REM or U2 ?

[oldnews]

which band is better? The Irish/Welsh men or the men from Athens, Georgia ?

[Len Cnut]

REM all day long...and they aint all that either.

[J Dog]

1 minute ago, Len Cnut said:

REM all day long...and they aint all that either.

This.

[Len Cnut]

8 minutes ago, J Dog said:

This.

I'll give em Radio Free Europe, Losing My Religion, couple tracks here and there, plus some respect for coming up through the what i like to call White Chitlin Circuit, other than that they ain't no champions of nothing.

[Silent Jay]

Talking Heads.

[bucketfoot]

Another for R.E.M. ....easily. Not going into my feelings on U2/Bono again.

[J Dog]

7 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

I'll give em Radio Free Europe, Losing My Religion, couple tracks here and there, plus some respect for coming up through the what i like to call White Chitlin Circuit, other than that they ain't no champions of nothing.

I might like them a little more cause they're kind of local for me and I've heard them since back in the day. Most of their stuff ain't really my thing but like you said, at least I can get down with some of their songs. Country Feedback and Drive are good ones.

I pretty much can't fuck with anything U2 related.

[Len Cnut]

5 minutes ago, bucketfoot said:

Another for R.E.M. ....easily. Not going into my feelings on U2/Bono again.

Oh go on!   Sanctimonious wankers?  Derivative shitbags?  Keith Levene wannabe guitarists?  Have a go, its a right laugh!

[bucketfoot]

49 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

Oh go on!   Sanctimonious wankers?  Derivative shitbags?  Keith Levene wannabe guitarists?  Have a go, its a right laugh!

You've pretty much covered it! I like some of their stuff, mainly the early albums, musically I don't mind them, but, ultimately.....

....total fucking prick!

Edited May 20, 2017 by bucketfoot

[J Dog]

I dislike Bono so much that it pisses me off that he's a Johnny Cash fan 

[bucketfoot]

3 minutes ago, J Dog said:

I dislike Bono so much that it pisses me off that he's a Johnny Cash fan 

The bloke's a fucking wanker.

[Fitha_whiskey]

I think U2 is garbage. Don't much care for REM either, but at least I can handle a few of their songs. Bono thinks he's the fuckin pope of rock n roll or something...

[bucketfoot]

1 minute ago, Fitha_whiskey said:

Bono thinks he's the fuckin pope of rock n roll or something...

That's the crux of it... I can't stand the way he goes on, like he's here to save the world through music. Fuck off you fucking arsehole!

[J Dog]

27 minutes ago, bucketfoot said:

That's the crux of it... I can't stand the way he goes on, like he's here to save the world through music. Fuck off you fucking arsehole!

True that is the crux of it, but it's the music too. The early stuff is boring, the later stuff sounds like Madonna.

[bucketfoot]

5 minutes ago, J Dog said:

True that is the crux of it, but it's the music too. The early stuff is boring, the later stuff sounds like Madonna.

I quite liked them up to Achtung Baby, and still like bits and pieces after that but, really, they've done a lot of average stuff since the early 90's and Bono.... well.... talk about a fella's ego going through the fuckin' roof! He seemed to completely lose his way, the silly twat!

[Len Cnut]

2 hours ago, J Dog said:

I dislike Bono so much that it pisses me off that he's a Johnny Cash fan 

Were Johnny Cash a lesser artist it would take cool points from him, that how big a cunt Bono is   And I'm not havin' all this 'oh their early stuff was alright', noooooo it fuckin' wasn't   Sorry, i don't wanna come off rude and dictatorial...but thats what I am

But no, seriously, he's a cunt...completely and utterly   

Y'know what fuckin' annoys the fuckin' arse off me about him, apart from the self aggrandizing, the using famine to promote himself, the sanctimony...EVERY documentary you ever see on anyone halfway decent, Joe Strummer, The Clash, The Pistols, Johnny Cash, Morrissey, The Who, you'll see Bono goin' 'well, they wrote the rulebook for 'U2'...without ever saying anything even vaguely specific about what or how or what aspect of them.  Oh, except with The Clash.

'i was at their gig at Belfast.  There was a....a....an energy.  A palpable energy!'

It's a gig you slack jawed potato farmer, of course there was a fuckin' energy, theres 50 million volts jammed into great big fuck off Marshall stacks'   An energy, what the fuck does that mean anyway?!?

[bucketfoot]

27 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

Were Johnny Cash a lesser artist it would take cool points from him, that how big a cunt Bono is   And I'm not havin' all this 'oh their early stuff was alright', noooooo it fuckin' wasn't   Sorry, i don't wanna come off rude and dictatorial...but thats what I am

But no, seriously, he's a cunt...completely and utterly   

Y'know what fuckin' annoys the fuckin' arse off me about him, apart from the self aggrandizing, the using famine to promote himself, the sanctimony...EVERY documentary you ever see on anyone halfway decent, Joe Strummer, The Clash, The Pistols, Johnny Cash, Morrissey, The Who, you'll see Bono goin' 'well, they wrote the rulebook for 'U2'...without ever saying anything even vaguely specific about what or how or what aspect of them.  Oh, except with The Clash.

'i was at their gig at Belfast.  There was a....a....an energy.  A palpable energy!'

It's a gig you slack jawed potato farmer, of course there was a fuckin' energy, theres 50 million volts jammed into great big fuck off Marshall stacks'   An energy, what the fuck does that mean anyway?!?

R.E.M. are ok, though.

[Fitha_whiskey]

@Len Cnut "you slack jawed potato farmer" 

[username]

I'm not going to argue that Bono isn't three quarters up his own arse. That'd be silly. But despite that I do like a fair bit of U2's music. They've done some really good stuff. But I definitely like REM too. Seen both of them live. Neither is one of my favorite bands or anything, but I do like a fair bit of both. Lets call it a tie when it comes to music. But counting in the Bono-factor REM would win. 

 

[Dazey]

It's kinda like asking whether you'd rather have syphillis or HIV. 

[Len Cnut]

10 minutes ago, Dazey said:

It's kinda like asking whether you'd rather have syphillis or HIV. 

I went for syphillis aka REM

[J Dog]

16 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

I went for syphillis aka REM

Good comparison and good decision 

[Dazey]

43 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

I went for syphillis aka REM

I think you mean "R.E.M." chose you.

[Fitha_whiskey]

Rotten Erection Machine

[Len Cnut]

4 minutes ago, Dazey said:

I think you mean "R.E.M." chose you.

We've been together now for 20 years and it dont seem a daaaay too loooooong