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  1. I don't ask for a revolution like AB, but stop following money and Blackberry's and focus on the fans, U2's image and specially Bono's are too much damaged, drop the glasses, drop the whole mega stars and just make music, an album 2 in 2 years, that is what I think

    So true

    Ps. ATYCLB is much better than NLOTH
  2. What they should have done is taken the experimental parts of NLOTH and expanded on them, instead of trying to blend them with the rock feel they've been doing. Like was said, it's ATYCLB and Zooropa blended. What we should have gotten was another Zooropa or another Pop, like they promised (i know they actually promised another AB, but you get my point).

    AND to expand on it even more, they should have expanded (have i said expanded enough yet?) on the whole "space" theme for this tour. They say "we got a spaceship" like once or twice per show, they have that weird thingy before Ultraviolet, but other than that, it's basically a re-vamped Vertigo tour show with a better stage. We should have gotten more experimental songs, a lot more pop songs and zooropa songs thrown into the set, and maybe even some Passengers songs, like Your Blue Room in my opinion should have been permament, maybe Slug, maybe Beach Sequence to open the show. As much as I like what they're doing now, they should either
    A) Stop talking about Space as if they're playing a "space" show
    B) Start playing more experimental songs, because the fans would bow down to it.

    I love U2, I loved the 360 show more than anything, it was my first U2 concert and it was god damn magic, and i'll love it when I see it again in Montreal, this is all just a critics way of looking at the show. I love it now, but if they did these things I'd love it even more.
  3. If you for once compare U2 with, let's say, REM, well, U2 is still relevant and as much as I like REM, they aren't.
    But if you look at their careers you can relate the experimental albums of REM with U2's 90's albums and still in this new decade U2 are still a mega band and REM are not that well known at least for now but they still make records, they still make tours and fans follow their lead because they truly care about the band. U2 doesn't need to throw Ipods and Blackberrys at us for us to care about them or actually start listening to their new album or old stuff, that's just U2's business of making a lot of money out of products, I don't mind it as I don't mind Bono having a jet pick up his hat, I don't give a fuck about that, that's tabloid and business and I couldn't care less, what I do care is their music, having an album, having some songs to hear everyday and feel either happy or sad with the quality of that particular song or album, that's my judgment. We all agree they lost some balls after Pop but that doesn't mean they can't do it one more time, NLOTH showed us, while not being that hardcore experimental, that U2 can still produce something new, something fresh. That being said, no matter if they sell 1 million or 10 million albums, they make more money out of tours, and in this pirate world, even if they made the biggest radio cliche album it wouldn't make that much money since people download a lot and actually before the album gets released. With that in mind, why not just release stuff more sooner than later, why wait 5 years and then release something? They don't need money, neither they care about critics, they have the " POP experience" on their past so, why should they give a fuck?

    ATYCLB and HTDAAB were crowd pleasers( I think it is pronounced this way ) because they weren't that "imaginative" as, let's say AB or Zooropa. Speaking of the last, it was made in a matter of months so, you get my point. While I do like some songs from their 2000's albums, they can't even compare to any other album before!

    I can say this, they released POP in 1997 or 1998, then up until now they released 3 albums in 11 years, and a band that I like very much called Placebo in that same amount of time released 4 or 5 albums, a best of and a cover album so you get the picture. It's not the time spent making the album that makes the album good, it's the meaning of it and the ideas flowing.
    They lose fans because they wait and rework the songs they are gonna release in an album way too much, they lose their charm, while other bands release an album 2 in 2 years, obviously if they want to appeal and still be relevant unlike REM currently are, they should remove their heads up their own asses, specially Bono and create music, if they have enough material for 2 albums, then do it, release them, but do something and don't tease for a year and so and then release nothing at all.
    The tour starts in June again? Wait...June? And the other 5 months before? Working on an album you're not going to release? This I just don't get, maybe I'm ranting too much, I am actually but If I can't talk about this here, then where can I?

    This is the opinion of a portuguese man who loves U2 like a religion
  4. R.E.M are boring and overrated. I mean people who criticise Coldplay for being soft and sappy clearly haven't listened to R.E.M.
  5. Maybe not worth an entirely new topic, but:

    Happy 10th birthday to ATYCLB! Maybe not their best work, but like for so many others, it introduced me to U2 and I wouldn't be a fan without it.
  6. You can all think what you want about ATYCLB, but i really believe that if it wasn't a commercial succes (which it was, thanks to Beautiful Day), the band would've probably been split up because of their feelings about Pop(mart).
  7. Maybe not their best. But this album let me know U2 I was 8 years old when I heard Beautifull Day because my parents liked it, I liked it too, but I was only 8 so I didnt listened to the whole album. Later on HTDAAB and a concert in Amsterdam really got me into U2 and see where I am now: on the heaven of U2 fans
  8. It was the album that got me into U2 but I'm not a fan of the second half of the album. It's not their worst, and that's fine.
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