[kj] OT: Pirating of new U2 release

[peter.west410]

"that's the way to do it.".....

    That is bloody annoying me.......Who used to say that in a parrot like
squawk?.

that's the way to do it......

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <rob at westwoodassociates.co.uk>
To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:44 PM
Subject: RE: [kj] OT: Pirating of new U2 release


> 'Getting a female on stage to dance with!!!!!!!!!!What was all that about'
>
> stranglers - 'nice 'n' sleazy' comes to mind, that's the way to do
it......
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of peter.west410
> Sent: 09 November 2004 15:44
> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Pirating of new U2 release
>
>
> In my rightful opinion U2 have never been relevant,Just a bunch of
> flag-waving,pretentious posers.
>     "I threw a brick"........  I don't think you did Bono.
> They were a safe inoffensive band,Some thing you could play at a family
> gathering and your granny would nt mind.
>     Getting a female on stage to dance with!!!!!!!!!!What was all that
about
>  They were  a cutting-edge political rebellious band for accountants of
this
> world.Safe, inoffensive and reliable for Top of the pops producers.
>    PW
>
> Yasser Arafat,brain dead...............No change there then.With the main
> obstacle to peace on his way out,Hopefully the factions can make peace
now.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Smith" <vassifer at earthlink.net>
> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
> <gathering at misera.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Pirating of new U2 release
>
>
> > I think U2 stopped being "relevant" (whatever that means) after ACHTUNG
> > BABY (an at-the-time refreshing image overhaul they've still not
> > recovered from). Apart from the odd track here and there, it strikes me
> > that they've long since stopped making music that "mattered". That
> > said, I've always liked them despite their elephantine pretension
> > (although since when is humility a staple of great music? I ask you --
> > are Killing Joke humble? No, and nor should they be!) As the kids here
> > in the States say, U2 have "jumped the shark", and are now as old, out
> > of it and fuddy-duddy as Emerson Lake & Palmer were in 1977.
> >
> > REM, as far as I'm concerned, probably should have called it quits
> > after CHRONIC TOWN, but to continue since Billy Berry's departure earns
> > them a death warrant, I'd say. And Michael Stipe is nine-times as much
> > of a jackass as Bono can  be.
> >
> > Alex in NYC
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 04:01 AM, Patrick Davies wrote:
> >
> > > For me U2 stopped being relevant when they did a live gig on telly.
Was
> > > it a tube special? Bono in his rock star pose jumped off the stage and
> > > said it didn't exist that they were one with the audience. I saw it as
> > > self indulgent bollox and never listened to them again under my own
> > > steam. Not long after that they were doing stadiums I believe.
> > >
> > > REM never, to my limited knowledge, made such illusions. However
Stripe
> > > was so far out there it took them to the other year to let people know
> > > there was someone else in the band by acting like a pr*ck on an
> > > airplane.
> > >
> > >
> > > iPat
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas Kennedy wrote:
> > >
> > >> Good.  They suck shit anyways...
> > >
> > > Do people still care about U2? they haven't been relivant since the
mid
> > > 80s. I can't understand what people see in them anymore, but then
again
> > > I say that about R.E.M. and people still seem to rate them quite
> > > highly.
> > >
> > >
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