Classic or Dud: U2

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

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.

oh i wouldn't assume that - most haven't been given the opportunity

yes

yes you are right

i don't really give a shit about u2 anymore and their hits are way overplayed but i do want to point out the brilliance of "lemon", that tune rules

that whole record is great. if they'd kept going with that and Passengers the U2 conversation would be very different today I think.

as it stands wtf is this shit in my iTunes?

Bono's lyrics are pretty bad, but more interesting than Chris Martin bad.
― Josh in Chicago

(xxxxp) I noticed that in the digital booklet all of the lyrics are credited to Bono and The Edge.

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

Loving? It killed him, you egomaniac!

you're not fit to trim Bono's whiskers

http://pando.com/2014/09/11/apple-offends-music-critics-and-iphone-owners-alike-with-u2-album-assault/

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sasha-frere-jones/u2s-forgettable-fire

I am MAD MAD MAD about this free music that can be removed in seconds.

"removed in seconds"

yeah, no shit

http://thequietus.com/articles/16217-bono-u2-songs-of-experience

I like specific angry takedowns like this better than mere lol U2. There are so many reasons to hate the band and Bono more than for the music.

well this album isn't too notable huh

"volcano" is the only memorable one so far

That piece is otm.

xp

well...

Face down on a pillow of shame
There are some girls with a needle trying to spell my name
My body’s not a canvas
My body’s now a toilet wall

Album is fine and forgettable. The last three should have all been EPs. Viva LA Vida was the last great U2 album. I'd blame the producers, but eno and lanois muffed the last one.

Songs of iNonsense

dying at this 5-star Fricke review

a song about imminent eruption, through a propulsive delirium of throaty, striding bass, alien-choral effects and the Edge's rusted-treble jolts of Gang of Four-vintage guitar.

Couldn't read past this. I imagined myself as Skylar White shouting "shut up shut UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP" at Fricke.

A FB friend of Mr Veg's wrote "It's their best album since Pop!" to which we were both like, ok that's a REALLY low bar.

that fking California song sounds like it's destined to be in a shitty middle-age Rom-Com within the next 2 years

The teenage Bono once gave her Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine as a gift while they were dating.

"Teenage Bono gave you that record, Adult Bono's gettin' it back!"

fricke review almost makes this worthwhile

I thought you guys were kidding about a five-star Fricke review. How'd I fool myself?

I didn't even want to read the review, but it just popped up in my email box this morning.

your neighbors overheard Fricke whispering, "Hee hee, this'll get Josh."

have you tried deleting it?