ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I liked Pride. Is that on it?
I am willing to admit that Joshua Tree was a good album
- Thread starter DotCommunist
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"Immensely popular band hugely derided because of popularity shock! 'They were good when they were shit, but now they're not shit I think they're shit' said a fan who used to like them before everyone else liked them and then didn't like them anymore because everyone else did."
Superape said:
no. they're derided because people don't like them.
if you're going to use weak argument #3 out of the urban book of really fucking weak arguments (ie - "you only dislike them to look cool / cos they're popular" etc) you could do it with just a LITTLE more style.
and gabi: you're a twat
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
killer b said:you can cock off too. we're deriding them 'cos they're shit, not 'cos they're popular.
I'm not, i'm deriding them because they're popular. Before that they were right up my street. Boring rock format, overblown lyrics, steady drumming, hardy bass work, self importance, christianity, hypocrisy. What's not to like?
rekil
to menny cranks
I strongly advise against it, but if you insist, have some good 1987 albums handy to relieve the inevitable pain and embarrassment.DotCommunist said:
These will do:
Locust Abortion Technician - Butthole Surfers
Tallulah - The Go-Betweens
Warehouse Songs and Stories - Hüsker Dü
Sister - Sonic Youth
The Young Gods - The Young Gods
Songs About Fucking - Big Black
Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements
copliker said:
You are me,.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
copliker said:
That's my afternoon sorted. Retreat into youth. All great records.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Dubversion said:
((((Copliker)))
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Idaho said:
I'd largely agree with this except I didn't buy The Joshua Tree precisely because I thought The Unforgettable Fire was rubbish too.
Idaho
continuity character
U2 are overblown and pompous, and I think from Joshua Tree onward they were fairly unimaginative. However the overblown and pompous worked before they were hugely successful. Bono's ego didn't seem that relevant. But once they became multi-squillionaires his intolerableness (heh - sounds like a title) became even more inescapable.bluestreak said:
One Tree Hill and Mothers of the Dissapeared are good songs from JT.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Idaho said:
It's not that complicated.
I'd agree that : Some songs on Joshua Tree are ok.
: I think it was the turning point for U2.
I would not agree that the Unforgettable Fire was great.
It was rubbish.
So I expected Joshua Tree to be rubbish as well.
In retrospect it's possibly the better of the two but I don't care....
'cos I wouldn't bother listening to either.
Idaho
continuity character
It's not complicated, it's just illogical.ouchmonkey said:
You think some songs on the Joshua Tree are ok, and that the unforgettable fire is better than the Joshua Tree. But that the Unforgettable Fire was rubbish.
If the Joshua Tree is partially ok, and the Unforgettable Fire is better than partially ok, how can it be rubbish?
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Idaho said:
Because it says 'U2' on the cover, try and keep up
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Idaho said:
no.
you seem to have inserted the illogical part that would explain your confusion.
I do not think the Unforgettable Fire was better than the Joshua Tree.
I bought it when it came out. I thought it was rubbish then and I still do.
following on from this I expected their next album - The Joshua Tree - to also be cack.
In retrospect I might admit there are better songs on it than on Unforgettable Fire.
It's a bit academic as I had already overcome my short phase of liking U2 and
had realised what an annoying load of old rubbish it was, in stark contrast to the world at large who made them the biggest band on the planet.
The great eejits
i'm still reeling from the fact you bought a U2 album.
you dappy cunt
you dappy cunt
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Dubversion said:i'm still reeling from the fact you bought a U2 album.
you dappy cunt
Even at 14 I knew hair metal was not the way to go
ouchmonkey said:Even at 14 I knew hair metal was not the way to go
i was NEVER into hair metal.
you really are a waste of skin, snorbury
