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U2: Overrated?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by lcjjdnh, Dec 4, 2017.

  1. lcjjdnh

    lcjjdnh Well-Known Member

    U2 has a new album out—and I’m in the mood for a good music debate—which provides me with the opportunity to ask this...why do people care so much about this band? I like a few of their tunes, for sure, and admittedly wasn’t born when they first became popular (and so perhaps do not appreciate the extent to which they were an antidote to whatever was popular at that time), but most of their work is just so...meh. Joshua Tree is fine, for example, but only one song I’d go out of my way to listen to (One Tree Hill).
     
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  2. lcjjdnh

    lcjjdnh Well-Known Member

    Although I do give them credit for being the inspiration for the hilarious U Talkin’ U2 To Me podcast.
     
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  3. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    Like Red Hill Mining Town best on Joshua Tree. Think they're good not great.
     
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  4. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Yes.

    Also, where is 93D?
     
  5. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I could play 'Stairway to Heaven' when I was 16.
    Jimmy Page couldn't write it until he was 27.
     
  6. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    "The Edge" is the douchiest name in all of music.
     
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  7. lcjjdnh

    lcjjdnh Well-Known Member

    Yeah—because he had to wait for the guy from Spirit to write it first!!
     
  8. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

  9. lcjjdnh

    lcjjdnh Well-Known Member

    Yes, I suspect the overproduction is one reason I don’t “get” them. More of a Guided By Voices, early Pavement, etc., fan.
     
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    No.

    Any other dumb fucking threads you want to start?
     
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  11. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Yep. Too sterilized for my tastes as well. "Clean" rock is no fun.
     
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  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Sure, but he gets name-dropped in every football game now. Tirico seems to be an especially big fan.
     
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