>Came from the bottom, grew up in war torn Ireland, lost mother at 13 years old >made some of the most critically acclaimed and best selling albums of the 1980s and 1990s, including Boy, The Joshua Tree, War, Achtung Baby, and The Unforgettable Fire >worked with Brian Eno on several albums >Achtung Baby was the first rock album to feature significant influence from electronic dance music and other contemporary experimental music and significantly widened their popularity, exposing listeners to groundbreaking music they would have otherwise never heard before, predating Kid A by 9 years >was behind the groundbreaking and yet to be topped Zoo TV Tour >is self aware, his persona during the Zoo TV-era was a satire of himself in response to all the critics who called him pompous during the Rattle and Hum days >is a patrician who had bands including but not limited to This Heat, Interpol, Kings of Leon, Bjork, Mission of Burma, The Fall, Einsturzende Neubauten, Public Enemy and Pixies open for his band when they were in their prime to give them exposure >albums still hold up, receive rave reviews upon being re-released, even by Pitchfork >isn't a nigger >single handedly made the American and British public view AIDS and HIV as diseases that deserve treatment and sympathy rather than a punishment for being a degenerate, something even Princess Diana failed to do >single handedly convinced George W. Bush to become the president who gave the most money to AIDS research, not Clinton, not Obama, George W. Bush >wants to create a high fidelity and consumer friendly music format >Reddit hates him >Sup Forums hates him
This man is a god.
Blake Davis
Won't change anything.
Xavier Evans
>convinced Bush to become president why haven't they killed him already?
Evan Moore
100% pompous twat
Parker Fisher
That's not what OP said. He said he convinced Bush to give more money to AIDS research.
John Young
>including Kings of Leon in the list of patrician bands
Matthew Bennett
>single handedly convinced George W. Bush to become the president How is that good?
Aiden Gomez
>convinced George W. Bush to become president This only makes me hate him more
Jason Jones
see
Daniel Butler
>itsn't a nigger LOL XD
Jeremiah Brown
I love that there's "isn't a nigger" in the list of things that makes him a good artist
Xavier Richardson
Kek
Jordan Foster
that level of reading comprehension wew, no wonder Sup Forums is full of retards with terrible taste
Dylan Rivera
What U2 album should I listen to if I like the song The Sweetest Thing?
Caleb Turner
Yeah, but he spawned such shit post-U2 bands like Radiohead, Coldplay and Travis. That's enough to hate him desu
Gavin Foster
>single handedly convinced George W. Bush to become the president who gave the most money to AIDS research Statement never implied Bono convinced bush to give money to aid research. You guys will try anything to make Bono good.
Brandon Cooper
You're fucking retarded like actually retarded
Aiden Jenkins
Convinced Bush to become president? That can't be true...
Matthew Jackson
>ad hominem
Logan Ortiz
Is everyone in this thread illiterate or baiting?
Hudson Clark
Bush is a great mane, but there's no way he did single handedly convince so eh?
Brandon Moore
>Achtung Baby was the first rock album to feature significant influence from electronic dance music and other contemporary experimental music Wouldn't that be the Unforgettable Fire?
Eli Ramirez
Are u fag.
Adrian Moore
thank you based bono for saving music
Jaxon Murphy
>made some of the most critically acclaimed and best selling albums of the 1980s and 1990s, including Boy, The Joshua Tree, War, Achtung Baby, and The Unforgettable Fire >worked with Brian Eno on several albums >Achtung Baby was the first rock album to feature significant influence from electronic dance music and other contemporary experimental music and significantly widened their popularity, exposing listeners to groundbreaking music they would have otherwise never heard before, predating Kid A by 9 years
Bull fucking shit
James Garcia
I think they're baiting or havin banter. I have horrible reading comprehension and even I understood what OP said
Samuel Gray
>>isn't a nigger wtf I love u2 now
Grayson Wright
>how fucking stupid are newfags these days?
Adrian Collins
Seriously though the unforgettable fire is a 10/10 and youre a pleb if you think otherwise
Alexander Peterson
>listens to "U talking U2 to me" podcast once
Tbh I love U2. mom got me into them when I was a kid. Sup Forums just bashes bono cause of the south park episode since they are a childlike hivemind and will gravitate towards negativity.
Cameron Myers
Post U2 bands are better than U2:
Eli Wilson
A retard who knows a Latin phrase
Austin Thompson
>counters with yet another ad hominem response
Carter Reed
Negativland was the best U2 album though.
Easton Cooper
Not even funny in an ironic way
Joshua Diaz
>takes obvious bait
Aaron Adams
All of them to be honest.
Lincoln Torres
>single handedly convinced George W. Bush to become the president who gave the most money to AIDS research George Bush's funding of AIDS research is estimated to have saved 5 million lives in Africa.
U2 saved 5 million lives.
Dylan Reyes
If that's true that he convinced him to do it
Ethan Anderson
Lol
Kayden Roberts
>taking AIDS seriously 20 years late gg america
Elijah Robinson
Faaaaaaact
U2 is actually really good for the most part
Caleb Fisher
OP's still trying to glorify U2? Knock it off mate, you can't force someone to listen shit music.
Tyler Brown
>OP
David Jackson
Bono, we know it's you
Liam Cox
Obviously one retarded samefag trying to convince people that U2 isn't complete shit
Ryan James
Joshua Tree since that is a bside from that time iirc
Christian Howard
sup
Ayden Hall
never liked their music but people seem to really hate bono for some reason
Logan Moore
>war torn Ireland What did he mean by this?
Robert Powell
>isn't a nigger
stopped reading there
trump lost dude, its not cool like to talk like that anymore
Justin Morris
I always wonder how sincere people are being when saying this kind of stuff
Dominic Edwards
The way I interpreted it is that the "isn't a nigger" part is right before the Pitchfork part, so it's like he's saying "He gets praised by Pitchfork despite not being a nigger."
Anthony Nguyen
>you hurt my feelings so I'll use some Latin bullshit to hide it
Camden Gutierrez
>U2 saved 5 million lives. Thank God for U2.
What ever would the world do without 5 million degenerate niggers with no job, and an average IQ of 60?
Wyatt Sullivan
No cheap labour
Nolan Watson
...
Adam Powell
no amount of charity can redeem his god fucking awful music.
Angel Gonzalez
Sorry, was George Bush funding AIDS research not meant to be political? It seemed awfully political to me.
Poland and Mexico are sources of cheap labor, not Southern Africa.
Andrew Ortiz
U2 had a solid run of albums but since 2000 has been pretty bland. Bono gets a bit too much hate to me. I mean he does get preachy and a bit self righteous but it seems like his heart is in the right place at least.