How do you "enjoy" the press U2 has received for their new CD release?  Is this just a States thing?  I swear they were on every hour with that stupid commercial on TV!! That is unusual and costly.  They sell 800,000 copies the first day!!!!  I look at the talent of the bands we like and how they flounder in comparison so many not even able to squeeze a living, hocking their own CD's and paraphernalia and these guys have the world handed to them. I have nothing against U2 either. 

                        BUT 

Then yesterday the big reunion announcement has now happened and it is Motley Crue?!? WTF?!!!

On the fircken’ evening news no less.  Someone again has put big bucks behind those a**holes. What is Next Loverboy?  Is there no end to this crap?

I feel better now.

U2 is sooooo over-rated!! We have a radio station that plays so much of their material I have dubbed the radio station as The U2 Promo Station.

Motley Crue suuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkssssss!!!!

but I think Loverboy has released some real meaningful music.

I mean who could top the prophetic....Everybody's Working for the Weekend.

So, funny story about vomit:

This guy I know was the apartment of a friend of mine (and he was really, really, reall drunk) sitting on the arm of a couch, next to two other guys. He turns to the one of the other guys, who is sitting on the other side of the couch, and says, "Hey Kolby". But just as he opened his mouth and got the words out, he barfed all over the two guys, the couch and the floor.

Wizard/TRueStar wrote: U2 is the most over rated peice of crap have ever heard in my life. the edge has nothing to make note of in his playing unlike whatever the F**k critics say. I'm tired of hearing them be compared with Marillion. In these troubled days of music we can only hope that "Men At Work" get back together. Who could it beeeeeeee now....do.do.do.doooooooo do.........

Who the f**k compares them to Marillion??? What a ridiculous comparison!

I dont hate U2, but I agree that they are overated. They are not that good, they have just been lucky. I saw them live once, and despite being visually a great show, the sound was dreadful, and the playing quite scrappy.

I would like to hear a U2 fanatic ague a strong case for why they are so 'brilliant'. My guess is that if an artist sells a truck load of records everyday and the media keeps telling us how great they are, many people will just believe it and get sucked in.

As Hitler said 'the bigger the lie the more people will believe it'

Garion81:

Its not exclusively a 'States' thing. U2 have got an ad campaign running here in the UK, in co-operation with Apple computers. They are riding on the back of the Ipod revolution, a clever marketing partnership that helps keep 'young' people in touch with U2.

I think without the saturation and well managed marketing this band has had over the years, they qwould have fallen by the way side by now, or would never have progressed beyond 'indie band' status in the first place.

The US has always been a huge market for U2, so expect more of the same for a long time.

I'm pretty sick of them too. And I was among the few who found some value in the Zooropa/ Achtung Baby period.

Interesting how they parallel Madonna in many ways. Got big around the same time, orchestrated drastic style changes, and seem to depend more on publicity than songs for their livelihood. Oh yeah, and they're both pretty ludicrous with their religious/ political involvements.

My hatred of U2 is beyond expression by any known language!!

StarvingArtyst wrote: So, funny story about vomit: This guy I know was the apartment of a friend of mine (and he was really, really, reall drunk) sitting on the arm of a couch, next to two other guys. He turns to the one of the other guys, who is sitting on the other side of the couch, and says, "Hey Kolby". But just as he opened his mouth and got the words out, he barfed all over the two guys, the couch and the floor.

Classy

I had to go to hospital last week and have a Gastroscopy (I wouldn't recommend it as a leisure activity). This involves having a pipe with a camera on it inserted down your thorat so that they might have a look about your stomach and intestines. Naturally, I was acting all brave and when given the choice of sedation of a anaesthetic throat spray, I chose the latter.

I chose...poorly

Within a few seconds of the pipe being inserted I was heaving everywhere. I'm not sure, but I believe I covered everyone in the room quite liberally and even garnered a remark from the senior consultant;

'Good god! Where's he getting all of it from?'

After five minutes I was wheeled out in silence with a streaming nose, bloodshot eyes and a rather stained shirt. The nurses outside looked at me in mild amusement as I had mouthing off not fifteen minutes beforehand that this would be 'a walk in the park'.

Pride goeth before a fall....

Hey, I've always bitten my tongue re U2 with friends who think the band is the best thing since sliced bread. I also think they're overrated, so I'm glad to find that I'm not alone.

sigod wrote: StarvingArtyst wrote: So, funny story about vomit: This guy I know was the apartment of a friend of mine (and he was really, really, reall drunk) sitting on the arm of a couch, next to two other guys. He turns to the one of the other guys, who is sitting on the other side of the couch, and says, "Hey Kolby". But just as he opened his mouth and got the words out, he barfed all over the two guys, the couch and the floor. Classy I had to go to hospital last week and have a Gastroscopy (I wouldn't recommend it as a leisure activity). This involves having a pipe with a camera on it inserted down your thorat so that they might have a look about your stomach and intestines. Naturally, I was acting all brave and when given the choice of sedation of a anaesthetic throat spray, I chose the latter. I chose...poorly Within a few seconds of the pipe being inserted I was heaving everywhere. I'm not sure, but I believe I covered everyone in the room quite liberally and even garnered a remark from the senior consultant; 'Good god! Where's he getting all of it from?' After five minutes I was wheeled out in silence with a streaming nose, bloodshot eyes and a rather stained shirt. The nurses outside looked at me in mild amusement as I had mouthing off not fifteen minutes beforehand that this would be 'a walk in the park'. Pride goeth before a fall....

HA! Good ones, guys!

  Puke stories, eh? Well, one of my worst such memories involves a crowded ferry, no supper, way too much cheap, crappy beer, the alluring odor of diesel, and the incessant, ear-splitting shriek of live bagpipes not ten feet away -- but I'm trying to repress that memory....

Now, maybe, if you're all good little boys and girls, Uncle Peter will tell you the one about my friend Bung, the baked beans, my mother's new couch, the nursing student, the "stuffed shirt," and the taxi, some day....

Quacky was there, too.

I am astonished about your apathy toward U2.

They are a talented rock band.They play interesting songs and they entertain.What other purpose do they need to have?

Could be a great new thread or poll though:

Who is the biggest w**ker:

Bono,Phil Collins

or Sting ?

Discuss.

Proghead wrote: I did a Rectroscopy 5 years ago , but I didn´t sh*t on anyone

Good man  

Peter wrote: [QUOTE=sigod][QUOTE=StarvingArtyst] Now, maybe, if you're all good little boys and girls, Uncle Peter will tell you the one about my friend Bung, the baked beans, my mother's new couch, the nursing student, the "stuffed shirt," and the taxi, some day.... Quacky was there, too.

Ooh, do tell...

Reed Lover wrote: I am astonished about your apathy toward U2. They are a talented rock band.They play interesting songs and they entertain.What other purpose do they need to have?

Are you sure you meant apathy? Wouldn't antipathy have been more appropriate?

Although apathy does come closer to expressing my feelings for them.

Puke?

A few years back I was running in every local race I could enter. We had one called the Can to Can race. It was only two miles, but you had to stop every half mile and drink a beer. You couldn't stand around and enjoy it or anything, it was a freekin' race, right? You had to slam the beer, hold the cup above your head to prove it was empty and then get back into the run. You could feel the beer sloshing around inside your belly as you hit your stride. By midway through the second mile the beer began to foam.

It's an amazing sight, actually Pythonesque, in the beauty of twenty people, men and women alike, projectile vomiting all over the finish line.

Proudly, I stood. One of only three others in a host of twenty five runners, who didn't puke. The poor sods who finished last, slipping and sliding before beginning their personal fountain impressions. Ha, those were the days.  

Oh yeah, U2. I'm pretty tired of the whole media blitz. I'm sure the record company poured a few million into the ad campaigns. Sony signed Echolyn some years ago and after they cut the album As the World, Sony refused to support them with a tour or advertising and then locked up there previous recodings and tried to keep them from being sold. Assholes, the lot.

James Lee wrote: Reed Lover wrote: I am astonished about your apathy toward U2. They are a talented rock band.They play interesting songs and they entertain.What other purpose do they need to have? Are you sure you meant apathy? Wouldn't antipathy have been more appropriate? Although apathy does come closer to expressing my feelings for them.

It's a beautiful day, so I wont ask a certain Canadian Flyboy to nuke your house....

Interesting that that Crapity Crue wasn't the subject discussed but U2 was.  I would rather money be put behind U2 than any talentless hair band from the 80's who are now 45 year old fat idiots (as opposed to 25 year old fat idiots and even worse they have procreated and call themselves fathers  Think about it !!! We have a whole new generation of Tommy Lee jr. and Pam Anderson films to pass around) .  

They are having a WORLD TOUR, playing here in LA area the Forum, which seats 18,000 people.  Do they really have that much interest?  Kiss was bad enough. I had hoped to never hear from these guys again. 

Well, it can only be a short amount of time before we get the Men Without Hats, Cindy Laupner and Devo with  Brian Seltzer tour.

Peter,

Your friend "Bung" is he always a little behind?

Danbo wrote: "Oh yeah, U2. I'm pretty tired of the whole media blitz. I'm sure the record company poured a few million into the ad campaigns. Sony signed Echolyn some years ago and after they cut the album As the World, Sony refused to support them with a tour or advertising and then locked up there previous recodings and tried to keep them from being sold. Assholes, the lot."

Why *did* Sony do that? I mean, what were the company's motives?

http://www.echolyn.com/ray-atwdiary.php - http://www.echolyn.com/ray-atwdiary.php

Here's Ray (bass, vocals) Weston's version of what happened with As the World.

Garion81 wrote: Interesting that that Crapity Crue wasn't the subject discussed but U2 was.

I think Motley Crue is a joke and CAN'T be taken seriously. That's the main reason they weren't discussed. U2 Used 2 be something relevant and had a certain amount of credibility. Motley Crue have always been a freak show with nothing important to say, thus, easily discarded.

I wonder what kind of media attention a reunion of Peter Gabriel and Genesis might grab?

Imagine: Gabriel and Collins singing Motown hits or 50's standards. MwahahhaHahahahaha.

danbo wrote: http://www.echolyn.com/ray-atwdiary.php - http://www.echolyn.com/ray-atwdiary.php Here's Ray (bass, vocals) Weston's version of what happened with As the World.

Danbo, you mean the stuff in Postscripts I and II? But it basically just says that nothing happened. What I don't understand is, why? What was Sony's motivation for not doing anything to plug it? Did someone in Sony just think they had made a mistake signing the band, was there a personality clash, or... what?

I think they assumed the band would make something a bit more commercial. When they heard As the World, awesome as it is, they decided it was un-marketable. The refused to put it on shelves and would not support a tour.

Anyway, here's another source. Check it out.

http://www.echolynfan.com/progression-artlarge.html - http://www.echolynfan.com/progression-art(large).html