U2

[Blaster]

This group recorded some really great music.

 

[Blaster]

 

[Godboy]

This group recorded some really great music.

One of my favorites is actually with Mary J Blige. They redid "One" and she blew the fucking doors off with her vocals! The end of the song is sooo good.

 

[hjmick]

No, they recorded some good songs but for the most part they are pretentious and overrated.

 

[Godboy]

No, they recorded some good songs but for the most part they are pretentious and overrated.

Ah, come on, Bono has grown over the years. Did you see this in news about him? Its pretty wild that he would backtrack on this and admit that he was wrong.

"I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism."

"I didn’t grow up to like the idea that we’ve made heroes out of businesspeople, but if you’re bringing jobs to a community and treating people well, then you are a hero."

U2's Bono: Capitalism Crushes Poverty

Bono wants to save the world one song at a time. U2's lead singer has never been shy about overstepping his reach, be it shoving music onto fans via iTunes or playing Live Aid to help starving Africans. His activism has always been messy and full of contradictions, never more apparent than when...

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