[kj] OT: Pirating of new U2 release
woody2shooz
woody2shooz at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Nov 9 12:17:47 EST 2004
mister punch
and I first saw U2 on an ITV kiddie pop show called Get It Together. No memory of the year, maybe 82 or 83
graham
----- Original Message -----
From: peter.west410
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Pirating of new U2 release
Was it Basil Brush? Someone must know.
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com>
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
<gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Pirating of new U2 release
> "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!)'"
> <gathering at misera.net>
> 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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