when did U2 start to suck?

[Color Me Badd Fan]

How the hell do these guys keep a straight face calling the guitarist "The Edge." Bono, I kind of get, it's a nickname that rolls off the tongue.

Wouldn't you feel like a total ass saying "Hey, The Edge, we need to do another take on this song, let's try to slow things down a touch."

[creekster]

How the hell do these guys keep a straight face calling the guitarist "The Edge." Bono, I kind of get, it's a nickname that rolls off the tongue.

Wouldn't you feel like a total ass saying "Hey, The Edge, we need to do another take on this song, let's try to slow things down a touch."

Bono was actually worse in the past. He called himself bono vox for a while. AA or Solon will tell you that means, roughly, Good Voice. SO as you can see his humility got an early start.

[RobinFinderson]

Bono was actually worse in the past. He called himself bono vox for a while. AA or Solon will tell you that means, roughly, Good Voice. SO as you can see his humility got an early start.

I had always heard that he took his name from some kind of hearing aid device. This old story would not contradict the 'Good Voice' interpretation, but I have never heard that he took the name as a boast.

[creekster]

I had always heard that he took his name from some kind of hearing aid device. This old story would not contradict the 'Good Voice' interpretation, but I have never heard that he took the name as a boast.

Reading wikipedia gain are you?

bonavox. that was the name of the heargin aid shop. someone called bono bono vox. but he kept it becasue he liked that it meant good voice. Is it a boast? I guess you're right, from such a shy, humble man it is hard to believe he would mean it that way.

[falafel]

Some guy I play basketball with in the mornings went to the U2 concert in Vegas last weekend. He claims he sat next to Colin Cowherd at the concert. I was thinking, psshhhh! they played east coast dates, why would he come here (yes, I know he lived here).

On the radio this morning, Bono mentioned how he was in Vegas last weekend for the U2 concert. Huh. Anyway, I'd venture that U2's decline is probably inversely correlated to Colin Cowherd's rise in popularity.

[Levin]

tickets were $150 so I couldn't afford to go.

ps forgive third world debt!

Trying to be clever FAIL.

I'd like to see the logical proof that makes this snark work.

[jay santos]

Trying to be clever FAIL.

I'd like to see the logical proof that makes this snark work.

I don't understand DDD's take on this. Tickets are priced by supply and demand. Your stance on third world debt has absolutely no influence on ticket prices.

[Guest]

War, Unforgettable and Joshua really are great complete albums.

The current criticisms of U2 and Bono specifically are well documented, but those three albums were transformative pop. To those who weren't there, the frame of reference is missed - when comparing what U2 produced against the then landscape of popular music.

[creekster]

I don't understand DDD's take on this. Tickets are priced by supply and demand. Your stance on third world debt has absolutely no influence on ticket prices.

Ole Mr. Good Voice himself wrote about the irony involved in the song God Part II when he said:

I don't believe in excess - success is to give
I don't believe in riches but you should see where I live


See? It is ironic.

[TripletDaddy]

I don't understand DDD's take on this. Tickets are priced by supply and demand. Your stance on third world debt has absolutely no influence on ticket prices.

countries borrow money because they are running out of it.

why should other nations forgive the debt?

[il Padrino Ute]

countries borrow money because they are running out of it.

why should other nations forgive the debt?

Exactly.

Perhaps Bono should buy some of that debt and do the forgiving himself.

[Flystripper]

countries borrow money because they are running out of it.

why should other nations forgive the debt?

I want china to forgive US debt.....any way we can get classified as third world?

[creekster]

I want china to forgive US debt.....any way we can get classified as third world?

charge less for concerts, apparetnly.

[TripletDaddy]

I want china to forgive US debt.....any way we can get classified as third world?

Perhaps Malum Vox can forgive the debt owed to him by Clear Channel for this current tour. That would be a nice gesture.

[jay santos]

countries borrow money because they are running out of it.

why should other nations forgive the debt?

I'm not saying Bono's politics are completely defendable. I just don't get the hypocritical claims, like noting the concert is $150.