"not caring about the charts"

is easy to say when you are already multi-millionaires. Easy to make "less commercial" stuff (like Zooropa, or some of Radiohead's recent stuff) when you are already a massive supergroup and know you can shift bucketloads of whatever you put out. It woiuld be brave if they did it while trying to make a name for themselves. And U2 have long been very commercial, aimed squarely at the US-market, the world's biggest. Doing the Superbowl halftime show??? All bands would love you to think they "don't care about the charts" (cool image and all that) but I bet they do! Its big business.

Posted By: mr carra on May 25th 2005 at 16:35:22

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FAo Wiltshire (General Chat) - Pussy Marijuana, May 25, 16:09:35
- although (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, May 25, 16:11:50
  - At the risk of drawing fire from the chavs (General Chat) - Pussy Marijuana, May 25, 16:15:41
  - then why... (General Chat) - mr carra, May 25, 16:15:33
    - who? U2 or oasis? (n/m) (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, May 25, 16:17:02
      - U2 (n/m) (General Chat) - mr carra, May 25, 16:19:47
        
        true, however......... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, May 25, 16:30:02
        
        "not caring about the charts" (General Chat) - mr carra, May 25, 16:35:22
        
        well.......... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, May 25, 16:39:57
        
        agree that bands are to be expected to change.. (General Chat) - mr carra, May 25, 16:49:02
        
        but........ (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, May 25, 17:00:46
        
        yeah, Mode are top of my list ... (General Chat) - mr carra, May 25, 17:03:21

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