U2 is boring

Am I the only one here that's really tired of U2?

Hands up everyone who thinks they haven't had an original sound since their very first album. I mean take some echo-y drums, a bit of organ and Bono wailing up and down the scale and that's pretty much it isn't it?

Is U2 in danger of morphing into some sad characature like the Rolling Stones did?
Will Bono be wailing in his wheelchair? Does any rock band really know when to quit?

You're not the only one.

It happened to me a few years back with U2 - I can never put my finger directly on why I tire of certain groups I once enjoyed a lot - but I think maybe it has something to do with when they hit a certain point of over-saturation, their music starts to sound the same to me, and becomes boring.

I've never really liked U2.

I've never been a fan either, and wish the Grammy's could start going to someone else. Even though I don't really care for popular/rock music these days, I still would rather see original (if thateven exists today) artists win awards.

MM

U2 was ok 20 years ago.

I like my music to be about sex and drugs and rock and roll not politics. I'm not even into their old stuff anymore. I still dig the Stones. I don't bother with their new stuff either but I have always loved their older music.

U2 writes catchy songs, but I prefer their departures like "Love me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me" to their used up Target songs (or whatever store is courting them).

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U2 is snoozevilles.

Yeah, boring here, too. I never understood what the big deal was about them, anyway.

The last U2 album has been recommended by the British Medical Association as a cure for insomnia.

I remember when Depeche Mode was a 'new romantic' band.

There are adults on the main grid who weren't alive then.



Now, my *teenage daughter* listens to Morrissey and NIN.

Those weren't decades. Just a couple of... long hangover crashes.

Yeah, that's it.



U2, I'm with you guys.

I'm still 18, too, and nobody tell me anything different you young whippersnappers!

I really really liked War, The Joshua Tree, and Rattle and Hum when they came out. After Achtung Baby, they seemed like an entirely different band. I still enjoyed the occasional single, but they were usually the ones that reminded me of the older U2 - oh, and the love songs like "One" and "All I Want Is You" are awesome.

Besides that, bleh. "Beautiful Day" makes me want to open fire on small woodland creatures.

The only U2 album I have... *sigh*

U2 whatever. The Rolling Stones complaining their songs were censored in the superbowl but apparently agreed to it beforehand? whatever. Aretha Franklin warbling all over the national anthem and only after she complained about no Detroit singers in the superbowl? whatever.

They all made great songs in the past but they sold out.

All I have of theirs is Zooropa. Their predictions about a dystopic Europe are largely coming true. The music sounds nice too (and includes Johnny Cash to boot!)

Before that album, their other hits were garbage to me.

I like some of their singles a lot, like "Beautiful Day". Just has a very propulsive beat. I think trains not planes when I listened to it, however.

Another of my faves is "Discoteque"--it may not have been one of their most popular to date, but the video was so kewl and colorful!

See the stones set in your eyes, see the thorn twist in your side

U2? BORING sound that all seems the same...yawn

I like u2..I like all kinds of music from salsa to blues....what I don't like is the newer CW now that sux bad.....u2 is still good I always get a good feeling when I hear them.

WE LOVE U2!!! Three million concert attendees worldwide with a sellout of all 118 shows of their 2005 Vertigo Tour means the band is doing something right! U2's '05 Tour was recorded as the biggest profit-wise in the world during 2005, topping second runners, the Rolling Stones, by approx. 100 million dollars.

BUT those who know and love the band know that U2 is more than the profits, more than 'echo-y drums, a bit of organ and Bono wailing up and down the scale'. During the tour, Bono met up with United States President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. He also helped to organize last summer’s Live 8 concerts, with U2 playing at the London gig.

If U2 were a multiple-choice question, the answer would be "all of the above." They are a band with no concept of boundaries. In their songs, the sexual is the spiritual is the political; the personal is broadcast live to twenty-two countries. We can expect some coloring outside the lines with a lineup of one Welshman, one Englishman and two northside Dubliners, one of whom grew up both/neither in an either/or world. Once he had figured out how to be both Catholic and Protestant, the rest was easy.

U2 are a marching band drummer, a reggae bassist, an ambient minimalist engineering professor and a guy who can be anyone -- a cross between the devil and Elvis Presley, a crooner of Nelson Riddle arrangements, a black woman singing gospel. And all of these identities -- the band's and the singer's -- can and do emerge in a single song.

No boundaries. That little fella singing lead ran in a street gang populated by boys who wore dresses. That guitar player can hold a note to infinity if you like. That bassist will ask what philosophers you're reading these days and that drummer has the best BS detector in this ridiculous business.

Their love of the limitless has given U2 the freedom to have punk hits, dance hits, friends in high office, friends among the street bums, albums that dream of America, Europe, Japan; it has taken them into high life and harmonica solos, graffiti and public nudity and giant metallic fruit.

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And, while you're at it, we'd love everyone to attend U2 in SL's next gigs, coming up real soon:
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It's a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!! U2ingly yours, DarkDharma

Yeah! Bring back Milli Vanilli and Jethro Tull!

Tull is the best heavy metal band there is...mmmkay

Disturbed totally sucks. Also for some reason I thought their name was spelled "Disturbd" for the longest time which made me hate them even more. Oh well.

There are two songs by U2 that I absolutely love -- "One" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" -- the rest are kind of eh.

U-2 did have some good song writing in the past, I just got bored hearing the same chords over and over...and over