their legacy in 2026 is pretty weak compared to how big they used to be.I rarely heard them mentioned anymore.
>>130491612They're like Coldplay. I mean what is there to talk about really
>>130491612Turns out that pushing your shitty new album that you made in your 50s onto everybody’s new device by default is a good way to make people not like you. They got way too into bed with Apple and the decline of their reputation was deserved.
>>130491612Their focus has completely shifted from music to politics. Many such TDS cases. Their recent EP is all about ICE. Fucking embarrassing. I guess there are no problems left in Ireland.
>>130492332Is TDS syndrome just Trumptards coping with the fact peole don't like Trump?
>>130492348Nah I'm the most left wing fucker on this board, I hate Trump and everything he stands for, but even to me some people's fixation on Trump looks completely bizarre and unhealthy. I remember having to enforce a "no Trump rule" in some social circles because some motherfuckers would just keep bringing him up randomly just to seethe about him again and again and again. I remember checking Mark Hamill's Twitter profile and seeing that he tweeted about Trump multiple times a day. TDS seems less bad now than it used to be back in the day but it definitely is a real thing that happens to some people
>>130491612Bono is one of the most annoying musicians of all time, and people have caught on to how much of their music all sounds the same, especially post-Pop when they stopped even trying to switch things up and just started making every song sound like minor variations of Sunday Bloody Sunday and Where the Streets Have No Name.
>>130492348Reverse the camera on your phone to see it
>>130492443Honestly, I feel like the liberals who enjoy seething at leftists have it the most
>>130491612>Peak KFC Music
>>130491612Same with REM. They ruined their legacy with too many mid albums and too much touring.
>>130492332>>130492348U2 has been firmly in the "mid" category since the 90s. When Apple tried to sell an iPod preloaded with U2 songs, everyone got mad.
>>130491612it was always just a cover for the international child sex trafficking ring that they're a part of.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4v88gLBuI&ra=m
i'm a certified unc at 30 and I don't know a single song from these people. Iooked up a "top 20 songs" list and I don't recognize a single one of them. I might have seen Vertigo on MTV as a kid because the MV looked similar. They have zero cultural relevance. I don't remember them from car radio, I had my 80s music phase and I never listened to a single U2 song. The algos don't even recommend them to you when you listen to 80s music.
>>130493769COA
>>130493853I am 37 and 'Beautiful Day' used to play all the time on MTV. You are probably just a little bit too young to remember.
>The iPod U2 Special Edition was a legendary series of MP3 players released in collaboration between Apple and the rock band U2
>>130494470aoc
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.
>>130495057Coldplay 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.
>>130495067"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
>>130495072Betrayed, 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?
>>130493853Weren't U2 always more of a thing in Europe anyway?
>>130492348I don't like trump and I'm not even american, but tds is a real thing, I don't what to hear about the fat fuck it's like artists love to hate him, I just tired of american politics and I'm tired of donald trump
>>130495135no way, their entire mission and focus from the start was always to crack America first and the rest of the world would follow, they toured relentlessly and had hit arena's by the late 80s and stadiums by the early 90s, Zoo TV tour was the biggest of its day. One, Mysterious Ways and The Real Thing were on mtv as much as any grunge video in 92.I can't stand their music either and the itunes thing turned a generation off them but its just rewriting history to claim they were never that big
>>130493853Same
what do you call it when a band is a glorified one hit wonder but somehow they're still around
>>130491942Yet David Byrne putting his shitty song on Windows XP got a pass...
Coa kfc kfc kfc kfc cia coa chicken chicken
>>130495135They took The Police's spot as the no. 1 band in the world from 1987 to 1993. ZOOTV was the biggest rock show there ever was.
omg I Love them so much plz stop hating them...
>>130496562Or Weezer having a song on Windows 95
>>130493788Nah the last few REM albums were still decent and they quit at the right timeAlso this song from the final album was greathttps://youtu.be/ZITh-XIikgI?is=Y2m2P73tCT5Z6wDB
Fried chicken
>>130491612who cares, they had a good run. nobody stays at the top forever
>>130491612U2 was always astroturfed. Depeche Mode are better and are still making good music, they didn't have to sell their souls to reach the same levels U2 reached in the 90s>>130499423>ZOOTV was the biggest rock show>showIt was quite literally two tours, you are being malicious
>>130491612>>...we were so commited to chicken, we wanted for the belligerence on non chicken brands to end, especially the beef brands who were feeding people in drive thrus with burgers. We were so dissappointed to find out that Colonel Sanders, the head of KFC which is the head wing, of the, you know, fried chicken industry, was actually a hater of our song, Chicken Fried Chicken, which was meant as a PROTEST song against, like I said, against the sectarian conflict which everyone was tired of, at least in my own clucking mind. That's why I screamed out, if you see the concert in Colorado, "this is not a beef song", but for a good year since its release it was thought of as that, as a reminder of the beef conflict, because we conveniently named the song after the KFC, gave it a fried drum beat and waited for a year until it reached the top ten and we had secured a distribution deal for north America before we came out to clear things out. And look how relevant it is now with the conflict in the whole food industry .people are so caught up in their convictions, they forget the only real differences are in our hearts, they forget how important chicken is. And we're here to remind them. So yeah, it is one of those great misunderstood songs of rock history, like "Corn in the USA". I initially wanted to write a trilogy of it, but Edge threatened to quit the band if I did. He is a great fryer...and a good friend.
>>130495135U2 were huge in America in like the late 80s/early 90s, then again around early 2000s. They played the Super Bowl and shit right after 9/11 and got shilled hard during that period. Steve Jobs also had a hard on for them so they were always in Apple promos (and famously had their album given away for free on every iphone in 2014)
>>130492332>Their focus has completely shifted from music to politics.>Their recent EP is all about ICE.i actually heard one song from it. not memorable musically and it barely sounds like them, but the lyrics are completely opposite of what happened. it was actually insulting to listen to as an informed adult because of how disingenuous the song is
>>130491612More COA
>>130492348You guys made this bed. If Trump wasn’t so absurdly hamstrung by investigation after impeachment over nothing in his first term, and was allowed to just be president, the Israel fatigue in the base would’ve crept in back in like 2017 and the Trump era would’ve been long over. But all you people have done for a decade straight is tell half the country that they are not allowed any representation under any circumstances, and you will kill or imprison them the moment they come within a half a mile of the smallest crumb of power. You are the primary driver of this. You dismantled the (facade of) legitimacy in American democracy and you’ll be living with the consequences of that for the rest of your life.
