POX: Annoying things done/said/released/etc. by Bono and/or the entirety of U2

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My list...

1. That iPod ad campaign
2. MacPhisto
3. PopMart Tour announcement at ::groan::: K-mart (geddit??)
4. Rattle & Hum, the movie
5. Rattle & Hum, the album.
6. That absolutely crap single with Wyclef for `Net Aid
7. Playing the Superbowl in 2001
8. Bono's Stars & Stripes jacket at said SuperBowl
9. "Hip Hop is essentially black people using digital technology to get back in touch with Africa."
10. http://www.bongonews.com/StoryImages/bono_vp.jpg

Take it away.....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha i knew this was an alex in nyc thread.

um, what you said + that song about new york + that look he was sporting last year with the hair dye and the ugly suit

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

also: the song at the closing credits of gangs of new york

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

11. http://www.lasvegassun.com/from.ed/1997/apr/25/photos/P000012345.jpg

12. http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/clayton_a2.jpg

13. Adam Clayton in general.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

#5 was actually pretty good, and #7 was good until the appearance of #8.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

uno
dos
tres
catorce

(although perhaps i might think this "lyric" is hilarious, in this way where i never gave bono credit for being so omglolwtfroffle before... sort of parallel to how i feel about nicolas cage in national treasure, which i wholeheartedly approve of, albeit without having seen it yet (although i TRIED to see it on saturday (but i digress...)))

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

No. Playing the Superbowl is never a good thing....especially if you're an Irish band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Canadian version of #10:

http://www.u2tour.de/newspics/2003/2003-11-14_J_Bono_Liberal_Convention.jpg

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

14. This get-up....

http://fm974.tom.com/img/assets/200311/31117hy003.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Bono's outfit at the 9-11 (?) concert where he looked like the Unabomber.
2-9. 9 pictures of Bono posing with Jesse Helms. That is all.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh oooh oooh! Got another one:

15. The deplorable video for "Elevation" wherein the band fights their evil dopplegangers, interspliced with footage from "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider". Pathetic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

k-pax

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Guys, it's called irony, it's funny. hahahahahahhaha!

This should be called "POX: Awesome/hilarious/ironic things done/said/released/etc. by Bono and/or the entirety of U2"

So far everything mentioned in this thread has been hilarious and great. Especially that Tomb Raider video.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

16. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yvan.lavallee/images/U2_3.jpg

I don't know the story behind this, but it's annoying.

17. The Edge's Pious Pilgrim era:

http://www.threechordsandthetruth.net/u2pics/u2_pics/Edge-1.jpg

So far everything mentioned in this thread has been hilarious and great. Especially that Tomb Raider video.

I hear Denial is really warm this time of year!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

His habit of doing the peace sign. Grr. 1968 called, they want their sloganeering back!

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

18. The Electrical Storm video:

I hear Denial is really warm this time of year!

Yeah, well you probably think it's annoying that Aphex Twin is getting people to spend $75 on a record by some guy called "Anal Lord." I think it's awesome.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Guys, it's called irony, it's funny.
Does George Bush have ironic meetings?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.u2tour.de/newspics/2002/es_video_larry3.jpg

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No way on No. 7. One of the few times I actually enjoyed U2 was at the Superbowl. But then again I'm a Patriots fan.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, well you probably think it's annoying that Aphex Twin is getting people to spend $75 on a record by some guy called "Anal Lord." I think it's awesome.

I simply think Aphex Twin is annoying.

I actually like U2, which is why I waste time getting annoyed by their shenanigans. But to chalk it all up to "irony" is letting them off the hook.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

1. existing
2. being popular with stupid people who don't know as much as we do
3. having opinions
4. stating those opinions
5. taking selves too seriously sometimes because that is not allowed
6. not taking selves seriously all the time, that isn't allowed either
7. playing to large audiences/Americans, that's the kiss of death
8. not scowling/smiling enough
9. not being a different band
10. confusing us with their tricksy shapeshifty leprechaun ways, we'll never get their crocks o'gold at this rate

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

19. "OK, Edge, play the blues!"
20. "ONE hundred...TWO hundred..."

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

A million more votes for the Ipod apple campaign. Plays nonstop in the apple store. Song sucks, video is annoying, and the fact that it's them and Black Eyed Peas makes me turn into hulk.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the fact that it's them and Black Eyed Peas makes me turn into hulk.

Hahahahaha. See, now that's funny!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

opo: hilarious things said by spouses of the cranberries

"my wife is bono. my wife is not larry."

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't Wild Man Fischer's big followup to "My Name Is Larry" called "My Wife is Bono"?

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The preachy blowhard sloganearing of their first few rocords.

― danh (danh), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ROCKords!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

JAYZUS THE EDGE

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

21. The Negativland fiasco

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh...good one. Forgot about that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

22. "Taking back" Helter Skelter
23. God Part 2

But I'll forgive them for allowing themselves to be made fun of on The Simpsons.

― darin (darin), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

oh but come on, negativland is at least as annoying as u2.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.allthatu2leftbehind.fsnet.co.uk/pictures/bono/images/bono04.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

24. They still haven't found what they're looking for.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish Bono would go to Africa, unsuccessfully try to kill a bunch of kids and then shoot himself. I think that's what it would require to Make It All Stop.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Either that or change into some kind of serpent-beast on live TV.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh but come on, negativland is at least as annoying as u2.

This is heresy. Peter, you and I are gonna throw down over this one day... Mark my words...

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody else find the simple fact that the guy calls himself "The Edge" annoying? It's one thing to have a one-word name. It's quite another to employ the definite article.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edge, you're more beast than man!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

tell that to the big bopper!

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edge would look like the most pathetically vain man on earth if he wasn't standing next to Bono.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono Vox is even worse... especially if there's somebody in your band named Larry Mullen Junior.

They could have at least all gone for goofy names as a unified front. It's like if the Ramones were called Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Tommy Ramone and Jeffrey Hyman.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to think that if the line-up was Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. they just would have been Echo & The Bunnymen.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

David Lee Van Halen, Michael Van Halen...

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, they would have been Simple Minds.

(x-post)

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Evans

i read this as "dale evans" for some reason.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to think that if the line-up was Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. they just would have been Echo & The Bunnymen.

They aren't even in the same fuckin' zip code as the Bunnymen, Good Charlotteer!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

U2 wish they were on SpinART.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

mrjosh and Haibun OTM. awesome.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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The Edge would look like the most pathetically vain man on earth if he wasn't standing next to Bono.
-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...), January 17th, 2005.

Bono takes the edge off of The Edge.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono is a faery!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edge, you're more beast than man!

This is still the funniest thing ever.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

No man has put more time and effort into honing the "exasperated sigh" than Bono.

"Into the arms *GASP* HHUUUFFFFFF AMERRRICA"

Shut up you blouse-wearing twat.

Actually, kudos to him for getting past that whole mullet/pirate shirt/marching in place phase, and graduating to...MACPHUCKINGPHISTO, which was on par with Hammer going "gangsta."

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

um, 25. "That E-Chord...It's BRIGHT RED!"
26. "Punk Rock is just like a little kid who wants to yell at the world. (long pause) We thought we were a punk band. (long pause) For about a minute."
27. "Rock and Roll Doggies!"
28. "Charles Manson Stole this Song from the Beatles....We're Stealing it BACK!"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

kudos to him for getting past that whole mullet/pirate shirt/marching in place phase, and graduating to...MACPHUCKINGPHISTO, which was on par with Hammer going "gangsta."

except he succeeded

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon. ILM! I'm amazed that the Charles Manson Crack wasn't NUMBER ONE most freakish faux-pas by his Bono-ness.
(xpost)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

blouse-wearing twat.

wait, he's wearing womens' clothes? and is acting like a piece of female anatomy? and he's a man? in rock 'n roll?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah sumthin jus aint raht bout that boy, git tha rope.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.stlcommercemagazine.com/archives/december1999/images/annual1.jpg

HA!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

this sourness just makes me want to listen to The Joshua Tree. i'm sure it's not as [code word for superior] as what you lot like this second but still

― mark e smith, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono with my favorite Congressman!

http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/newweb/bono.jpg

*swoon*

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://freethemes.forthnet.gr/images/shots/wallpaper/bono-1024x768-800x600.jpg
http://www.u2world.com/news/IMG/jpg/capt.1046440288.france_chirac_bono_par102.jpg
ihttp://www.illustrationweb.com/artist_pages/artist_images/artist_55/bono(1).jpg
http://www.trilliuminvest.com/media/bono+trucker_sm.jpg

LOL!

http://www.vh1.com/shared/media/news/images/u/u2/sq-bono-on-black-03-int-mtv.jpg
http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/LG_html/artist_images/bono.gif

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The part where Dylan talks about his times with Bono is absolutely classic. They shouldve solved mysteries together.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Gah! I asked Acme readers about this, but the monitor on the computer with all the answers is broken.

They included:

* bidding The Edge to "put El Salvador through the amplifier"
* any time someone dies, saying that U2 play the dead person's kind of music: punk, folk, soul etc.
* "If you look back at Band Aid, most of the singers were just pop stars who probably don't know the first thing about the causes of world hunger. But you know... it doesn't really matter."
* "all I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth / all I got is a red guitar, the rest is up to you"
* getting wrong the time of day Martin Luther King was killed
* "Am I buggin' you? I don't mean to bug ya."
* being happy with this fucked-up, patent-supporting American approach to African Aids
* Self Aid: "Maggie's Farm" / pig noises / "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" / "Cold Turkey" / bejaysus knows what else.

Oh, and while we're talking cover versions, here are the Top 25 Annoying U2 covers:

1. Maggie's Farm
2. Mission: Impossible
3. Neon Lights
4. Beat On The Brat
5. Helter Skelter
6. Dancing Queen
7. Fortunate Son
8. My Girl
9. People Get Ready
10. Won't Get Fooled Again
11. Rain
12. My Girl
13. Unchained Melody
14. Stand By Me
15. Everlasting Love
16. All Along The Watchtower
17. Southern Man
18. I've Got You Under My Skin
19. C'mon Everybody
20. Satellite Of Love
21. Paint It, Black
22. Jesus Christ
23. Sweet Jane
24. Norwegian Wood
25. New York, New York

― Acme 2, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.trilliuminvest.com/media/bono+trucker_sm.jpg

"Bono, disguised as a pauper, traveled the country side to find out more about the lives of his royal subjects."

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That Mission Impossible theme annoyed me. So they can't programme a drum machine in 5/4 time!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone needs to get a photo of the LIVE AID HUG up here pronto! And the drag video was cringe-worthy too.

― Molly, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

FAMILY MAN! RASTAMAN!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

prophet, soul rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island man, family man, Rita's man, soccer man,man, showman, shaman, human, Jamaican!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The part where Dylan talks about his times with Bono is absolutely classic. They shouldve solved mysteries together.

I'm currently reading Neil McCormicks' Killing Bono (a memoir of going to the same high school with Bono and having similar musical aspirations, but failing to achieve them, whilst watching his school mate rise to deity-status), and McCormick tells a tale of the first time Dylan met Bono and asked him to join him onstage. Trouble was -- despite all his revisionism since then -- Bono wasn't familiar with Dylan's music. He quickly cribbed notes from McCormick about the lyrics to "Blowin' in the Wind," but forgot them all at the precise moment and made up a bunch of stuff. Dylan, apparently, wasn't exactly pleased.

FAMILY MAN! RASTAMAN!

Good one, Antoine.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been a Patti Smith fan (and never will be), but didn't she tell Bono to go fuck himself after he presented her a Q Magazine award, calling her "his lover, his mother, his ..etc. etc.".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

For that fleeting moment, I was briefly her fan.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

man, all this shit is pretty hilarious....it's making me a big Bono fan, actually.....

what was that shit he said about Sinatra....walked like America....God is a catholic or some such shit?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Just for the record, I'm-a say it again: I LIKE BONO. I LIKE U2., but doesn't mean I can't be annoyed by his/their silliness.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There is nothing more important in life than avoiding silliness or embarrassment of self or others. Especially in rock music.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Some silliness should be embraced. Other silliness should be shunned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank never did like rock and roll. He's not crazy about guys wearing earrings either, but he doesn't hold it against me and, anyway, the feeling is not mutual. Rock and roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank Sinatra's got what we want: swagger and attitude. He's big on attitude, serious attitude, bad attitude. Frank's "Chairman of the Bad." Rock and roll plays at being tough, but this guy, well, he's the Boss. The Boss of Bosses. The Man. The Big Bang of Pop. I'm not gonna mess with him, are you?
Who's this guy that every city in America wants to claim as their own? This painter who lives in the desert? This first-rate, first-take actor? This singer who makes other men poets, boxing clever with every word, talking like America: fast, straight-up, in headlines, coming through with the big schtick, the asides, the quiet compliments, good cop/bad cop all in the same breath? You know his story 'cause it's your story. Frank walks like America: cocksure.
It's 1945 and the US cavalry are trying to get their asses out of Europe, but they never really do. They're part of another kind of invasion: AF, or American Forces Radio, broadcasting a type of music that will curl the stiff upper lip of England and the rest of the world, paving the way for rock and roll with jazz, Duke Ellington, the big band, Tommy Dorsey, and right out in front, Frank Sinatra, his voice tight as a fist opening at the end of a bar, not on the beat, over it, playing with it, splitting it like a jazz man, like Miles Davis, turning on the right phrase in the right song, which is where he lives, where he lets go, where he reveals himself. His songs are his home, and he lets you in.
But, you know, to sing like that you've got to have lost a couple fights. To know tenderness and romance, you've got to have had your heart broken. People say Frank hasn't talked to the press. They want to know how he is, what's on his mind. But, you know, Sinatra's out there more nights than most punk bands, selling his story through his songs, telling and articulate in the choice of those songs, private thoughts on a public address system, generous.
This is the conundrum of Frank Sinatra. Left and right brain hardly talking. Boxer and painter. Actor and singer. Lover and father. Band man and loner. Trouble shooter and trouble maker. The champ who would rather show you his scars than his medals. He may be putty in Barbara's hands, but I'm not gonna mess with him. Are you?

Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to welcome a man heavier than the Empire State, more connected than the Twin Towers, as recognizable as the Statue of Liberty, and living proof that God is a Catholic? Will you welcome the King of New York City, Francis Albert Sinatra!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

dude that's actually pretty good prose right there

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

more connected than the Twin Towers

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you think he talks like that all the time?

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

more connected than the Twin Towers

But they weren't connected!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

he throws a "you old fool" into "I've Got You Under My Skin" on Duets if I'm not mistaken.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you think he talks like that all the time?

Why wouldn't he? (This is not an endorsement.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

But they weren't connected!

weren't they connected via the lobby? maybe i'm wrong... it's been a few years.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm currently reading Neil McCormicks' Killing Bono (a memoir of going to the same high school with Bono and having similar musical aspirations, but failing to achieve them, whilst watching his school mate rise to deity-status), and McCormick tells a tale of the first time Dylan met Bono and asked him to join him onstage. Trouble was -- despite all his revisionism since then -- Bono wasn't familiar with Dylan's music. He quickly cribbed notes from McCormick about the lyrics to "Blowin' in the Wind," but forgot them all at the precise moment and made up a bunch of stuff. Dylan, apparently, wasn't exactly pleased.

wow.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

dylan got pwunk3d

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I was starting to get kind of irked at ILM's perpetual Bono-mockery and U2-haterism. I found it inexplicable and weird.

Then I saw this thread.

I am now in complete understanding of the fact that they are the biggest bunch of complete fucking goofy sonsabitches of my lifetime. Some great singles, but jeez.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Rattle and Hum the album is complete and utter garbage. After really digging "Desire", I was appalled and dismayed at how horrifying that album was; I was even more horrified and disgusted when a good 80% of my friends began playing the whole thing nonstop. Unsurprisingly, this was about the time I began listening exclusively to Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, how about their entire career?

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

maybe he's seen this thread...Bono in the Guardian 2/6/05

"I used to be much more concerned than I am now about how the band appeared in the media, largely because we spent 10 years getting it wrong. Like I said, the image thing just did not come naturally to us."

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 6 February 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Which 10 years?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 6 February 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

POX: Years That Bono/U2 Made Total Asses of Themselves in the Media

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 6 February 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i woke up my drunk friend laughing at this shit!

― he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Sunday, 6 February 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Which 10 years?

1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 6 February 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Should we thank Stipe for not getting the weave or wish Bono went cue-ball?

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 6 February 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

gah. I mean should we thank Stipe for not getting the weave or be glad Bono didn't go cueball.

Frankly my life would be better if Bono rocked the Yul Brynner. His horns would be visible.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 6 February 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

The singer, who met US President George W. Bush for lunch in Washington today, said he had no fear of political leaders. "They should be afraid, because they will be held accountable for what happened on their watch," he said.
"I'm representing the poorest and the most vulnerable people. I'm throwing a punch and the fist belongs to people who can't be in the room, whose rage, whose hurt I represent."
Bono said that because he already knew Bush was set to double aid to Africa he wanted to "shake this man's hand".
A White House spokesman denied Bono was going to be given a position within the Bush administration.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

This is totally comprehensive and really painful reading, I used to like U2 lots, but like Alex am completely embarrased by all the awful shit they've done in the name of cool or irony or rootsiness etc:

Let me counter the negativity for a sec, I had a tape of a Milton Keynes Bowl concert from '85, where for once Bono had good comic timing.

Bono - 'This is Bad'

Cue the Bad sequencer line and backup guitar coming off tape, but it sounds truly awful, really badly out of tune and warbly, it plays for a few brief seconds...

Bono - 'This is very bad'

Cue really awful Beatles cover.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I have that bootleg.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

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