I do believe that Freejooky only listens to old Jerry Reedrecords.
I was 16 when The Joshua Tree was released and living in Dublin. God was I sick of hearing U2 by then. U2, U2, U2, U-fucking-2 everywhere!
I was into metal so wanted nothing to do with U2 at the time. My peer group who weren’t into metal though split between U2 and Simple Minds.
A friend who was a U2 FREAK would end up on his knees miming Gloria anytime it was played at discos. He cried once. I nearly wanted to kick his head in myself 
Anyway over the years I came to appriciate that they had some good somgs and put on a very good live show. I never really understood how they became sooo big but there you go, there’s no accounting for taste.
Similarly, you don’t have to read Pit threads, or reply to them either 
Come on. There are plenty of bands choking the radio with overplayed bullshit that is far far worse than any of those three. Guns and Roses and Aerosmith immediately leap to mind. If I never heard GnR or Aerosmith on the radio again it would be far too soon. And this is from a guy for whom Get a Grip was the first album that I listened to forward and back.
Metallica is also quickly falling into that category for me. I think several years on hiatus in Japan from American radio is doing me a world of good.
He’ll keep looking for it forever, because there’s No Line on the Horizon.
Simply not listening to them anymore is not enough. He’ll have to destroy every recording he has of the group and thoroughly remove any evidence of owning anything having to do with the group. He’ll then do a Stalinist revision of his past life so that whenever the band is discussed in his presence, he’ll ardently state that he never liked them, *always *thought they sucked, that their music is suitably only for mentally challenged drooling trolls, and would rather jam an icepick into his ears than listen to any of their songs (even their supposedly “good” early stuff). 
Now THAT would be an Unforgettable Fire.
(Oh, and btw, like I said, I’m a big U2 fan, and I was only annoyed at the OP’s making snark in ignorance-Bono isn’t his real name, and such. Other than that, this thread is funny.)
That’s funny. I thought he preferred Gary Puckett?
Your “top 100 favorite bands”?
To me, that just sounds like someone who can’t make decisions. It’s a bit like saying, “Hey, that’s one of my 20 favorite major league baseball teams.”
Just exactly how many bands do you think there are in the world? Anyway, if you’re interested I can list them from 1 to 100.
No, didn’t think you would be.
But I do have to defend my U2.
I am reminded of a Slate.com article from last week where the guy went on a two page rant about Billy Joel, whom I also like, but I understand why people don’t like him. The funny thing was that the rant showed a detailed and in depth listening history that was far more extensive than my enjoyment of Billy Joel.
And oh, yeah, I do have to respond to Pit threads. It’s OCD.
I’m interested. Not in the list so much (although it’s always somewhat interesting to see what other people are listening to), but more in the process of how you got to a 1-100 listing. I could list some of my favorite bands, and probably put most of them into a few different tiers, but I can’t imagine how I’d actually go about ranking them.
First-rate rant, Freejooky. Though my auditory nerves have long been sanded insensate by decades of their regurgitated, maudlin power-pop, I can still muster a bit of supplemental revulsion. The finest scientific minds alive, charged with engineering an archetype for the smug, contrived, swaggering, self-absorbed “rock star,” could never produce a specimen more perfect than Bono.
Not to hijack the thread further, here.
Prince
Not even close. Prince is actually an extremely gifted instrumentalist, and you can’t just manufacture those. Prince also fades in and out of popularity, becoming reclusive at times. Bono makes very sure to keep himself in front of the cameras at all times.
Biffy linked to the Slate article in his post. What I found interesting about it is that he almost entirely focused his anger on the recordings Joel did before he met Christie Brinkley and supposedly “jumped the shark” musically. Many people who dislike Joel will say he did some interesting stuff through his “Nylon Curtain” album but that it’s been 100% Velveeta every since. However, that article is set up as a pre-emptive strike against that argument as if to say, “No, you gibbering morons! Billy Joel has sucked since day one and his earlier stuff is even suckier than his later stuff!”
Oasis
It’s a deal.