The Democratic Party in Trump's Fascist 2nd Term. Commentary, Ideas & Strategy (+ non Woketicism)

Pattern of boredom, or just the fact that so much music is coming out now and bands aren’t cranking out albums as fast as they used to. The Beatles were cranking out albums at least every year, but nowadays, bands will release an album, tour for at least 2 years, then spend a year working on their next album..

 

No, it's American and only liable to be said by the type of nerdy poindexters that populate these boards.

 

Why bother to heckle an ex-Senator? Is she running for some other office?

 

As a lesson for the next shithead.

 

Heard it live, East Lansing 2011 (I think) right when it was getting to summer evening.

I'm not religious but it was the closest thing to a religious experience singing it.

 

Peak albums sales were in the late 90s and plenty of bands were releasing stuff every three years then. Taylor Swift's been releasing albums at a steady clip, Khruangbin going no more than three years between albums.

Other thing is I imagine ease of recording is also helping as well.

 

That song is very easily U2's worst hit before I put them down (Josh Tree was my last purchase). I regularly forwarded thru it.

An album with Exit (the greatest song U2 ever wrote- not a hit), Streets and Bullet The Blue Sky? The line should always be, "Would this fit on Blood Red Sky?"

 

Usually your take is pretty good, this is not one of those times. U2 is great.

I remember reading the ‘War’ album review in Rolling Stone. As good as anything on ‘London Calling’ they said (it wasn’t)…but it was a brilliant album.

And, as mentioned, excellent live. The Edge for me is one of the best.

 

As a not fan of the Spin Doctors or any of their danceable garbage, I never heard them for longer than it took to reach for the tuner knob. Do you mean, Naked Eyes covers Dionne Warwick or whoever/Burt? That's just meh 80s standard to me. What DOES stand out is the instrumentation. Remade the whole tune to the point where is did not come off as a cover unless you'd heard an earlier version. That's not an easy task. Decent enough song but didn't stick in my head. Hey Nineteen works fine when you're not concerned with lyrics.

Noticing that these are all recorded You were just born too late to truly dig the era

 

Exit is a very good, totally underrated song. But a lot of people don't like it on Joshua Tree because they don't think it fits with the rest of the album. That's not something they say about I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.

Achtung Baby was worth the purchase.

 

Oh. I've never heard Nickelback that I know of..

 

Consider yourself fortunate.

 

If only we had a thread dedicated to discussions of music like this!

 

Well, TBH, U2 is the world's most successful Christian rock band.

 

Getting back on topic, Governor Spanberger rolled back some of the MAGA interference in state universities on Day One:
cavalierdaily.com/article/2026/01/spanberger-appoints-10-members-to-board-of-visitors

In addition to UVA, she made changes to the boards at George Mason and VMI.

 

Can we take U2 to the music thread.

 

No biggie. I have no reason to be posting music ATM. None talking about it, really, as a POC