When exactly was the moment Bono disappeared right up his own backside?

[The Modfather]

First 2 albums were half-decent but it was a parting of the ways for me when War came out.

 

[BN9 BHA]

"Sunday Bloody Sunday". What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".

Biggest laugh of the day for me reading that!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

U2 f***ing shite

 

[brakespear]

Up there with Stones and the Beatles regardless of what the too cool for school knockers might want you to believe.

Or maybe some people just have different opinions and tastes to your own?

 

[Pogue Mahone]

They appeared at the tail end of punk, didn't they? I remember Fire or whatever it was, on TOTP. They didn't seem 'real' to me. I was way cool. An authentic punk...

But they kept coming back, and my mate Tim kept telling me how good they were. So I kept listening, wanting to 'get it'.

I couldn't though. They just seemed shit.

I began to really hate U2 around the time they released The Joshua Tree. This was, to me, bombastic shite, derivative 80s nonsense, on a par with the worst excesses of Simple Minds. And with my hatred of them came the realisation that Bono was a cock of the highest order.

So, for me, this was the moment that Bono finally disappeared up his own arse.

 

[hart's shirt]

 

[SeagullinExile]

Joshua Tree - Rattle and Hum period - When they all decided to be cowboys IMO.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Probably when he was standing up on a stage pontificating about the rich and the poor and how terrible it is all the while wearing his $5000 designers jeans.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Slotting your fortune away in Holland whilst espousing help for the poor is a bit nobby.

"But it's a business decision."

Ok, you stop talking about feeding the poor then.

 

[Sloe Joe]

When he was born - the overhyped midget, twerp that he is (polite).
Why he needs to wear wrap around shades in the dark is anybody's guess.
Has he an optical condition as well as vocal ?

 

[Soulman]

After all these years, Bono 'still hasn't found what he's looking for'.
Perhaps he might have more luck if he took off those stupid sunglasses.

 

[Buzzer]

Constantly reinvented themselves and I've generally enjoyed all their music

Then fair enough, music is a personal thing after all but I think a major part of their re-invention to stadium rock and their signature sound owes a huge debt of gratitude to Brian Eno. I'd definitely dispute the notion that they've 'constantly' re-invented themselves. I think they've stuck to a winning formula pretty much since the Joshua Tree.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

After all these years, Bono 'still hasn't found what he's looking for'.
Perhaps he might have more luck if he took off those stupid sunglasses.

Boy George once talked about how he fancied Larry Mullen, and said that if Bono still hadn't found what he was looking for, then perhaps he should turn around and look behind the drum kit.

 

[portlock seagull]

Or maybe some people just have different opinions and tastes to your own?

FFS! I wasn't saying this is some sort of definitive list.
I don't especially like either but recognise they're hailed as leading bands on the global stage. If you're picking a fight, come to the wrong house I'm afraid.

 

[portlock seagull]

Then fair enough, music is a personal thing after all but I think a major part of their re-invention to stadium rock and their signature sound owes a huge debt of gratitude to Brian Eno. I'd definitely dispute the notion that they've 'constantly' re-invented themselves. I think they've stuck to a winning formula pretty much since the Joshua Tree.

Eno and many others too as they'd say themselves. Team effort, include the wives in that circle too I guess.

 

[brakespear]

FFS! I wasn't saying this is some sort of definitive list.
I don't especially like either but recognise they're hailed as leading bands on the global stage. If you're picking a fight, come to the wrong house I'm afraid.

I didn't make myself clear - it was the reference to 'the too for school knockers' as if people are only expressing negativity towards Bono and U2 as part of keeping up some sort of image rather than becaus ethey just don't like them. Coldplay fans do the same thing, funnily enough.

 

[Sloe Joe]

After all these years, Bono 'still hasn't found what he's looking for'.
Perhaps he might have more luck if he took off those stupid sunglasses.

Well said Sarf End Boy !

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Aren't we forgetting his fellow cock, " The Edge " surely anyone who dubs himself this is cockdom personified ?

The Edge went up in my estimation when he was just moshing with the peeps at a Weller gig in Dublin I was at.

 

[TotallyFreaked]

I was in the pub last week and it turned into a battle of the biggest idiots in music. He had some tough competition but suffice to say Bono won it by a country mile.

 

[BN9 BHA]

They appeared at the tail end of punk, didn't they? I remember Fire or whatever it was, on TOTP. They didn't seem 'real' to me. I was way cool. An authentic punk...

But they kept coming back, and my mate Tim kept telling me how good they were. So I kept listening, wanting to 'get it'.

I couldn't though. They just seemed shit.

I began to really hate U2 around the time they released The Joshua Tree. This was, to me, bombastic shite, derivative 80s nonsense, on a par with the worst excesses of Simple Minds. And with my hatred of them came the realisation that Bono was a cock of the highest order.

So, for me, this was the moment that Bono finally disappeared up his own arse.

I know where you are coming from here, I was into punk when they came out and had some mates that loved U2, I didn't get them, I thought U2 were a big hype, I used to go and see bands at Jenkinsons on Sunday nights in the late 70s, U2 played there but I wasn't interested in going.

I thought Coldplay were the same when they came out, another massive hype.