U2 Sucks - Your Favorite Band Sucks Podcast 

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I dont mind edge as a guitarist but it is truly ridiculous the way Bono bigs him up. Its like mid song he starts screaming 'THIS IS THE EDGE!!!' as if some face melting solo is about to happen and you get two notes played drenched in delay

Not a U2 fan, but I don't agree with your take on The Edge's playing. They only have one guitarist and are going for a massive sound. Without effects pedals that is hard to do, and when he's saying he's a "minimalist" I think he means his playing doesn't rely on highly technical guitar solos. The delayed notes and sequencing are part of the total effect - normal guitarists can't just replicate that no matter how technically good you are. It doesn't matter how simple what he is playing is - it matters how well it fits the song and achieves the sound they are going for.

All we mostly hear on rock stations from U2 are “The Streets Have No Name” “ I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” & “ With Or Without You” playing one of those every hour on the hour.

Joshua tree was a boring album, and the idiots at the Grammy declared it the winner over Michael Jackson's album.

South Park did a brilliant piece on Bono.

I hadn’t seen them play since the “ Live at Red Rock “ thing in 1984 so having nothing better to do , looked up a recent live show. I was staggered at the very beginning as the band open up then Bono finally appears on a fucking walkway a mile long - to then milk the crowd as he slowly strolls like he’s just parted the Red Sea. Honestly I know of his ego but this was bordering on Irony .

I've never understood how U2 has fans - I do believe they are the single most overrated band of all time. I don't get it........they are one of the reasons I believe that we live in a simulation....there's no way that a base reality with any kind of justice would allow for U2 to happen

U2 will be in the Philippines as part the 30th SEA Games' closing ceremony, and ALOT of millenials will get bored during their performance.

I’m glad you point out that Willie Nelson is a great player. People overlook that.

I remember seeing the ipod ads with "uno, dos, tres, catorce!" and even as a little kid monolingual English speaker I knew this was wrong, and that he was butchering Spanish in an incredibly low effort attempt to sound cool. I distinctly remember feeling secondhand embarrassment that he could not even count to four in Spanish and yet recorded himself doing it for millions of people. That's basically the only impression I had of U2 in my life

Please do disturbed they are so terrible and generic

They call him "The Edge" because he's just barely at the edge of being a guitar player.

Have a look at Edge when he and Jack White are watching Jimmy Page strum a few chords in the documentary It Might Get Loud. His jaw is almost at his knees! Compared to Page, Edge is a rank amateur.

South Park is right on Bono

Never liked U2

"U2 sucks" is redundant.

Everytime i hear the Edge's shitty guitar fading in on the radio id get so mad id be sick. Fastest way to get me to change the station

I'm a U2 fan AND I find this hilarious. I get why people don't like U2 (or even hate them). Bono can be an annoying douche. I have to agree about The Edge in "It's Gonna Get Loud". Why on earth did he choose "I Will Follow" as a demonstration for his guitar playing? It's so stupidly simple. Maybe that's the point? I'm a terrible guitarist and I stumbled into that riff when I first started playing. He could've played "Pride" or "Where The Streets Have No Name" or something else that at least involves some skill. Anyway it's uncomfortable to watch Jack White play it back with a sort of look that said "uhhh.. okay" and then unleash his riff for "Seven Nation Army". That said, the reason why U2 are great is because they are a garage band that made it despite their limitations. None of them on their own could have achieved what they've achieved. The four of them can produce an amazing sound. "Bad" live is heaven on earth. The line up for U2 has been the same since 1976 (which deserves some props). The only other band I can think of that has the exact same line up for a longer period is ZZ Top. I'm sure there's others.

Every U2 song is made for teenagers who want to run away with some girl they've known for a week, They all sound the same.

There's a U2 sucks FB page, go give it a like if you find it funny. Can I link this to the page?

If you hate u2. Go and look at how much people want for those old u2 ipods. It will add another reason. 😂

Thanks. I used to like U2 back in the 90s, when their 80s records were still relevant... They produced crap after crap for 25 years.

I will never forgive them for forcing their shitty album onto my classic Ipod. Total egomaniacs! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?

U2 always bored the shit out of me.

Every U2 song has the exact same guitar riff with that dumb delay.

U2 and Kiss have to be the most overrated bands of all time

Now that I know you guys are half serious half joking, I am re-listening to episodes I heard before I found out you guys are half serious half trolling. There is no way this episode is a joke, your disdain for them feels too genuine.

U2 sucks. There's a special place in hell for a band whose contribution to a soundtrack can be arguably worse than Michael Hutchence's cover of The Passenger. I liked them when I was 12, mainly out of hype. But that soundtrack did introduce me to Nick Cave, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Flaming Lips in time for high school. So there is that. Why wasn't their masterpiece of shit Discotheque covered. That was that time's Vertigo. A completely wrong abuse/assault of the sense across all platforms.

mediocrity sells

"I still haven't found what I'm looking for" what's that TALENT!!?? Well no shit! It's been nearly 40 years and you still haven't found it!! Haha

There is nothing wrong with using an effect but when you RELY on that effect on a regular basis as your "sound", that's pretty sad. Great guitar players have their sound in their HANDS: Hendrix, Page, Beck, Gallagher, Clapton, Gilmour...none of these guys rely on effects or gimmics, it's in the hands. Edge sucks, completely and totally overrated! Just like his band.

So you're telling me Bono's environmental message is bullshit? PFFT! Next you're gonna tell me Leonardo DiCaprio spends 6 months a year on a yacht that produces more pollution in a single day than every middle class/poor citizen in America does in an entire year... combined... times 10? HA!

I hate this band so much that I would sometimes dream of driving my pickup truck over boxes of their albums.

so apparently its okay when they shit on U2, but as soon as they bring up Tool or Nirvana SUDDENLY they're "not funny" and "ignorant"

God damn U2 is awful, I regularly re listen to this because they infuriate me so much

Big U2 fan here, but there is nothing in this podcast I can't agree on🤣🤣 Thanks for this, had a big laugh. Don't wait for me, I'm gonna go and put Zoorooa on

I thought I was the only one that absolutely hated u2 and thought they were extremely overrated so I typed in u2 sucks And this is what I got and I am so happy lol

Hey RU-vid, what album would you have wanted iTunes to load on everyone's iPod/iPhone?

U2 is a band for people obsessed with global warming

U2 sounds like two cats being microwaved.

Lol you were about to say "lazer engaged"

The edges would be nothing without his delay pedal

This video makes me rage I’m leaving bye

U2 was a fighter jet

Bono stole Adrian Borland's style. The Sound > Poo2

Eno is their best member & song writer

What do you guys think of Simple Minds?

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one mildly infuriated that “the edge” was even classed in together with actual guitar players in that documentary. I mean jack white isn’t exactly a virtuoso, but he’s atleast an honest to god player of the instrument and has an understanding of more than just picking individual notes in a chord through 2 delay pedals, a pitch shifter and a phase pedal if he’s REALLY putting forth effort. I don’t know how “the edge” even has his guitar tech snowed into thinking he’s some visionary genius taking the instrument to new heights. If you watch his rig rundown, his guitar tech is the only person on it because he could t be bothered, and it’s just a half hour of his tech droning on and in about all the cool shit “the edge” does. Like, dude, praise Boss or MXR, it’s their achievement, he’s just stepping on the button to turn them on. 😂

"what if the Beatles had stayed together (like us?)" --Bono

just imagine being a U2 fan... yick

Can’t I close my eyes and make them go away!?

I had enough of U2. No longer my favorite band. This video speaks the real truth about them. Their music is boring. Also Bono has become toxic.

So, not a U2 fan. My eyes glaze over whenever they come on. Their music bores the living shit out of me and their self-righteousness reminds me of David Brent from the UK Office. I'm a bass player, guitarist, I produce music and I'm an engineer. I've played guitar for 18 years, bass for 19. Currently learning piano. I aslo have an MSc in Audio Production. So having said that, I actually have a lot of respect for the Edge as a musician. Not for him as a person who unironically calls himself "The Edge", since nobody who doesn't self-identify as pizza should have any business naming themselves as such. What he does do though, is serve the song. I mean, I assume - I don't listen to very much U2. I'd say I've spent a lot longer hearing them than listening to them. That fact says it all though - his playing doesn't draw attention to itself. It's like magnolia paint. I'd rather play with someone who knows his gear and plays to serve the song than someone who takes every gap in the singer's performance to wail. What I hate about U2 is that it's all magnolia paint.

2 members of U2 aren't Irish

Actually, everything up through "The Unforgivable Fire" are amazing albums. Then, they went down-hill rapidly beginning with "The Joshua Tree", and became complete shit. Their political angst in the beginning was legit. But it became a joke for sure. I believe "Bono" even showed up at a "United Nations" event and was given his own seat simply labeled: "Bono". Really??!! :-(

This is interesting! Just trying to get a grasp on what are good bands versus bad bands. Would Muse be considered a good band? If not are they better then U2. Thx

Just a reminder: Jay-Z pre-ordered a million copies of his own album 4:44 through his company so he could claim that it went platinum in its first week

you girls sound like your band didnt make it

again you are right. edge shd say 'i create an electronic symphony ' using pedals etc. i am a basic player ... in u2. i maybe could be more but we heard bowie with fripp and eno...... thank yoiu for this.

Another reason they moved their HQ is because Dublin would not let them build their syscraper there.

U2 went to shit when they lost their most important band member: Brian Eno.

Nothing more punk rock than getting a massive corporation that nearly uses slave labor to sign a contract with you forcing people to download your album. Hell ya.

This is amazing. Thank you.

Most of ‘Boy’ is not about sex. And ‘I Will Follow’ sounds nothing like Bruce Springsteen. It’s also not political. The entire album is about childhood and is fairly autobiographical.

i was never a fan of U2 . there wasn't one song by theirs that i liked

Bruce Springsteen is a massive fan of u2. He even initiated them into the rock and roll hall of fame 😂

U2 is overrated but the Dave Mathews Band gets me every time. They were selling out stadiums...why?

Angel of Harlem is their only good song only because they ripped off Springsteen. That said, a duster/briefcase combo sounds kinda drippy.

Mark and Tyler we have a problem with U2. U2 has their own channel on Sirius XM. The U2 Channel. This sucks even more. I cancelled my subscription thank God.

The song that only had two notes was elevation btw

I never liked U2.

Found this podcast by typing in “u2 sucks” because I wanted to find more reason to hate them. I found what I was looking for

40:19 "Liar, Lunatic, or Lord" Usually people don't tell lies that get themselves killed, and from there you can decide if the Bible is nonsense or God's written communication to humanity.

Boomer version of 30 seconds to mars and imagine dragons bland arena ballad blandness.

I liked their first couple of albums but it was a downward spiral after that. Besides the Cure has always been a better band.

So I got bored and decided to watch Rocksmith and U2’s Vertigo and... it’s just sliding power chords and alternating single notes within an octave

Ya'll are missing a goldmine not selling "JACK WHITE MATTERS" T-shirts! I can play three-independent parts at the same time on a guitar or improvise music with the questions you got wrong on your basic music theory exam, OR create a vibe with the expensive stereo echo that Korg reissued especially for Dave Evans and his guitar tech Dallas Shoe. It's actually easier to make music on an acoustic guitar than to connect and tweak all that gear, then tear it down and load it into my Toyota (without which it would all just be dead weight.) I could probably get the same polyrhythms and microtonal bends with any digital delay, a well maintained tube amp and my dirty hands but like Joe Pass said, "I don't want to play anything too hard."

500 pedals for the Edge hahaha... I was crying 🤣😂.

HaHa...U2 was my band for 30 years!! Everything said here is true. They truly are not that good. Edge can't play, Bono can't sing, and the rhythm section barely hold it together. They throw around terms like "experimentation" because they have no fundamental understanding of actually how to play. They are geniuses in stoking the emotions and that is why they have a huge following born out of Gen X. Seriously, how many new U2 fans are being generated?? I only listen to U2 sporadically now because of a nostalgic connection and even give their new stuff a listen only because I feel some sort of loyalty to a band that I grew up with and followed me into Iraq when in the Army. Today I listen to prog metal and my band is Tool...now that is a band worth listening to...

Was Scott pilgrim a better bassist

why did you say talking heads is a great band

I like the songs nobody else likes: Bullet the Blue Sky, Pride, The Fly, One.

too easy

He may be annoying, but they called him Bono Vox (Good Voice) for a reason.

I can't tell if this is satire or not. I've never heard anyone say ZooTV is lame. Are you on drugs? It's literally the coolest fn .... THING... to ever exist. Nevermind concert, nevermind tour.... just, THING. It's so freakin' cool, and everyone from EDM to Radiohead have tried to emulate it ever since. Again, if satire = nice. If real lul guys, don't embarrass yourselves. U2 rules. You know what want to be Bono in that leather suit smoking those cigars with that slicked back hair. Don't even for a second deny it, 'cause I already know you're lying.

The name is the best of this band. I really loved them in the 80s,but i can't stand them now. Maybe ACHTUNG BABY can get a pass,but the rest is so annoying nowdays

U2 needs to break up or go on holiday

5:45 “I don’t like you sir”

As far as podcasts go could you do any worse than two dude bros passing cringe level jokes to each other? Not very original. I think you guys should maybe take some broadcast/podcast classes...maybe? Or at least read a cliff notes book for how to make better dialogue. I have heard 7th graders make more entertaining shows.

This is a brilliant podcast!

Love a lot of U2 but think your podcast is kinda funny.

they had some good songs, a good band , not great

U2 are truly the most awful band of all time.

Love Comes Tumbling Down is bearable.

Slow clap for some epic insights

I feel like the edge is run like hell by pink floyd but converted into a human good wrestler tho

Their earlier stuff was class and later stuff like achtung baby how to dismantle an atom bomb zooroopa etc but yep they suck nowadays sad reality

One of the reasons I lost interest in rock music was I was sick in tired of all the untrained musicians and singers. There were some songs of U2 I liked, but most of them were lousy. And I always felt there was a certain insincerity about their music. I eventually lost interest in them.

U2 used to be good. They probably should have stopped making new music after Achtung baby. Now most people make fun of them, which is a bit of a shame.