Originally Posted by Strummer521
You keep saying they are average as if it were a given, but you don't seem to support that claim. Are they average just because you say they are and you don't like them, or is there a concrete reason? If you feel so strongly about it, you must be able to put it into words right? I don't think being corporately marketed and being very sucessful because of it makes them average either if that's your attempt to justify your opinon. Simply look at The Beatles and you'll notice their situation is very similar in terms of corporate marketing vs. sucess and their situation ocurred on a much larger scale. Dare you call The Beatles average?
well, music taste, just like with movies, is very much subjective, so no, i can't say that their averagness is an objective fact, some people obviously like them, but i think i have a right to call them average because my music taste is very wide and it includes mainstream as well as obscure indie music, i can tell when britney spears makes a very good pop song and when she makes an average and dull song. in that respect, even with a band as loathed as u2, i think i can make a solid judgment on whether the music is any good or not, and everything i've heard from the last album is average, dull, masked with good production value and massive sounds....i think it's fair to say that this is their worst album, even the one before had a catchy tune or two, or at least a recognisable riff.....i think their inspiration has run dry, or maybe they just ran out of talent. even rock mastodonts like the rolling stones made a better album last year and deserved the grammy more that america's favourite rock band.....
in my personal opinion, coldplay has taken u2's position as the greatest rock band in the world, every album they make is better than the one before, and their sound is getting more and more massive, they can easily fill up any arena. yet they didn't get the award.....
purely on the quality and inovation level, the mars volta and queens of the stone age published the best rock albums of the past year, i don't think they even got mentioned, why? i don't think they suite middle aged white conservative americans...now compare those two bands to u2 and you will understand why i think u2's album and music is below average and dull......and what about the kings of leon,bloc party, franz ferdinand,wolf parade, the arcade fire, the white stripes, system of a down.....em yeah, to even compare u2 to them...is laughable......i rest my case....