Sleepy Kisser
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Joined: Nov. 28, 2001
Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 1:29 AM
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I'm not sure if anyone cares, but today, for me, the last straw fell on the camel's back, and it collapsed in disgust.
I know that most of you gave up on U2 a long time ago, but not me. I think their best album was the one right after Achtung Baby. And I happen to think that the one after that, simply titled Pop, is also in the top three. Yeah, they've gone downhill a bit since then, but I can still enjoy some of their new material on some level. Even this latest one had a few good songs, I thought. But then I read this bullshit, and immediately the anger began to swell up inside. Now on the surface, this may even seem like a good thing. You know, like they may make an awesome album even better. But if this retouching is anything like the ones that happened on Volume 2 of the Greatest Hits, what they really want to do is take the edge off and make it sound not so techno and frightening.
So listen here, Bono & Co, I know you guys have become reacquainted with your sappy-ass earnest/hearfelt/JoshuaTree/save-the-world roots in recent years, and that's fine. But let's don't go spoiling the really great music that you made once upon a time. I know you hate irony now, but this ridiculous move is almost too outrageously ironic to believe. You made an album essentially poking fun at your formerly way-too-serious selves. You held the press conference at a K-Mart. Your stage set was a McDonald's golden arch. It was perhaps the most incredibly awesome era in your existence as a band. And now you want to go back and whitewash it with Joshua Tree guitars and Steve Lillywhite? Your own joke has gone right over your heads. Unbelievable.
(Edited by jamiecarroll at 1:35 am on Jul. 19, 2005)
I know that most of you gave up on U2 a long time ago, but not me. I think their best album was the one right after Achtung Baby. And I happen to think that the one after that, simply titled Pop, is also in the top three. Yeah, they've gone downhill a bit since then, but I can still enjoy some of their new material on some level. Even this latest one had a few good songs, I thought. But then I read this bullshit, and immediately the anger began to swell up inside. Now on the surface, this may even seem like a good thing. You know, like they may make an awesome album even better. But if this retouching is anything like the ones that happened on Volume 2 of the Greatest Hits, what they really want to do is take the edge off and make it sound not so techno and frightening.
So listen here, Bono & Co, I know you guys have become reacquainted with your sappy-ass earnest/hearfelt/JoshuaTree/save-the-world roots in recent years, and that's fine. But let's don't go spoiling the really great music that you made once upon a time. I know you hate irony now, but this ridiculous move is almost too outrageously ironic to believe. You made an album essentially poking fun at your formerly way-too-serious selves. You held the press conference at a K-Mart. Your stage set was a McDonald's golden arch. It was perhaps the most incredibly awesome era in your existence as a band. And now you want to go back and whitewash it with Joshua Tree guitars and Steve Lillywhite? Your own joke has gone right over your heads. Unbelievable.
(Edited by jamiecarroll at 1:35 am on Jul. 19, 2005)
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