I think it's a good thing,
they're headlining friday which is arguably the lowest of the headline days. Which means there's a chance that saturday and sundays headliners will be even "bigger"
(PsychoChomp, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:13, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

but they are the biggest band in the world!
the article has it right. they have been far from their best for at least 15 years
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:15, Reply)

No matter how much you hate them
they're still by most measures a big name band.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:16, Reply)

This is the biggest band in the world
www.misfats.com/flyers/060618210605.jpg
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:19, Reply)

they are a big name band
no doubt about it.

it's the repeated assurances that they are the biggest band in the world every time they are mentioned, coupled with their mediocre music (it's not actually bad, it's average), the glowing reviews they get from most music press, despite the mediocrity and their annoying political/environmental agenda
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:21, Reply)

You're making the mistake of reading the music press there.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:23, Reply)

I don't read any
I don't care what some idiot journalist thinks about music.

see the quotes on the tv ads and in papers and stuff though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:27, Reply)

If you don't care what they think why bring it up as a reason to be annoyed at U2

(PsychoChomp, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:34, Reply)

ok, it's more a reason to be annoyed at the music press
it means that either a) they don't know about music, b) they don't listen to the stuff they review or c) they are sucking U2s's cocks.

and despite not caring what they say, people being shit at their job, either by being stupid, or deliberately, is annoying
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:38, Reply)

d) their opinions* are different to yours.
* professional opinions rather than your amature ones
(PsychoChomp, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:49, Reply)

I don't really think you can have a professional opinion on music in that way

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:04, Reply)

Well, I would consider a music critic's opinion professional,
but that's not the point, the inability of some on here to realise that people can listen to the same piece of music and have totally conflicting ideas about the quality is pretty fucking autism.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:06, Reply)

I do understand what you are saying
it's the level of hype that makes this a (smallish) issue for me.

I can recognise good song writing and such, even if I don't like the music itself, and I think that U2s recent stuff is as amateurish as a lot of stuff I hear from unsigned bands all the time.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:10, Reply)

AC/DC would be my choice
I don't suppose the middle-of-the-road benders who attend Glasters these days would like them, but I would.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:21, Reply)