Wait, is this getting downloaded to our computers without us asking for it or do you have to click download to get it in your iTunes?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
You have to click download. (Note: you do not have to click download. No one is forcing you to listen to U2.)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
some folks on twitter exaggerating a bit, and quoted in that Post article
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
some folks on twitter exaggerating a bit
nothing new to ILX there tbf
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I remember that my sister's macbook has Nick Cave's 'Into My Arms' preloaded sometime in the early 2000s
― wolves at doors: they flan @ u face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Free album? When is Bono gonna come through with some fuckin' free t-shirts, man?
― dave matthews' gland (sic), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Is there really supposed to be a period after Troubles?
The Troubles.
WTF man
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
That is so fucking precious
So everyone who bought a MacBook in the early 2000s was greeted with "I DON'T BELIEVE IN AN INTERVENTIONIST GOD"xpost
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Sonic Cathedral @soniccathedralU2 are already in my music library are they? no they're not *deletes itunes*
U2 are already in my music library are they? no they're not *deletes itunes*
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― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
The Miracle (Of Joey From Friends)
― Doran, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
apparently, iTunes was bundled with all of the following songs when first launched in 2001:
Amanda Ghost, IdolAmanda Ghost, CellophaneAndreas Johnson, GloriousArkarna, Life Is FreeArkarna, InsecurityArkarna, House On FireBarenaked Ladies, If I Had A $1,000,000Barenaked Ladies, JaneBarenaked Ladies, One WeekBelly, Feed The TreeBob James, Raise The RoofBoney James, All Night LongBoney James, R.S.V.P.Brad Mehldau, MadridDave Ralph, Max Graham "Airtight"Dave Ralph, Tea Freaks "Arms of Orion"Depeche Mode, StrangeloveEuge Groove, Romeo & JulietHolly Palmer, Come Lie With MeInfected Mushroom, SymphonaticJoshua Redman, NeverendKenny Garrett, G.T.D.SKevin Mahogany, Still Swingin'Lang, K.D., When We CollideLang, K.D., Only LoveLarry Carlton, FingerprintsThe Living End, Roll onNick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Into My ArmsPat Metheny, Follow MePat Metheny, JamesPaul Oakenfold, Ascension "Someone" (Slacker Mix)Penelope Houston, SweetheartPenelope Houston, Grand PrixPhish, Heavy ThingsPhish, Sample In A JarPhish, Limb By LimbRandy Newman, The World Isn't FairRandy Newman, Can't Keep A Good Man DownSasha & John Digweed, Breeder 'Tyrantanic' (Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix)Submarine, Sunbeam (Deepsky's Desert Sunset Mix)Total Eclipse, Psychedelic TerroristWilco, MondayWilco, A Shot In The Arm8 Stops 7, Question Everything
― wolves at doors: they flan @ u face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
A lot of harsh zings of a band that literally every adult has liked at some point in their lives.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis)
please god, we'll be living in it soon enough
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
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