90's U2 was their best phase for me personally, Achtung Baby was an incredible album to grow up with in high school, it is still a masterpiece today, as well as many songs from Zooropa, a great time to be alive and young
It definitely was. And that phase opened for us the doors for a lot of great music that came after them, from other bands. And gave us also the means and the right to criticize U2 when they lost their devotion to art and music
When Bono and U2 were cool. When they ruled the world. When they did what they wanted and didn't worry about the public perception. When they led, and everyone else followed.
I agree Zoo TV, Zooropa and this period was U2 at their best. It was my first concert and no other show from them or anybody else has lived up to it since. I think you must appreciate however that because it was so kitsch, so unique, so stamped in that particular time - technologically, politically, socially that if they tried to repeat it or adopt the same personas on a subsequent tour it would not have been received well. McPhisto was great fun, but he was a character. As a band they couldn't continue to tour as "characters". By its nature, the tour was a once off. It was great though.
This whole period was a reaction to negative public perception. He outlines the whole thing in this interview. People criticized them for being uncool and pretentious in the 80s when they actually didn't care about public perception. They're pretending to be cool here.
I've always preferred the obnoxious, cocky, arrogant Bono over the one we've gotten the last 10 or 15 years. I think he's best and U2 is best when they truly don't give a fuck and just be obnoxious, like Zootv and the even the popmart day's. Pure gold.
This was back when we could not get enough of Bono/U2, now we bitch and complain when we get a free album on our iphone. Times have changed - I miss the old 80's and 90's swagger. I guess it's tough to stay on top for more than two decades so they're always champs for that, but wow have things become boring post POP.
Real recognize real. What Bono is saying is still very relevant to this day. A class act and milestone ground breaker doing things way ahead of his time. It will take 50 to 100 years for people to actually recognize what they did here. And lastly if Frank Sinatra bigs you up, you’re legit. Nothing will take that away.
This was U2 at their most versatile. 1:39 "Numb" - a song in which the lyrics are spoken by the lead guitarist 2:44 Doing a live cross during their concerts to war-torn Sarajevo 4:29 Singing a duet with Frank Sinatra Show me a band with that kind of range.
i absolutely love the fact that he dedicates all of his concerts and songs to world problems that self-centered americans don't care enough about. it's truly amazing. i just went to one in seattle for his 360 tour 3 days ago and it was incredible. before every song, he would show something in the world and tie it in to his songs. he really is an amazing man.
And stays out of Dublin for 9 months of the year to avoid paying huge Tax bills and Vat on his earnings that his Irish fans pay Oman weekly 40 hr working class job
Los 90 años dorados xq conocí a U2, cuando veía a Bono me sentía morir de felicidad esperaba ansiosa x un vídeo de Bono ya q en esa época no tenia cable ni existía el youtube, me consolaba verlo escucharlo y escapaba mi mente de los maltratos horribles q vivía a manos de mi despiadado padre y sera por eso q lo admiro tanto y mas xq me sentía feliz cuando interpretaba alguna de sus canciones y hasta hoy sigo igual, gracias Bono por hacerme tan feliz lo único q no me gusta de ti es q fumes, cuando me doy cuenta me pregunto xq algunos padres en lugar de querer a sus hijas únicas gozan maltratandolas quizás algún día se lo agradezca a Bono por dar luz a mi vida en los 90 q solo había oscuridad
Bono with cutler end gross...My favorite glasses...Now in my collection..I like times zoo tv zooropa... Top for me... Beautiful...Good memories forever
Ciao this is really top glasses!!...me too in my collection 2 glasses (One pair for everyday😉) e 2 glasses the fly replica glasses zoo tv Zooropa tour...cutler is rare 🎶🎵
These were great days for rock and roll! U2 was at the top of their game and Bono was the best frontman in the world at the time... I miss this U2 and Bono.
In their prime in the 90s they had their own TV Channel Zoo TV and were so well. Liked in Europe has homeage to the Eastern Block Trabat car like the Lada
What a band they were at that time, their run of 6 albums from War through to Zooropa rivals any other band. Hopefully in years to come people will remember how great they were at their peak, rather than focusing on their tax affairs or invading people's iphones...
He developed the stage persona of The Fly during this period and he's in character during the interview. The sad thing is that he never really snapped out of it.
I think you've missed the point a bit though. The Fly was meant to allow Bono to be himself more than he ever was before. The over-sincere and modest Bono of the 80's was just one side of him that was him doing his best to react to all of the fame in what way he thought best. When he realized people started hating him for it, he said "fuck it then, you want a rock star? You've got it", and that's what he did. To say he never snapped out of it should actually apply to pre-Fly Bono.
so i'm biased, and i grew up with the U2 of the 80s. as a front end genXr, by the time zoo tv came around i was married, bought a house, and then came children soon after. yeah, achtung baby was killer, but the last of those for me. everything else after that was just "oh, yeah, u2. so what?" life happens. we grow older. not that i didn't really like some of the music they created during those times, but never had any desire to see a show or spend money on their stuff. (of course that's about the time napster dropped..ooops) carry on lads. maybe when larry is back on the drum throne, i can celebrate my 60th at the sphere in vegas. but by then, they just may have called it quits.
Sad to see Bono smoking in that interview, that was already early 90's. I saw him smoking in the early 80's too, so bad for the vocals, as well as everything else. Willie Nelson may smoke weed, but it's not tobacco, and he just turned 80! I'm one of your biggest fans Bono, please quit smoking!!Your family will thank you!!
+Terry O It wouldn't surprise me if Bono smokes only during interviews. He's performing here, just like he performs on stage. That's not a criticism - it just means he's projecting an image.
As a fan I always worried he would ruin his good voice, but now I'm just concerned for his health. He looks more fragile as the years go by, smoking certainly does not help...
they missed the part of the interview where Bono quotes a few very poignant comments about the history of U2: "... very materialistically oriented, you know, and that is not what the U2 is about. You know, we are not about the glitz and the glamour.... the money.... and the fame and the power, and the touring.... and the money.... well maybe we are about that a little bit, but... well, I guess that is what we are about."
Actually that wasn’t Bono. It was Ben Stiller parodying Bono lol. Here is the quote at the 2 minute, 17 second mark: th-cam.com/video/N3ciLzLMryg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rYYs9kzhhtKgonzt
@PeachFuzzWhaleEgg Actually its quite easy to deny. Vanian looked like the muted spawn of Dracula and a gay butler who looks nothing like The Fly character. And its not 'Bono's' look. The Fly was a composite parody of the rock star in general. Check out From the Sky Down. He look Lou Reed's glasses, Jim Morrison's pants and Elvis' haircut.
@David Os No band in this world, as small it could be, will make a show or a record for free. Last week I was in a bar with an unknown band for $20. We are all in it (life) for money, comfort and exploitation.
U2 was the shit, when they didn't took themselves seriously and acted like they are: rockstars, instead of telling everyone how they should live their lives.
Even their 2000 album was bad? Also, Vertigo is an amazing song. Never listened to their 2009 album. Songs of Innocence is okay. I didn't mind having it pre-loaded onto my iTunes. I don't get why people bitch about it.
I completely agree. Their last good album was Pop. Not a really well planned tour, but the album was good and different. Now they mass produce the same sound since All You Can't Leave Behind. They're not imaginative anymore.
OK I hear you! By the way Zooropa only has maybe 5 songs I like. But Pop you have to listen to and let it grow on you. That's kind of how all U2 albums have been, because they changed their sound so much. I just don't think they have altered their sound since 2000. I love all of their 80's albums. I remember listening to The Unforgettable Fire and just thinking wow this is interesting, but unsure if I liked it, but the sound the singing kept me coming back for more, and I just love that album. Nice talking to you Mickey Deez, you take care.
Bono is pretending to smoke that cigarette. When he finally takes a drag he clearly does not inhale. The cigarette is a prop. Bono thinks it makes him look cool.
i never inhale. but will make your mommy look twice and turn her head at me when i drive by in my F150, windows down, puffing (and not inhaling) and blowing smoke out the window. oh, how i miss summer days already. obviously the smoke is definitely a prop, and obviously, there is no question about it, makes me look cool. as for bono. i guess i'm his idol.
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90's U2 was their best phase for me personally, Achtung Baby was an incredible album to grow up with in high school, it is still a masterpiece today, as well as many songs from Zooropa, a great time to be alive and young
You hit it right on the head.
Yes.
It definitely was. And that phase opened for us the doors for a lot of great music that came after them, from other bands. And gave us also the means and the right to criticize U2 when they lost their devotion to art and music
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I still can't get over how they went from the Joshua Tree and completely reinvited themselves on AB and Zooropa. As an Irishman they make me proud.
When Bono and U2 were cool. When they ruled the world. When they did what they wanted and didn't worry about the public perception. When they led, and everyone else followed.
I agree Zoo TV, Zooropa and this period was U2 at their best. It was my first concert and no other show from them or anybody else has lived up to it since. I think you must appreciate however that because it was so kitsch, so unique, so stamped in that particular time - technologically, politically, socially that if they tried to repeat it or adopt the same personas on a subsequent tour it would not have been received well. McPhisto was great fun, but he was a character. As a band they couldn't continue to tour as "characters". By its nature, the tour was a once off. It was great though.
This whole period was a reaction to negative public perception. He outlines the whole thing in this interview. People criticized them for being uncool and pretentious in the 80s when they actually didn't care about public perception. They're pretending to be cool here.
@Gruagach. Iron Shoes What a rambling mess of a comment.
@@YourLoyalDeserter such a shame they didn’t explain it as succinctly when they did popmart
Truth!!!!!
yes this is the bono i miss, such a rock star back then..
He was acting a rock star, but i'm with you anyways.
Name me another frontman as eloquent. He's the best songwriter, best singer, poet and orator. Never be another..
Best singer? There is Elvis and Sinatra.
Poet? There is Bob Dylan, nick cave Leonhard cohen and Morrissey
@@Wakeupdream Bono's voice is my favourite 1987-1994 however Bono himself would probably say Sinatra hahaha
Jon Bon Jovi!
Love Bono but Shane Macgowan is a far better lyricist
Wtf? Roger Waters.
I've always preferred the obnoxious, cocky, arrogant Bono over the one we've gotten the last 10 or 15 years. I think he's best and U2 is best when they truly don't give a fuck and just be obnoxious, like Zootv and the even the popmart day's. Pure gold.
Yes
TheFly212 same
I loved PopMart so much
Me too The fly/ cocky bono is so cool
2023 Las Vegas sphere.($$$$) you get the best of all U2’s different personalities 🕶 ❤
The nineties were brilliant. Nineties U2 were brilliant.
"The 1 thing that really doesn't come off with the media is sincerity" 90s U2 were amazing in every way 👑
A era that's gone with the static and the radio.
Pun intended?
Zoo Tv was so ahead of the times
This was back when we could not get enough of Bono/U2, now we bitch and complain when we get a free album on our iphone. Times have changed - I miss the old 80's and 90's swagger. I guess it's tough to stay on top for more than two decades so they're always champs for that, but wow have things become boring post POP.
Real recognize real. What Bono is saying is still very relevant to this day. A class act and milestone ground breaker doing things way ahead of his time. It will take 50 to 100 years for people to actually recognize what they did here. And lastly if Frank Sinatra bigs you up, you’re legit. Nothing will take that away.
“That’s a really pretentious thing to go for.”
Pfft. You’re one to talk, Boner.
This will forever be how I remember Bono
OMG Bono when he's taking off his sunglasses... He's sexy
i want the year 1992 one more time
Prabhu Shankar me too!!!!!!!! so many things I'd make right and do over!!!!! Life's gone too fast. ....
This was U2 at their most versatile. 1:39 "Numb" - a song in which the lyrics are spoken by the lead guitarist
2:44 Doing a live cross during their concerts to war-torn Sarajevo
4:29 Singing a duet with Frank Sinatra
Show me a band with that kind of range.
RedLightMax you forgot to mention Lemon
i absolutely love the fact that he dedicates all of his concerts and songs to world problems that self-centered americans don't care enough about. it's truly amazing. i just went to one in seattle for his 360 tour 3 days ago and it was incredible. before every song, he would show something in the world and tie it in to his songs. he really is an amazing man.
And stays out of Dublin for 9 months of the year to avoid paying huge Tax bills and Vat on his earnings that his
Irish fans pay Oman weekly 40 hr working class job
He’s one tremendously great song writer and singer and frontman !
He's such an intelligent person. Wish all men spoke this way
My favourite era in my favourite band. Great album, great sound, great image, great tour. Cocky. Cool. fun.
Bono has always been effortlessly cool...whether he knows it or not. He's also one of the very very few who makes smoking look kind of hot...kind of.
Los 90 años dorados xq conocí a U2, cuando veía a Bono me sentía morir de felicidad esperaba ansiosa x un vídeo de Bono ya q en esa época no tenia cable ni existía el youtube, me consolaba verlo escucharlo y escapaba mi mente de los maltratos horribles q vivía a manos de mi despiadado padre y sera por eso q lo admiro tanto y mas xq me sentía feliz cuando interpretaba alguna de sus canciones y hasta hoy sigo igual, gracias Bono por hacerme tan feliz lo único q no me gusta de ti es q fumes, cuando me doy cuenta me pregunto xq algunos padres en lugar de querer a sus hijas únicas gozan maltratandolas quizás algún día se lo agradezca a Bono por dar luz a mi vida en los 90 q solo había oscuridad
Y porque no puede fumar? Bien ganado lo tiene por lo q te generó emocionalmente 😂
Bono with cutler end gross...My favorite glasses...Now in my collection..I like times zoo tv zooropa... Top for me... Beautiful...Good memories forever
Ciao this is really top glasses!!...me too in my collection 2 glasses (One pair for everyday😉) e 2 glasses the fly replica glasses zoo tv Zooropa tour...cutler is rare 🎶🎵
Thanks so much for this. I love the first half of this especially!
thank you for posting. brilliant
These were great days for rock and roll! U2 was at the top of their game and Bono was the best frontman in the world at the time... I miss this U2 and Bono.
I like what he said in the beginning. Use ur instinct first and your intellect second.
I love zootv Bono!
So different from 92-93. Just one year...chasm of progression
He's very handsome and so awesome!!
Looks like the guy out of police academy I think.
Larry Mullan was the most handsome of the bunch
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Well, Larry may be the most handsome but for you jsjs.
Everyone has got different opinions 😌.
@u2lover_ taking the hand everyone is handsome in the eyes of the beholder hence U2 Mc Lovin...
Super bad character aswell was hilarious xx
Bono is the mate that phones you drunk and talks shit for hours
I love Bono without his glasses. 90's Bono was soooo hot!
Bono is hot!
ZOOtv Ya'll
In their prime in the 90s they had their own TV Channel Zoo TV and were so well. Liked in Europe has homeage to the Eastern Block Trabat car like the Lada
i loooooooooooooooooooooooooove it!!!
What a band they were at that time, their run of 6 albums from War through to Zooropa rivals any other band. Hopefully in years to come people will remember how great they were at their peak, rather than focusing on their tax affairs or invading people's iphones...
He developed the stage persona of The Fly during this period and he's in character during the interview. The sad thing is that he never really snapped out of it.
I think you've missed the point a bit though. The Fly was meant to allow Bono to be himself more than he ever was before. The over-sincere and modest Bono of the 80's was just one side of him that was him doing his best to react to all of the fame in what way he thought best. When he realized people started hating him for it, he said "fuck it then, you want a rock star? You've got it", and that's what he did. To say he never snapped out of it should actually apply to pre-Fly Bono.
Alex Haarbosch I get that but bits of it never really of it never really left him.
+Alex Haarbosch and Mr.Macphisto was just a halloween costume?
This was U2's peak, when they were beyond fucking awesome, before they got too fucked up over politics.
What? Ever heard War (1983)?
Are you kidding?! They've always been about politics and social justice....
Joshua tree era was the peak
Dude this was the year I was born lol
BONO= COOL MAN
He looks a bit like Falco...his gestures, his hairstyle and how he's behaving...cool and a little touch of arrogance but I like it👍
Kerstin Sommer yeah I wish this arrogant bono would come back
I see a lot of Trent Reznor too, it’s funny. The mannerisms, the nose, the way they move and speak…similar.
Was so cool*
Me fascina Bono en la época del Achtung Baby!!!!! Me emboba como nadie.... :)
Where do you go when you’re at the top?..what do you do when life ends?..at least Bono lives
Works now. Thanks for uploading.
so i'm biased, and i grew up with the U2 of the 80s. as a front end genXr, by the time zoo tv came around i was married, bought a house, and then came children soon after. yeah, achtung baby was killer, but the last of those for me. everything else after that was just "oh, yeah, u2. so what?" life happens. we grow older. not that i didn't really like some of the music they created during those times, but never had any desire to see a show or spend money on their stuff. (of course that's about the time napster dropped..ooops) carry on lads. maybe when larry is back on the drum throne, i can celebrate my 60th at the sphere in vegas. but by then, they just may have called it quits.
lol is that Edge on the camera at 3:50?
Sad to see Bono smoking in that interview, that was already early 90's. I saw him smoking in the early 80's too, so bad for the vocals, as well as everything else. Willie Nelson may smoke weed, but it's not tobacco, and he just turned 80! I'm one of your biggest fans Bono, please quit smoking!!Your family will thank you!!
Terry O let him fucking smoke. It’s his life and you don’t control him. Get the fuck away.
It wasn't just smoking that altered his voice, his harsh singing style was a contributor.
+Terry O It wouldn't surprise me if Bono smokes only during interviews. He's performing here, just like he performs on stage. That's not a criticism - it just means he's projecting an image.
As a fan I always worried he would ruin his good voice, but now I'm just concerned for his health. He looks more fragile as the years go by, smoking certainly does not help...
I think he isn't smoking anymore.
they missed the part of the interview where Bono quotes a few very poignant comments about the history of U2: "... very materialistically oriented, you know, and that is not what the U2 is about. You know, we are not about the glitz and the glamour.... the money.... and the fame and the power, and the touring.... and the money.... well maybe we are about that a little bit, but... well, I guess that is what we are about."
here is the greatest inverview of Bono: th-cam.com/video/PBSNUiPd9us/w-d-xo.html
Actually that wasn’t Bono. It was Ben Stiller parodying Bono lol. Here is the quote at the 2 minute, 17 second mark: th-cam.com/video/N3ciLzLMryg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rYYs9kzhhtKgonzt
PAUL DAVID HEWSON
10 DE MAYO DE 1960
62 AÑOS (63)
SINGER OF U2.
@PeachFuzzWhaleEgg
Actually its quite easy to deny. Vanian looked like the muted spawn of Dracula and a gay butler who looks nothing like The Fly character. And its not 'Bono's' look. The Fly was a composite parody of the rock star in general. Check out From the Sky Down. He look Lou Reed's glasses, Jim Morrison's pants and Elvis' haircut.
Hot
So damn cool. only Roy Orbison and Bono can wear shades all the time. Facts.
and me 😂
@David Os
No band in this world, as small it could be, will make a show or a record for free. Last week I was in a bar with an unknown band for $20. We are all in it (life) for money, comfort and exploitation.
They realize the big bucks are in touring. They'll give an album for free if it means losing a few million bucks.
@Muldfeld It works perfectly fine for me =( I'm sorry that you can't watch it till the end
@maddermofo that''s plush by stone temple pilots. great song actually
Something's wrong with the video; it won't go past the 4 minute mark to finish at 4:59.
What music is that in the back ground at the beginning
thats "plush" by stone temple p.
U2 was the shit, when they didn't took themselves seriously and acted like they are: rockstars, instead of telling everyone how they should live their lives.
'Core' - Stone Temple Pilots
IL mondo ha 4523 milioni di anni, noi siamo cresciuti con GLI U2.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ l'emozione non ha voce.
What happened to their punk roots and having different sounding albums. The last 4 albums just are mediocre.
can u fix Syria???
I do bite on a butt
gato!
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah ......... Why so serious People . Its Just Music .
Well since 2000. they turned into a bunch of boring old men musically!!
Even their 2000 album was bad? Also, Vertigo is an amazing song. Never listened to their 2009 album. Songs of Innocence is okay. I didn't mind having it pre-loaded onto my iTunes. I don't get why people bitch about it.
I completely agree. Their last good album was Pop. Not a really well planned tour, but the album was good and different. Now they mass produce the same sound since All You Can't Leave Behind. They're not imaginative anymore.
+Jay Stone I disagree, though I never heard Zoopara or Pop. I heard some not so good things about them, but that is all I have heard.
OK I hear you! By the way Zooropa only has maybe 5 songs I like. But Pop you have to listen to and let it grow on you. That's kind of how all U2 albums have been, because they changed their sound so much. I just don't think they have altered their sound since 2000. I love all of their 80's albums. I remember listening to The Unforgettable Fire and just thinking wow this is interesting, but unsure if I liked it, but the sound the singing kept me coming back for more, and I just love that album. Nice talking to you Mickey Deez, you take care.
+Jay Stone Thanks. I should give Zooropa and Pop a listen.
The fact that bono is the same age as me (32) but i look like a kid compared to him xD
Bono is pretending to smoke that cigarette. When he finally takes a drag he clearly does not inhale. The cigarette is a prop. Bono thinks it makes him look cool.
It's a fucking cigar. You don't need to inhale
@@hypersphereengineering6015 😂🤣
it obviously was an entirely artificial persona, leather and shades and also black hair dye. all of that isn't Bono
i never inhale. but will make your mommy look twice and turn her head at me when i drive by in my F150, windows down, puffing (and not inhaling) and blowing smoke out the window. oh, how i miss summer days already. obviously the smoke is definitely a prop, and obviously, there is no question about it, makes me look cool. as for bono. i guess i'm his idol.