mccNeed to rip a CD so I can actually listen to it. Not actually sure how to do this in the year 2024. Find myself downloading… iTunes? For Windows 10?
FUCK i tried to download all the music i bought on itunes in 2007 and accidentally downloaded some fucking U2 album. There's no button to un-download it. Gonna have to submerge the hard drive in lye
I started moving away from Apple so long ago that I forgot you have to watch out for them trying to trick you into listening to U2
M… maybe… maybe I'll just leave that Cee-Lo Green album in the cloud :(
Chris [list of emoji]I may be the only person on earth (other than Bono) who was happy to get a free U2 album with their Mac.
(I still ended up buying the physical CD later on to have a lossless copy tho', so not that big a win. Still, the Macbook was (and still is) a nice laptop from back before the enshitification got too bad and the US dollar was at par.)
@suetanvil There is some U2 I will happily listen to. But probably not whatever they were doing in 2013.
Mood, although they're significant enough to my life that I'll buy and listen to their mediocre albums for the one or two good songs.
(As an aside, the second half of that album is pretty good, as is the one before it.)
@suetanvil I really legitimately like "New Year's Day". And their collaboration with Sinead O'Connor.
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So their 1995 collaboration with Brian Eno about imaginenary movies and their sound tracks in Passengers is save to try I think? 😁
https://www.u2.com/music/album/4076
So their 1995 collaboration with Brian Eno about imaginenary movies and their sound tracks in Passengers is save to try I think? 😁
https://www.u2.com/music/album/4076
U2 was the band I got into when I Discovered Music as a teen. Which is handy because at least it's not embarrassing*.
So I pretty unreservedly love all of their output up to Pop (plus No Line on the Horizon) and can pick good bits from the remaining output.
In conclusion, I am not a reliable judge of what U2 output is good.
* There's embarrassing stuff too, but it's all CCM so it usually doesn't get airplay in public.
Also, wrt Passengers: I thought it was okay. It was a departure from their usual stuff (hence the name change) and it was interesting but it didn't have most of the stuff I loved about the band.
So far, I think the only output I've outright rejected is Edge's pandemic project of cocoa-and-slippers remakes of some of their songs.