/U2/ General

>>72500712
October has a lot of great riffs from the Edge, but man oh man, the lyrics are mostly shit.

>>72500712
I've never sat down and listened to these guys before. They don't seem half bad for a post punk band.

Off we go again ...

HELLO HELLO everyone welcome to U2 general!

>>72500981
Vertigo a shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDl1c0nR5SI
When you realize the amazing slights at pop stardom these lyrics have

"Dressing like your sister
Living like a tart
They don't know what you're doing
Babe, it must be art
You're a headache
In a suitcase
You're a star"

Is this a jab at Robert Smith?

Search out Ian McCulloch's takedowns of Bono from back in the day for lulz.

Zoo Station is their finest work, then Where the Streets Have No Name and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for (the fuck were they thinking with these names anyway)

>>72501084

" He recalls being taken aside by Bono on an early trip to the East Coast. The U2 man's advice was straightforward: the Bunnymen could break America but only if they toured until they dropped.

"'You gotta come out here for three months', is what he said to me. Three months? I can't spent three minutes in Birkenhead without going daft, let alone America. I'd already smelt a rat. I thought, 'hang on -- is that what you have to do?' I thought if you were brilliant, people just knew. And that was 30 years ago. Christ knows what you'd have to do to get anywhere now. You have all these wannabes always on the Facebook, always Twittering someone. I don't have a computer. I didn't need one to write The Killing Moon."

>Gets good business advice from friendly Bono, turns it down because can't be bothered to put the effort to his career and calls him a cunt for offering advice

Wew, lad, that's a great role model right there.

>>72501197
>business advice
U2 were always a cynical corporation.

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>>72501271
I'm sorry to break your hymen but music business is a business, that is related to the fact that people making the music generally need a roof over their head and food to eat at the very least. When it comes to the production they'll need gear as well, it's an investment and the point is to make the investment grow and pay itself back, along with the expenses for the food, roof and clothing you need while it does that.

Oh, you want to live somewhere else than your mums basement eating spagetti and become a musician? Better get a job first to afford a place and gear, if you need a practice place too, that'll be another rent split between you and the amount of people you managed to trap to your band with your personality and social skills.
Oh, you actually want to devote time to making your music instead of working at a office 9 to 5? Better start playing more gigs.
Oh you want more people than your locals to hear your music? Pay for the van to tour on. Oh, you want people to actually come to your show and know your stuff? Pay for the studio time and printing. Oh, are you getting scammed on gigpays? Better get a manager. Don't forget to pay the rent!

You can argue that some point, for some artists, it's just about those big arena checks and at that point they've probably have really lost part or all of their artistic integrity, no matter how much they claim to do it for the fans on their 8th reunion/farewell tour.
Or maybe they just do it because they love the thrill of playing live to a cheering audience of thousands who don't even care about their talents fading abilities?

But you can't be a sandy cunt and claim that the only true artists are the one starving, recording their music on a tape recorder they found in dumpster and only releasing it to the hobo living in the cardboard box across the street. Because that's where that unreleased unheard of shit belongs, in the back alley dumpsters along with your worthless opinions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60DK9iaifSA

Whatever. You keep watching The Apptentice and America's got Talent.

>>72501127
it was the 80s, like "two hearts beats as one"


ITT: post good U2 covers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4sNvTdGU2U

>>72501871
Ah, Henry, I would turn for you.

>>72501127
what about Bad or staring at the sun or new year's day or Lemon?

>>72501018
correct video:
https://vimeo.com/41133252

>>72501771
Jeez, relax there, sarge.

>>72501956
Thanks, though I just wanted to embed the song without the movie line dubs,

>>72501930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8d_8fM6PQc
It's good, though not my favorite