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And since he's going out with one of the ugliest girls ever, I wouldn't judge anything based upon his sense of taste.
------------------ "I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't use my powers to beat people up, but use them to protect the girl's locker room." Xander Harris
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Good LORD! That was incredibly tasteless, and perhaps the funniest thing I've read in days. Days, mind you. Days that I've been without a computer. Days in which no one seems to have cared about me, because obviously I suck, or something. And then there is a music thread where nobody says anything involving me? My ego is crushed and battered and whipped and spewed, and made mincemeat out of. Which is probably a good thing, in the long run. Who the hell do I think I am?
But, I cannot be silent. U2 is a lot more like the Backstreet Boys than some of you seem comfortable in admiting. Dare I utter the word "Popmart"? Then we have Bono who compares only with Sting in the catagory of musicians who make more "gutsy political statements" than music. Er...and Adam, uh, guy, of the Beastie Boys. Er, and all of Rage Against the Machine. Though the latter combine both, and make something that is, at the very least, interesting.
But that isn't the point. There is no point. There is every point. But U2 lyrics are not poetry. Soul Coughing lyrics are poetry with a capital OET. I prove it to you thusly.
An excerpt from Screenwriter's Blues
Gone savage For teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love Gone savage For teenagers who are aesthetically pleasing In other words Fly Los Angeles beckons the teenagers to come to her on buses; Los Angeles loves love
Of course, this stems from the fact that M. Doughty, singer and songwriter for Soul Coughing is a poet himself. And Soul Coughing references are fifty thousand times cooler than U2 references. What does U2 have to compare to "I absorb trust like a love rhombus" or "I ride the fader and I ride it low, I'm going to slip into the field like Han Solo and". Or has a song that mentions Josie and the Pussycats and the inner processes of atoms? In the same song, mind you. Well?
They Might Be Giants, of course, reference Gigantor, which is of course ninety-nine thousand times cooler than U2, but in a Japanese financial empire cool.
(I'm sorry, but I couldn't help myself.)
------------------ "You are stupid and evil and do not know you are stupid and evil." -- Gene Ray, Cubic
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My great aunt, now just past 80, sand "Mairzy Dotes" when she babysat me when I was in elementary school, so I just always assumed it was an old folk song (like everything else she sang).
It took me YEARS to figure out "Mairzy Dotes" was really Mares Eat Oats. and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy a kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you?
ARRGH! Now that song'll be in my head for the next two days...
------------------ "Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
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Bob Dylan is a poet. Jim Morrison was a poet. Jimmy Hendrix was a poet. Again, what is the point? As discussed in chapter 2, there is no point other than there are plenty of fine poet songwriters out there. None of which encompase any of the Backstreet Boys.
T.S. Eliot was a poet, but he couldn't dance. e.e. cummings was a poet, but he couldn't (s) *i
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------------------ Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"! ~C. Montgomery Burns
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Well, if you want to talk cool, let me just mention Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
Yes, come with me to the wonderful world of Jazz. A place where one doesn't even necessarily need words to write poetry. ------------------ Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"! ~C. Montgomery Burns
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...in 2012. This time, why not the worst?
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Oh, besides the fact that U2 actually play their own instruments (including Bono, though his guitar needs improving), they still have three of the highest attended tours in rock history, Rock's hotest ticket- the Rattle and Hum tour, Zoo TV- the hottest tour in the nineties, and PopMart (Not as high as the other two, but a twenty foot tall lemon and a TV almost twice the size of a basketball court are cooler than five faggoty guys dancing in sync)
------------------ Man it's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.
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How can anybody be cooler than a band with guys named 'Bono' and 'The Edge'?
I like Joe Satriani. I doubt anybody's heard of him here. He's a guitar virtuoso. He's got more talent in his finger than the Backdoor Boys have put together.
You can't say otherwise, or you haven't heard his music. But nobody's heard of him.
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Unfortunately, some idiots still pronounce Bono (Bah-No) as (Boh-No) as in Sonny Bono. And those are the idiots who like BSB, N'Sync, Spice Girls, Hanson, and so on!
------------------ 7 alarm clock: "Do not touch me." Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?" 7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
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I've heard of Joe Satriani and he's quite talented. I don't listen to his music, but trust me, from what I have heard, he's good. And what's wrong with the guitar? It's an instrument. I can't play it, so I respect anyone who can play with at least some talent. No offense Shadow.
Another thing about image. U2 got popular with their music and then got an image. BSB was molded to the image that would make them popular. Take away their image and they are just another group of paid vocalists.
On a side note, I don't think anyone ever argued who was the cutest out of U2.
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