Ti piace U2?
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di trumphater2024
Ti piace U2?
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Achtung Baby and Joshua Tree were OK at the time. The rest hasn’t really survived.
Much like REM, they have some great tunes but overplayed by Irish radio (maybe not so much these days) and a lot of quite dull tunes that I’d happily never hear again.
I just simply don’t care about them
Don’t hate them
Don’t like them
Overrated, tax-dodging zionists? They can get fucked.
They are fundamentally a brilliant band and their success is a result of that.
They have some really good songs in all fairness. Bono is a twat granted but don’t forget about the classics they have made.
I heard them described as music for people who aren’t that mad interested in music. I don’t know why it makes sense but it does.
They’re brilliant.
Ambivalent. You could say I can live with or without them.
It’s cool to hate them but, I’m not at all cool. I like U2 and have enjoyed their concerts, each time along with tens of thousands of other uncool people. /s
There are a number of things that I dislike about them but I also dislike collective bandwagons and I can admit that I really enjoyed the U2 gig I was at and that I think they have some very good songs. I really like the Zooropa album. Joshua Tree, for all its success, never did anything for me.
They have a few great tracks and some decent ones, but their overall entitlement sways me towards disliking them!
pure sh|te and begrudgery.
They were the biggest and best band in the world at one stage. They sold the records and filled the stadiums. Croke park was filled 12 times and could have been packed 12 times more.
No band or singer is everyone cup of tea, but you cant dispute the facts. Unless your donald trump and your feelings outweigh the facts!
Dont know why its cool to have a pop at them. It really doesnt matter how people think about Bono, it was never the bono band.
They were fresh and incredible in the early and mid 80s. The biggest band in the world. They captured something of the zeitgeist. Since then they tried their best, they continued to be very successful and Bono genuinely tried to do his best – he tried to be true to his Christianity.
I have no interest in them – the early music is still strong. But as an Irish person I have to acknowledge their amazing and deserved success and I also think we should be proud of them
Never a fan but they’ve got some catchy songs alright. Always had a lot of respect for the little they tried to do for Bosnia in the 90’s. It wasn’t much but they tried when most people were doing nothing. Nowadays people would call it cringe and performative and virtue signaling and all that. But that wasn’t how i viewed it at the time and i continue to respect it. There is a good doc out there called kiss the future about the kids in sarajevo and it tells the story of U2s involvement. If you’re interested.
They’re one of those bands with a fantastic greatest hits collection but plenty of dross too. Overhated in Ireland because they got too big and we seem to hate success for some reason, and because Bono is a bit of a tit. They have 7-8 songs that are among my favourites by any Irish band, but I never feel the need to listen to one of their albums start to finish.
You could say the same about westlife or boyzone but they’re one of our own.
U2, yes.
Bono, no.
Yea, they’re decent!
they’ve swung into bigtime underrated now. some absolute belters of songs. hold me thrill me kiss me kill me, miss sarajevo (basically u2), discotheque, numb, bad, 40, zoo station
Meh.. not a huge fan but their cover of neon lights by kraftwerk was superb
i’d rank a small few of their songs in my favorites, i don’t care much for the people themselves. Drowning man and sunday bloody sunday are astonishing, timeless and masterpieces.
Never understood the appeal
They were great in the 80s and part of the 90s.
Mad boring
Not my thing musically, but you can’t deny the talent and hard work that made them the biggest band in the world for a while and took them all over the world playing to huge crowds.
However, if you want to trade off being Irish and your working class Dublin upbringing, it would probably be a good idea to pay your taxes here.
I don’t hate them, nor do I love them. They have some good songs, and plenty I don’t care about. Only ever bought two of their albums, Achtung Baby and the Hits one.
They are an amazing band. But each to their own.
Yup. I really, really do. They’ve dropped some poor albums of late, but up til the millennium, most of their stuff was great in my opinion. As for them personally, I’ve got no issue with any of them. I appreciate Bono can be quite jarring for some folk, but I never had a problem with him.
The missus and I went to Vegas to see them at the Sphere, and honestly, their live performances are still pretty incredible.
They’re not my favourite band, but they have written some of my favourite songs.
The music is decent. Particularly the old stuff. Joshua Tree is genuinely a decent album and so are Boy and Auctung.
It’s hard to separate that they are such a group of bellends from the music though. I think if their music was really great I probably could. I dunno.
Thom Yorke is also a tosser but I still listen to Radiohead.
U2 are great.. I understand why people get mad at Bono.. but the band is fantastic.
They have some good songs, the early stuff was decent but they prob should’ve stopped after achtung baby tbh, that beautiful day song is shite, vertigo was awful cheese, wouldn’t be a fan tbh
Hello people. People of Ireland. I hear you like U2?
I like U2 too.
Their early albums are gems, so much great music. It was hit or miss for me after unforgettable fire.
Musically? Yes. But they’re wankers. Bono. 🤮. The Edge with that stupid hat. Everybody knows you’re bald mate. He even wore it when he walked his daughter down the aisle. The other two. I’m sure they’re arseholes too. 🤣
Never did
Nope. Total wanky shite.
Up until Joshua. Got successively worse as a band with each album after that IMO.
Find them rarely innovative.
Their cover of Night & Day was them at their peak. I remember thinking at the time if this was their new sound – which would have been incredibly interesting – and hoping that they’d release an album in that vain, but this obvs never happened.
Grew up loving them. Achtung Baby, Passengers and No Line on the Horizon are some of the best studio albums of all time for me.
Lately (and by lately, like eleven years), they feel like a tribute act to themselves. The Songs of… trilogy is just them going down memory lane to a Glasnevin and Dublin that’s not there anymore and even if it was, is vastly different to who they are now.
They were never great innovators in music but what I loved was how they had a great nose for what people wanted to hear at any point in time. After Rattle and Hum, they knew that two albums of the American shite was enough and they pivoted immediately to not just Europe but where the energy in Europe was – Berlin, techno, dance, industrial – and that’s how we got such a great album.
I honestly don’t know what the point of them anymore is other than a band that does a decent arena or stadium show. I’d love to see them go bonkers, lose the part of their egos that seems to make them want a billion iTunes downloads but keep the ego that gives them the confidence to go down a new path and make something truly original.
Amazing musicians I just wish they would stay musicians and not be cunts on the political stage.
Yes I love their music
I like some of their songs and don’t mind the band at all, my wife absolutely fucking hates them… 😂
Yes!!!