shhhhh secret thread to talk about music without getting into a high-pitched ilm shriekfest on whatever thread is going on atm

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/51594_o.gif

http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg414/cometU2/Bono%20Edge%20Animations/disco-bono-hips-comet.gif

both "Desire" and "All I Want Is You" are on there, I think

also, I voted for "Desire"

as a whole Rattle and Hum is really really terrible

xp: oh, oh no

I think we can all agree that Bono must be stopped

http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg414/cometU2/Adam%20Animations/ali-adam-bounce-bigslcomet.gif

http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg414/cometU2/Larry%20Animations/larry-banging-comet.gif

so basically you are saying we can blame Coldplay on them

yes

looks like i have been right all along then

this thread is now officially the nadir of ilx

i do my best

I feel like I've seen much, much worse here (she said darkly).

I want to reach out
and touch the flame
because I'm an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible
awwwww yeahhhh
an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible

I love you

oh my god

i love you too (not u2)

a friend in the know told me they basically have an extra band that hides under the stage

this was actually shown in the doco thing that went on before their live-around-the-world-via-satellite show from Sydney in 1993ish. though iirc it was three or four extra Edges, not a whole band of more competent players to outshine the dullard twins

oh my god those gifs... the bongos...

all is quiet
on new year's day
except for me
I'm just yowling away
I will be with you again
because some dickhead will put my record on at a party
pwnd

all you are doing is making me imagine Bono singing "Tower of Strength"

if I were a tower of strength, I'd walk away
I'd look in your eyes, and here's what I'd say:
"blah blah blah, everything I say is extremely important,
get really into classic rock, it's awesome"
think I'll say that anyway, I'm fucking Bono

must say I'm impressed by your multitasking

this thread is making me paradoxically sad that I don't actually know more U2 music

.

^^^ pretty sure that is all hilarious, but don't know the songs being referenced

probably more evidence that I live under a rock. SHOCKER

reference cliffnotes for Sara R-C:

I want to reach out
and touch the flame
because I'm an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible
awwwww yeahhhh
an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxl9EI9YBg

all is quiet
on new year's day
except for me
I'm just yowling away
I will be with you again
because some dickhead will put my record on at a party
pwnd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Y-t85vs4g

if I were a tower of strength, I'd walk away
I'd look in your eyes, and here's what I'd say:
"blah blah blah, everything I say is extremely important,
get really into classic rock, it's awesome"
think I'll say that anyway, I'm fucking Bono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A&ob=av2e

When U2 played in Glasgow a couple of years ago Bono stood on stage snapping his fingers and said, every time I snap my fangers astarving child somewhere in the world dies. Someone in the crowd shouted, Well stop snapping your fingers then you sick bastard.

alecahauf 2 months ago

<3

Oh, deX, many <3 <3 <3

hahahaha

xxp would take that a lot more seriously if it wasn't coming from someone who bought a first class plane ticket for his hat. Like most bands, U2 have some good tunes, some bad tunes. But it's Bono's 'saving the world single handed' thing I can't abide.

it really helps if you live under a rock and thus can live in blissful ignorance of that sort of thing

there is always a bunch of ILM people that overly judge a song by the lyrics and then say something like "the tune isn't so hot either". These people are backwards. Lyrics should come second

yes but what does that have to do with Bono

probably like someone cooking you a pretty bad meal about which sure there are complaints to be made, but which is made totally worse by bono thrusting at you while you eat it

its like ordering a dominos pizza and then bono shows up to deliver it and has his dick sticking through the middle

and that pizza is called the angel of harlem special

concavesausagepizza.com

Ah, what a wonderful thread.

BTW this is the single worst piece of criticism written by anyone anywhere, and when I read it I was already thinking "Christ, fuck U2" after Rattle and Hum came out and then I read this and figured I need not trust Robert Hilburn, who I had only just learned about, on anything for the future. In retrospect this was one of the smartest decisions I've ever made.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-20/entertainment/ca-441_1_rock-band

omg the title alone

I kind of can't believe he is referring to Bono as "Hewson"

I can. All too clearly.

If U2 has an artistic Achilles' heel, it may be its eagerness to live up to what it sees as the idealism and integrity of rock's finest moments. The danger is that the band may look to critics as the arbiter of rock 'n' roll honor and begin second-guessing itself in view of the sharp critical disagreement over the band's latest step; instead of pursuing its own artistic impulses, it could end up weakening its vision in hopes of seeking some sort of consensus approval.

okay even at the time this is like the dumbest possible thing anyone could say about U2; the fact that the next thing U2 released was Achtung, Baby just makes it worse

Oh I forgot -- best detail is that in the original print run of that piece when I read it, it was accompanied by a black and white line drawing showing Bono standing at the fork in the road on a desert highway or something, himself split in two as he deeply pondered on WHICH WAY HE SHOULD TAKE OH THE ART.

oh my god

page 2

OH MY GOD

I can't even excerpt a quote, it's all so fawning and stupid and are we sure Hilburn wasn't actually a horny 13-year-old girl when he wrote this

http://www.roberthilburnonline.com/uploads/2/3/9/9/2399246/3563261.jpg?198x287

"Heheh, hehehehe, you said girl, heheheheheheh."

Dear 1988,

What. The. Hell.

Love, Sara

free to defend preening songster (3,4)

Man oh man do I ever dislike soundgarden

I can't even claim passing familiarity with soundgarden...

http://www.united-academics.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/siouxie-swastica.jpg

http://www.united-academics.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/siouxie-swastica.jpg

yeah yeah.

i'm aware of it. still hope it isn't a hip new trend.

fwiw that pic kept me from actually exploring Siouxsie and the Banshees back catalog until around 2003 and I still kind of hate her for it

totally.

xp - pretty sure she apologized for it at one point

I've been looking for the post-2000 interview I read where basically called every black person in LA a thugged-out ape but I can't find it; I may be misremembering the strength of the statement but there were definitely bad vibes

siouxsie in 2005:

Siouxsie is surprisingly frank, if unrepentant.

"The culture around then," she explains, "it was Monty Python, Basil Fawlty, Freddie Starr, The Producers- 'Springtime For Hitler'." She kicks out her leg in a mock goosestep. "It was very much Salon Kitty. It was used as a glamour thing. And you know what?" she sighs." I have to be honest but I do like the Nazi uniform. I shouldn't say it but I think it's a very good-looking uniform."

You shouldn't say it for fear of upsetting the PC mob?

"Yeah. It's almost like you feel like saying,'Aw, come on. Nazis - they're brilliant.' Political correctness becomes imprisoning. It's very - what's the word? It's being very Nazi! It's ironic but this PC-ness is so fucking fascist. In America they're especially touchy about Nazis and it's so Nazi! You go to LA and it's so segregated. It's very Nazi and the irony is they don't get it. They don't realise how Nazi they are about taking offence to mentioning the word Nazi."

I feel like there was a specific story she was telling about an unpleasant interaction with someone but I could very well be conflating some things.

At any rate, I tend to be very wary of white people who say things like that 2005 quote because they almost invariably think that someday, when they get to know me well enough, I'll be okay with them calling me a nigger.

It's the whole conflation of PC with actual oppression. "You're oppressing me by frowning on my racism!"

I'm mad I didn't know about this thread. Much more my thing than the actual rollout.

Thanks for the heads-up last night, john.

so... Melt-Banana is kind of awesome, huh

yup!

they are! I'm a big fan of cell-scape

DJP - you just warmed my heart with your mention of "hocket"

oh yeah I meant to look that up

haha thanks!

HOCKETY POCKETY WOCKETY WACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd5YUEOwlE

for those wondering, here is an example of hocket:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enbHYaF8Vas

There's also a terrible video of Dirty Projectors doing something similar only much worse

hocketing and Meredith Monk = back to my comfort zone

revive

listening to grails at bedtime. grails are a good band, I think.

KISS sucks

I'm listening to King Diamond "Conspiracy", hoping to play the s/t Bathory again.

just finished Napalm Death - Scum

still listening to the Azana album
been spending the past two days listening to the Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack.