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  1. They seem to be in Killiney all the time, except when I'm not there. Morons

  2. Only if they are good artists that have lost their way.

    Which means only if they are Maroon 5 (their early work is the closest thing to decent pop-rock there is). Otherwise, deduct another 10% from rock and that's what you've got.

    If you're saying that pop-rock is basically pop, you're absolutely right, because that's what the standards appear to be at this point.

    Disregarding my shameless attempt to fix my typo, the gist is still the same. Pop-rock is essentially far more pop than rock. If our fear is that U2 will suddenly make a beeline towards pop, we need not worry because that will never happen.

    I'd say that Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto came close, but only in the sense that their album contained very good rock songs and one very good pop song (I consider Princess of China a pop song).
  3. If you mean that Coldplay does play softrock you´re right. Coldplay did never compose rocksongs like Pride.. U2 is a rockband. Coldplay not,
    Anaothe example: Is One a rocksong or a popsong. Does it matter? It´s a great song.

    I do hope that the new U2 album has great rocksongs as before.
  4. Originally posted by ahn1991:[..]

    Only if they are good artists that have lost their way.

    Which means only if they are Maroon 5 (their early work is the closest thing to decent pop-rock there is). Otherwise, deduct another 10% from rock and that's what you've got.

    If you're saying that pop-rock is basically pop, you're absolutely right, because that's what the standards appear to be at this point.

    Disregarding my shameless attempt to fix my typo, the gist is still the same. Pop-rock is essentially far more pop than rock. If our fear is that U2 will suddenly make a beeline towards pop, we need not worry because that will never happen.

    I'd say that Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto came close, but only in the sense that their album contained very good rock songs and one very good pop song (I consider Princess of China a pop song).

    The closest thing to decent pop-rock is Maroon 5? I'm glad you said their early stuff (even though the singer sounds like he's swallowed a laxative) because their new 'music' is just noise. Much like a lot of new 'music'.

    The last pop-rock album I heard was Havoc And Bright Lights from 2012. The new Kesha-Iggy collaboration was pretty pop-rock. That's about all the new music I know in that type of category.

    U2 did make a beeline towards pop-rock quite recently. There were four PR-sounding type songs on NLOTH - Magnificent, Stand Up, Get On Your Boots and Crazy Tonight (more so). As for that new Coldplay album - meh. I did not enjoy that album - at least the Viva La Vida one sounded great (because of the classical / symphonic elements). Not one song happened to pull me in whatsoever.

    Recommend me a good pop-rock album, or generally something new that's good.
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  6. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
    U2 did make a beeline towards pop-rock quite recently. There were four PR-sounding type songs on NLOTH - Magnificent, Stand Up, Get On Your Boots and Crazy Tonight (more so).


    Tell this to people who listen to pop rock and they will tell you that you are crazy. To say that Boots was PR-sounding is like saying that Vertigo is PR sounding. Ridiculous.
  7. I think pop-rock is much cheaper and more disposable than anything U2 have put out. There's still a large scope for good music between rock and pop-rock.
  9. No one who posted this?



    Larry also has an opinion about this version:
  10. EW, that band sounds so bad (compared to U2)... Bono sounds good though.
  11. Originally posted by U2"Bono guests on The Charlie Rose Show tonight at 11 pm EDT on PBS (check local listings) - and on Bloomberg International tomorrow night."
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