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01-20-2022, 11:59 AM | #91 |
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When I think of 1998, a number of albums comes to mind:
Deserter's Songs Moon Safari Mezzanine Ray of Light Hello Nasty Music Has The Right To Children Up Supposed Former etc etc White Ladder Three EPs Psyence Fiction Adore fits in with those I feel. Especially the more introspective ones like Deserter's Songs, Up, and even Ray Of Light. Which makes it "flopping" even harder to understand. I guess people didn't want introspection from SP. Much like the way they didn't really want cocaine induced hubris from Oasis in 1997, when the Verve and Radiohead were doing their thing. |
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01-20-2022, 12:09 PM | #92 | |
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Selling millions of albums, lets be honest... 99% of those albums got sold to the average young dumb music consumer. it's an unsustainable model. THe dream of selling millions of new albums, album after album - impossible. gaps between albums become bigger as bands get older. U2 still sells a few million new albums (Actually, is this even true in the last decade?)... but I know for a fact that no one is actually listening to them. LOL |
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01-20-2022, 01:19 PM | #93 |
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01-20-2022, 01:40 PM | #94 |
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That's cool, I guess... I have a repertoire of 4,001 songs, but I'm just built different
I agree, people who are not me know a total of six songs or fewer, and eat at McDonald's three times a day and only watch Big Bang Theory and believe in a magic sky wizard LOL, I could destroy anyone alive or dead in a debate using logic Anyone buying an album this year is buying music for the first and last time in their lives, because everyone else on the planet already knows six songs U2 paid to put this fake number in Spotify, LOL, I know it for a fact |
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01-20-2022, 01:51 PM | #95 |
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I follow streaming numbers as a hobby and sort of a weird curious fascination. The U2 numbers just baffle me. Who the hell is listening to them? I travel all over the world, I was in the music industry for six solid years at a professional level, I've been in multiple (semi) successful bands that have toured the states a dozen times over, I am in numerous music discussion groups, host/been guests of popular musical podcasts, was a tour promoter, in literally hundreds of social media music groups across countless platforms and I have never ran into a person that was like "The U2 guy" or even admitted to being a fan.
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01-20-2022, 01:52 PM | #96 |
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01-20-2022, 01:58 PM | #97 |
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01-20-2022, 02:00 PM | #98 | |
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I'm sorry Topleybird, I'm sorry I insulted your favorite band (FYI, it's a canadian sorry... not a real "sorry", just a polite sorry) . I know some U2 fans. They can't actually distinguish between "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - but it's their favorite song. |
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01-20-2022, 02:19 PM | #99 |
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Yes, what I found completely unhinged about your incel-redpill-narcissistic post was simply that you insulted my favorite band: U2
This board has been home to folks like TheOmegaConcern and Kimani Shorter, and I don't know if I've ever winced harder here than I did reading that |
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01-20-2022, 03:06 PM | #100 |
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incel-redpill.
damn. I didn't realize I was opppressing you to that point. there's nothing offensive that most people consume music casually. wince away. |
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01-20-2022, 03:30 PM | #101 |
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i like U2
mainly War & the 90s stuff, but still |
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01-20-2022, 04:20 PM | #102 | |
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Out of the "Flame Wars for Friendless Dummies" glossary, I think "triggering" would have worked a lot better here, but you seem to have a whole thing going, so, who am I to say
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I'm not "offended" or upset, dude, I'm genuinely freaked out by how you view yourself and your fellow man "adolecent," "new generation of vapid dumb teens," "average young dumb music consumer" — like, where is this anger coming from? Only you know how to appreciate music and more or less everybody else is a childish idiot. Sincerely, what happened to you? How would you describe your childhood? What is your relationship with your parents like? How many people would you consider friends today (people you like and respect, and who like and respect you back)? |
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01-20-2022, 04:24 PM | #103 |
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01-20-2022, 04:25 PM | #104 |
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I concur, though I listen very little these days. I think you and I talked before about 'em, a year or so ago, and I popped in Zooropa. Maybe I'll throw on Achtung this week.
Incidentally, I feel really bad that Kenny dropped in with an actual insider's comment on what things were like at the time, and the thread just steamrolled right past. If he comes back to check in again, hoo boy, I'm sorry. Forget it, Kenny. It's just Netphoria. |
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01-20-2022, 04:40 PM | #105 |
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01-20-2022, 04:40 PM | #106 |
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& hey Ken!
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01-20-2022, 04:48 PM | #107 |
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In hindsight, this is not really something I think the Joker would say and I would like to apologize; I got caught up in the excitement of creation
Also occurs to me this is similar to my "Have I met a Pumpkin? My dad went on a date with Peggy Fleming," just dialed up a hundredfold, so perhaps I simply fell victim to that old standby that you hate most in others what you hate most in yourself Don't you shake alone Please, Avery, come home |
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01-20-2022, 05:31 PM | #108 |
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01-20-2022, 06:19 PM | #109 | |
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01-20-2022, 08:28 PM | #110 |
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Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. I wonder whatever became of them?
I live here baby! My account is older than yours and I think that trumps post count. Can I get a consensus on this? Joey? T-Bird, OK SEX! |
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01-21-2022, 02:34 AM | #111 |
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01-21-2022, 02:38 AM | #112 |
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Lmao apparently nobody likes U2 these days, not even Bono.
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01-21-2022, 04:22 AM | #113 |
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01-21-2022, 04:26 AM | #114 |
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01-21-2022, 04:26 AM | #115 |
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consensus achieved
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01-21-2022, 05:09 AM | #116 |
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it's for a school project
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01-21-2022, 08:35 AM | #117 |
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Achtung Baby - Zooropa - Passengers - Pop is great U2. All That You Can't Leave Behind is good U2. Joshua Tree, YMMV. Anything else, inessential. Most recent album - complete rubbish.
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01-21-2022, 09:24 AM | #119 |
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I don't hate Tales, it's just the least enjoyable track for me on an album I love front to back, that's all
Also I don't subscribe to the idea that rock bands become inherently undesirable to younger fans as they age really works anymore; rock music is now a giant hodgepodge of "classic". That was applicable when punk bands derided the likes of Pink Floyd for being old fogies. It's true kids want their own identity etc but I feel like anyone in high school getting into it now is digging through their dad's attic and finding his CDs. |
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01-21-2022, 12:27 PM | #120 | |
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