The Irish rock band U2 is back with a new album, and a slew of media coverage. They are in today’s Globe and were in Sunday’s New York Times. From the New York Times:
U2 has entered the fourth decade of a career that began in 1978, when its members were teenage schoolmates in Dublin; they are now in their late 40s. And U2 may well be the last of the megabands: long-running, internationally recognized rockers whose every album, from “Boy” in 1980 to “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” in 2004, has sold millions of copies worldwide. In an era when CD sales have plummeted, Top 40 radio favors hip-hop and teen-pop, albums are fractured by MP3 players’ shuffle mode and the old idea of a rock mainstream seems more and more like a mirage, U2 still, unabashedly, wants to release a blockbuster.
The new album is “No Line on the Horizon”, their twelfth. They are still a monster act after all this time, relevant and still producing great stuff.
Read the New York Times story here. Read the Globe story here.
Bill Manzi.com 
Monster no-talent act is what you mean to say.
Happy birthday, by the way.
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Hey, not this has anything to do with those no-talent musical hacks, but is worthy of your attention. In honor of your birthday today, Pat Buchanan wrote this:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?fc_c=1372216x2869460x109922778&id=30906
Heed well his words.
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U2 just can’t suck enough. A good garage band has more talent.
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So does my still liking U2 betray me as an older sort? Or is it that you all think they stunk from day one?
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Yes Buchanan again. Maybe you should read this column that he wrote.
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U-2 has pretty much sucked bilge water since their inception.
And what’s your point with Buchanan’s column. Didn’t he say in it that BHO just deployed 17,000? Good way to bring those numbers down. But I guess it’s ok if Hussein does it.
See WSJ today??? In case you missed it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html
1/20/13
Bono is a Bonehead
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I thought they were pretty good, except for the fact that the Edge only knew two chords.
-FM
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