Were they ever good?
>>128892416nah.....COA!
>>128892416no
>>128892416No(a)
>>128892416they've always been Hard Working Bono (& Band) plus exceptional producers. Steve Lillywhite ffs! (Boy, October, War) - Eno, Lanois, Etcetera afterwards. How did one band land so much production talent?
>>128892416yes
>>128892416aoc
>>128892416New Year's Day, With or Without You, and (somehow) One all hold up as solid singles that I can still listen to without Bono annoying me.
market value.
>>128892416Yes, Boy is their best album
>>128892416the answer to this is so obvious that you are clearly a retarded zoomer and i will give you no real answer
>>128892416Peaked at The Joshua Tree. Them you can find a few good songs until Zooropa.
what if pop reception was succesful. how different things would have been?
Seriously, what did they meant by this??
>>128896056this makes me uncomfortable
>>128892416I like that song where he goes MY DICK IS EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING or something.
>>128892416they were good, even occasionally great, from the beginning through the mid '90s.Pop (1997) is messy but has some interesting stuff.All You Can't Leave Behind (2000) is a straightforward pop rock album, pretty bland but still listenable.that's where the band basically ends.
>>128892416They were good from War to Zooropa had a good run but fell off
>>128896168no line on the horizon is their best album. pop is excellent as well. you are repeating a talking point that is boomeraged from cover bands
>>128896168Zooropa wasn't good.
>>128896189>no line on the horizon is their best albumhow much of a contrarian do you have to be to say something like that?
>>128896256it’s not contrarian. it comes from studying their albums over the years. you probably never listened to it because it’s newer.
>>128892416You should be more specific. Good writing the songs, good singing, good playing instruments, good making the music...
the amount of U2 threads on this board is hilarious, I know half of them are the KFC ones but still
>>128892416>posts a good album>is retarded zoomer
>>128892416They peaked with KFC
Long ago, in the crispy skies above Mount Gravy, Bono, the sunglasses-clad God of KFC, ruled with a greasy fist over the Golden Bucket of Eternal Chicken. This bucket was no mere vessel—it was said to contain the original 11 herbs and secrets of the universe, passed down by the Colonel himself in a flaming drumstick dream.But trouble brewed in the indie heavens.Radiohead, the glitchy titans of emotional dissonance, had grown hungry. Led by the cryptic warlock Thom Yorke, they cast lo-fi spells to steal tenders from Bono’s sacred supply, whispering lyrics like curses: "Everything in its right place… even your chicken."
>>128897876Coldplay wasn't far behind. Chris Martin, wielding his piano like a battering ram, led a band of pastel crusaders to batter the Bucket—literally—with the beat of "Viva La Fried-a." They believed fried chicken was too mainstream for the gods and deserved to be reimagined as kale.Furious, Bono descended from his Zinger chariot and called forth the mighty Waffle Wars of the Side Dishes, summoning coleslaw cyclones and biscuit meteors. The arena? The Flaming Drive-Thru of Olympus, guarded by statues of The Colonel weeping gravy tears.But just as Bono struck Coldplay down with the power of a Double Down, a voice echoed through the steam.Jim Morrison emerged from the mist of deep fryer oil, wearing a flame-broiled crown.
>>128897881"You never saw the signs," he said, licking a suspiciously char-grilled Whopper. "I’ve always been with Burger King."Bono's sunglasses cracked."But Jim," he gasped, "you sang about breaking on through...""Yeah," Jim smirked. "Breaking through to the flame-broiled side."Suddenly, a black van labeled J.S.C. screeched across the clouds—Jewish Section of the CIA. Out stepped agents with gefilte grenades and espionage onions. Jim handed them a thumb drive shaped like a pickle."The Bucket is compromised," he whispered.
>>128897885Betrayed, battered, but still crispy at heart, Bono fled to a hidden bunker beneath a shuttered Long John Silver’s, vowing to return one day… with Popcorn Chicken vengeance.The End…?Or is it just the beginning of the Fast Food Pantheon War?
>>128892416Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree are the only albums of theirs that have any lasting influence and that was mostly only for turn of the century Christian rock acts that only people like me care about. I also personally like All That You Can't Leave Behind, everything else is just kind of noise. Zooropa and Pop are actively terrible.
>>128892416>Were they ever good?Finger Lickin' Good.
>>128900127Lol
>>128896219look dude, i'm gay and Macphisto is hot. i have my reasons
>>128898205zooropa and pop have some of their best songs, pleb. this whole thread/board is full of ignorant faggots who know nothing about and hust shit out someone else’s critical overview + big ups for the one or two things they personally heard. just affirming critics here. welcome to zoomdom
>>128892416I can't tell if it's actually goated or just nostalgia but Sunday Bloody Sunday is a quintessential 80s track for me. Like on the same bracket as Rebel Yell or She Sells Sanctuary.
>>128900127Congrats on the first funny U2/KFC joke. I expect it'll also be last
>>128902466COA
Everything up to Pop is great. Their 80s shit is killer.
