1) I was a teenager.
2) Brian Eno made that band. Unforgettable Fire is an unappreciated gem, and it is due to his mixing intervention. Then Joshua Tree he made Bono get singing lessons and that was the apex. He still can't sing at all. But, he does it more gracefully, sorta.
3)The thing I like about U2 is actually these are four Catholic dudes who grew up together and like, they genuinely gel well together. Bono was NOT the best singer for that band, but he could not learn the guitar and if you ever listen to the Edge's solo stuff, well, you kinda wonder how he COPED with Bono, because he is such a poor lyricist. Really if you ever want to see something funny watch Bono "play the guitar" (he learned) and try to sing at the same time (he cannot walk and chew gum at the same time and I still think he knows like five chords.
BUT the great Johnny Cash himself was like, not the WORLD'S greatest musician of all time either.
So you'd think the Edge would be all fuming but no, he was like, "Fine I will play guitar and back Bono up on the high notes because NO he can't sing but if he tried to play the guitar, well, we would have NO band ever."
There is really a beauty to some of the songwriting and mixing. I mean "Where the streets have no name.... that intro goes on forever, it is the SAME DANG CHORD deconstructed, over and over again, but it builds and it is beautiful and it takes you someplace.
IDK. Why do we like what we like? PERSONAL TASTE.
I am in love with My Chemical Romance BUT ONLY THE BLACK PARADE ALBUM.
It's basically about the lead singer watching his abusive veteran dad die of cancer and I swear, his dad came down and blessed that album with his regret, because it is not only beautiful in single mode, it is ROCK OPERA (not no longer so popular but they exist) about his dad. It's truly one of my favorite albums of this decade.
IDK I think often we don't go outside our comfort zones and listen to something truly foreign.
I feel that way about Nirvana. When Kurt Cobain died, like, I cried.... because I hated their damn music SO MUCH and now it was gonna be like Christmas music, there would be no more NEW crap, only OLD crap, played SO OFTEN and in mourning and like, I was like "There will be Nirvana Elevator music" which is why we should force (or let our kids force us) into new genres. The kid was all rappy so I never let him know when he went all moody into his room I LIKED It. LOL.
It's going through a rough patch lately. Seems like everything is but yeah the stuff he sends has been SUCKING.
It is entirely subjective. You just know when a song is singing for you/to you, etc. SO be judciious. I will often wander the house singing "So happy together" and like my husband wanted to know why I knew it so well. Ahem, that was the EXIT song into a marriage where I KNEW before hand I should probably not do it, so it became kind of "not happy" but I still love it. So instead of answering, I just said, "You ,know we will both be happier if I do not tell you. Bless my husband's hear he was like, "Okay, works for me."
LOL I would have been "Deep dark therapy secret TELL ME NOW! I get gestapo-like in those moments, I mean not in therapy everyone has a right to privacy you know!! JUST NOT MY HUSBAND HE IS SPESUHUL or I AM or WHATEVER.
Anna
I used to love that recipe, but when I started making large batches of it, (120 ML) by the time I got half way through it, the flavor changed. When I mix I like to do fairly large batch's, but they have to be a stable recipe, that doesn't change into something else. 30 ML or so should be fine though, someone said cactus adds moisture, but I have never used it. 
