GangstaFam said:

I'm gonna ask Bono!

Cheek said:

.....I can't stand these people who think they've got a direct line with Bono.....

Cheek said:

Invite him over to my green room!

abierman said:

I don't feel that I should prove it!!!

GangstaFam said:

You mean MY green room, right???

Cheek said:

I suppose I can share.

GangstaFam said:

OUR green room...

Cheek said:

Your Blue Room.

GangstaFam said:

Bono told me he's gonna visit me!!!

I need a haircut!!!

Cheek said:

Your head's always shaved though.

GangstaFam said:

It hasn't been shaved since November!

Cheek said:

time for a new profile pic!

GangstaFam said:

Cheek said:

I think you should grow your hair down to your butt. That should be your New Year's Resolution.

GangstaFam said:

Cheek said:

j/k of course. long hair on guys is SO 90's.

GangstaFam said:

Cheek said:

you like?

it might be time for a new "photo whore" thread.

GangstaFam said:

I like this kind of lenght:

John Mayer's lookin' kinda alright with his new do too.

Raine said:

MartyMcFly said:

I concur.

Cheek said:

OK FOLLOW POOK HERE

OLD U2 WANT BE LIKE JOY DIVISION

POP WANT BE LIKE NEW ORDER

U2's major label debut was 1980 so I doubt they were really on Joy Division's jock.

CinisterCee said:

They were big-time. So were The Cure. So were every band out of the UK at that time. There's a big difference between 1978, 1979 and 1980 as far as post-punk and punk and Joy Division was there before anyone else really. The first 3 U2 albums all sound like more optimistic, upbeat versions of "Unknown Pleasures" to me. And The Cure was chasing Joy Division for their first 5 albums until "Blue Monday" happened and they started chasing New Order instead.

I think U2 acknowledges that Joy Division is an influence on their music. They frequently add 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' into their set lists, and I know that I've read Bono mentioning Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen as key players in the post-punk scene that the first couple U2 albums belonged to.

However, I'd take exception to the idea that the first few U2 discs just straight-up steal from JD. Remember that 'Boy' wasn't the first U2 recording. In 1979, they released the U2 3 EP, which had earlier versions of the songs on 'Boy' amongst other stuff. For 'Boy', they jsut went in the studio with Steve Lillywhite and re-recorded some of the material.

Definitely one of my favorites.


Oh,and I am one of those Joshua admirers...In God's Country,One Tree Hill
Red Hill Mining Town,Exit,Bullet The Blue Sky,Running To Stand Still..yes indeed!!!!
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While Acrobat isn't the best U2 song ever, it is


The lyrics are amazing, and that guitar solo at the end is one of the Edge's best ever. The song also shows how great sequencing can make an excellent song even better. The 'Ultraviolet/Acrobat/Love is Blindness' trilogy is one of the strongest on a U2 record.


And I must be an acrobat
To talk like this
And act like that

CinisterCee said:

ACHTUNG BABY

IstenSzek2 said:

Hi you guys!!!