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    Posted: May 21 2006 at 21:25
What do you think? I, for one, somewhat dislike them. I think they are overrated, I really detest Bono (I just do. And I hate his goddamn name), and 'The Edge's' guitar ALWAYS seems to sound exactly the same. And I hate HIS name too.
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They are ok. They have a few songs i like, but overall nothing overly special.
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October, War, The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are all classics of rock. Everything else is pretty sad.
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OK, nothing special unless your a 14 year old girl. Wink
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

October, War, The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are all classics of rock. Everything else is pretty sad.

 
They are definitely classics, but I personally don't like a whole lot of the material. However, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is one of my all-time favorite songs.
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really good???? I'd say so...

A band not afraid of change... they could have cranked out Joshua Tree pts 2, 3 and 4 but they didn't sit back on past sucesses.

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I respect them for their abilities and accomplishments, but they're nothing that suits my fancy.
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Good.
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I would say "really Good". Find it hard to fault them actually.
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Ok. They have great moments (Where the streets have no name springs to mind) The first three albums were good too, as was 'Achtung Baby'
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They arenīt great musicians but they are a good band, sort of like REM or Live.
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Joshua Tree is about all I can stand.
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Really good. And Edge is a really clever guitarist. No virtuoso but great ideas!
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One word comes to mind when I think of U2....

Overrated


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Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

One word comes to mind when I think of U2....

Overrated


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Points: 31165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:09
OK.
Early stuff was quite good.  I enjoy War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, etc.
I would say their egos are much, much larger than their quality of output nowadays.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

One word comes to mind when I think of U2....

Overrated


Lets not start that again.Wink
 
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A good band, a little overrated today. The Joshua Tree is a classic and Achtung Baby was a risky and successfull step ahead. Their latest albums are OK but I prefer listening other stuff.
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I go for BAD. The have some nice songs however, but mostly I have a dislike of their music.

Note: this is about the music. If we were talking about a certain messias like band member, I would voted veryveryveryveryd*mndbadLOL
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I think they're ok. I actually own 2 of their recordings. One being the best of (80-90) and the other one "Live under a blood red sky" or something with a similar name LOL

I think their main 'hits' are pretty nice songs, mainly those from the aforementioned era. I absolutely DISlike their latest stuff.

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