Is this true?

[jsharr ★]

[smudge ★]

Ha!!!!!!

[jsharr ★]

I am pretty sure I like several of their albums but this makes me wonder. I was in college and drinking a lot at the time

[jsharr ★]

Is the word album even relevant anymore. Do kids these days go to the record store and spend hours going through racks of records looking for something cool?
 

[jsharr ★]

Also is 4:30 in the afternoon too early to be working on your second large bourbon and Coke?

[Dottleshead ★]

It is not true.  U2 had an amazing run.  I was on their bandwagon when their War album came out.  They went from 3 good songs per release to being able to place the whole track/album/release on play w/o skipping any songs, to finally listening to all their tracks/album/release over and over.  But... it's not all roses.... they had some lame-o's too. I mean bad.  But Joshua Tree and Auctung Baby are some of the greatest selling albums of all time -- and for good reason.

[Dottleshead ★]

By the way, when did Arnold Schwarzeneggar join the band??

[JerrySTL ★]

I read that on the internet so it must be true.

[Airehead ★]

U, who?

[Kirby ★]

1 hour ago, jsharr said:

. Do kids these days go to the record store and spend hours going through racks of records looking for something cool?
 

No, just retro hipsters.

[MickinMD ★]

When I did my first piano recital and I let my teacher know how nervous I was, he said, "Don't worry about it: there's no such thing as bad music."

Well, there is badly played music and there are foul lyrics, but he's basically right.  I'll find something enjoyable in almost every kind of music - except the screechy Tibetan Opera.

[ChrisL]

I really liked U2 up until Joshua Tree.  At that point their style changed and not for the better to me.  The Unforgettable Fire puts me in a really melancholy place, that period of time right when I enlisted in the Army.  

[jsharr ★]

14 hours ago, ChrisL said:

I really liked U2 up until Joshua Tree.  At that point their style changed and not for the better to me.  The Unforgettable Fire puts me in a really melancholy place, that period of time right when I enlisted in the Army.  

Excellent point.  The 1980s U2 was excellent.  They got progressivly un better as they got rich and forgot they were rock stars.

[Prophet Zacharia]

10 minutes ago, jsharr said:

The 1980s U2 was excellent.

I’d give them “good”, excellent is a reach in my mind. Although the video from the concert at Red Rocks was very good.

[Further]

18 hours ago, jsharr said:

Also is 4:30 in the afternoon too early to be working on your second large bourbon and Coke?

Slacker...

[ChrisL]

2 hours ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

I’d give them “good”, excellent is a reach in my mind. Although the video from the concert at Red Rocks was very good.

I’d describe it as raw & edgy. Good or excellent is really up to interpretation based on personal tastes.

The Edge actually played with an edge.  After the Joshua Tree album the Edge lost his edge and the production made the sound more corporate. Many liked the sound but  I much preferred the raw edgier U2 of the late 70’s early 80’s.  

[Prophet Zacharia]

1 hour ago, ChrisL said:

late 70’s early 80’s.

Early to mid 80’s. I don’t think they had a release in the 70’s.

[Kzoo]

What’s the point of this thread?

[ChrisL]

1 minute ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

Early to mid 80’s. I don’t think they had a release in the 70’s.

I thought Boy was 79 but it looks like it released in 1980.  

[ChrisL]

1 minute ago, Kzoo said:

What’s the point of this thread?

That you are old! 😂

[Kzoo]

Just now, ChrisL said:

That you are old! 😂

Beats the alternative. 🥸

[bikeman564™]

I was never a fan

[groupw]

If someone played it at the record store, that was fine. But I never got overly excited about them. 

[Square Wheels]

Meh, if they had never existed, my musical world would not have been worse off.  Can you say that for Bananarama, or Bow Wow Wow?