Has anyone taken the U2-pill today?

>>71782803
that album is pretty good

>>71782803
Boy is their best album, by a lot.

The joshua tree is a masterpeice

only cunts are reluctant to agree

>>71782817
For its time. Wow is it dated though.

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>>71782830
Hello, hello

Has anything Brian Eno touched NOT turned to gold ?

>>71782871
[citation nedded]

>>71782871
What the fuck? No it's not. If U2 is dated than everything before the 00s is "dated".

>>71782803
im glad that U2-pill is becoming a new meme

>>71784071
U2 has very solid albums from 1980 until Pop. They appealed to a very diverse demographic and did the some of the best live shows of any rock genre to this day. (ZOOTV tour).

>>71782817
Yes

>>71782846
Yes

>>71782871
Go fuck yourself

>>71782830
>>71782884
Breddy good but the highs aren't up there with War and Joshua Tree. It's close, though.

>>71784143
Yes, though Achtung is probably their best album.

>>71784143
yeah thats why im glad /mu/ has been talking about them more in the last few days

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pop deluxe edition WHEN?

it's their best album

>>71784845
pop is actually really good ngl

>>71784310
/mu/ is tsundere for U2

>>71785368
Pretty much this.

Everyone I know secretly thinks that 80's U2 was GOAT but is terrified to admit it in public thanks to post-2000 U2.

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>>71785396
if you have 2 hours to kill this is certainly worth a watch. One of the best ZOOTV vids on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70VTqxv6Bpg

>>71782803
>U2-pill
can i get a quick rundown?

>>71782846
It's so inconsistent though. Singles are classic though.

New Years Day is one of the best songs of the 80s.

>>71785845
i actually think ever song on it is really good

>>71785790
they're actually really fucking good and have lots of music that would normally be highly regarded on /mu/ but sadly hating them has become a meme unto itself and bono's antics have overshadowed their music. which is pretty unfortunate because
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T10XwVt5BQ

>>71785869
I do as well....along with AB. both are timeless classics that will persevere for decades to come.

>>71782846
yes, but it's also ridiculously frontloaded

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>>71785790
Exit is great....and inspired an actual murder....bizarre.

"Exit" is a song by rock band U2. It is the tenth track on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree. "Exit" was developed from a lengthy jam that was recorded in a single take and edited down to a shorter arrangement. The lyrics, which portray the mind of a serial killer, were inspired by lead singer Bono's reading of Norman Mailer's 1980 novel The Executioner's Song, and other related works. In his trial for the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer, Robert John Bardo used "Exit" as part of his defence, claiming the song had influenced his actions.

The song is haunting.

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>>71785845

>New Years Day is one of the best songs of the 80s.

This nigger gets it. One of the greatest post-punk singles of all time.

>>71785955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxn9aWLwsXc
quit posting 240p links in 2017 ya dingus
search band/song name - topic, i can't believe more people haven't caught on to this yet

Just stopping in to say I was at the Bono B day show at Woolsey hall at yale in 1983..yes sire.. can not remember a note of it but that it was literally a sea of humanity packed to the rafters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdSiSF7tz5o

>>71785941
In terms of popularity then yeah, definitely. It does feel like a greatest hits album at first.

BUT, i personally like the second half just as much.

Red Hill Mining Town is also the best on the album IMO and one of my all time favourites.

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>>71784845
>if OJ... is more than a drink

wtf were they thinking

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>>71785995
The 1st half of Joshua Tree was all singles.

The 2nd half was nothing but god-tier songwriting and instrumentation.

Both JT and AB are ridiculously back-loaded though.

>>71785729
I'm certain U2 is the best live rock band ever

>>71785980
its not available in every country

>>71786054
I have seen them live 5 times (starting with ZOOTV) and I will wholeheartedly agree.

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what do you guys think of 90s and 2000s U2? i would say it's the most successful reinvention of all time but they could only sustain it up zooropa, after that then their overall decline was pretty consistent

>>71786137
The Fly still sounds fresh in 2017.

>>71786112
yeah i never thought of that, gotta check my burger privilege
still, you can just put ,hd after your search term and you'll usually find something with good audio by youtube standards, it's easy and usually sounds way better than just clicking whatever random comics sans google image lyric video from 2006 comes up
/autism

>>71785993
How old are you lad?

>>71786137
Honestly 2000s (can we start calling this decade the Zeroes?) U2 wasn't even that bad. I think we'll judge it differently in the future.

>>71786220
be 54 this Summer I was 19 at that show.

>>71786137
Has any other album layered the lead vocals like Bono did on AB. Where he sings in both high and low register layered over himself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrch66gdjjk

>>71786319
Neat. I find it so interesting how wide the age difference can be between posters. Do you remember the Beatles? Elvis comeback special? I love talking to older people about these things in real life because they were there for them.

>>71786169
that's one of my go-to tracks for showing people U2 is more than they realize
it's mostly young people my age who only know about them from south park and that dumb itunes big album release™ stunt they did on their last album

>>71786353
>the Beatles?
not when they were together but as a young kid me and my next door neighbor were huge beatles fans and played and sang along to their records all the time

beyond the Monkeys and Partridge family my first real Rock exposure was when at 11 I won ;This Is the Moody Blues from Dale Dorman on WRKO in Boston when I called to request Live and Let Die. I Listened to that when it arrived and it went right over my head. I put it away and didn't listen again till Junior High..

>>71786360
Yup. That bridge is when you realize that their hype as a band was 100% deserved.

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LEMON

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>>71786353
57 year old here. I remember the comeback special and "Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite" Special. (both aired on NBC). And what ever teen did after varsity games on Friday nights "The Midnight Special" so many good performances were on that show.

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>>71786419
I love reading this stuff, thanks guys. Also since you're on /mu/ you're obviously very culturally aware. How do you guys feel about music from the millennium and onward, rock or otherwise?

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>>71782803
I will never understand the stigma towards liking U2. Is it because they're liberal?

Hell, I even love All That You Can't Leave Behind, though that was the last album of their that I loved

Also, Tomorrow is most underrated U2 song.

>>71786618
not to sound negative but I haven't honestly heard anything I've remotely liked since Shpongle... except maybe a bit the Black Angels but again they can get repetitive fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH4xIMw52w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwruv1qfXBY

the U2-pill is way bigger than the Oasis-pill th

>>71786618
I try to stay kinda current (last Indie album I bought was St Vincent (ST) and I do frequent /mu/ quite often. In the 90's my favorites were U2 and Tori Amos (I like a lot of female artists in the 90's actually). Most of the /mu/ core artists and groups I can't relate to though. So many of them are depressing type music.

>>71786686
This is cool
>>71786811
I know what you mean. I don't have a lot of 90s females outside of Kim Deal and Bjork. Any recs ?

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>>71786846

>>71786846
Different person, but I'll say Beth Orton is worth a try. She's great with the Chemical Brothers. múm. Tori Amos and Fiona Apple's albums are depressing but worth a try. There's an artist called Mirah who worked a lot with Phil Elverum in her first two/three albums. She does sound like a female Microphones at some points.

>>71786681
I actually like "Songs of Innocence" as well. It would have easily been a #1 album had they not disqualified it by giving it away on iTunes. I really like "The Troubles" with Lykke Li

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIAAcaq358

>>71785845
The true U2 pill is recognizing that the 2nd half of the Joshua Tree is better than the 1st.

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>tfw you unironically like one

>>71786808
this DESU

>>71786846
So many to list Sarah McLachlan Jewel, Alannis Moresette, PJ Harvey, Melissa Etheridge, Paula Cole.

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>>71782803
>tfw you get an E-bow so you can finally play With Or Without You properly

U2 up to pop is a masterpiece of a band.
Then they went to utter shit and completely ruined any previous message and image.

Their Eno era was god tier, from achtung to zooropa to original soundtracks, amazing stuff
If they kept going down that path they could've been radiohead before radiohead but they just stopped giving a fuck

>>71786980
Mah Nigger.

>>71786808
Yes

>>71787125
I'd cry tears of happiness the moment I first made it sound good.

>>71787166
Fucking hell, this.

They were the last shot we had at seeing a band with Beatles/Stones levels of fame push their sound as hard as the Beatles and the Stones did as the 60's progressed.

IN THE NAAAME

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>>71786930
>>71786898
TY

>>71787166
>>71787189
I think U2 going to shit was what sealed rock death in mainstream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyed5qd7FmQ

From pushing boundaries to being the most simple boring shit in existance, never seen an artist drop that hard

>>71787484
Agreed.

Part of me thinks that the industry made them take a fall hard with everything post-1999 to push mainstream rock into bland irrelevancy and clear the way for the rise of hip hop, a genre that wouldn't have been able to rise the way it did if mainstream rock hadn't fallen so hard.