Perez I normally agree with you on a lot of stuff, but on music, it's honestly a matter of taste. You favor pop and dance acts to rock acts, which is fine. But 450,000 in the first week is nothing to sneeze at. That's a gold record by week two -- gold is 500,000 copies. The latest Killers album got just as good reviews from the major critics as the U2 album, and didn't go gold that quick. In this economy AND the age of downloads, very few bands of ANY genre go gold in their first week. You're obviously welcome to your own opinon, but maybe you should lay off U2 a bit. Does the first single off the album suck? Yeah, its the weakest song. Doesn't mean th rest of the album is terrible. There's far worse dreck out there ... like Nickleback.
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at 20:24 09/04/2008
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Actually the last album had five singles, plus two non-album singles in the 4 years since, and all but one charted pretty high on the various music charts. So yeah, I'd have to say people are still listening. Think about it like this: U2 is one of the few bands in rock to be able to skirt that border between mainstream rock and modern/alt rock, and of their contemporaries, really only R.E.M. and Elvis Costello on the modern side and Bon Jovi and AC/DC on the mainstream side are still around. INXS, the Smiths, 10,000 Maniacs, the Police and the Clash are all gone, and The Cure, Depeche Mode, Def Leppard and Guns N' Roses are like a shadow of their former selves.
You're obviously welcome to your own opinon, but maybe you should lay off U2 a bit. Does the first single off the album suck? Yeah, its the weakest song. Doesn't mean th rest of the album is terrible. There's far worse dreck out there ... like Nickleback.