Growing up, I didn’t really question why this band would be played along side Nirvana, Bush, Soundgarden, Linkin Park, etc. because my radio station of choice was not just grunge, but also “adult alternative.” So it would play pop shit, too, sometimes.
But I still, to this day, often find U2 listed among grunge artists, or their songs get played on grunge playlists. The fuck? How is this shit grunge? It doesn’t fit in any way! It doesn’t have the sound, it doesn’t have the style, shit it doesn’t even have the same emotional resonance. It’s happy and hopeful.
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U2 is considered grunge for the same reason Black Sabbath is considered reggae.
Because whoever made the list is an idiot?
They are absolutely not and I find it sus you make this bizarre claim without providing a single example.
Link and shame them. I will fight every one of their authors in a 1v1 dual to the death
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I was listening to a satellite radio station that is supposed to be exclusively grunge. It’s usually fine, except when Tom Morello is guest DJing. It was just the normal programming tho, and suddenly Mysterious Ways starts playing. I was annoyed by this.
Haha what the fuck I never knew they were called grunge. Ayy lmao
The only thing U2 has in common with grunge is that both were popular in roughly the same time period (give or take 5 years or so).
Yeah if U2 is grunge based on time period, then Motley Crue and Michael Jackson is grunge.
If peeing your pants is cool, then I’m Miles Davis.
I would be more okay hearing Motley Crue on such a playlist than the other two, tbh.
I’m starting to think you don’t understand how to identify grunge music.
I’m not saying it fits, just that it would be less jarring.
U2 began in the mid 1970s and grunge was a thing in the 1990s.
Early U2 was a bit like punk though.
Did you misspell garbage?
Some people thought that the band was somewhat Edge-y?
Bono you didn’t!
I’m Mullen over whether to take part in this punathon.
And I just don’t give Adam.
If I bowed out early, would that make me a Dik?
It isn’t.
I’ve never heard of or seen that.
Yeah, I cannot recall ever hearing U2 referred to under a specific subgenre of rock, especially not grunge. Personally, if I had to choose, I think classifying them as generic rock is more accurate.
‘pop rock’ seems appropriate.
