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U2 Stopped Working on Songs of Experience Because of Trump
Diffuser ^

Posted on 01/09/2017 5:38:58 PM PST by Blue Turtle

For the Edge, the election of Trump caused them to see a parallel between the world they wrote about 30 years ago and the world today. “That record was written in the mid-’80s, during the Reagan-Thatcher era of British and U.S. politics,” he added. “It was a period when there was a lot of unrest. Thatcher was in the throes of trying to put down the miners’ strike; there was all kinds of shenanigans going on in Central America.

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To: Rastus
I believe he's referring to Lisa Edelstein.


41 posted on 01/09/2017 6:28:58 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Blue Turtle

U2 move their assets out of Ireland

The rock band U2 came under criticism yesterday after reports that it has moved a portion of its multi-million-pound business empire out of Ireland for tax reasons.

The band, fronted by Bono, the anti-poverty campaigner, has reportedly transferred some of its publishing company to Holland.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1525823/U2-move-their-assets-out-of-Ireland.html


42 posted on 01/09/2017 6:32:08 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Blue Turtle

Sitting in a liberal church this weekend, the minister invited a rather liberal black singer who said she’d finally come up with a song after a creative drought in response to Trump. She was crying, singing what I’d call is a mash up of “all we need is love” and “God is with us through the storm”.
Does that count as the fourth stage of grief?


43 posted on 01/09/2017 6:33:43 PM PST by tbw2
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To: NorthstarMom

What I do remember is that Ireland didn’t even bother to fight Hitler.


44 posted on 01/09/2017 6:35:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Blue Turtle

Patrick Stewart and Paul McCartney in the same boat...sticking their noses in American politics


45 posted on 01/09/2017 6:36:09 PM PST by RaginRak
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Only good Irish band was Thin Lizzy.


46 posted on 01/09/2017 6:37:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: a fool in paradise

18+ years now on FR and I finally see a reference to Negatvland.


47 posted on 01/09/2017 6:38:23 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Incorrigible

don’t forget the Unforgettable Fire. My uncle played that on vnyl when i was a kid.


48 posted on 01/09/2017 6:41:28 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: dfwgator

Aye...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyQ-tScuzwM


49 posted on 01/09/2017 6:43:25 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (GET OUT OF DONALD'S HOUSE!)
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To: Artemis Webb

Never cared for them.


50 posted on 01/09/2017 6:48:34 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: dfwgator

That had much to do with being a brand new country and the fact that they couldn’t bring themselves to be allies with their recent oppressors.


51 posted on 01/09/2017 6:52:45 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: dfwgator

Finally we agree.


52 posted on 01/09/2017 6:53:56 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: max americana

Meh.. “Under a Blood Red Sky” was the most awesome.


53 posted on 01/09/2017 6:57:49 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: ifinnegan

I think 3 or 4 of the members have died in the past 5 years, unlikely to see/hear much more from Negativland...


54 posted on 01/09/2017 6:58:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Phil Lynott had more talent in his little pinky than Bono ever will have.

Damn drugs.


55 posted on 01/09/2017 7:03:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Yep.

He’s jamming with Jerry Garcia.


56 posted on 01/09/2017 7:06:18 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (GET OUT OF DONALD'S HOUSE!)
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To: dfwgator
Besides U2 is Dutch, well at least that’s what it says on their tax records.

That's a big one. When I learned, years ago, that they were doing that I lost a lot of respect for them. I used to love Bono, but when he actually called himself a champagne socialist, and laughed, I thought... yes. Yes, you are.

For me, the best metaphor is when Bono did a duet with Luciano Pavarotti, and his voice was so breathy and affected and wavering compared to that powerful, trained, deep, spot-on tenor, it was like seeing a plastic doll next to a jade statue.

57 posted on 01/09/2017 7:32:24 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: Blue Turtle

Die U2 Die!!!!!!


58 posted on 01/09/2017 8:06:19 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: dfwgator

They’re Welsh. They were going to call the band UU, but Wales has Strict Limits on how many vowels can be used.


59 posted on 01/09/2017 10:50:04 PM PST by sig226
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To: Blue Turtle

If they stopped working on new songs because of Trump, they can always re-do one of their old songs into ‘Megyn Bloody Megyn’ instead.


60 posted on 01/09/2017 11:05:34 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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