Why are people so quick to ignore U2's legacy, reducing

https://youtu.be/UJXqnYCWW7Y

>>75022698
It's cause the amount of good songs they have can be counted on one hand and the only great one is Sunday Bloody Sunday.

>>75022698
because mu is full of high schoolers who only listen to death grips and swans and trendy modern hip hop and other assorted memeable things because thats what other immature people like right now. i guarantee 90% of people who shit on U2 haven't even heard a single album by them and only do it because its a meme and they want to fit in on le edgy secret club anonymous website.

hating on u2 is literally just a stupid meme. i've never listened to a full u2 album so i have no strong feelings on them, but there are way too many fags who saw an episode of south park and allowed it to inform their understanding of a band they've never actually listened to either.

>>75022698
what's the best U@ album

>>75023448
Joshua tree encapsulates THE U2 sound, but technically speaking Achtung is probably their best. Unforgettable fire and war are great too

>>75023448
Negativland

>>75023185
Wrong

>>75022698
They were never good. Literally the first Pop Punk band

>>75023340
Do you really believe this? Mu hasnt changed much pal

>>75024211
U2 is literally responsible for Radiohead's career, the most acclaimed band of the past two decades. U2 forever transformed the sound of music

>>75024228
he's actually 100% correct, /mu/ is a shell of its former self

>>75024297
It really hasnt, all thats happened is the rise in contrarians and the loss of board identity
>>75024271
So? Radiohead drew from many bands, and u2 wasnt even their biggest. Can, The Smiths, Aphex Twin are all bugger influences on them

>>75024211
i thought that was the buzzcocks

>>75022698
The story goes that U2 only got signed in the first place because the singer of the band they were opening for was drunk and told the record label guy to fuck off.
It's stupid to ignore their influence on popular music, but for the most part U2 have always been shite. The good bits lodged in that shite are great all the same.

>>75024324
>rise in contrarians
false
>u2 wasnt even their biggest, Can, The Smiths, Aphex Twin
Are you for real? Aphex Twin influence only started on Kid A and Amnesiac, Can on like 4 songs total. U2 is essentially Thom's singing style and Greenwood's main guitar style. U2 is their absolute biggest influence, especially prominent on The Bends and OKC but it's the backbone of their entire sound

>>75023448
achtung baby or war

>>75024435
Bullshit. Thom detests that sort of crappy adult contemporary music.

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>>75024435
>mfw people like you exist

People are shortsighted and based their opinions on the most recent, significant thing that happened

If U2 all died in a plane crash in the mid-90s, they'd have and deserve universal acclaim today. Instead, fir the reasons you mentioned, they're an cartoonish shadow of themselves, so much that people go out of their way to avoid them.

>>75024628
>Thom detests that sort of crappy adult contemporary music
then why does he make it? Could it be he cites Can and Aphex Twin for indie/critic cred, yet secretly his career has always largely been based off U2? Sure some smiths in Pablo Honey but they were quick to disown that shitfest. The U2 formula has worked for them

>>75024629
the mfw is mutual

>>75023340
This. As usual, nu-/mu/ is at fault

No way in hell does anyone in Radiohead like U2

>>75024826
>Among Radiohead members' earliest influences were Queen, Pink Floyd and Elvis Costello, post-punk acts such as Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Magazine, and significantly 1980s alternative rock bands such as U2, R.E.M., Pixies, the Smiths and Sonic Youth.[12][20][36][238]

>>75024826
Shh, the dads are out

>>75024826
radiohead aren't fulla soopastars, they're fulla nonces as you were LG

>>75024211
>Literally the first Pop Punk band
Pop punk has been around since the British Invasion though.

I mean I lowkey like some of their early stuff but like they are dad rock desu senpai

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>>75024628
>>75024826
I will never grow tired of posting this picture.

>>75025297
>>75025297

undeniable proof. Radiohead noobs just unironically got btfo, showed that even U2 dads know more about Yorke lore than they do

>>75024826
> Part of the reason O’Brien is perceived as Radiohead’s designated rocker is that he’s the most interested in classic rock; he especially enjoys discussing U2, who appear to be Radiohead’s third-biggest musical influence (the first two being the Smiths, whom all five members love unequivocally, and the Pixies, from whose records Jonny Greenwood learned how to play guitar).

> “I’m interested in bands as beasts,” O’Brien says. “I’m interested in U2 and the Rolling Stones and Neil Young & Crazy Horse. I love the dynamic of musicians working together and all the voodoo shit that comes with it. It’s a complicated thing to do over the expanse of time, which is why I respect U2 so much. Don’t get me wrong–I adore the Stones, but they haven’t made a good record since 1972. Exile on Main Street was the last great Stones album. But U2 have been at it for 20 years, and that song ‘Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get OutOf’ was amazing. And that’s after 20 years. That’s when the Stones were making Still Life.”

https://www.spin.com/2003/06/fitter-happier-radiohead-return/

>>75024271
>U2 is literally responsible for Radiohead's career, the most acclaimed band of the past two decades
And they are still shit and overrated, so what's your point?

>>75025595
Alright boys, let's post songs to change his mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4tgpdPasNA

>>75023448
Original Soundtracks 1 or Boy

>>75025595
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVa8l3ZPG2Q
the most heartfelt song ever

>>75025595
This entire album they did with Brian Eno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YaGR8ZX9Zo

>>75026126
> most underrated: Always Forever Now
It's like breakbeat drum and bass with psychedelic krautrock guitars. Genius.

>>75025595
And how much of their discography have you heard?

>>75024211
Punk more or less started as pop punk. The Ramones are nothing if not pop punk.

>>75022698
in the wider scheme of things they're ultimately forgettable

who actually listens to them here on the regular?

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Because this is what the average U2 fan looks like

>>75026497
I do desu

Achtung Baby is still fantastic, Zooropa is really good, and The Unforgettable Fire is just revolutionary.

>>75026497
The Unforgettable Fire is great. Give it a listen brother

October isn't their best album, but I love this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybYgP48X2DY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITDe7DKDFo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LimoyQBv6eQ

>>75026497
Yep. And seeing them play in Indianapolis this weekend, gonna be a good show.

>>75026771
>>75026832
Patricians. Just add Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me to this list

>>75022698
Die young and be a hero, or live long enough to be the villain

>>75026916
LQ video but there you are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDl1c0nR5SI

>>75024324
Who was around when /mutracker/ happened? Those were the days

>>75026352
Everything except Moon and TKOL

>>75025760
Listen to more music instead.

>>75027081
/mutracker/ was shit, but it was so much fun
Still, wcd though ;_;

>>75027302
What about U2's discog though?

>>75027335
I only talked about how Radiohead are unremarkable and overrated.

>>75027454
Yeah but what do you think about the '2, homie?

>>75027468
Better than Radiohead, which is not saying much.

>>75026497
Not too much anymore, but they were one of my most formative artists. They were how I discovered post-punk, industrial, shoegaze, Eno's whole back catalog, The Velvet Underground, etc.

>>75024271
See, this type of argument makes no sense because U2 are almost just as acclaimed, just in a different time period

Radiohead would also be hated on like U2 is if they continued making music regularly and having a real career rather than just popping up every now and then to release an album

U2 are just like The Rolling Stones or even Bob Dylan, a highly acclaimed band that then spent decades ruining their legacy for onlookers (while their real fans still love their earlier work)

>>75027785
It's sad

>>75027785
are there any popular bands (aside from The Beatles) that managed to end on a high note or before they went downhill and maintained that high acclaim as their legacy? Not counting "one album wonders" like the Sex Pistols.

Would ABBA count? I would say Bowie since he definitely ended on a masterpiece but his releases were peaks and valleys in terms of quality after the 70s but it somehow never affected his standing as one of the best of all time, so I suppose that makes him an outlier which is an incredibly fitting description of David Bowie anyway.

>>75028535
How fucking new are you?
Listen to more music ffs

>>75028648
cunt

>>75022698
lmao ok dad

>>75028535
The Poloce is the only one I can think of. And maybe Talking Heads.

>>75028707
*The Police, I'm feeling kinda tipsy, fuck.

>>75025760
fucking shit song btw

>im pretentious and gay, I think U2 is good and I want other people to confirm my shitty taste so i can listen to it without feeling like a pleb

>>75028707
Pavement, Galaxie 500, Pixies

>>75025807
man the way he over sings everything is so fucking shit
where the fuck are these U2 fans coming from
why are you even here. Go back to r9k and post music threads there, you fucking cunts

who cares if /mu/ is filled with edgy high schoolers, that's better than having people who unironically think this is good.

U2 is the worst band of all time holy shit

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>>75024826
>Radiohead fans being this delusional

>>75023564
This is the only answer.

Rattle and Hum is worth checking out too. That is objectively the best performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Achtung Baby - 10/10
The Joshua Tree - 9.5/10
War - 9/10
The Unforgettable Fire - 8.5/10
Boy - 8/10

"they worked with eno!!!"

so did ultravox

>>75029496
And did Ultravox play gigs with The Fall and This Heat? Or have EN open for them?

Fuck U2

>>75029506
depeche mode opened for them in february of 1981 before even their first non-album single

eno produced their DEBUT album directly in between his work on low and "heroes"

granted it's more difficult to find tour information about ultravox than u2 because one band has had the benefit of being overrated and fellated about two decades past their sell-by date, and that's being GENEROUS

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>>75022698
/mu/ is pro-U2 (pro-Bono if you will) anyway
>>75026738
October's a pretty good album, it just gets shat on a bit because it's DUDE JESUS LMAO: the album
>>75029496
Ultravox are great as well, what you saying?

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>>75026636
actually this is closer

>>75030148
Fuck you too

>>75026636
Why do you care what an artist's fans look like? Are you some kind of fashion diva? KYS.

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>>75032350

Say what you want but their 87-92 period was pretty good, so they really deserved the attention back then but it all went downhill pretty quick

>>75033151
>92
Not 93?

>Best argument going for U2 is that Yorke likes it
lmao

>>75028735
>>75028762
Being this self-unaware

>>75034181
And how much of their music have you heard mate?

>>75023185
This but In the name of love instead of SBS

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it's time for /mu/ to apologize

>>75027302
Both are their best, IR>AMSP>TKOL>HTTT>Amnesiac>Kid A>Ok Computer

>>75034542
I ain't apologising for shit, I've always liked them

>>75025297
Its shopped idiot

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>>75034554
You're shopped

>>75025440
Are you autistic

>>75034449
this but New Year's Day

>>75027504
But they arent

>>75029496
So did coldplay

>>75034542
Pitchfork is a joke, U2 is dumpsterdadcore

>>75034554
>>75034561
btfo again

I'm just waiting for one last good album from them. The recent song Blackout was pretty good. A bit lead-single-elevation-vertigo-boots-itis, but if the sound carries onto the rest of the album, could be great.

Bad is literally a top 10 song of all time. prove me wrong

>>75034738
Literally can't.

Even better live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARgz_gFyZLY

>/mu/ unironically likes u2
ew wtf

>>75035067
fuck off its not wrong to like good music

I hate shilling for U2, but it's pretty ridiculous the lack of respect they get from millennials. Kids need to learn

>>75022698
Because they became arena rock stars who couldn't even believe in their own music anymore.

Shoving their new album into all iPhones everywhere makes them look desperate as hell.
Also Bono runs a bad charity.

>>75034554
>>75034561
ouch

>>75036360
yup

What's their 5 greatest songs, fellow patricians? This is a U2 board now

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>>75022698
>>75023615

The best U2 album was released by Negativland.

>>75036907
>now
Always was

Anyway, in no particular order, it's got to be:
New Year's Day
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Where the Streets Have No Name
The Unforgettable Fire

>>75037561
Spectacular taste, anon.

IMO:
New Year's Day
Bad
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Zoo Station

just been re listening to some u2 records
they're really an incredible band

Been listening to this a lot lately. Great performances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuK2rgqYUk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNX95XM_v7I

Damn what happened to their live shows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szebu2HybzU

>>75034181
>/mu/ creams itself daily over Radiohead
U2's best argument is their music, but for the ignorant plebs of this board how else can you convince them to listen unless their king is also a fan? Which happens to be true lmao. Also it's just a testament to U2's massive influence on music that can be felt to this day, of which, again, the ignorant plebs such as yourself are unaware.

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>>75034554
Is this bait, or are Radiohead fags really this clueless and retarded?

>>75039398
You give them too much credit by even considering it could be bait

>>75038976
K

>>75041362
btfo? btfo.

>>75041671
fuck you

>>75034598
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/u2.html

HELLO HELLO

>>75044307
HOLA

>>75023185
I'll name you 10 good songs without using Sunday Bloody Sunday:

>Unforgettable Fire
>Stay
>UltraViolet
>Where the Streets have no name
>The Fly
>New Year's Day
>Pride
Ending it with 3 from this century, all ATYCLB though:
>Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
>Kite
>In a Little While

>>75045655
>October 2000
>this century
?????

>>75022698
To be honest, I love With or Without You.

>>75045691
>October
>2000
it's from 1981 retard

>>75045747
I mean the last three

The Passengers album with Eno is great

>>75045836
>Songs of Innocence, No Line on the Horizon, HTDATB
>not this century
confirmed retard

>>75046750
You said "ending with 3 from this century", but those songs are from the 20th century

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>75036946
Actually it was released by Echo & The Bunnymen, with the second best by The Waterboys

>>75024676
>people go out of their way to avoid them.

Oh you mean the thousands of people who make all their concerts sold out in a matter of minutes?

>>75028535

Queen. Maybe Led Zep if they had released that album they were working on with songs like Ozone Baby and Wearing & Tearing before Bonzo died

>>75046057
its amazing
i cant stop listening to it

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>>75042633
what'd you just say you fucking fuck