 25 years now, Bono is obviously a complete bell and they’ve inspired a whole world of shite in the intervening years…

BUT everything up until Achtung Baby is really good, much as it’s cool to pretend otherwise because of the U2 we grew up with. I’ll admit, like The Who, this is another guilty pleasure I inherited from my father (though I’m not going to die on this hill as much as I did in that other thread) but if a pre-1991 U2 song comes on the radio or playlist I’m happy enough.

It’s very easy to forget now but u2 were quite influential and important in their time. Sure, their initial run is to create a post-punk take on Springsteen (something a whole generation of bands would try 30 years later) but once The Edge (lol) found his signature guitar sound (which people still rip off to this day) they were bound for massive things. They were a massive deal for Irish popular music too, putting it on the map on a global scale.

Can only go as high as a 3 (which will probably be one of the higher scores) because good God I cannot defend them post '91 but they have written some fantastic music and are probably one of the most influential bands of all time (even if it was largely inspiring shite)

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#45

I was once at a wedding where they had their first dance to With or Without You. Always thought having a song that expresses the sentiment “I can’t live with you” at a wedding was a strange choice. I’ve also heard it at a funeral, it made much more sense, was quite affecting.

Hot take: shit band, I don’t like them.

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#46

Awesome remix.

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#47

good music to listen to on aeroplanes

#48

Already wearing my crash helmet and flame-proof base-jumping outfit, innit.

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#49

Was going to do a joke about “only if you don’t like where you’re landing”, but then remembered that was the V2.

#50

Hahaha

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#51

Not really very good but not deserving of the kicking they’ll get here. If Bono had kept his mouth shut for the last twenty years they’d be better regarded. They’re certainly nothing like as awful as The Who, Blink, or RHCP. I reckon I could compile say a ten track best of U2 that would be alright, which is more than I could manage for those bands put together. That still means it’s taken them forty odd years to produce a total of less than an hour of music I would say is “quite good”, but at least they’ve never walked around in public with socks on their cocks.

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#52

3 probably. At their best, a brilliant band, but they’ve always been patchy. There’s plenty worse things a stadium rock band can be. Even their bombast is rather fun.

I’d struggle to form a list of my top 10 guitarists of all time and not put The Edge in there. BB King got it, so there.

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#53

They’re not that bad. An awful lot of terrible stuff but up some big exciting songs with proper anthemic choruses that lifts them out of the 1/5 pile for me.

2/5

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#54

From the penthouse to the outhouse here after Elliott to this bunch of turkeys. Probably the last rock band my old man paid attention to along with joy division before he turned to jazz and classical fully, and as such had their early stuff jammed down my craw a lot. They’re rubbish and pricks. 1.

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#55

Better than the moany bollocks of Elliot Smith so that translates as a 4.10.

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#56

Utterly terrible, joyless band made up of gobshites. A stain on the Irish national conscience. Every time I hear them I think “What is this drab shite?” It is always U2.

The fucking worst/5.

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#57

Have given them a 2.

Achtung Baby is one of my fave albums ever. Not a duff track on it apart from One which is one of the worst songs ever recorded.
Also really like Rattle And Hum and Zooropa and most of the stuff before that.
But, they have put on record some.of the blandest nonsense ever.
And they are probably responsible for Coldplay, and that is irredeemable.

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#58

Even with a song that’s technically alright, like New Year’s Day, I just fucking hate the guy’s voice. That’s probably because they were an offensively bad band, and Bono was an absolute dickhead, my entire lifetime. 1/5. Get Bono in the bin.

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#59

https://westernpeople.ie/2020/05/09/forty-years-ago-this-weekend-u2-were-ran-out-of-ballina/#.XwV6srfhQ0E

Enjoyed this article from a local paper a while back

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#60

No.

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