New U2 Allbum (1 Viewer)

[avernus]

Music snobbery man... Glad there's none of that on Thumped, pff.

hehe

 

[avernus]

yeah and Larry. apparently he went to get some lessons after their 1st album or something. John Wadham said that he had to go back and learn his rudiments cos he was pretty awful. Larry told him to take a hike and never returned.

you can tell he's a skilled drummer.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

yeah and Larry. apparently he went to get some lessons after their 1st album or something. John Wadham said that he had to go back and learn his rudiments cos he was pretty awful. Larry told him to take a hike and never returned.

you can tell he's a skilled drummer.

i don't care for training. you either make the instrument your own or you don't. i don't think any of u2 *own* their instruments in this way... all's it is is a hell of a lot of money and a lot of hi-tech studio equipment and some over-paid producers.

 

[avernus]

In a way..'The Edge' (like for fuck sake) has made his own sound.
he's been blasting the same moves on his delay pedal for fucking decades.

 

[Goodbye]

Good U2 ablums:

The Joshua Tree
Zooropa
Million Doller Hotel Soundtrack thingy
the rest? meh

The odd good single comes out every now and again...

Honestly, when you write music for a living the odd good tune does pop out, i.e. The Scientest by Warmplay or Everythings Changing by Keane...

Still, after listening to Chapterhouse for a summer, Imagine my reaction when I heard Mysterious Ways for the first time... jaysus

 

[Buzzo]

Sure. Mozart couldn't even read music never mind write it. And Richard Clayderman can onny play the demos off a casio keyboard.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

ah here, u2 got shit after the joshua tree. nearly all the records before the JT have some great moments. boy is a great record for example. but i still think adam is dreadfully brilliant...

GO ADAM!!! dum dum dum (raise pitch) dum dum dum (back to previous pitch) dum dum dum. you know what i'm talking about. he's like someone from the not too distant future... the type of person your granny thinks might frequent an "internet cafe".

 

[Goodbye]

I was into U2 at the start what with the Martin Hannet association, but then realised that wasent enough and the records were in fact shit...
... The Joshua Tree is indeed their finest hour, but Zooropa has good tunes

 

[egg_]

i don't care for training. you either make the instrument your own or you don't

... and often training helps you achieve this

i don't think any of u2 *own* their instruments in this way

The Edge does. He invented that whole chicka-chicka guitar thing. Also Larry Mullen's drumming back in the old days was very distinctive, very military. Adam Clayton's bass playing, however ...

 

[Ex-User (250)]

... and often training helps you achieve this

The Edge does. He invented that whole chicka-chicka guitar thing. Also Larry Mullen's drumming back in the old days was very distinctive, very military. Adam Clayton's bass playing, however ...

i disagree with you about mullen and the edge, ok? you actually know how edge achieves that sound... i think it's more a case of him not inventing it but other musicians too embarrassed to use it over and over and over and over and over... i don't rate mullen at all as a drummer, even on the early stuff. you might. but that's ok.

 

[egg_]

Hey I don't think either of them are good, I just think they are (or were) distinctive, that's all

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Hey I don't think either of them are good, I just think they are (or were) distinctive, that's all

distinctively mediocre. NO COME BACKS!!!

 

[veryslowey]

my personal favourite U2 albums are ass follows:












































in that order

 

[taubstumm]

The Edge does. He invented that whole chicka-chicka guitar thing.

three words for you... andy fucking gill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(band)

 

[billygannon]

three words for you... andy fucking gill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(band)

Aren't U2 around longer than Gang of Four?

 

[hugh]

Claytons my hero

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Claytons my hero

that's obvious. *ZING*

 

[egg_]

Aren't U2 around longer than Gang of Four?

U2 were in the Youngline Annual in 1977 (or was it 1978?) as an up-and-coming band along with The Blades so around the same length of time it seems

 

[Donkey OJ]

........for the love of christ

sums up U2s raison d'etre for me. thats why i dont dig them. bands-who-write-love-songs-about-god 'r baaad. m'kaaay?

 

[brikelly]

The opening of Vertigo sounds identical to Therapy's cover of "Isolation" by Joy Division. Load of shite regardless of the plagiarism.