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Comment of the Week: Readers Get Excited About the New U2 Album… Almost Too Excited

12/19/08, 4:30 pm EST

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The headline could have easily read “When I think about U2, I touch myself,” but that probably isn’t appropriate. In our post about U2’s new album No Line on the Horizon, salaciously named commenter U2 is overrated as a handjob said, without assistance from punctuation and spell check, “U2 became irrelevant after Joshua Tree…. does anyone remember the song Lemon? That song alone discredits any workt that these d-bags have made. This band is quite possibly the most overrated band of all time, next to Bob Dylan that is….you heard me!”

We disagree, but we let commenter Overrated? fight the good fight by defending both Bono and self-pleasuring: “A handjob is like pizza. Even when its bad its good. Just like U2. I’d rather listen to these guys swing and miss than Nickelback churn out drone after drone.” Thanks for commenting, pervs.


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mothballs | 12/19/2008, 6:12 pm EST

Bono looks like he’s covering “Jizz in my Pants” in that picture.

one_bad_lemon | 12/19/2008, 8:24 pm EST

OMG! where can I buy that t-shirt? ‘When I Think of U2, I Touch Myself’ :D I love it! And yes, I am a ‘passionate’U2 fan and couldn’t have put it better myself! I can’t wait!! Roll-on 2009 and U2!! Finally, some real music on the airwaves again. Welcome back boys! :)

joekool | 12/20/2008, 10:51 am EST

To pervs and mothballs, you obviously are not getting the message in the songs by U2, probably because you are to stupid. For me, I get it and cannot wait for the new album, I am a ONE member and you should be too!!

TheArtist | 12/20/2008, 11:53 am EST

Back in the 90’s lemon was one of my favorite songs, F’ that guy!!!!!!

Music History X | 12/20/2008, 12:29 pm EST

It’s funny, when “Zooropa” came out in 1993, at the absolute height of grunge, it was as far from that genre as you can imagine. U2 went completely against the grain. Johnny Cash sang the lead vocals on the last song, “The Wanderer”, back before everyone starting hopping on his cool bandwagon. “Lemon” was a truly groundbreaking song from an established rock act. They won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album that year, when everyone was calling themselves alternative. Love these guys. They are gonna bring it March 3rd.

Proud Perv | 12/20/2008, 3:33 pm EST

You know Rolling Stone magazine has jumped the shark when they act like prudes when someone use a sexual metaphor in their opinions on the subject.

I’m a fan of the magazine and website. You guys need to remember who you are and stop acting and shaping your content to be corporate. We love sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It’s a shame that a magazine that used to celebrate that is getting squeamish about any and all of those three.

Paolo | 12/20/2008, 6:07 pm EST

I have been following these guys from their earliest productions… Worried any now and then to see their music production capability vanish, they have always proved the opposite… No other band gives me the same pleasure to be listen to. Of course, Joshua Tree was probably hitorically unique, but these guys are simply the best, and I do not think they have finished their capability of producing the greatest music of the last decades. I am pretty much sure their next album will be very positively surprising and among their 3/4 best ones.

Jungleland2 | 12/22/2008, 11:42 am EST

Ok, so Atomic Bomb was kinda a snooze and POP was about 1/2 completed when they released it (and the good songs are great)..otherwise there is no band out there that has put out the string of back-to-back materpieces that U2 has.

30 years from now The Unforgettable Fire,Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa and All That You Can’t Leave Behind will be among the “best of the last 50 years issue”

Mr. Emo | 1/10/2009, 6:48 pm EST

“Lemon” is a tremendous song–one of U2’s best. Midnight is where the day begins.

That guy is a moron.

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