Day 12

[cpratt]

Day 12. A song from a band you hate

These guys are from England and who gives a shit?

The day U2 was released, I bought a copy at Amoeba Records in Berkeley. The clerk warned me that I was not in fact buying a U2 record; my first instinct was to tell her "well, why the fuck else would I be buying this record

Comments

"A catastrophic technical failures at a U2 gig"

[muckefuck]

Re: "A catastrophic technical failures at a U2 gig"

[fba]

I've seen him do this live - its *so* funny. Almost as funny as his Portishead version of 'Zip a dee do dah' :D

[muckefuck]

I think it's funnier than the Portishead bit because it doesn't go on as long. And because U2 has it coming in a way few other bands do.

[mamoosh]

"You just haven't heard the right U2 yet."

Actual quote from a U2 fan who wouldn't take the freakin' hint.

[cpratt]

Let me guess: you're a big Chris Gaines fan too, right?

[goodolmike]

Yay. I love it.

I just don't care about U2, but the song Vertigo is sound pollution. Ech.

[cpratt]

It's no better or worse than your average U2 song. Not as icon as I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, but solid enough. I think it'd be great in a Sam Adams Lite ad.

[muckefuck]

I think it is, at least as far as the singing goes. Bono doesn't have much range as a vocalist, but generally his savvy enough to choose arrangements that don't make this obvious. (It's why so many of the melodic lines end on falling phrases.) Here it's like they deliberately aimed to make his voice sound as shitty as possible.

[maluket]

I used to love U2, particularly The Joshua Tree. It totally worked for me when I was a teenager, and that left me with a lingering fondness that they've slowly tromped down over the years until yeah, I watch that video, get about halfway through, and turn it off thinking, "Oh, come ON!" Also, any time I hear any song from The Joshua Tree now, it just sounds so overblown, and I kind of hate it. Guess I've heard all the U2 I needed for one lifetime.