"Oscar Wilde in a Ford escort."

"We have the Edge, who is Methodist blood, Presbyterian heart."

At least he's up to date with the catalogue...
...at least...

is absolutely amazing

there aint a single thing bad about it or Bono

anyone who disputes that has personal issues

....he's been spat at by indie people for ages. Took him ages though to figure this one out and his backlash might make a few people like David Gedge and the like a bit sad but i guess not. If you like Bono take away the indie scene then what is left that is creative and new and really says something in music?
NOTHING

P.S. Ford Escort is a really cheap and crap car so Bono is not a Moz fan.

Bono is a huge Smiths and Moz fan. His reference (for those of us willing to read the thought he was conveying) is that the early 80's UK scene was fake, plastic and empty...commercial if you will...and Morrissey was able to be the exception.
Don't forget that in the early 80's there was more similarity between the Smiths and U2 than differences. Early U2 is in my opinion very 'indie' sounding and also very good. They shared a fan base. The mature U2 popsters you know now were a very different animal in the early days.
During the UK Smiths special last year they had a few clips of Bono in it and he was very flattering. I think that says a lot. Bono doesn't have to say anything about anything if he doesn't want to. No matter what you think of him he is a very successful artist who has now gone out of his way multiple times to make positive comments about Morrissey's credibility. U2 get a lot of press and I am positive that thousands of people who don't know the Smiths or Moz will read that and get turned on to him. That is a good thing. Imagine if you never heard Moz for the first time. Plus so far I dig the new U2 album and haven't really liked anything of theirs since Achtung Baby.
Anyway.... I am going on but that's my 2 cents and that's all I have left in a George Bush economy.

I hate Bon0 -he goes on about the poverty in africa but what about the poverty in england and ireland!? he preaches about waste when once he was doing a concert in italy and he flew a jet back to ireland to pick up his favourite hat. he likened blair and gordon brown to lennon and mcartney (my stomach turned). i just cant stand these fucking celebrities that see this stupid pointless cause which is the way it is because of africa's unbelievably corrupt governments anyway. where are we going to go with comic relief if the money raised is just used up in a couple of months, some of which doesn't even go to those who need it? Plus he' just a sell-out dick who is fully into 'arena rock'. God I Hate that!! Oh! let's pay £100+ for a ticket and see Bono embrace his crowd on a mega screen!!
It is COOL to be seen as charitable and caring, it gives him browny points but I really do think he is not that genuine. Why doesn't he pour his money into something THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERNCE? Like a recount in Ohio or why didn't he go to IRaq as a human shield or at least do something other than announce your disapproval. Or tell people out there about the cover-up of Sept 11 - Did you know that 8 of the named Arab hijakers are in fact alive and there were 2 Mossad agents on board. No video from airports and surrounding areas have been released. The black boxes have been found but a fireman has been silenced about it. So come on Bono do something worthwhile instead of sucking your own cock. P.s. the latest single is really lame. How old are those guys anyways?

Christ!

If someones says something bad about Morrissey, people get up in arms. If someone says something good about Morrissey, they're labelled a 'cock'. You just can't win with some of you people!

I'm not a huge fan of Bono, but it's nice to see someone as famous as him making some very nice comments about our dear old Mozza.

Yeah, but Bono's kind of a suck up who praises everyone.

For example, below he calls Eminem one of the greatest writers of our age.

Hey, Eminem's fun and has clever lyrics and all, but come on.

Of course he's RIGHT about America though. :)

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=50135

Bono thinks America is the greatest cultural inspiration:

[World News]: Washington, Dec 26 : Irish rocker Bono thinks America is the most culturally inspiring nation in the world and also says that to him it is the best place to be in.

The "U2" frontman gets angry when he hears other musicians complaining about having to travel to the States and performing there.

"Waking up in Memphis, Tennessee, where Stax was born, or where Elvis Presley cut Mystery Train or where Martin Luther King was shot dead is not crap," rate the music quoted him as saying.

"America is just full of possibilities. Nobody buys their cars anymore so it gets angry and Eminem happens, one of the great writers of the age comes out of Detroit," he added. (ANI)

like many, i too dislike Bono and U2. I really do. It's just an act, really.

But, I do respect that fact that they have perservered and I have no shame in saying that they *do* have a handful (but only a handful) of really great, well composed material, that I quite enjoy listening to.

But, I thought his comments were very nice, whether genuine or not. I disagree with him about the end of the Smiths being caused by the "scene." I mean, what does Bono know about anything "scene" ? He's a frikken pop entertainer for chrissake! Just as intelligent and moving as a dumb witted muscle man who poses as a government official.

However, much I hate his "holier-than-thou-I'm-so-charitable-I-can-save-the-wolrd-because-I'm-Bono" attitude, I am pleased that he said some nice things about Morrissey...

Perhaps this will incite U2 fans to burn their U2 records and go out and buy something decent and more wonderfully political like the Sex Pistols, Clash, or the Smiths?

I mean, c'mon...U2 is NOT utopia.

You know, it just goes to show that sadly, so many Moz/Smiths fans are just sad, bitter people that are angry at the world ofr being so misunderstood. There are probably a lot of Moz fans who like U2, and gasp, probably even like The Cure. This willingness to judge a band or its members solely on their personalities (instead of the music) is a big contributor to the poisonous "scene" Bono was talking about. It's destructive, and it makes those people seem like bigger wankers than Liam Gallagher (the benchmark for Wank-dom)...

and so is Robert Smith!

The minute Morrissey approves of U2/Bono you will all be posting about how amazing they are.
Suck Ups.

Kudos to the rare few who have the ability to accept other artists (even if they don't like their music) and not make rude comments about them just because you have nothing better to do.

"Edge was an immediate Smiths fan, right from This Charming Man..."

No surprise.

The Edge must have recognised the brilliance of Johnny's guitar playing. It takes one to know one.

As some one born in Ireland, I have always held a strong dislike for U2. I hated that whole quasi-spiritual Joshua tree thing. Then some one said to them, 'Hey guys, get with it, wear some dark glasses, black leather and sound more like the Velvet Underground and you'll sell even more records'. They are so utterly safe. Bono goes on about world poverty but then he licks the ass of Bush amd Blair. There are some bad people on the right...

In the 1980s, only accountants and secretaries liked U2. Everyone with an ounce of taste despised them and their bad West Coast wank rock. And in 2005, their mild, derivative experiments are over and we're back to bad West Coast wank rock.

U2 are just another bland brand, no more challenging, interesting or even uninteresting than Phil Collins, going on four-year break after four-year break, regardless of whether The Product is good or bad, everyone involved terrified of stopping.

What Bono fails to realise is that those indie bands he despised has the same hopes for worldwide recognition that he had but some of them refused to be a whore about it. Let's face it Bono has been sucking America's dick since the 1980s playing his Irish card and writing songs that mention relevant figures in US culture such as MLK, Elvis, JFK etc.
  As for The Smiths breaking up due to the indie scene in the 80s, well he needs a history lesson there. The Smiths broke down because of internal personal reasons and nothing to do with something as infantile as 'street cred'.

you'll get a kick out of the article "The eleven worst songs of 2004" at www.maddox.xmission.com.

in my experience it seems to be mainly white, usually pretentious middle class, tuneless tinpot minor chord dirges put together by technically inept "musicians" that DO NOT transcend eras (just scour the local music scene in Manchester if you don't believe me), unlike the stuff knocked out by U2 for the last 20 years and Johnny Marr was also a huge fan of the Edge, for obvious reasons including the fact that Marr hated the ineptitude and ignorance of punk which was the bastard baby brother of indie if you go back a few years. Most fans of this indie stuff are also usually blinkered to anything else such as hip hop, electro, metal, etc. (not all, but the vast majority). In simple, "indie" is fucking crap, that's why U2 are millionaires and Kingmaker aren't. Moz and Marr didn't want to be obscure indie, they wanted mainstream on their own terms.

He's gone on the record as saying that. As an Irishman who met Morrissey last week one of the things I asked him was what he thought of U2 and he said he was a fan and was well impressed with the new album.

I was the first one to post this "story", for want of a better word.
Where's me 50p postal order?

Bono doesn't remember his own words... In 'The Importance of Being Morrissey' he said that he 'nearly crashed in his car and ended up in a coma when he heard 'girlfriend in a coma' the first time'... That's amazing cos it's the exact same phrase he uses about 'the first time he heard How Soon is Now?'...

He's really just a selfimportant popstar... (no Bono, you're actually not a ROCKstar... Morrissey's more of a rockstar than you are...)..

I don't think Bono said what he said in a bad way.
I mean, come on, I think he shows some respect and admiration to Moz (in fact, wasn't he on "The importance of being Morrissey" special?)
I was (or I am, still don't know yet) a big U2 fan. I even when to a show in Buenos Aires when they came to Argentina in 98.
The thing is (besides I don't like the last two u2 albums) I had enough of Bono popping out of everywhere I looked. You have him in the news, in the papers, in the United Nations meetings, and soon I bet there'll be a photo of he's face on the toilet paper with a little bubble (like the ones on comics) saying: "After you wipe your @$$, dump the paper in a recycling bin. Help the world!" or stuff like that.
Despite all this, I respect the man and the band. They doing things to help the world, and we can't tell them not to. They can do whatever they want if it's not bad (at least if it's not crappy music haha)
Well, the point is, they can do whatever they want and people just can't say "they suck" or "they're this or that" simply because they don't like what they're doing.
That's it. Cheers, and happy new year!

is it really so strange to like
the smiths, u2, AND the cure?
all three of them shit from great heights onto most of the "music" that's out there right now.

Morrissey presented U2 with the Best Band Award in 1998 in Belfast at the Hotpress Awards. He said 'this goes to the very sexy U2'. He sat conversing with Bono throughout the nights event.
  Just one question - how many people has Bono referred to as 'the original of the species'?

I'll love you forever, I swear on everything important to me. Love you love you love. Please come to NYC. 333

but does anybody really give a flying fuck what Father Bono has to say?
Sorry, but I couldn't be arsed reading through the threads and wanted to have my say.

....I'd add to that FAKE cock.

Bono wastes decent fresh air that could go to someone more deserving.....