Talk about reading fail... You skipped over everything I said after sales...
NSYNC = 10 million sold
Joshua Tree = 25 million (which is more than NSYNC)
Album of the year
Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest albums in history
I could go on for quite while with all the awards and lists the album or its songs appear on.
Seriously, the comparison is a joke.
BTW why do you feel the need to insult my taste? Did I insult yours?
I think you are addressing that comment to the wrong person.Is a difference in taste really that hard to comprehend? As much as you love U2, many people dislike them. You can argue album sales and achievements all you want. U2 is for people that don't have any taste in music beyond radio bands/hits. Some people like a little more than generic top 100 radio rock.
So if I want to introduce my 19 year old nephew who has never heard them do I play the popular songs or the early stuff?
When a buddy of mine saw them a few years back, he got to go up on stage and sing Bullet Ride.
I disagree.In such a case I would go with the catchiest songs you can find, which would probably jive more with the popular songs a band has than their early stuff necessarily.
I think you are addressing that comment to the wrong person.
I didn't question anyone else's musical opinion. Nor did I insult anyone else's musical choice. And yet the anti-U2 people feel the need to degrade and insult people for liking their music, rather sad.
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I disagree.
I would go with the songs that represent who the band is vs the songs that were most popular (although sometimes they are the same songs.) Especially when you talk about groups musical contribution. The three greatest hits of The Police's career came from Synchronicity, but what makes them important to music is their early stuff and how they helped the progression from Punk to New Wave to Synthpop.
I know where you're coming from, but I'm if that 19 year old who never heard of a band or any of their music I wouldn't care about their musical contribution or their influence on other bands if I don't even like what I'm listening too. I'd argue (especially with today's youth) that you gotta actually get them interested in listening to someone before they can branch out and start appreciating the early stuff, assuming it's a band that excelled in music making and endured over time to the point where commercially they got much better.
You may not have directly insulted people's taste, but the following quote is worthy of rebuke: "I don't understand why some people are so enamored by groups most people have never heard of. I am sure they are good and they have their fans. But how do you compare one of the biggest selling groups of all time with Tool or Janes Addiction?"BTW why do you feel the need to insult my taste? Did I insult yours?
Seriously? I stated an opinion. You turned around and insulted that opinion.You made a statement stating that they were the best band of the last 30 years. Your defense of the subject is "because they sold a lot of albums, and the music industry told me so, herp derp". Nobody else came out saying their band was the best, but you felt the need to force your ego into the thread, so people responded. Big surprise.
If a thread is going on about different cars that people drive, and I go in and say "HONDA CIVIC IS THE BEST CAR OF ALL TIME!", because it sold the most, then people would be on my ass like white on rice. People just don't like egotistical bastards like yourself, because you turn any basic conversation into a flame war because you can't keep your ego in check.
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That was a direct response to the following:You may not have directly insulted people's taste, but the following quote is worthy of rebuke: "I don't understand why some people are so enamored by groups most people have never heard of. I am sure they are good and they have their fans. But how do you compare one of the biggest selling groups of all time with Tool or Janes Addiction?"
I was turning his quote around on him to illustrate how elitist his opinion was.I don't understand why some people are so enamored by U2. They are good musicians, certainly, but greatest band of the last 30 years? No way!
Just because you can't understand how anybody could enjoy something that is on a Hot 100 chart doesn't make your opinion any more valid than theirs; it just makes you seem more arrogant.Just because you can't understand how anybody could enjoy something that isn't on a Hot 100 chart doesn't make your opinion any more valid than theirs; it just makes you seem more arrogant.
I don't question tastes in music or opinion or who they like better. But I think questioning the label of "greatest band of the last 30 years" is kind of foolish. If U2 doesn't own that label then who does?Your subsequent responses seem to indicate that you feel that other people's opinions are wrong since U2 is more popular with a larger fanbase.
I don't care for Lady Gaga, but I wouldn't question the fact that she is the most popular artists of the last couple of years. Is she the greatest artist of the past few years? If not her than who is?
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I completely agree.GaGa are you fucking forreal? She's just rehashing Madonna for this generation.
It seems like you think 'most popular' is the same as 'greatest.'I completely agree.
But if Gaga is not the greatest artist of the last few years then who is?
Taylor Swift, Black Eyed Peas?
Sadly most of the popular stuff these days tends to suck from a musical POV. And we can't even begin to compare the social aspects of today's music to the past.
I don't understand why some people are so enamored by groups most people have never heard of. I am sure they are good and they have their fans. But how do you compare one of the biggest selling groups of all time with Tool or Janes Addiction?
Sure popularity doesn't always equate to good (see any Michael Bay movie) But when you have sold 150 million albums, have 22 Grammys (more than any other band) and have three of the greatest albums of all times you must be doing something right.