10 Bands That Just Need To Stop
3. U2
Is there anyone who doesn't have beef with U2? Formerly acclaimed as one of the poster groups for the burgeoning alternative rock movement in the 80s, U2 now stands as Bono's band that likes to tell you how awful you are, just because you have taps (you scoundrel).
The band's peak came with 1987's The Joshua Tree after establishing a base popularity with 1983's War. Their popularity slowly waned over the years before a rejuvenation at the turn of the century with All That You Can't Leave Behind in 2000 and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb in 2004. From there though, it's mostly downhill.
No Line of the Horizon received a lukewarm reaction with a then 49-year-old Bono singing about "sexy boots", to which U2 infamously responded by giving follow-up Songs of Innocence away to all iTunes users for free, to the delight of three, maybe four people.
Critics, iTunes users and fellow musicians panned the move, questioning the idea of free music in a time of online piracy as well as the feeling of being forced into music with (at times) no prior consent.
When you can't even give your music away to people, maybe it's time to pack it up.