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>U2 featured on a Kendrick track so now we all pretend we love U2

>>72333011
>Who's going to this tour

A LOT of soccor moms

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>>72333011
FUCKING STOP
My parents are going on this tour, it's lame

>>72333033
U2 are one of the most critically acclaimed and popular bands of all time and were defining artists of the 1980s and 1990s (both in the college rock/post-punk scene and then in the mainstream). Just because you have no knowledge of them beyond the iTunes thing and "Vertigo" doesn't make this any less true.

>>72333064
Why don't you go with them Anon? :)

>>72333036
There is nothing wrong about being a soccer mom

>>72333036
Any single milfs?

>>72333074
I'm not saying its a bad thing, I'll be packing a lot of condoms

stupid fucking faggots
u2 is absolute garbage tier corporate bullshit muzak and nobody with actual music taste likes them

Go back to R E D D I T

>>72333067
I have listened to most of their work up until Pop. I get why they're influential and popular.

It's just funny to me how you would be crucified on /mu/ for posting about U2 before the whole Kendrick thing.

>>72333011
I want to hear bad. I've seen two shows and never heard it

>>72333107
>>>/r/music
>>>/r/southpark

>>72333110
That's because Kendrick has U2 pilled the masses. God bless Kung Fu Kenny

>>72333110
It was actually acceptable to proclaim a like for their early stuff up until about 2012-ish and then the tide shifted. The itunes bullshit only cemented that (not to mention the new era of /mu/ posters who hadn't been exposed to anything outside 00s era U2/Bono being in the public eye)

>the band that wrote the song Vertigo unironically has a "general"
RIP /mu/

>>72333071
Because I'm not old, that's why.

>>72333183
>the band that wrote the song Vertigo unironically has a "general" didn't have a 30 year career before that which established them as one of the most acclaimed acts in rock music

kys

>>72333224
>one of the most acclaimed acts in rock music
howling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hubKpoiG8

When are they going to bring this one back out again? Haven't played it in 16 years now...

>>72333209
>not sharing seeing a world class band with the people who care about you most

Sad 2 b u

>>72333241
>The Joshua Tree
>Achtung Baby
>not hugely acclaimed

Are you stupid?

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>>72333241
hmmmm

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>>72333241
Not even gonna bother posting any others

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>>72333416
>one of the most acclaimed ever
Nice try, babby. Pic related is all the same artist.

>>72333461
one of =/= the most

you fucking sperg

>>72333487
>can only post 3 acclaimed albums

>>72333550
Can't be arsed to post more but come on. You really think U2 aren't hugely acclaimed by critics?

>>72333110
Not true. The U2-pill has been slow cooking for a while now. Kendrick was the final push needed

>>72333580
If their acclaimed how come they never get 5 stars or 10/10s? (ROLLING STONE DOESNT COUNT)

HELLO HELLO

>>72333461
Literally who

>>72333011
Old Red Hill Mining Town is better. Don't know why Bono bothered

>>72333716
the beatles I imagine

>>72334224
well that would make sense then.

>2012: one U2 thread per week max
>2013: one U2 thread per week max
>2014: one U2 thread per week max
>2015: one U2 thread per week max
>2016: one U2 thread per week max
>2017: multiple daily U2 threads

Obvious U2 shills please.
You're not fooling anybody.

>>72334661
>U2 shills
Why would they shill now?

>>72334026
Agreed. They should have brought back some of the b-sides

>>72334737
it's the CTR globalist shills

>>72334288
Idiotic comparison honestly. The Beatles have been by far the most popular and acclaimed popular music act for well over 50 years now. Nobody else even comes close.

Didn't get a ticket because they all sold out. I'll probably watch the Bonnaroo stream though.

>>72333067
They were always normie tier. Their contemporaries at the time, punks, post-punks, new-wavers etc., could always smell the cynicism off them. Maybe that's why the old cunts are perfect for these Jeremy Clarkson times.

>>72335409
really makes you think

U2 fucking sucks. Get off this board.

>>72336473
Only the under 30 demographic hold this opinion for the most part. Most everyone 30 and over know them for the 80's and 90's and not their post "Pop" discography

ELEVATION

WOOOOO-OOOOO

WOOOOOOOOO-OOO-OOO

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>>72333033
why can't you guys let U2 fags be?

Until a few months ago I had never listened to WAR in it's entirety. One great album to be sure.

>>72338415
best song?

>>72338429
For me. "New Years Day"

>>72338581
this or Sunday Bloody Sunday

>>72339579
My second choice. Although "Like a Song" is very close.

>>72339862
True. Seconds too.

>>72340063
Yeah...pretty had to pick favorites on that album.

>>72340094
Pretty much anything but Red Light and The Refugee is good - great.

>>72340356
WOAH, WOOOAH

>>72340433
I get triggered so hard everytime. Same with the "DANANA" opening on Red Light.

Pop is a great album and has great songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GegTud00LAU
>all that electronica,techno,house,triphop adds

>>72340851
Pop is a rushed album and has fair-good songs

>>72340879
and a couple absolute shit ones

It honestly could have been great, but they didn't know what direction they really wanted to take it and ran out of time to finish writing. It was like October all over again. This phenomenon would also resurface during the recording of No Line on the Horizon

>>72340879
Yeah I know is their most rushed album and unproduced but with 3 zooropa demos being in actual songs is great also during promo tour and proper popmart they improves their songs
>>72333243
like gone and others.
I thinkg the playboy mansion and maybe miami are the worst songs from that album, even liking a little miami in my case.

>>72340922
>I thinkg the playboy mansion and maybe miami are the worst songs from that album, even liking a little miami in my case.

Yeah those were all pretty poor. Though they did get better during the tour.

It's a shame that they could do tracks like Lemon and Zooropa and then Hold Me... and Miss Sarajevo and Your Blue Room, but by POP they had ridiculous writer's block.


Not to mention the album was doomed from the start in America thanks to Discotheque and it's video. The Popmart tour was even more lost on the public. Check out 1:10 of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOP5Iig-yQ

Literally >15,000 people in a 50,000 capacity stadium that they could have two sold out nights at during ZooTV. That's how much of a flop it was...

>>72340974
And this is why you don't make tour dates before the album is complete

>>72340974
Well, I know about that poor tour debut but in Europe and Latin america they did a little better.

Yeah is a shame they don't use more OST1 they only use Miss sarajevo in 360 tour


About that album I want to buy it, is the only one missing in my collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y4E-kkZDiE
I love slug even more than miss sarajevo and your blue room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFKedKEX87s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBMjvOsfQ0

what a excelsior album, I know larry hate it.

>>72340851
Pop is why U2 plays it safe with soft rock now

>>72341008
Pretty much. ZooTV didn't even start until like 4 months after Achtung came out.

>>72341010
Yeah, their Latin America shows were all pretty much sold out since I don't think they had ever toured there before. And the European shows were also mostly sellouts (with the exception of a few shows in Germany). In fact, they played their biggest concert of all time on that tour. 150,000 fans attended a September 20th show in Italy.

Passengers is certainly an interesting album to have. Larry does hate it, but he was never as interested in U2's experimental phase.

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>>72333011
Nah, missed out on this one
Songs of Experience and accompanying tour when?

Also, Zooropa is their most underrated album. They could've continued down that route instead of playing it safe this century and they'd be indisputably one of the GOAT.

>>72341037
Yeah I know, but it wasn't that bad, maybe public and critics were wrong even being a rushed album is better than ATYCLB and HTDAAB.

>>72341056
about recordings popmart in Leeds is pretty good and good quality audio.

And as I pointed before:
>Bono and the Edge had written a few songs before recording started for Pop in earnest. "If You Wear That Velvet Dress", "Wake Up Dead Man", "Last Night on Earth" and "If God Will Send His Angels" were originally conceived during the Zooropa sessions. "Mofo" and "Staring at the Sun" were also partly written already.

the good ones comes from Zooropa sessions.
I also love this one:
https://vimeo.com/41133252
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2
like glam electronic rock

>>72341084
>They could've continued down that route instead of playing it safe this century and they'd be indisputably one of the GOAT.
They would have but:
>>72341037

It was all fine and dandy when they did whatever they wanted and still had hit singles and best selling albums and critical acclaim, but after POP they became as calculated as possible. Each song seemingly written with the intention of being a purposeful radio hit, of being able to be easily sung along to by 80,000 fans. They became honestly just somewhat toothless. The media/critics, general public, and many longtime fans loved ATYCLB and HTDAAB (to a slightly lesser extent) when they were released because it was a "return to form", but honestly those records don't hold up at all.

>>72341093
Were there anymore Zooropa/Passengers outtakes that haven't seen the light of day? I'd kill for those.

>>72341146
Sadly no, as far I can know zooropa demos and pop demos never were into light.

Only achtung baby outtakes, there are several like 10cds most of them larry sessions on drums and the edge doing stuff

For me Zooropa hasn't got any bad song I rellay enjoy all of them


*-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0v54bGHNs
your blue room live + Sinead O'Conner


>>72341132
for me ATYCLB doesn't work as album but has some great songs and HTDAAB work as album but their song even being a little bit better thatn ATYCLB you can't get hoo up in them maybe Yahweh, miracle drug. Even vertigo demo's "native son" is far better thatn proper vertigo.

>>72341132
except all that you cant leave behind is still gr8

>>72341146
Who knows. Bono claims that there's hundreds of songs that don't make it. Reminds me when the edge was interviewed a few years ago and said that they had a whole bunch of songs that they didn't release because "it didn't sound like U2". Really pissed me off

>>72341224
kite, in a little while and new york tour version are the best songs from that album and maybe wild honey, walk on, stuck in a moment and elevation, also beautiful day is really powerful.

>>72341225
if you are interested in I found these:
http://forum.atu2.com/index.php?topic=13115.0

>>72341270
>I Love The Apple Mac
kek

As I said in another thread, t's a shame because they made some really fantastic music early in their career but most people won't even bother with it because of more recent Bono fuckery and Vertigo and the iTunes album thing.

Hell, I had a conversation with my roommate the other night when With or Without You came on shuffle on his pandora playlist and he said "This is pretty good. Too bad it's U2" and then skipped it.

Of course, I did play him New Year's Day later and he said "Oh, I forgot this was U2. I like this one". He also liked the atmospherics and guitar ambience in the song The Unforgettable Fire.

>>72341353
Yeah, the unforgettalbe fire is their more raw album for me and I love that vibe.

Also, no line in the horizon and song of innoncence are better albums than the two previous one by a mile or two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFQ-UNkh3A

>>72341394
No Line could have been a top-tier U2 album if they followed through with the music they had made in Morrocco with Eno instead of scrapping most of it and trying to build admittedly good, but not amazing, U2-by-numbers anthems around that material.

That and then forcing in 3 throwaway pop songs in the middle for "hit single" material only made things worse.

I haven't actually listened to Songs of Innocence to be quite honest.

>>72341204
>Only achtung baby outtakes, there are several like 10cds most of them larry sessions on drums and the edge doing stuff

Weren't those the early Hansa studios sessions where somebody found 8 hours of scrapped demos in a dumpster and then pressed them into a bootleg?

>>72341225
>said that they had a whole bunch of songs that they didn't release because "it didn't sound like U2". Really pissed me of

For fuck's sake. Literally modern U2 is only good when they aren't trying to force themselves to be the band casuals want them to be.

>>72341418
SOI is actually quite good. Bonos voice is the best it was in years. Give it a serious listen.
I especially liked the troubles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDondcmvKE8

I don't look back on the 2000/2001/2002 era as fondly as I did then, but this is still a great concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHK6PCZb8gI

>>72341476
I'll check it out

>>72341433
yeah those ones are the ones I refer.

And yeah I also recommend SOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8CAw53kja4
look after deluxe tracks also.

>>72341492
boston dvd and that free concert in kradio in 2000 is great too.

>>72341561
>that cover art

Goddamn what were they thinking?

>>72341833
grats on your purchase.

>>72341833
>picture disk
Pls delete

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mine came with a magazine

>>72341858
Whats wrong with a picture disk. There are also only 7000 pressings of that.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12791192

>>72341904
They don't sound as good and I think they look ugly. I personally don't like the remix either.

>>72341962
Why exactly do they not sound good? I can understand not liking the remix. The picture doesn't impede the analog grooves in any way.

>>72342014
https://slyvinyl.com/articles/article-column/do-picture-disc-vinyl-records-sound-worse

The plastic film leads to surface noise

>>72342014
What this guy said
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>>72341887
What's in the magazine?

>>72342284
This. They suck.