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Whoever persuaded Bono he could sing?
Spectator UK ^
| 17 Dec 2022
| Julie Burchill
Posted on 12/15/2022 6:18:21 PM PST by Rummyfan
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Even his parents dismissed the idea, but his yowling has sold so many records that he has mistaken himself for a great rock star
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:18:21 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Everyone likes what they like. But I never understood why U2 was so big. Just don’t get it.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:20:38 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:20:38 PM PST
by
hardspunned
(Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
To: Rummyfan
the same one who did a number on springschtine
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:20:38 PM PST
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: Rummyfan
Once upon a time, I respected him. It was several years ago. That’s all.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:21:43 PM PST
by
ZinGirl
(Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
To: Rummyfan
2. At 18, Bono had read Crime and Punishment – but he prefers the Ramones. The Jesuits in my high school made us read it by junior year - 16 years old.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:22:23 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Rummyfan
I really enjoyed the first two albums. The second album, October, is actually one of the best Christian Rock albums as it doesn't try to shove religion into the songs.
To: Rummyfan
Julie, you are sadly ignorant. Many song writers do not sing well. That doesn’t mean they are not fine musicians or composers. Oh, just by the way, many song singers can’t sing. It’s definitely difficult to tell these days with autotune and related electronic voice modifiers.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:26:22 PM PST
by
ConservativeInPA
(Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:26:55 PM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: PGR88
I read it in 7th grade...12.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:27:18 PM PST
by
left that other site
(Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
To: ClearCase_guy
But I never understood why U2 was so big. Just don’t get it. something specific about them, their style and the times. It all worked at that moment, to make them famous.
I remember at around the same time, Julia Roberts was considered absolutely beautiful. I see her in those old movies now and wonder - what were we thinking?
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:27:45 PM PST
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PGR88
To: Rummyfan
It’s his band, so of course, he’s the singer.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:28:07 PM PST
by
x
To: Rummyfan
I’d put Bob Dylan in this category too. Brilliant songwriter and a lot of singers and bands have done nice covers of his tunes, but his nasal, monotone voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:36:58 PM PST
by
fidelis
(👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
To: hardspunned
True, but one with Sonny set her on the road to what she is today.
Who else? Bruce leftist Springsteen, Kanye West, the clown married to Beyonce—and that includes Beyonce—Jenifer Lopez, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Pitbull, and a few others I don’t want to waste my time with. The world is upside down, politics, music, FJB, and Jill. Screwed is what has become of us...
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:37:14 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: fidelis
I’d put Bob Dylan in this category too. Brilliant songwriter and a lot of singers and bands have done nice covers of his tunes, but his nasal, monotone voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.I think anyone wold tel you Bob Dylan is no singer. And he has only gotten worse as he has aged to the point now where his voice is an unintelligible nasal whine.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:40:27 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: Rummyfan
What's the difference between God and Bono?
God doesn't walk around thinking he's Bono.
To: fidelis
Just give his album “Nashville Skyline” one listen. Skip the first cut, a duet with Johnny Cash.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:42:26 PM PST
by
EandH Dad
(sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
To: left that other site
I read it when I was six months old.
Mom set up a projector that displayed the pages on the ceiling over my crib.
It seemed pedantic and a little sterile to me.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:43:11 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
To: Rummyfan
I saw U2 play a bowling alley in Asbury Park in NJ when they first came to the states.
Never really took to Bono’s minor chord singing. Some good guitar work, if a bit repetitious.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:44:03 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America.)
To: fidelis
Bob Dylan, J. J. Cale, Leonard Cohen, etc.
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posted on
12/15/2022 6:45:07 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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