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micky 
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 Posted: April 01 2017 at 06:56 |
oh no... KISS overrated.... who the f**k thinks that  other than kiddies who weren't around and have no clue what they are talking about. 
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: April 01 2017 at 07:03 |
Funny - Kiss were such an inspiration to many back in the day, nowadays, a bunch of egomaniac w**kers........... And to think that some of my idols looked up to Kiss as idols .....??  U2 don't even enter the picture. They started out rather pox, and disappeared up their asses. No wonder I can't see them anymore.......
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micky
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Posted: April 01 2017 at 07:09 |
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Kiss are no different than .. well.. pretty much all but the very best... after a certain time the creativity and fire dries up and they become parodies of what made them great. It happened to KISS.. it happened to a great many artists musically. Very few escape that....
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: April 01 2017 at 07:31 |
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Kiss were acceptable up until Dynasty. Then the became Roller-Rink bubblegum (shows my age, eh ?)
U2 never had it. It even took Eno some hard work to polish a smelly turd........
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 01 2017 at 08:08 |
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Kiss were fun, and not really supposed to be anything else. For that reason I respect them more than U2.
U2 were good up to and includng The Unforgettable fire, after that they became...well...completely forgettable. IMO. The Joshua Tree, with the excpetion of a couple of songs was a snooze fest. Rattle & Hum was wall to wall drek.
I saw them on the Achtung/Zooropa tour back in 93. Nice looking show, but the worst live sound I've ever heard at a gig, and peppered with preachy pretentiousness.
Edited by Blacksword - April 01 2017 at 08:08
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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AZF
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Posted: April 01 2017 at 08:26 |
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"Ah, but being as big as we are, we couldn't possibly be anything but overrated to some!".
No, but you really are sh*t. I will compare you to The Beatles, but only in the sense that both bands are getting by with a little help from government departments.
U2 shut the gate and sealed it behind them, The Beatles were more cruel and made it look like anyone could do it.
"Vertigo","Beautiful Day" the one they did for that Batman film are the only three songs of theirs I could stand. "The Joshua Tree" was massive when I was in school and I luckily didn't grow into it!
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Mascodagama
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Posted: April 01 2017 at 12:18 |
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U2 was OK but well overhyped in the eighties and has been unmitigated sh*te for the last 27 years. Bono is a w**ker of the very highest denomination.
Other than that, all good.
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Jeffro
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Posted: April 02 2017 at 07:07 |
Kiss knows how to perform. They care (or cared) a great deal about putting on a great show. I give them all the props in the world for that. I think their music is simplistic in the extreme and overall sucks ass.
As far as U2 is concerned, I like some of their earlier songs but was never a fan. I suppose they are as "rock god" as any long lived rock band with a great deal of success under their belts.
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mlkpad14
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 05:47 |
 micky wrote:
silly question.... typical poll PA's poll results... what planet you all are from. I have no clue
of course they are gods.. legends... whatever one calls them
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Meltdowner
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 05:53 |
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I can live, with or without them.
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someone_else
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 07:02 |
A pretty good band, but still excessively overrated. No need or reason for deification.
And in advance, I am no robot.
Edited by someone_else - April 03 2017 at 07:03
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 07:05 |
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Beautiful planes imo - perhaps not as sleek as the blackbird but still.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 07:28 |
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Can't abide U2 (or Kiss), generic rock which connected with the public but are no better than 100's of other bands. One of the few bands I'll actively change channels if they come up on a classic rock station.
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Ian
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 07:34 |
micky wrote:
oh no...
KISS overrated.... who the f**k thinks that other than kiddies who weren't around and have no clue what they are talking about.
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I was around when they were around and saw they for exactly what they were, an extremely average hard rock band with a very good marketing gimmick for the kiddies. Got your Kiss lunch box and action figures? Give me Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, Rainbow, Budgie, etc, etc, etc, ahead of those clowns.
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Ian
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CPicard
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 08:39 |
"...And 'twas with these words filled with coulrophobia that one of the bloodiest PA Civil Wars ever started..." 
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 08:57 |
Meltdowner wrote:
I can live, with or without them. |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Can't abide U2 (or Kiss), generic rock which connected with the public but are no better than 100's of other bands. One of the few bands I'll actively change channels if they come up on a classic rock station. |
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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SteveG
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 09:42 |
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Most overrated band that ever was.
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Jeffro
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 10:18 |
Reading your post reminds me of when I saw Iron Maiden with Twisted Sister opening back in '84. The Sister couldn't get off the stage fast enough for me. My contempt was palpable. I wanted to see the real band, Iron Maiden, not a group of clowns in makeup.
Edited by Jeffro - April 03 2017 at 10:18
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 10:19 |
SteveG wrote:
Most overrated band that ever was. |
Wouldn't that be The Stones??
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Jeffro
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Posted: April 03 2017 at 10:25 |
Sean Trane wrote:
SteveG wrote:
Most overrated band that ever was. |
Wouldn't that be The Stones?? |
Grateful Dead
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