how far do Bono and our Boys hate each other?
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how far do Bono and our Boys hate each other?
do they really do? I recently caught U2's version of Rent mixed with YMCA and shopping etc Live in MadisonSquare Gardens which was rather 'epic'...
Mr.Wayne of www.geowayne.com has listed info on that, with help from members of this forum!
Here is what http://www.geowayne.com/psblists2.htm#parodies says...
Steve Wright/BBC Radio 1 - "U2's Live PSB Medley"
Steve Wright, a popular BBC Radio DJ from 1979 to 1995, was known for his on-the-air music parodies and practical jokes. One of them, from around 1991, simultaneously poked fun at U2 and the Pet Shop Boys. The premise of the parody was a live "retaliation" for PSB having recently recorded "Where the Streets Have No Name." Allegedly in concert at Madison Square Garden, U2?or, more accurately, a singer mimicking Bono?performs a medley of the PSB songs "Rent" and "Shopping" blended with the gay anthems "Y.M.C.A." and "It's Raining Men," thereby cleverly parodying Bono's singing style (breathily overdone just enough to be comic) while satirizing the scarcely concealed "gay undercurrent" of the Pet Shop Boys' music. Notably, this was a couple of years before Neil made that undercurrent "official" by coming out. And it may also have inspired U2 to satirize the Village People (not to mention themselves) in their 1997 video for "Discotheque." At any rate, Wright's parody was sufficiently well executed that it has managed (via online circulation) to deceive many into believing it's a genuine live U2 recording.
Here is what http://www.geowayne.com/psblists2.htm#parodies says...
Steve Wright/BBC Radio 1 - "U2's Live PSB Medley"
Steve Wright, a popular BBC Radio DJ from 1979 to 1995, was known for his on-the-air music parodies and practical jokes. One of them, from around 1991, simultaneously poked fun at U2 and the Pet Shop Boys. The premise of the parody was a live "retaliation" for PSB having recently recorded "Where the Streets Have No Name." Allegedly in concert at Madison Square Garden, U2?or, more accurately, a singer mimicking Bono?performs a medley of the PSB songs "Rent" and "Shopping" blended with the gay anthems "Y.M.C.A." and "It's Raining Men," thereby cleverly parodying Bono's singing style (breathily overdone just enough to be comic) while satirizing the scarcely concealed "gay undercurrent" of the Pet Shop Boys' music. Notably, this was a couple of years before Neil made that undercurrent "official" by coming out. And it may also have inspired U2 to satirize the Village People (not to mention themselves) in their 1997 video for "Discotheque." At any rate, Wright's parody was sufficiently well executed that it has managed (via online circulation) to deceive many into believing it's a genuine live U2 recording.
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I don't think they ever did. Chris has mentioned he is a U2 fan. I've never heard there was any animosity between the two and don't think there is. The "What have we done..." comment was just them being snarky.jasonjohn wrote:can anyone give evidence that bono/u2 ever hated psb/neil at all ever?
i just dont see bono hating them
they joked about streets, but thats not hate
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Re: how far do Bono and our Boys hate each other?
Sorry sorry sorry. Extreme Resurrection here. But I really want to hear this track as described on the geowayne site and I haven't been able to find it with much searching. Anyone know where I might be able to hear it?
And tryin' to figure out what happened to 'Germaine Propaine'
"He couldn't have fell off that hard" Ain't no way
"What happened to the way you was rappin' when you was scandalous
That Canibus turned into a television evangelist"
Plus he raps with his regular voice [BOOSH! BOOSH!]
[BOOSH! BOOSH!] (What was that?) Pet Shop Boys
"He couldn't have fell off that hard" Ain't no way
"What happened to the way you was rappin' when you was scandalous
That Canibus turned into a television evangelist"
Plus he raps with his regular voice [BOOSH! BOOSH!]
[BOOSH! BOOSH!] (What was that?) Pet Shop Boys
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Re: how far do Bono and our Boys hate each other?
U2 played Where The Streets Have No Name and Bono sung Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You during the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjve5n7jeGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjve5n7jeGk
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This needs a bit of an update. You can dispute the word "popular" but Steve Wright is still an active DJ on BBC radio and has been continuously up to now apart from 1995-1999.Vince wrote: ↑Fri 23 Dec 2005, 12:02 pm Mr.Wayne of www.geowayne.com has listed info on that, with help from members of this forum!
Here is what http://www.geowayne.com/psblists2.htm#parodies says...
Steve Wright/BBC Radio 1 - "U2's Live PSB Medley"
Steve Wright, a popular BBC Radio DJ from 1979 to 1995, was known for his on-the-air music parodies and practical jokes. One of them, from around 1991, simultaneously poked fun at U2 and the Pet Shop Boys. The premise of the parody was a live "retaliation" for PSB having recently recorded "Where the Streets Have No Name." Allegedly in concert at Madison Square Garden, U2?or, more accurately, a singer mimicking Bono?performs a medley of the PSB songs "Rent" and "Shopping" blended with the gay anthems "Y.M.C.A." and "It's Raining Men," thereby cleverly parodying Bono's singing style (breathily overdone just enough to be comic) while satirizing the scarcely concealed "gay undercurrent" of the Pet Shop Boys' music. Notably, this was a couple of years before Neil made that undercurrent "official" by coming out. And it may also have inspired U2 to satirize the Village People (not to mention themselves) in their 1997 video for "Discotheque." At any rate, Wright's parody was sufficiently well executed that it has managed (via online circulation) to deceive many into believing it's a genuine live U2 recording.
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