re: Bloody Sunday (the movie)
For once a U2 song actually made me feel something (it is played during the credits); something other than "Bono needs a swift foot to the gnads".
To be honest, I taped a couple albums off a friend (Rattle and Hum and the Joshua Tree) when I was about 12...and I kinda liked them...I listened to them a lot while I delivered
The Chronicle...but over all I found them dull as all their songs pretty much sound the same. I eventually taped over them and forgot about them until everyone was all over Zooropa (which someone bought for me and I HATED it) and I soon realized what a dickweed Bono was, even if his intentions were noble. His bloated, unwarranted ego, coupled with the fact that I was developing somewhat of an arch-nemesis in a former friend that loved them (and REM and the Smashing Pumpkins)...well...it just ruined any real apprectiation and snuffed any chance that I'd admit I ever liked anything by them. blahblahblah. Anyway, the song,
i'm not enjoying this by the way, sounded pretty good at the end of the film. It did, however, bring back terrible memories of CEGEP (college to you Americans...kinda)...when people from class would drag me to
terrible college bars where I'd cower in a corner with a pitcher and take in the surreal experience of wall to wall frat jocks with baseball caps and hemp bracelets boisterously singing (screaming) along with the song about the slaughter of innocent people in 1970's Ireland. Very, very surreal is this experience. I doubt that many, if any, of them had even the vaguest idea what the lyrics they were vomiting out at 200 decibels, were about.
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