Classic or Dud: U2

apparently, iTunes was bundled with all of the following songs when first launched in 2001:

Amanda Ghost, Idol
Amanda Ghost, Cellophane
Andreas Johnson, Glorious
Arkarna, Life Is Free
Arkarna, Insecurity
Arkarna, House On Fire
Barenaked Ladies, If I Had A $1,000,000
Barenaked Ladies, Jane
Barenaked Ladies, One Week
Belly, Feed The Tree
Bob James, Raise The Roof
Boney James, All Night Long
Boney James, R.S.V.P.
Brad Mehldau, Madrid
Dave Ralph, Max Graham "Airtight"
Dave Ralph, Tea Freaks "Arms of Orion"
Depeche Mode, Strangelove
Euge Groove, Romeo & Juliet
Holly Palmer, Come Lie With Me
Infected Mushroom, Symphonatic
Joshua Redman, Neverend
Kenny Garrett, G.T.D.S
Kevin Mahogany, Still Swingin'
Lang, K.D., When We Collide
Lang, K.D., Only Love
Larry Carlton, Fingerprints
The Living End, Roll on
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Into My Arms
Pat Metheny, Follow Me
Pat Metheny, James
Paul Oakenfold, Ascension "Someone" (Slacker Mix)
Penelope Houston, Sweetheart
Penelope Houston, Grand Prix
Phish, Heavy Things
Phish, Sample In A Jar
Phish, Limb By Limb
Randy Newman, The World Isn't Fair
Randy Newman, Can't Keep A Good Man Down
Sasha & John Digweed, Breeder 'Tyrantanic' (Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix)
Submarine, Sunbeam (Deepsky's Desert Sunset Mix)
Total Eclipse, Psychedelic Terrorist
Wilco, Monday
Wilco, A Shot In The Arm
8 Stops 7, Question Everything

A lot of harsh zings of a band that literally every adult has liked at some point in their lives.

Is there really supposed to be a period after Troubles?

The Troubles.

WTF man

― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis)

please god, we'll be living in it soon enough

every adult

speaking of exaggerations

Not an exaggeration.

xxxxpost a poll that has to happen

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

They should have a hidden track on this called Fuck REM

If you're over 20 years old, you have liked U2 at some point.

woah sell it to grantland, don't give it away for free

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.

If you're over 20 years old, you have liked U2 at some point.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 5:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

44 and nope

the public should probably sue these fuckers but apparently a lot of the lawyers involved would be pro bono
i'm definitely mullen over some legal action

lololol

can the latest update of imovie come bundled with the bono tinariwen video?

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

dying

If you're over 20 years old, you have liked U2 at some point.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 5:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You've polled everyone in China, Indonesia, Sudan...

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

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.

likely story

haha!

"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?"

how could ppl born in 1993 ever possibly have liked U2

^^^ 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]

ah yeah that was it.

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

how much is communion these days anyway?

still only the one wafer iirc

dud

at least it wasn't free with the Daily Mail i suppose.

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

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.

This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uojmgiWfC0

And Weezer and Edie Brickell had music videos come with the original Windows 95 CD.

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

indeed Best Song Bundled with the original iTunes Launch in 2001

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"

And Weezer and Edie Brickell had music videos come with the original Windows 95 CD.

― 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"

Soundgarden was on there too - "Nothing To Say"

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.

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

reserving the right to suddenly hate this on second listen

The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)

Just thinking about this title, wasn't Joey listening to U2 when he passed away? 'One' iirc

"In a Little While."

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

died as he lived, listening to Bono

Presumably it's explicated elsewhere that he liked it, cos dying while listening to it's pretty ambivalent criticism

05 Iris (Hold Me Close)

i just want u2 know who i am

If you're over 20 years old, you have liked U2 at some point.

Nope. And i saw them before any of youse - first, maybe second gig they played post -Hype. Shit then, shit now, shit in between.

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?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6525315?start=0&tstart=0

turingtest2
Sep 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.

so you're saying this album is musical kudzu