Well, I attended one of their concerts last year, but they are not definitely the best.

I like some U2, but not a huge fan though.
Their last couple albums or so haven't done much for me, but I like the stuff before that!  I have to admit I've never been to a live show.
   One reason people have strong feelings is down to Bono being all up in everyone's face with his social and political activities. I suspect some folks just got tired of him and by extension, them.
However, that's just some folks.. on the other hand, he has brought so many social issues to the forefront of pop culture, be it apartheid in south africa or world debt and poverty or arizona's lack of celebrating martin luther king day. The band single handedly introduced millions of young college students to amnesty international and greenpeace by giving the organizations free ad space on every one of their records. ah, those records...



Reminds me of an old story, where the band's doing one of their big dramatic buildups, and they've brought the music to a slow burn... Bono steps to the mic and claps his hands purposefully, then steps away. About 15 seconds later, he steps back up and does it again.

After a few minutes of this he intones, "Every time I clap my hands... a child in Africa dies."

A guy in the audience yells "Well stop f**king clapping then!!"

Quoted from Pasta Cheif

A guy in the audience yells "Well stop f**king clapping then!!"

Brilliant. I have a thing about famous musicians ramming their own beliefs down your throat. If I go to a gig I want to hear music, not someones personal political beliefs.

I love Achtung Baby, and Rattle And Hum, but I think U2 have become very stale of late.

Half of my heritage being Irish, I find myself feeling a little guilty saying that I'm not a giant U2 fan...I mean I share Bono's environmental & political concerns--as we all should--and I think he's a great singer "In The Name Of Love", "Still Havent Found What I'm Looking For"...but, and I must be MAD to say this, but I've only liked two of all their albums : Joshua Tree & Achtung Baby.

hmm, well for those that dont particularly enjoy their last two albums (atomic bomb and all that you cant leave behind) i suggest you check out the bootleg section, i uploaded some u2 boots and one of the albums (unreleased and rare) has some stuff from those sessions that definitely should've been put on the albums instead of what really went on there.

dont worry, i never really liked the last two. only about half of the last album and three songs on the one before that are worth listening to. but i strongly suggest you check those out.

working on trying to get the Achtung Baby demo tapes up but havent gotten a good source yet. so theres those and some tripper, more techno-y remixes of trippy, techno songs there too. the DJ mix is a good album.

(yes, this is a shameless plug)

I probably need to listen more carefully - but my main impression is that most of the material sounds too much the same - like hip-hop.

the remixes sound too hip-hopy?

eh, maybe, just sounds like techno-dance beat thingy...

Quoted from somedude210

the remixes sound too hip-hopy?

eh, maybe, just sounds like techno-dance beat thingy...

I think he meant - like hip-hop, it all sounds too much the same. Not that it sounds like hip-hop. Unless Klang has very strange ears!

haha, it all sounds the same. i actually knew someone that told me they didnt like U2 cause all of their stuff sounded the same. if you take one song from boy, one from joshua tree and one from any of the 90s albums and can prove that they all sound the same then i will agree with them

theres always a 10% chance they can pull it off, but then again, theres always a 10% chance of something

Yea, I wasn't very clear in my wording. Too much sameness. God bless 'em anyway.

And, after listening to The Joshua Tree, Boy, and another one that I can't remember the name of, I still hate U2. Their stuff is just too damn GENERIC. At least to my ears.

eh, to each their own

i cant stand joan beaz

At least she can actually sing. And she doesn't have a shitty pretentious made-up name.

At least she can actually sing. And she doesn't have a shitty pretentious made-up name.

Oh man, that sounded really bitchy. Sorry. You're allowed to like U2. That's fine. I just really hate them.