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Old 20-02-2009, 09:08
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Following the generally negative reaction (try here) to the new U2 single, it reminded me that - as a huge U2 fan - they've dropped the ball previously on several occasions. The idea here is for people that at least partially like U2 (to minimise the predictable answer of "all of them" to the thread title) to have a catharsis and say where they've gone horribly wrong before. And thereby cheer themselves up that the album needn't be awful cos they've done it before.

So here's my list of U2 horrors....

Miami - simply hideous, what more can be said?
Elvis Presley and America - when studio meandering leaked on to an album by mistake
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - what were they thinking? And sadly a portent of what was to come...
Mofo - dance collides with U2 and brings out the worst in both
Lemon - again, another dance / u2 abomination (Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car shows them getting it right, on the other hand...)
Get On Your Boots - here's hoping this gets dropped from the set lists with all due haste

I doubt that Boots reflects the new album - I certainly hope not, or else could this be the one to finally end their career?
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Old 20-02-2009, 09:39
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Everything they've recorded since Achtung Baby, although I suppose I didn't hate Stuck in a Moment.
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Old 20-02-2009, 09:57
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Most of them to be honest IMO - I've never found their music interesting . . .
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Old 20-02-2009, 10:02
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Love Rescue Me (from Rattle and Hum) it seems to just go on forever.

All of The Unforgettable Fire with the exception of A sort of homecoming, Pride, the title track, Bad and MLK. U2 went ambient to the point there was no actual song left.

Babyface, The First Time, The Wanderer from Zooropa, just not my thing really.

All of Passengers except Miss Sarajevo. All of Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack except "The Ground Beneath Her Feet".

Miami and If God Will Send His Angels from Pop.

Grace from All That You Cannot Leave Behind.

I think that covers it for me.

My favorite albums are probably The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.
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Old 20-02-2009, 10:39
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Love Rescue Me (from Rattle and Hum) it seems to just go on forever.

All of The Unforgettable Fire with the exception of A sort of homecoming, Pride, the title track, Bad and MLK. U2 went ambient to the point there was no actual song left.

Babyface, The First Time, The Wanderer from Zooropa, just not my thing really.

All of Passengers except Miss Sarajevo. All of Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack except "The Ground Beneath Her Feet".

Miami and If God Will Send His Angels from Pop.

Grace from All That You Cannot Leave Behind.

I think that covers it for me.

My favorite albums are probably The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.
Yup, there's some duffers in there to be sure. However, there are a few that I love - If God Will Send His Angels, The First Time. There are a few albums that seem generally a bit lacklustre in places - even October in it's latter stages, but yes Unforgettable Fire is patchy, Rattle & Hum, Zooropa and Pop all have dodgy bits.

I think their problem right now is that this new album has been so hyped as "three years in the making" / "we've selected the album tracks from 164 songs" that the U2 fanbase are expecting something quite special, and yet Boots is a dog.
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Old 20-02-2009, 10:44
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Everything they've recorded since Achtung Baby.
Pretty much sums up the point when a great band became stuck up their own backsides as it was the lastgreat album. I cringe everytime I hear them now.
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Old 20-02-2009, 12:52
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War is still my fave album. Might have something to do with the fact I saw them on that tour. I also love most of Boy & October and the live one at Red Rocks. If I was to buy any U2 cd now it would be the new deluxe edition of War with all the 12" versions. Vertigo was a good single but I really cant find myself sticking the new one on my ipod, even if I got it for nothing.
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Old 20-02-2009, 13:52
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Them all????
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Old 20-02-2009, 15:39
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Get on your boots. i thought it was a pisstake when i first heard it terrible
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Old 20-02-2009, 15:47
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Kinky boots!
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Old 20-02-2009, 16:49
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anything after rattle and hum.

if you get bored of them 80s albums they is a huge amount of bootlegs available.
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Old 20-02-2009, 17:23
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This is a little off topic perhaps but I know that a number of people really rated U2 before they released Rattle and Hum and then thought they changed too much. I got into U2 when I heard pride and I was about 10. I grew up with the change of style and I really rate a lot of their later songs.

People that don't like U2 post Rattle and Hum are missing out on some great tracks such as Until the end of the world, The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Zooropa, Some days are better than others, Gone, Staring at the sun, Electrical Storm, Beautiful Day, New York, Vertigo, Miracle Drug etc etc.

I've got favorites ranging from the likes of 11 o'clock tick tock right through to the likes of Vertigo so I don't quite get why some people have such a strong feeling about the change in style from 80's to 90's. I'm not putting anyone's opinion down, I'd just like to understand it better.
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Old 20-02-2009, 17:28
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Elvis Presley and America - when studio meandering leaked on to an album by mistake
Yep, this is horrible. Isn't it "Elvis ate america" though?

Also Bottoms (Watashitachi no Ookina Yume) which is basically just the riff from zoo station over and over again...

I like some of the tracks mentioned though. Lemon, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, and Mofo (If only because it was quite good as a show opener for Popmart)
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Old 20-02-2009, 17:33
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Everything thing after The Joshua Tree.And even that only had 3 good tracks on it.I don't see the attraction with them.
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Old 20-02-2009, 17:37
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This is a little off topic perhaps but I know that a number of people really rated U2 before they released Rattle and Hum and then thought they changed too much. I got into U2 when I heard pride and I was about 10. I grew up with the change of style and I really rate a lot of their later songs.

People that don't like U2 post Rattle and Hum are missing out on some great tracks such as Until the end of the world, The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Zooropa, Some days are better than others, Gone, Staring at the sun, Electrical Storm, Beautiful Day, New York, Vertigo, Miracle Drug etc etc.

I've got favorites ranging from the likes of 11 o'clock tick tock right through to the likes of Vertigo so I don't quite get why some people have such a strong feeling about the change in style from 80's to 90's. I'm not putting anyone's opinion down, I'd just like to understand it better.



I just didnt like the new material i like the odd songs suprisingly i like a few tracks off discotheque.
Also when bono started wearing safety glasses and trying to save the world i just stopped liking him.
my biggest problem with u2 is bonos vocals now i know he has done an awful lot of singing and apreciate that he just sounds awful even on studio albums it was his powerful voice that got my attention orignally.

I seen them in cardiff in 2005 and i honestly didnt enjoy it.
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Old 20-02-2009, 17:43
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I was at that Cardiff show in 2005 as well. I'd seen them a couple of times before, once during the Popmart tour at Wembley Stadium and once at Birmingham NEC. I was right at the front in Cardiff in the "bomb shelter" and it for me was just fantastic. I agree that Bono's voice has gone downhill but I suppose that is inevitable with age. It was the power of his voice on Pride in the name of love that got my attention as well. I guess different points of view make the digital spy world go around though.
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Old 20-02-2009, 17:49
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I got some cracking shows from the 80s on cd i play them every day.

most people only know the singles some of there best work is album tracks.

golden oldies like seconds/wire/indian summer sky even bsides spanish eyes/silver and gold stunning songs i think.
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Old 20-02-2009, 18:05
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I agree about the album tracks. I can't stand "Still haven't found......" but I love the live version of Exit. There are a lot of great tracks from the earlier albums such as Electric Co and Gloria, i'm too young to remember U2 prior to New Year's Day but it doesn't necessarily follow that their best tracks are singles. I really like Gone from Pop, it's so much better than any of the singles from that album.
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Old 20-02-2009, 18:05
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The new single is the worst I've heard from U2 by far.
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Old 21-02-2009, 02:27
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I started following them between October and War, and I think it's astonishing how they've kept fresh. Pulling back from the bombast of the Rattle and Hum era was their smartest move, even though at the time I wasn't sure and it took me years to subsequently catch up on some of their greatest material. As lucky 74 said, there are superb album tracks right the way through - Another Time, Another Place... Tomorrow... Drowning Man... A Sort Of Homecoming... Exit... Silver And Gold... Acrobat... Zooropa... Please... Peace On Earth... Crumbs From Your Table... gems, every one.

I do remember hating The Fly at first, and I've thought "Is Get On Your Boots" the same? First challenging single from a different sort of album? But I really don't thnk so - this just seems plain naff rather than challenging. Perhaps they figured they were being ironic? Whatever, it doesn't work... but I still have faith that the album will produce good stuff.
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Old 21-02-2009, 02:39
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Following the generally negative reaction (try here) to the new U2 single, it reminded me that - as a huge U2 fan - they've dropped the ball previously on several occasions. The idea here is for people that at least partially like U2 (to minimise the predictable answer of "all of them" to the thread title) to have a catharsis and say where they've gone horribly wrong before. And thereby cheer themselves up that the album needn't be awful cos they've done it before.

So here's my list of U2 horrors....

Miami - simply hideous, what more can be said?
Elvis Presley and America - when studio meandering leaked on to an album by mistake
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - what were they thinking? And sadly a portent of what was to come...
Mofo - dance collides with U2 and brings out the worst in both
Lemon - again, another dance / u2 abomination (Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car shows them getting it right, on the other hand...)
Get On Your Boots - here's hoping this gets dropped from the set lists with all due haste

I doubt that Boots reflects the new album - I certainly hope not, or else could this be the one to finally end their career?
Lemon and Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me are LEGENDARY!!

Lemon is a U2 classic.
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Old 21-02-2009, 03:20
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I don't like their new track at all, it's just boring and sounds dated.
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