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>2017
>Spoon

like all spoon albums, I found it well-produced and unobjectionable, but thoroughly unremarkable. I still have no idea what gets people going about this band. Like "i turn my camera on" is one of the top 5-10 indie anthems of the 2010's judging by acclaim and popularity, and I just don't get it. It's like the black keys for me, i listen and i try so GODDAMN hard to feel literally anything, because it seems to do so much for everyone else, but there's just nothing here. Nothing bad, nothing good. Just nothing.

Pretty good but They Want My Soul is still their best

>Album: The National - Alligator
>Film: No Country For Old Men
>Book: Infinite Jest
>Vidya: Fallout: New Vegas
>idk what the fuck "first sexual experience" means, so getting to second base with my girlfriend at 14?

>>71833036
OP here,
>Fav album
pic related
>Favorite Film
Fanny & Alexander
>Favorite Book
Infinite Jest
>Favorite Vidya
MGS3
>First Sexual Experience
A passionate make out/ dry hump session with a somewhat slutty indie chick in her truck near the bridge close to my high school. This was after a few bowls, and it was her first time smoking. She left me for a chick and eventually became a massive stoner/ cigarette smoker

>>71833069
noice book pick. it really is worth the hype

They're a poor man's Bone Thugs desu

If most of the girls you know are obsessed with them then most of the girls you know are really easy to have sex with. Go for it, anon!

Beats is hot. Edgy.

No clppng production

>>>/tumblr/

>>71832842
mass normie appeal

This was before the rave drugs took their toll

>>71832704
It's okay, which is way better than Die Antwoord at least.

>>71832704
I don't see the problem. Did you even listen to it?

>>71832617
beach boys is white bread af
you must be the whitest palest most bland mothafucka on the planet to like that cracker shit haha

Let Him Run Wild is one of the greatest songs of all time

I'M BUUUUUUUUUUUGED AT MY OLD MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

>>71832521
The 70's and 80's

Bono grew up in a mixed household, his father Catholic and his mother Protestant, in Ireland. There are literal walls ("Peace Lines" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_lines) separating those neighborhoods to this day. Early on, U2 were rooted in the post-punk scene and part of the general anti-Thatcher sentiment any proper UK band held, with an album called War, and Bono would run around a stage with a white flag like a proper 22-year-old idiot. But they managed to score their first UK top-40 hits with songs about politics and religion, which is a feat of its own.

Throughout the 80's, their albums address various causes, ranging from the Polish Solidarity movement (New Year's Day) to Irish Troubles (Sunday Bloody Sunday), to the USA's proxy war in El Salvador (Bullet the Blue Sky), Heroin addiction (Bad, Running to Stand Still) to the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, a group of women whose children had been "disappeared" by the Argentine and Chilean dictatorships (see below) (Mothers of the Disappeared).

In the mid-80's, U2's status had grown much larger and worldwide, Bono was part of the earnest-but-cringey superstar charity efforts like, "Do They Know It's Christmas?", "We Are The World" and Live Aid. Live Aid made U2 superstars, and money went to Africa. But Bono was disappointed by its effectiveness: "The $125 million we raised with that show was less than what African countries were paying in interest on the debt every day." (http://fortune.com/bono-u2-one/) People thought they could buy an album and save a country - the 80's equivalent of slacktivism.

...And then Rattle & Hum came out. 29 years ago in 1988. And it had so much humorless, self-important cringe it haunts them to this day. (Here's the worst of it: https://vimeo.com/187490007) This movie is where where most of the reputation comes from, which is funny because a lot of the people expressing their opinion about Bono being sanctimonious weren't even born yet.

The 90's

U2 arrived on 3 October 1990 on the last flight into East Berlin before it became Berlin again. After dutifully hiding away there in shame about Rattle & Hum, U2 returned with Achtung Baby and the ZooTV tour, the most spot-on prediction and criticism of post-Internet society by anyone not named Philip K. Dick. It was inspired by the ease of changing a channel from the live missile-cams destruction of Baghdad to ... whatever else was on TV. During shows, Bono would prank called the White House (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmgYzASFZPU), and remixed the Iraq War address (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2mM8J9zOio). There was a "confession booth" outside the stadium and they would put their favorite confessions up on the jumbotron. They'd flash hundreds of words/phrases onto the screen during The Fly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-XgdWdbvRs) that celebrated, predicted, and lampooned the endless stream of data we now live with. In 1992.

(As an aside, ZooTV opening acts included: Public Enemy, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Pearl Jam, Primus, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, B.A.D. II, Paul Oakenfold, and The Sugarcubes.)

The most spine-tingling moment for me was when they would interrupt this insane, spectacle rock concert to talk live via a satellite connection with people living in Sarajevo, where a huge, genocidal war was raging just a few hundred miles from many of their European gigs (The Bosnian War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War). It was a huge, fuck-your-complacency bomb right on their audience's lap. On the first transmission one of the people in Sarajevo said: "on a personal note, a friend of mine [that] had the piece of grenade ... in his head. He died this morning..."). And then U2, again playing on the TV metaphor, played some hits. Hell, this happens on Imgur all the time - kittens, death, politics, kittens. (Video showing the first transmission of 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqx9sHA7q70)

>>71832596
The 90's part 2

For a few years, they couldn't play Sarajevo because, basically, any group of 20+ people would immediately get a mortar fired into the middle of them. But in September 1995, their concert took place at Koševo Stadium, which was previously used as a morgue during the war. Bono's voice was completely shot, but they made do, and the concert gave the city its first breath of normalcy in years. Although it was a short-lived peace, the AP said: "For two magical hours, the rock band U2 achieved what warriors, politicians and diplomats could not: They united Bosnia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_concert_in_Sarajevo They also played (badly) their song Miss Sarajevo, about Sarajevo's underground resistance movement that included a beauty contest where the participants all held a banner that said, "DON'T LET THEM KILL US." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Sarajevo

In 1997, their album POP gave them their other PEAK CRINGE moment of self-parody: The ABC special hosted by Dennis Hopper. It is awesome in its awfulness, but thankfully nobody watched it. (But you can if you hate yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m29l7h2zpOc.)

As mentioned above, the Madres de Plaza de Mayo were focused on Pinochet's torture/murder regime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_in_Pinochet%27s_Chile), So when U2 went to Santiago in 1998, U2 actually BROUGHT THEM ON STAGE and directly addressed Pinochet in his own country's capital, in a stadium used by his regime as a prison camp after the 1973 coup d'état. "Tell these mothers: Where are their children? [...] So they can bury them; so they can say goodbye to them; so Chile can say goodbye to the past." Ballsy as fuck. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxw8o1xzjQE RS article: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-u2-honor-the-mothers-of-the-disappeared-in-chile-20131105

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>>71832502
>BEHOOOOLD THE SNAKE OF BRAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS

>>71832538
>tfw wind still blowing backwards

OR PENNED BY FICTION'S HAND?
TO WHOM COULD THAT PHRASE NOT APPLY?

a love supreme

I'm wearing a Supreme hoodie rn and listening to Decks Dark by Radiohead if that answers your question

Tyler The Creator on repeat

and how you built a tower tumbling through the trees

but i wasnt tho

>>71832234
her head is a potato

>>71832200
found the dude they aren't fucking

>>71832229
Kek

>>71832229
ruthless

>>71832053
ITT: OP with painfully mediocre taste
sage

>>71832192
go read pitchfork sweaty

>>71832192
this

/mu/

>>71831983
rymcore easily

>>71831983
I like 4/6 /mu/core albums, 3/6 RYMcore, and 1/6 redditcore

probably /mu/ because RYM is half normies and half contrarians (even though I love it there)

>>71719886

word. I'm a Caucasian male btw

So Gfriend's preorder meme....