In the middle of a concert in Ireland, U2 stopped playing and Bono began clapping his hands, slowly, rhythmically as the crowd grows quiet...  "Everytime I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa" Bono proclaims.  After a brief silence, a voice from the crowd yells "Then stop fooking doing it!!!"

I absolutely hate Led Zeppelin.

Add another to that list............


I'm a bit older than you, but I still never understood the lore........

 

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and successful - Just watching a TV program about 20 best artist or bands of all time and U2 is among such 

giants like Pink Floyd, Queen, Michael Jackson, etc etc. I mean come on, those guys from U2 barely could play 
on their instruments...Granted they have few nice songs and original style (accomplished willy-nilly because of lack of instrumental skills) 
but how they can be even compared to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple....it's not same league.

No more than than trying to compare....Deep Purple? Queen?

To Michael Jackson...............

craigb


In the middle of a concert in Ireland, U2 stopped playing and Bono began clapping his hands, slowly, rhythmically as the crowd grows quiet...  "Everytime I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa" Bono proclaims.  After a brief silence, a voice from the crowd yells "Then stop fooking doing it!!!"

I just spit coffee all over my laptop laughing at that! 

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julibee

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I take serious exception to that.  

I am a child of the 80s, after all.

I absolutely hate Led Zeppelin.

Oh yeah????  Well I don't like Dylan!  So there! 

Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-NYAH!  

 
but you, however, Jules, are my favorite!!! 

You're a GOOD BOY, Beagle!  :)

I love U2.  I hate their egos though.  Edge is no spectacular guitarist but his style is unique and is the backbone of their sound.  That Bill Bailey technical failure clip is hilarious.

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I mean come on, those guys from U2 barely could play 
on their instruments...

What does that have to do with the price of cheese?
 
And where do you draw the line between who can and can't 'play'?
 
 

I love Rush.

I can appreciate Led Zeppelin.

I can tolerate U2.

Not every Rush song is great, but there are moments where I can't help but think "How are 3 guys doing that?  That sounds amazing!"

My hang-up with LZ is Jimmy Page.  How can the same person sound so fantastic on his acoustic, write and play these great electric guitar riffs, and then absolutely butcher the solo?

I guess I'm just jealous of U2.  I hear their music - and I do like some of it - and I think, "Yeah, I can play that.  I could've written that."  Thank God for the Onion:  http://www.theonion.com/articles/rest-of-u2-perfectly-fine-with-africans-starving,1852/

I think the magic part of U2 is the live performance. I've never been a big fan of their songs, but when I put one of their concert DVDs on the player  and turn the home cinema to 11 I'm mesmerized. The newest shows are a little too BIG, but still....

When U2 started to rise, there were few, if any, singers who had such cruel intensity combined with musical vibe in the voice as Bono.
And minimalism is very, very difficult. U2 has well succeeded in sticking to their basic sound. The arrangements are barren as the Irish hills.

In a way the band is a one trick pony, but all the bands that have become really big, are such IMO. Performers with variation and risk taking never fill stadions, only arenas.(OK, this is from the point of view of a scarsely inhabited country. I guess in London or LA you can fill a stadion with a " See the  quills of a female hedgehog grow"-show).
And maybe there are exceptions..David Bowie...not a band...

I don't like REM (and I am from Georgia) cannot stand RUSH, though I have heard a few good moments from them (when there was no singing going on), never liked much LZ except for a short flirtation with LZ II, I have no use for U2... really after I have heard something 100 times I don't want to hear it anymore. Back in the 60s I knew every word to every BEATLES song, now I could usually care less... sometimes I get the urge to hear them, they really made some incredible music... Imagine makes my skin crawl, I cannot turn the dial fast enough if it comes on. Some live albums are just horrible like LZ, The Song Remains the Same, other shows are OK (I have the box set of DVDs but  I have not watched it all the way through). RUSHs first live album is the only album (cassette) I have ever returned to a store. I listened and returned it about 20 minutes later, told them it was the worst excuse for music I had ever heard, they actually took it back...

People ask me my favorite band, I usually do not have one. Sometimes Monks of Doom but I listened to them so much that if I listen now they get in my head for a week or more and I can't get it out. I HATE classic rock stations... I love new music stations like the GA State station WRAS (Album 88) every time I turn it on I hear something I've never heard, that is refreshing (to me). I like some of the shows on XM like To Petty's show and other channels that play old and obscure music... I am recording Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison off some cable channel right now while I watch the GA/Auburn football game and play on the internets.

Julie (n) I am an equal opportunity hater.