U2

[crawlinwithin]

Today on American Idol, I think that Adam loser totally butchered "One"

 

The judges thought it was amazing, but man I hated it. Screechy and gross. The beginning started off well... then... nightmare.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz63eMbeRlQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flj-toys.com%2F%3Fjournalid%3D3616053%26moduleid%3D64521%26preview%3D%26auth_token%3Dsessionless%3A1242187200%3Aembedconte&feature=player_embedded

 

yeah i saw that, he did WAY too many voice-runs... almost just to show off. I mean I know this guy has a freaking awesome voice, but you gotta control yourself every once and a while, especially here on a song like One. I agree, the beginning had potential, but then he blew it in my opinion. It was too much!

[Liz26]

yeah i saw that, he did WAY too many voice-runs... almost just to show off. I mean I know this guy has a freaking awesome voice, but you gotta control yourself every once and a while, especially here on a song like One. I agree, the beginning had potential, but then he blew it in my opinion. It was too much!

 

Yep - totally agree. My hubby and I were like, Hmm...when he started off. then he started pulling that BS with trying to show off his voice and it was just ridiculous...he end up butchering the song, IMO. dunno why the judges are all over this guy...he's obviously talented, but HELLO...i don't really know anyone that would buy THAT album. maybe on broadway, but that's it. blehhh...

[crawlinwithin]

Yep - totally agree. My hubby and I were like, Hmm...when he started off. then he started pulling that BS with trying to show off his voice and it was just ridiculous...he end up butchering the song, IMO. dunno why the judges are all over this guy...he's obviously talented, but HELLO...i don't really know anyone that would buy THAT album. maybe on broadway, but that's it. blehhh...

 

I agree, Simon is just all over him. He might be in love, I'm not sure. The kid does have a great voice, and maybe if he were in a legit band I'd buy his albums, but unfortunately he is yet another slave to the American Idol organization, forced to make crappy bland-pop albums for the rest of his 15 minutes of fame.

[Prospekt.]

The studio version he did of it isn't too bad... No screaming.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6n9z90JaDk]YouTube - One - Adam Lambert, studio[/ame]

[MrMagpie]

I think I"M going to avoid any American Idol/U2 stuff.

[PolarMonkey]

i haven't really been following American Idol, but the few times i saw it & this Adam guy was on, i got the feeling that he's got like just the same kind of look & way/style of singing...like some emo guy wannabe. :rolleyes:

 

& i couldn't sit thru his rendition of 'One' for that matter...urk.

[crawlinwithin]

^^^ nice sig haha

[Black Rose]

Me thinks even with the cheap seats the UK stadium dates ain't selling as fast as U2 would like, as they are still being advertised in the general press.

[tauiwi]

There's an interesting discussion going on here in regards to U2:

 

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&title=u2_not_quite_as_magnicent_as_the_media_w&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

[Open-Politik]

Yeah, I agree with the article, its not that good,Get On Your Boots, wasn't a good single/song, very weak. I feel sorry for U2

[tauiwi]

But nobody cares for singles anymore.

[HBK-79]

I'm not shy about saying this:

 

VIVA LA VIDA >>>> NO LINE ON THE HORIZON

 

:blank:

[MrMagpie]

I'm not shy about saying this.

 

Everything else >>>>>Green Day.

[busybeeburns]

When love leaves town

 

 

Like their New Labour fans and counterparts, U2 should take the hint of a dwindling support

 

Poetically, as the New ­Labour era draws to an ­inglorious close under Gordon Brown, that regime's rock band of choice, the supposedly godlike U2, are having a just about comparable ­career wobble. In both cases, power and influence are ebbing away, and once loyal admirers are suddenly restive and disconnected. Brown is said to have sought the advice of Tony Blair; I wouldn't be surprised to hear that U2's singer-cum-propagandist Bono had done the same (and given Blair's depressing failings, he would surely clear his schedule and take the call in an instant).

 

In U2's case, this isn't necessarily the stuff of a terminal crisis, but you never know. Their last single, the unfortunately titled Magnificent, sold a mere 4,000 copies in its first week and crept into the charts at a miserable number 42, their worst performance since 1982. :stunned:

 

At the time of writing, No Line on the Horizon – a record largely praised to the skies, though it is actually not much cop – sits in 29th place on the UK albums rankings, and has reportedly sold fewer copies than the latest effort by those popular but not exactly titanic dance music veterans the Prodigy. :o

 

U2's run of vast concerts this summer has largely sold out, and thanks to the inevitable renditions of their hits, will doubtless be feverishly received, but that isn't really the point: these are proud men, and a life as an oldies act is surely no life at all.

 

U2 have long been so ubiquitous that their music has threatened to lose all meaning – for me, it happened in around 1988 – but of late, they have truly excelled themselves. Some questions: when Bono is photographed going to church in New York with Blair, what does that do the idea of rock as The Other? Did the BBC marking the release of the album by apparently handing the group the keys to the entire network only compound the problem? Most interestingly, is their slide heartening proof that, after years of handwringing about music becoming so pan-generational and pro-establishment it had lost all meaning, there may actually be a point where the great unwashed realise a group stands for absolutely nothing, and recoil? If so, watch out Coldplay.

 

As you may have divined, what you have just read is informed by a certain schadenfreude. It would be churlish to deny that U2 have sometimes made music that has been interesting – and occasionally irresistible – but if I were pushing the argument in the pub, I'd cite the alien test: the idea that if ­extraterrestrials arrived and demanded to be turned on to rock'n'roll, the ­necessary list of songs that come close to the Platonic ideal would not have a single one of theirs on it. To understand why, one only need to watch the great carry-on that occurs every time U2 release an album and Bono issues his latest painful soundbites: they are guilty of the great rock crime of trying that little bit too hard.

 

So what next? Should they wish, the three members of the group of whom the public may only be dimly aware surely have enough money to retire, or start new projects. In Bono's case, though his halo deservedly slipped when they were caught shifting money to the Netherlands to avoid Irish taxes, his brand of heavily compromised philanthropy would surely fill up his diary from now to the next century. There again, U2 are nothing if not wily: they have crawled out of disgrace in the past, and they will doubtless do so again.

 

Here, for what it's worth, is my advice, based on a career option cruelly denied to politicians: breaking up, letting the dust clear, and then announcing your reformation. They should pencil it in for 2019, prepare the offshore accounts, and plan for the mother of all nostalgic celebrations; Gordon and Tony, should they still be around, will surely be down the front.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk

[marie/pims]

Interesting.I was thinking about U2 the other day.Their album came out recently but I don't feel like anybody is really talking about them.how strange.I'm not exactly a fan of the new stuff but still...it's U2.You'd think they'd do better

[coldplayisawesome]

"crept into the charts at a miserable number 42" :wacky:

 

and also- oh yeah! i forgot they released an album this year.

[shipoffools]

I'm surprised that their new album isn't doing better. It's their best album in 12 years, which is saying something. It's not another Atomic Bomb (although that one strangely did very well.)

[Ab]

Meh, I'm not a fan of their latest album.

Personally, I think HTDAAB was better!

The 42 reference is creepy though! :blank:

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

i have to say that i don't understand the critical hype of no line on the horizon...i thought HTDAAB and ATYCLB were both better.

 

as much as i love U2, i think coldplay are rapidly gaining on them, and i bet they'll completely overtake them by LP6.

[DreamOutLoud]

as much as i love U2, i think coldplay are rapidly gaining on them, and i bet they'll completely overtake them by LP6.

 

 

 

 

now that is funny...:laugh3:

[crawlinwithin]

oh please the fact that not many people like the new album is a good thing, it means U2 changed things up a little bit... good for them. They're still fucking huge and larger than life; they'll be juuuust fine.

[MrMagpie]

Yeah. Adding second shows to virtually every city on this tour is a pretty clear indication that they're not a greatest hits band...and that their fanbase is as supportive as ever.

Maybe if they'd through on some actual b-sides their singles would do a little better.

[jano12]

THE CLAW

 

[giulls]

Running To Stand Still

[Black Rose]

Yeah. Adding second shows to virtually every city on this tour is a pretty clear indication that they're not a greatest hits band...and that their fanbase is as supportive as ever.

Maybe if they'd through on some actual b-sides their singles would do a little better.

 

And making the singles available to buy would make them do a little better, there were physical singles somewhere