The Rev. Bono (A critic finally calls this phony out)

Chicago Sun-times ^ | May 9, 2005 | JIM DEROGATIS Pop Music Critic

[College Repub]

I wasn't being sarcastic. They still sell out Arenas and the live shows and dvds they release sell millions.

[College Repub]

Yes.

Releases:
http://theskyiscrape.com/song_menu/albums.php?type_id=1

Sales:
http://www.red-mosquito.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2096&highlight=ten++yeild+yield+jeremy+alive+daughter+dissident+binaural+yeild+yield+single+video+theory
(2nd or 3rd message)

They've sold nearly 600000 records this year and sold 1.2+ million live albums in 2003

[SALChamps03]

Bono lost me when he traipsed around Africa with then Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O'Neil begging for American tax dollars to throw down the rat hole called Africa. They are a nation rich in natural resources and they piss them away with fascist dictators, constant civil war, radical Islam, communism, etc. etc. We could help Africa just as much by taking a billion dollars and setting it on fire. No amount of money will every make Africa prosper until they have free market capitalism and representative democratic republics across the continent. U2 has good music. I will never buy one of their albums because Bono is a socialist.

[College Repub]

Their live shows are amazing and always unique. No elaborate set or lip synching or same setlist. Each show is 100% different from the last. They go through usually 100+ unique songs of theirs and about 20-45 covers per tour that they mix in. Here's the breakdown on the 2003 world tour

http://pjvault.com/stats2003.html

All shows (just about) sell out. See them sometime. They're amazing live.

[My Favorite Headache]

You are high.

The last 3 Pearl Jam releases have barely gone Gold if even that. Riot Act was a complete commercial flop as was No Code and dozens of their live discs failed to even reach the 100,000 copy mark.

They suck and we are not talking about sucking slightly...we are talking porn star sucking here. They stand for lyrically everything FR members for the most part stand for and all Republicans in general. I find absolutely nothing inspiring about Eddie Vedder's whining like it is 1992 and he is on some kind of ego trip.

Try and throw those numbers at someone who is not informed. Pearl Jam might still sell out a few shows here and there but that is only because they have a cult following ala Rush who is another band that averages about 10,000 people per-show and sells about 4-500,000 albums each time they have a new one.

This millions crap is the mid-90s...and those days are LONG gone my friend.

[My Favorite Headache]

I meant to add they stand AGAINST everything Freepers and Republicans stand for.

You can't name a Top 5 list of things Pearl Jam and Freepers have in common and are for politically.

[My Favorite Headache]

Just went and checked and I am right...none of their studio albums have gone platinum in years. Live On 2 Legs was a double live cd set and each unit sold counts as 2 cd's sold. So that makes it technically that 500,000 copies of it were sold although it is certified as a million due to the 2 cd rule.

Binaural is Gold, Lost Dogs is Gold, Riot Act is Gold...their DVD's sell well..around 300,000 copies of Live At The Garden....again NOT millions.

[dread78645]

I miss Da Ramones.

Gaba gaba hey!

(Elvis Costello & the Attractions, too)

[bicyclejoe]

I was at the concert. The reviewer left out an important point. Bono dedicated the song "Running to Stand Still" to the troops. There was some intended irony.