Was U2 cool in the 80s?

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Жыл бұрын

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@larrainekardos6280 Жыл бұрын

U2 was the cool band when they were a cult band early to mid 80’s. Great period!

@lilbluekitten Жыл бұрын

Yes! Those were good times. The first time I heard their music, I knew they were going to be something special.

@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 Жыл бұрын

Yep. Then they played Live Aid and exploded.

@patrickdaly5068 10 ай бұрын

@@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078Live at Red Rocks too. The visual was amazing as well as the music. A couple of years ago I watched it on YT, and someone in the comments said his girlfriend had tickets but he didn’t feel like driving all the way from, I think, San Antonio, to Colorado. Then he said “What a dumb___!” Lol. There’s nothing like some self-deprecating humor.

@CagedSUPERMAN 3 ай бұрын

They’ve been great every decade

@robonou2 Жыл бұрын

I'm 72 yrs and I have Loved U2 for over 40 years

@brettscott8288 9 ай бұрын

I'm 51 and been a fan since '83-84.❤️❤️👍👍

@frogsama666 6 ай бұрын

I'm 35 and I have been a fan for 15 years.

@ronnycee7649 Жыл бұрын

Gotta love Bono’s honesty

@laotzu39 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we got it. We still get it. Bullet the blue sky is still one of the greatest songs I know of

@Florida_guy Жыл бұрын

It sure is it's the coolest Baseline the greatest guitar tracks and the most hypnotic drum beat beautiful package in 1 song brother

@dj-um7el Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Jeffro5564 8 ай бұрын

@@Florida_guy nah it’s crap

@lfcgero35 8 ай бұрын

@@Jeffro5564great contribution pal well done 👏

@nathanpeters9515 8 ай бұрын

@@Jeffro5564 their album iTunes gave away for free did untold damage. It still plays uninvited when people turn on their cars and Bluetooth gets connected. Beyond annoying. Their earlier albums are very good in my opinion. I don’t think they are crap, but they would be better off not releasing albums unless they have a good idea whether they will be well-received. Quality is a subjective thing, so it’s fine to think they’re crap, but a lot of people would disagree.

@valeriehartman3705 Жыл бұрын

I wish Paul McGuinness was still the manager.

@heathernks8 Жыл бұрын

In the 80s, my sister used to describe U2'S music as it all sounding like the same song, and although I love U2, I agreed. Then they released Achtung Baby in 91 and blew the doors off of their "old" stuff with a killer new sound. Been a die-hard fan since.✌🎋

@carriepriegel6477 Жыл бұрын

Agree! It’s still my favorite- Boy and Joshua Tree, great but there’s such profundity in Achtung, Baby. As corny as it sounds, it’s like a great Bordeaux or fine whiskey, just improves with time.

@ausis6214 Жыл бұрын

That's so odd because I think they had 3-4 distinct periods in the 80s.

@heathernks8 Жыл бұрын

@@ausis6214 They did, but as a tween in Kansas*, all that I was exposed to were a couple of songs on the radio. I didn't explore their older stuff until the 90s. (My age obviously affected my opinions, lol.)✌

@heathernks8 Жыл бұрын

@@carriepriegel6477 Exactly! It's the perfect album. It sounded fresh and exciting to me for years, yet I don't wish I could hear it again for the first time bc it has aged so beautifully!

@jonathanbirch2022 Жыл бұрын

“Mysterious Ways” was when they got funky.

@davevangorder8194 Жыл бұрын

U2 is awesome!

@Alylinds1874 10 ай бұрын

I've loved them since I was 12, in 1987. They are a band of 4 musical geniuses.

@buffalotrafficmusic Жыл бұрын

They were the best in my eyes

@motorcity7137 Жыл бұрын

I saw the Joshua Tree tour at 16 in the Pontiac Silverdome. COOLEST band on the planet in 87

@Msln-ju3xo Жыл бұрын

😇💙🍀great to see Bono smiling. aging gracefully .... when Irish eyes are smiling......

@Aquabob1 Жыл бұрын

Favorite all time band. I discovered them at 14, around 1981..and I have been a huge fan ever since. In the 80’s, we had to camp out at whatever store ticketmaster was selling tickets at….I spent 2 days in line to get awesome seats at JFK stadium in Philadelphia, one of the highlights was Bruce Springsteen coming out on stage and playing with Bono….times I will never forget……😊✌️

@CB-ei6ez Жыл бұрын

i remember them playing at my college town coliseum in the early 80s.. .they definitely up there with the Beatles

@Diana1000Smiles Жыл бұрын

I am addicted to good Music. I seldom ever watch Interviews.

@carlodjose9991 Жыл бұрын

A MELHOR BANDA DE TODOS OS TEMPOS U2💥💥💥💥💥💥

@JamesVibe 11 ай бұрын

When i heard the Unforgettable Fire for the first time in 1987 Connecticut ..... i was blown away.... truly never heard anything like it. And it was the more atmospheric songs that hooked me on U2. They still deliver!

@JTCT371 11 ай бұрын

U2 is an incredible band...while many were doing the same sort of thing, U2 carved out a very unique niche for themselves....while Im not a fan of their most recent material (its been awhile), in their early days it was a consistent and steady run of classic music.

@CutiePie-hh3gg 10 ай бұрын

Rattle and Hum is still the best concert movie ever

@StratsRUs Жыл бұрын

U2 were cool. He's referring to Two Hearts Beat As One. That War album still did great.I saw them in 1983 and I was 14. They should have given up a while ago and keep watering down their legacy with each release.Amazing albums up to 1991.

@horsemanpit8812 Жыл бұрын

The song that went down the charts was Fire from October.

@Jeanninecomeau 10 ай бұрын

This is the problem I'm having seeing them in Vegas. Did you see the setlist?

@steveblog1 Ай бұрын

14 when I first heard them, 54 this year and still a fan (mostly). They really need to bring that guitar driven album out that they’ve been talking about for years!

@markjenner7199 11 ай бұрын

The best band to come out of Ireland 🇬🇧

@rainyfern. 7 ай бұрын

The best band in the world

@shanekenny9440 7 ай бұрын

Wrong flag for Ireland numb nuts. This is the flag of Ireland 🇮🇪

@boobooboogoo Жыл бұрын

Awesome clip! We do love our U2 in America!

@johnfearon6115 Жыл бұрын

I always thought U2 made it in the US before Europe ....

@kenlewis2253 Жыл бұрын

Canada first, actually.

@sekenamcmurren2217 Жыл бұрын

I love Bono! ✊🏼💕🎵

@plasteredbastard Жыл бұрын

picked the torch up from joy division carried it but had no one to leave it with and coldplay doesn't count

@jonathanbirch2022 Жыл бұрын

Radiohead?

@nprpodcasts Жыл бұрын

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@papabear9498 6 ай бұрын

At 13 I saw the red rocks concert and I was HOOKED

@malk5961 8 ай бұрын

my dad got me on U2

@DarlinJacq Жыл бұрын

Yah, Bono said the magic words, Bono said the amazing words, “Blues” and “Gospil” To~Get~Her!!! GOOD FOR BONO GOD BLESS YOU SWEETY PIE🥳🥰😇

@robertdebrus3732 4 ай бұрын

I'm from Philadelphia I saw them twice we definitely get it

@SantiJCC 5 ай бұрын

U2 en los 80' era pura energía. En Live Aid avasallan a Led Zeppelin y a Ultravox (2 ejemplos opuestos) por pura intensidad.

@iberns 11 ай бұрын

GOAT

@carriepriegel6477 Жыл бұрын

Well, at the end of the day how many great bands, groups, acts hail from Europe as a whole? Neither can I 🤔 Of course, The UK far more! England the most, then Ireland (what incredible memorable band comes from Wales?) I just watched the U2 concert in & for Ukraine (AIDS, not the current situation) from a few years ago; the audience of 350K, yep, 350K😮😮😮 sang the lyrics perfectly, as if English was their native tongue - throughout, it was obvious the mutual admiration and respect showing how powerful a bond music creates, beyond politics and borders.

@marcboozman 4 ай бұрын

The Paradise, and the Orpheum with the Clash. I thank the baby Jesus that I was born in the early 60s. ... Don't even try to walk away, Mr. Paul Hewson. I will follow. We all will. We'll invite Raymond Carver too.

@jameskelly6152 5 ай бұрын

Were always kool . Incredibly so .

@gailday7636 7 ай бұрын

Australia 👍♥️☘️

@MrAnaheimification 10 ай бұрын

I remember some Irish tourists told me U2 is not well liked back in their native country.

@jasonbourne4426 10 ай бұрын

Bono inherits Jimmy Saviles Glasses

@jamess.6767 8 ай бұрын

When U2 came to America, they were not play blues or gospel. They were a rebel punk band with a hint of Christianity. Blues and Gospel didn’t arrive until Joshua Tree.

@paulawalsh8921 Жыл бұрын

❤

@kt2816 9 күн бұрын

Bono looks 90 years old

@thekidcomn5938 8 ай бұрын

What’s funny is that American crowds are dead at concerts, and I’ve been mocked for loving U2.

@adrianopenha4382 5 ай бұрын

Curto todos os albuns e posso dizer que sua sonoridade é única apesar de mudanças de comportamento duvido a modernidade os fizeram ser inventivos mas sua raiz permanece, aqui no Brasil infelizmente a geração atual prefere funk com letras grosseiras e imbecis !!!

@paulvigliotti444 9 ай бұрын

This is true

@hotlov72 Жыл бұрын

They weren't cool in the 80's not really. It was us music snobs that really loved U2

@youbigtubership Жыл бұрын

Also being lads who grew up through the Troubles and chose a different path, sublimating in favour of pugnacious sound and delivery, spoke to US culture and politics. Bombs were still going off. "Give me what I want and no one gets hurt." So they had a compelling refugee story.

@theopoiesis 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful woman

@allisnotwhatitseems. Жыл бұрын

Larry Gogan

@Jeffro5564 8 ай бұрын

Damn he looks so old as 62 yo

@MAKE-COMMENTS-GREAT-AGAIN 7 ай бұрын

And where is the in between period? It's so strange, he went 54, 55, 56....74. Pffff like an old prune.💁🙍

@scottklepner Жыл бұрын

rachael martin, as an irish american, i must say, good on you Bono for not drowning her in love. she is gorgeous and stunning

@buffalotrafficmusic Жыл бұрын

By the time you were doing blues you’d already been here though

@mem1701movies Жыл бұрын

Bono looks so ...old

@tonybolstad9514 Жыл бұрын

Needs to shave that awful fuzz off

@kenlewis2253 Жыл бұрын

62.

@heathernks8 Жыл бұрын

So when Madonna overdoes it on plastic surgery, (at age 64) she looks like a freak show, but when Bono ages naturally, he looks old, lol? I guess billionaires can't win for losing. Age happens to the best of us; you're aging as we speak. If you're lucky, it will happen to you, too, and with it, comes wisdom.✌

@mem1701movies Жыл бұрын

@@heathernks8 you’re annoying but what I meant was that the passage of time sucks

@philipclarke1314 11 ай бұрын

Back then it was all punk That’s the reason why U2’they went to the states

@iamneverwrong6635 5 ай бұрын

They were BEYOND Cool. Stupid question 🙄

@louisdimov8956 Жыл бұрын

LOL😂

@PatDanBully Жыл бұрын

Ireland is not part of the UK.

@granthambeard Жыл бұрын

Some members of U2 are cool, but U2 as a band were never cool, and thank god for that. I hope they never are.

@P-I-UK Жыл бұрын

wish he would stop with the wigs

@virginiedallongeville7854 10 ай бұрын

Les gens : U2 a sorti également de la musique dans les années 90 et 2000 alors arrêtez de dire que the joshua tree est excellent ! Cet album c de la merde !!!! Vertigo est la meilleure chanson de U2 et le meilleur album How to dismantle an atomic bomb sorti en 2004 ! Les médias sont tellement hypocrites en France a toujours parler de U2 mais à ne jamais diffuser leur musique ! G envie de me suicider 😢😢😢 Les années 80 c de la merde

@ziggypop79 Жыл бұрын

They were briefly cool around time of Achtung Baby

@yncasasue9721 Жыл бұрын

Joshua tree was cold af!!!

@Irish780 Жыл бұрын

So your from the UK now bono Jesus it's worse u getting 😊😅

@Giarcnek Жыл бұрын

Who the F is this old man?

@namanverdu Жыл бұрын

A legend

@tunesidig Жыл бұрын

SIR, Bono

@SaiAbitathaDUCIC Жыл бұрын

22 time Grammy winning rockstar Bono from the iconic band U2. The only person in the world to be nominated for a Grammy, Oscar, Golden Globe and a Nobel Prize, and he won all except the Nobel.

@S42069 Жыл бұрын

Americans don’t want this rubbish 😂

@greatmouse20 Жыл бұрын

You are rubbish

@nellyweini8188 Жыл бұрын

Rubbish?

@davefinn3526 Жыл бұрын

The world doesn't want Americans

@billyflynn6432 Жыл бұрын

In America U2 are seen as one of the greatest bands of all time up there with The Beatles The Stones Led Zeppelin Pink Flyod. The Joshua Tree which has sold 25 million records is one of the most critically acclaimed and loved rock albums ever released in the US. It actually one of the few records that American Congress has honoured. U2 are the last great supergroup.

@S42069 Жыл бұрын

@@billyflynn6432 you just insulted some of the greatest bands of all time by lumping them in with U2.

@jackstraw6760 9 ай бұрын

Boy War October Under A Blood Red Sky. (Red Rocks) The Unforgettable Fire The Joshua Tree Rattle And Hum I got you since 1883 when I heard War for the first time.