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.
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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.