Originally posted by aussiemofo:

Many of the great bands of our times had substandard follow-ups to their debut albums. So U2 aren't alone here. I think its the pressure of replicating the success of an amazing first-up effort.

Originally posted by LikeASong:

[..]I don't hate it at all, but that sentence was fucking funny

Originally posted by LikeASong:

[..]I think it's missing the lyrics the month before recording.

Originally posted by MirrorballBoy:

Also The Vertigo Tour is among my least favourites. Politics almost got the upper hand during the shows (look at that long speech before 'One'). Nothing wrong with political speeches, but on the last tour they were too long and there were simply too much.

Originally posted by MirrorballBoy:

I think it's both the pressure and the stolen lyrics..

Originally posted by LikeASong:

[..]"I've been stolen...".

Originally posted by LikeASong:

[..]Stolen? I never believed that history. Bono surely lost them and, in order to save his ass from a very hard kick of Paul McGuiness, said "I've been stolen...".

Originally posted by germcevoy:

''from 2 beautiful girls'' The only thing on those pages were games of hangman and X's and O's. Stolen my beautiful girls my arse. . . (although he did say the ladies returned the brief case years later)

Originally posted by notcomingdown:

Sure the One speech was too long. I have it memorized by now, but it did actually do good. I posted on another topic how I admire U2 for having a little practice with their preach, and in this case it signed up millions of people for the One campaign. That's a good thing. People need to be forced to face the truth sometimes when they can't turn away. And if it means interupting a U2 show for five minues, I'm ok with it. One has mobilzed many people who would never signed up without Bono's prodding.

Originally posted by aussiemofo:

Guys at the end of the day there should be more people like Bono. Those special celebrities willing and able to speak out about what is unacceptably wrong in the world. If every celebrity followed suit during their spare time instead of crashing into trees when they were drunk or getting arrested for drug possession or ochestrating their own papparrazi entourage the world would be a lot more socially conscience and informative. As Bono asserts, celebrity is currency and he's using for greater good, not to his own advantage. It's part of who he is and what U2 is so let's respect his wishes. It's not as if this has been an overnight phenomenon.