reference cliffnotes for Sara R-C:
I want to reach outand touch the flamebecause I'm an insufferable asshole whose band is terribleawwwww yeahhhhan insufferable asshole whose band is terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxl9EI9YBg
all is quieton new year's dayexcept for meI'm just yowling awayI will be with you againbecause some dickhead will put my record on at a partypwnd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Y-t85vs4g
if I were a tower of strength, I'd walk awayI'd look in your eyes, and here's what I'd say:"blah blah blah, everything I say is extremely important,get really into classic rock, it's awesome"think I'll say that anyway, I'm fucking Bono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A&ob=av2e
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
When U2 played in Glasgow a couple of years ago Bono stood on stage snapping his fingers and said, every time I snap my fangers astarving child somewhere in the world dies. Someone in the crowd shouted, Well stop snapping your fingers then you sick bastard.alecahauf 2 months ago
alecahauf 2 months ago
<3
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, deX, many <3 <3 <3
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
xxp would take that a lot more seriously if it wasn't coming from someone who bought a first class plane ticket for his hat. Like most bands, U2 have some good tunes, some bad tunes. But it's Bono's 'saving the world single handed' thing I can't abide.
― Hysterically Hardcore (snoball), Thursday, 11 August 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
it really helps if you live under a rock and thus can live in blissful ignorance of that sort of thing
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
there is always a bunch of ILM people that overly judge a song by the lyrics and then say something like "the tune isn't so hot either". These people are backwards. Lyrics should come second
― stop listening to the lyrics so much. you're ruining music (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yes but what does that have to do with Bono
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
probably like someone cooking you a pretty bad meal about which sure there are complaints to be made, but which is made totally worse by bono thrusting at you while you eat it
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
its like ordering a dominos pizza and then bono shows up to deliver it and has his dick sticking through the middle
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
and that pizza is called the angel of harlem special
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
concavesausagepizza.com
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, what a wonderful thread.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
BTW this is the single worst piece of criticism written by anyone anywhere, and when I read it I was already thinking "Christ, fuck U2" after Rattle and Hum came out and then I read this and figured I need not trust Robert Hilburn, who I had only just learned about, on anything for the future. In retrospect this was one of the smartest decisions I've ever made.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-20/entertainment/ca-441_1_rock-band
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
omg the title alone
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of can't believe he is referring to Bono as "Hewson"
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I can. All too clearly.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
If U2 has an artistic Achilles' heel, it may be its eagerness to live up to what it sees as the idealism and integrity of rock's finest moments. The danger is that the band may look to critics as the arbiter of rock 'n' roll honor and begin second-guessing itself in view of the sharp critical disagreement over the band's latest step; instead of pursuing its own artistic impulses, it could end up weakening its vision in hopes of seeking some sort of consensus approval.
okay even at the time this is like the dumbest possible thing anyone could say about U2; the fact that the next thing U2 released was Achtung, Baby just makes it worse
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I forgot -- best detail is that in the original print run of that piece when I read it, it was accompanied by a black and white line drawing showing Bono standing at the fork in the road on a desert highway or something, himself split in two as he deeply pondered on WHICH WAY HE SHOULD TAKE OH THE ART.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god
page 2
OH MY GOD
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't even excerpt a quote, it's all so fawning and stupid and are we sure Hilburn wasn't actually a horny 13-year-old girl when he wrote this
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.roberthilburnonline.com/uploads/2/3/9/9/2399246/3563261.jpg?198x287
"Heheh, hehehehe, you said girl, heheheheheheh."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Dear 1988,
What. The. Hell.
Love, Sara
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
free to defend preening songster (3,4)
― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 August 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Man oh man do I ever dislike soundgarden
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't even claim passing familiarity with soundgarden...
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg
yr welcome
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
btw John, are you just going to use this thread to go "this band that currently has a poll thread on ILM, I do not like them *arms crossed*"?
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
That song/video makes me irrationally angry.
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
pretty sure that is exactly what you should use it for.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I was thinking I should defend everyone but considering we've started with U2 and Soundgarden that may end in tears for me
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
option a - show up in ilm thread with "duh this band sucks durr durr"option b - this thread
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
because srsly soundgarden is some sort of i have no mouth but i must scream impulse for me so best to be done with it
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
no love for "Spoonman"?
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
okay literally I started laughing the instant I hit submit post
PLAYING TEH METAL WITH HIS HAAAHAHAAAHHHNDDDS
KILL ME
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure grunge did more to destroy basic singing skills than any other form of music
lyrics dont have enough syllables? well just fucking add as many as you want!
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_zzCLLRvE&ob=av3e
lol this is funnier than I remembered
xp: um you remember punk happened, right
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
bah punk is stylistic, these people got accolades for being singers.
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
you know whats better than a vowel sound? ALL OF THE VOWEL SOUNDS IN A ROW ALL THE TIME
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
was going to go all techy and use formant but theres no need for this dumb thread to go highbrow
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
let me try another tack:
um you remember that hair metal happened, right
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
because the funniest thing about "Spoonman" to me is that dude sings it like it's "The Final Countdown"
yeah idk for me its half the vowel thing and half the "plz allow me to chew all these consonants as much as possible nom nom"
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
"i am growling all these words because i am so fake tortured and saddo"
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
also can I just point out that invoking "stylistic" as a defense for one form of terrible, terrible singing over the other essentially says "I have no defensible argument, I just like one more than the other"
also no one abused vowels more than homegirl from The Cranberries
― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
nah i disagree with that, grunge specifically presented the singer as some sort of auteur, and lots of people hold up people like eddie vedder as great technical singers - nobody is saying that about henry rollins.
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
cranberries otm tho.
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