As for the lyrics, don’t jump to the wrong conclusion. It can’t be denied that Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton and the Edge can still make fascinating music.Yes it can. And it will be. Right here, right now: They suck. They've always sucked. For 25 yrs. they have sucked. And we can only expect them to continue their suckery, until they're literally too old to suck. And that's only the music, mid-tempo slop that it is. Now we agree w/ Marsh.
Bono’s yelped vocals are another matter, his hollow lyrics--where every platitude yields to an obscurantist pretension and back again--yet another. Unfortunately, even if he’d come up with a lyric as great as “One,” Bono also carries into each project his off-stage political pronouncements, and his fawning affiliations with war criminals such as Tony Blair and George W. Bush.
Not quite a war criminal, but please: NYC Mayor Bloomberg & B. V. 
Finding the music so disposably dismissible, & Bono generally a self-righteous bullshit artist, we've never paid serious attention to U2 ('though they're certainly difficult to avoid, as they go forth to pollute the media-o-sphere every time they need to make money w/ their latest project). So we had no idea what an actual dilrod Bono is. Example: He's a co-owner of Forbes magazine. Yeesh!!
Finding the music so disposably dismissible, & Bono generally a self-righteous bullshit artist, we've never paid serious attention to U2 ('though they're certainly difficult to avoid, as they go forth to pollute the media-o-sphere every time they need to make money w/ their latest project). So we had no idea what an actual dilrod Bono is. Example: He's a co-owner of Forbes magazine. Yeesh!!
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