Well there's "the cute one", "the brooding one", "the funny one"...
Oh wait, that's these guys...
Posted on 10/15/2014 9:42:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
-— They were never good — but they hit a moment when whining disguised as singing and angst replacing meaning somehow rung a bell.
Luckiest no-talent group since Fabian. -—
Bono can’t sing and The Edge can’t play guitar. Yet they’re greater than the sum of their parts. They’re a very good band. “War” was an excellent album. Then Brian Eno produced “The Unforgettable Fire,” improving their sound immeasurably. Finally, “Achtung Baby” ranks up there with the all-time great rock albums.
I blame them for the decline of “music” (two alternating notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes notes ntoes).
The “Edge” (really, he STILL calls himself that?) gives up the game in the documentary “It Might Get Loud”. He admits that his diddling on a guitar doesn’t sound like much of anything without effects pedal, and he has a different set of pedals plugged together for EVERY SINGLE SONG.
Whatever happened to melody?
If you are "omnipresent" you get the magazine covers/press, song placement, and big concert tours (which include merch sales in addition to tickets).
When Prince returned to a major label (Sony) after years of self-release, he had them give away his CD to every concert attendee. He got his first radio hit in years that way.
Well there's "the cute one", "the brooding one", "the funny one"...
Oh wait, that's these guys...
Right, today it is pop albums, tomorrow it is “history in the making” with some political message (END CLIMATE CHANGE NOW, PUSH FOR TOTAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, GIVE TO KATRINA VICTIMS, etc.)
Even Myspace sold a log-in page ad that EVERYONE had to view (full page graphic) to MoveOn.Org blaming Bush for “Katrina”. It was up at least a week if I recall.
And don’t forget that the Obama pushed for an “emergency broadcast system” ability to push messages to your phones.
Sounds like spam.
(I’ve heard even from U2 fans, that this album was crap, but I am too lazy to find out for myself even though I have an iTunes account).
The word on one Recording/Tech site from guys who have a pretty fair amount of respect for the band is that it is amateurish, or a step back in terms of production.
Weird Al’s newest stuff had my kids snorting & chuckling for a week.
He created a new generation of fans in my house.
Now they’re upset he wasn’t picked for Superbowl half time
The real problem is that flac files are pretty large. If you have a data plan that's not very large, this could cost you if you were already close to your limit.
Sirius radio is playing the hell out of that "Miracle of Joey Ramone" single for some strange reason. It's an awful song.
One has to go into the “purchased” section and select it for download...it’s not “pushed”...if you don’t want it, don’t download it.
I downloaded it just to see what U2 was about...never really listened to any of their stuff except for radio play...there are a couple of songs that I like.
I’m pretty ambivalent about this release and it seems like it wants to play more than any other songs on my ipod...so it will be coming off because I’m getting annoyed at its apparent “supremacy” over the rest of my library.
great question...
Melody was my teacher in 5th and 6th grade and she was cool. lol
They didn’t give it away. Apple was dumb enough to buy it.
I never had my iTunes set up to do this, but apparently, people’s beef is that you can set up iTunes to automatically download things you have purchased, which isn’t a big deal normally. . . however, if Apple is purchasing things for you, then it becomes an issue.
Just be thankful it wasn’t a Justin Bieber album.
I wasn't aware of that...thanks for the info.
"...if Apple is purchasing things for you, then it becomes an issue."
Agreed...
THIS TIME...
Grrrrr. ExACTLY.
That last one really ticked me off (the emergency broadcast system)
Teed me off just as much as these idiotic signs on the highway, paid for with lots of taxpayer money, that tell you not to drink and drive or use your cell phone, or whatever.
That just burns me.
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