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W-i-e-n-e-r. Wiener!!!

A little like winning miss congeniality at a beauty pageant, Darryl. ;)

If U2 is the greatest rock band in the world than about 150 other bands that I still assumed to have living members,...uh, don't.

This band lives off the lustre of one great album, Josua Tree, more then their truer history of mostly mediocre music, should allow.

Like Joe Carter, who dined on one great at bat or Paul Henderson who made himself famous over one great series of games, U2 has made more out of less, than any rock act alive.

As pathetic a decade as the eighties was for rock, I take Talking Heads, The Cure, The Jam, The Clash,... oh and Hello!, all the way from ah,... Ireland!, The Waterboys, over U2 in a heartbeat.

Hey, I take the first five Tragically Hip albums over U2's first five, in a Kingston duece less a day, minute. And compared to the real era of rock, the 70's, U2 stacks up as a very forgettable fire indeed.

Bono needs a political profile to be a star. Musically speaking, aside from one great work, the band is about as close to being a legitimatly great rock band as was BTO.

I used to think nobody could ever be famous for playing guitar, like Pete Townsend of the Who was and yet really be so bad, until the Edge became came along. The man knows three or four chords, one tempo and plays his instrument with all the subtlety and sensitivity of a Scottish military pipe band.

Frankly I'd rather hear a bagpipe rendition of Morris Alpert's "Feelings" than another tired/ repetitive Edge guitar riff.

So be Protestant if you have to, after all you weren't exposed to the greater reality that is the Catholic Church, ;) But please stop expousing the fallacy that U2 is something worth listening to musically.

Unless your musical diet has been an exclusive feast of Mitch Miller, Tiny Tim and Lawrence Welk, I cannot forgive your insouciance....

Oh yeah, I like your blogging, for the most part and think that if you had of kept your feet grounded to the earthier realities that are Parklawn and Berry Road as opposed to the suburban waste that is central Etobicoke, you'd be able to recognize a real rock band when you heard one.

Love always,

Paul, "still rockin', still squawkin'", Johnston

"The man knows three or four chords, one tempo and plays his instrument with all the subtlety and sensitivity of a Scottish military pipe band."

To paraphrase Churchill: "Never have so few done so much with so little."

Thanks a lot, Paul. Now my CD is only worth $7.50. ;)

Darryl, I know I keep teasing you unmercifully, but that is what older brothers are for. I will, however, defend your right to consider U2 a great and wonderful band even though they do not play the style of music that turns my crank.

It bothers me that Paul has caused such a reduction in the worth of your CD. I will gladly give you that $7.50 if you will send the thing to me.... :^)

Darn Protestants! It's not about the money/collection plate, it's about the music/ Gospel!!! ;)...

Still, not wanting to be responsible for your loss of equity, I will gladly forego this weeks bingo and forward the money, all $7.50 of it, should you provide me with an address.

As for the CD in question, keep it. Extended I-Pod commercial, musical arias, are of little interest to me.

By the way, Narnia is coming and to paraphrase the great C.S. Lewis, it's time to toast a white witch and get Catholic!