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Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-12 18:29:31 +0000

Dear 'The Edge':

Could you please keep your <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11bono.html?_r=1">lead singer</a> in check?

An mp3 audio recording of the author of a NYT editorial being made available may be cool, but, why is Bono first bestowed this honor?

It's bad enough that you guys are releasing like 5 different versions of the same album for your 09 release and that I and the rest of America will soon be inundated with more U2 references and advertisements than the last obnoxious ipod / itunes go round.

Please die (now!),

DÜ

P.S. thank you for at least not being the Superbowl guest this year, although the alternate is typically, like U2, similarly annoying to me...

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-01-12 18:46:20 +0000

My New Year's resolution, per Sinatra, re U2:

<i> Miles Davis never wasted a note, kid — or a word on a fool. </i>

Posted by Corby Trouser Press on 2009-01-12 20:09:39 +0000

not to be pedantic, but they are actually from Ireland, not my glorious homeland

Posted by jbcardinale on 2009-01-12 20:37:55 +0000

not to be pedantic, but MFDU is quoting Kasey Kasem from a Top 40 countdown recording used marvelously by Negativland, in the song The Letter U and The Number 2. I'll play it for you later.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2009-01-13 10:44:28 +0000

Snuggles.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2009-01-13 14:57:58 +0000

Wow. It's well written. Bono just went up a notch in my book. Startling.

Was this Bono's idea? Is that the reason he's bestowed the honor?

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-13 18:37:37 +0000

U2 apologist.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-13 19:23:43 +0000

Damn it. It's so well-written that I can't help feeling a bit of a heart-flutter for old Paul Hewson. Bastard. *sigh*

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-13 19:27:33 +0000

U2 apologist.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-13 19:36:05 +0000

Fake New Englander.

I bet you think maple syrup comes from Canada.

Love New England, grudgingly love U2, maple syrup comes from New Hampshire. Booyah.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-14 11:55:16 +0000

Always thought m syrup came from Vermont?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-14 12:42:00 +0000

Also acceptable.

Posted by tgl on 2009-01-14 23:25:00 +0000

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-02-26 18:00:13 +0000

<a href ="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/27/u2-no-line-on-horizon"> Resolution break. </a>

Posted by MF DU on 2009-03-02 20:49:20 +0000

<a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/u2-release-second-album-year">WTF</a>.

FWIW - I think Pitchfork gave the new one a 4.6

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-03-02 21:29:38 +0000

Sounds like Use Your Illusions III and IV to me.

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