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The Joshua Tree
Bearer:
Go watch the rockumentary "Rattle and Hum" it will blow your mind. Case and point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjTOHIkJgE
Compared to that, the stuff U2 recently puts out is pretty much garbage.
A Wet Helmet:
I'm going to have to agree with BeoPuppy on this one.
Boy, War, October, and Under a Blood Red Sky, were all decent in their day --and certainly sounded different than everything else on the radio at the time. When Joshua Tree came out... Damned in the whole school didn't go U2 crazy right then and there and I thought the whole album sounded like cats fucking. I haven't cared for much of anything they've done since. I think REM was the next band this happened to, then the Cure, then came grunge music...
Thrillho:
I hate U2, they are one of the very few bands who I would define as a guilty pleasure to myself. But I do have a couple of their records that I really like.
The first is Rattle And Hum, which is the sound of a band at an utter loss of what to do with themselves. It's half-arsed live tracks, some of which suck, and some random new songs that mostly sound nothing like anything else they ever did, such as 'Van Diemen's Land' which is my favourite song of theirs. I love the album for its sloppiness and un-U2-ness.
The other one I have is All That You Can't Leave Behind, which is U2 in excelsis - it's just a flawless pop record, and 'Beautiful Day' is an amazing tune no matter what people say. I love both of these records and a few more of their songs but them aside, I really hate U2 and would never consciously seek out any more of their catalogue I suspect.
Thrillho:
Yeah I heard No Line, that is truly terrible.
Alex C:
Ahaha, yeah. Tommy took the words out of my mouth; I stopped the clip immediately upon the Bono's skinny suspenders sighting. The clip couldn't possibly make me any happier, particularly since U2's music is prominently involved. The band's half assed bass is a huge, huge problem for me and overall I've always felt like their sound is too thin. U2 fans always seem to use adjectives like "soaring" and "majestic" when describing the band but frankly I've always felt that they sound kind of anemic and are clearly missing something. That something is an entire fuckin' rhythm section.
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