every adult
speaking of exaggerations
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Not an exaggeration.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
xxxxpost a poll that has to happen
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
If you're over 20 years old, you have liked U2 at some point.
U2′s new album being automatically added to our iTunes library is the most disgusting invasion of personal space by technology in history
the public should probably sue these fuckers but apparently a lot of the lawyers involved would be pro bono
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
They should have a hidden track on this called Fuck REM
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
woah sell it to grantland, don't give it away for free
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to think of any other band that I rallied around in the early 80s where I just do not care about a new release any more. REM got there too at the end, but I think I cared about them longer.
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 5:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
44 and nope
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
the public should probably sue these fuckers but apparently a lot of the lawyers involved would be pro bonoi'm definitely mullen over some legal action
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
lololol
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
can the latest update of imovie come bundled with the bono tinariwen video?
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
woah sell it to grantland, don't give it away for free― da croupier, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― da croupier, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dying
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
You've polled everyone in China, Indonesia, Sudan...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
the lamest imaginable 20-something year olds in china probably like u2 just as much as the lamest imaginable 20-something year olds in the us do
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
David Byrne tracks from something unspeakable called Look Into My Eye or something was already on my pc somehow when i bought it some time in the 90s.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
likely story
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
haha!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
"And you may find yourself with tracks from my solo album on your new PC/And you may ask yourself, "How did they get there? My god what have I Done?"
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
how could ppl born in 1993 ever possibly have liked U2
― dave matthews' gland (sic), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
^^^ haha A+ (xpost)
Look into the Eyeball is an album by musician David Byrne, released on May 8, 2001. The single "Like Humans Do" was supplied with Windows XP Home Edition operating system to showcase Microsoft's Windows Media Player.[2][3]
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
ah yeah that was it.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Eric Harvey pointed this out on twitter
“We were paid,” Bono tells TIME. “I don’t believe in free music. Music is a sacrament.”
sac·ra·ment noun \ˈsa-krə-mənt\: an important Christian ceremony (such as baptism or marriage)
the Sacrament : the bread and wine that are eaten and drunk during the Christian ceremony of Communion
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
how much is communion these days anyway?
still only the one wafer iirc
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
dud
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
at least it wasn't free with the Daily Mail i suppose.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
i lost steam on the whole bono is damien theory after the spider-man musical and no line on the horizon flopped but if he's saying sacraments should be sold i say
SEE THE OMEGA CODE
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
This:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uojmgiWfC0
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
And Weezer and Edie Brickell had music videos come with the original Windows 95 CD.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
xxxxpost a poll that has to happen― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:51 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:51 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
indeed Best Song Bundled with the original iTunes Launch in 2001
― wolves at doors: they flan @ u face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
the entry for pop music on the OG encarta cd had a snippet of elvis costello's "pump it up" and maybe one of "the lion sleeps tonight"
― adam, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
― MarkoP,
man do you know how life changed when I knew I could program my PC bought in January '96 to serenade me with "Buddy Holly"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Soundgarden was on there too - "Nothing To Say"
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
There are some OK songs on this new one. Bono's lyrics are pretty bad, but more interesting than Chris Martin bad. There is a block midway through this that would have sounded great with old-U2 production. "Volcano," "Raised by Wolves," "Cedarwood Road," "Sleep Like a Baby Tonight" (this one pretty unusual for U2). They've been burning through today's B-list A-list producers, but probably could have been better prodded by an old-school A-lister like Lillywhite, or just Flood, or someone to counter the drift toward keeping up with the joneses slick.
Interesting: there are a couple of guitar solos on this thing. Remedial, sure - it's the Edge - but there.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
i like a very tiny sampling of u2, mostly boy, after which they generally misunderstood their own importance, until zooropa which is a kind of perfect equation of self-serious and sardonic bono (plus, from the same era, "hold me thrill me").
having said that i listened to this out of morbid curiosity and i... kind of like it? "every breaking wave" has more ideas in it than all of no line on the horizon and the tedder production is indelibly gross and overcalculated but that makes me like it... more? they sound pretty invigorated by it, way moreso than the amnesiac washes of no line. even the songs i don't like take sort of interesting turns i.e. the reported edge "solos" are all pretty great
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
reserving the right to suddenly hate this on second listen
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
Just thinking about this title, wasn't Joey listening to U2 when he passed away? 'One' iirc
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
"In a Little While."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
ah, indeed it was:
On the live concert film, Elevation 2001: Live from Boston, Bono introduces the song by explaining it was the last song Joey Ramone heard on his deathbed. He notes his honor of having one of his favorite musicians loving a song of his
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
died as he lived, listening to Bono
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Presumably it's explicated elsewhere that he liked it, cos dying while listening to it's pretty ambivalent criticism
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
05 Iris (Hold Me Close)
i just want u2 know who i am
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Nope. And i saw them before any of youse - first, maybe second gig they played post -Hype. Shit then, shit now, shit in between.
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
I am 38 and at one point in my life they were my favorite band ("Joshua Tree" though "Rattle & Hum").
Sort of serious question, are Apple & U2 such tight bros cuz Apple used (uses) Ireland as a tax shelter?
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6525315?start=0&tstart=0
turingtest2Sep 9, 2014 2:48 PM Re: How do I remove the free U2 album from my iTunes library?
iTunes Store > Quick Links > Purchased. Use All and Not on this computer as you would expect. If you delete the album and hide from iTunes in the Cloud it will disappear from both lists.
Unfortunately, I clicked on the song 'The Troubles' from my iPhone, causing it to download to my phone. Hiding the album within my Cloud does not delete that track. also unfortunately, 'The Troubles' does not show up as a track in my iPhone's Music library, even after syncing, so the track can not be deleted. and the iPhone only lets you 'delete' or swipe-to-delete tracks on playlists. so I now have a U2 track permanently stuck on my iPhone.
even more maddeningly, when I try to side-swipe it, it just plays the track, and there's a click option beneath the track saying 'Show Complete Album' even after I have explicitly jumped through hoops trying to erase all traces of the record from my library.
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
so you're saying this album is musical kudzu
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
I am reminded of the scene in that Black Mirror episode where the television wall screen pauses the advertisements when you try to close your eyes during them, while playing a friendly reminder that you should open your eyes
I'll bet you anything if I accidentally hit that 'Show Complete Album' link, it restores the whole thing to my library permanently. as in, it shows up again, and when I go back to the Cloud, it's still hidden there so I can't redelete it.
Sorry to U2 fans! I hate it when people show up on a band's thread just to say that they kind of hate the band. But y'know what, there is no other band on that planet that would have the balls to agree to a deal where you weren't allowed to delete their work from your library.
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
oh i wouldn't assume that - most haven't been given the opportunity
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
yes
yes you are right
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link