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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:11 PM
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Poll question: More Pretentious Band: U2 or Dream Theater?
This presents an interesting scenario. While, on the surface, the sheer nature of Dream Theater's "music" (a.k.a. virtuoso crap wherein approximately 3,438,432 notes are played where only one is necessary) would seem to lend them the edge, U2's sheer pomposity, horrible stage names, hideous fashion statements, and lack of any original thought for the past 20 years make it an interesting comparison. discuss at your peril...
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:12 PM
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1. Well, Dream theater IS virtuoso crap,
but at least it's "virtuoso" crap, yaknowhatimean.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:13 PM
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3. indeed i do, vern.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:13 PM
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2. No question it has to be U2
Why? At least Dream Theater doesnt have Bono.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:13 PM
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4. excellent point
:thumbsup:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:17 PM
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7. It also doesnt cost an arm and a leg to go see a Dream Theater concert
Cant say the same for U2! I figured I've seen Dream Theater four times now and the cost of those tickets would add up to ONE U2 concert and that's just for the nose bleeds.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:21 PM
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8. although maybe if Dream Theater were as popular as U2, their tickets
would cost as much. just trying to compare assholes and assholes here :D
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Spock_is_Skeptical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:15 PM
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5. I just can't decide. Although I'm leaning more towards U2.
Theirs is just on such a grand scale, so perhaps they win.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:16 PM
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6. do you think it may have more to do with their popularity rather than
the nature of their band, or do you think they were just born with that level of arrogance and pretentiousness?
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KFC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:25 PM
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9. Coldplay is shooting for the title
But, as a U2 cover band, they are even less original than U2.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:27 PM
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11. more personality, less whiny god bullshit, no unnecessary spanish
a singer who could never be nearly as annoying as Bono; they're nowhere even close to U2 after their Pop tour, let alone now...
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:26 PM
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10. There is nothing pretentious about U2.
Never has been, never will be.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:27 PM
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12. as it was spoken, thus it was false.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:27 PM
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13. please marry me
:yourock:

Bono is my lord and savior.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:29 PM
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14. I was into Dream Theater in 1993. I was not really ever into U2
(never really cared either way about them, actually).

I was a pompous ass at 18.

Ergo, Dream Theater is the more pretentious band. QED.

(Although I bet on a person-to-person level, U2's the more pretentious people.)
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 02:30 PM
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15. well-reasoned, thoughtful analysis.
Edited on Mon Aug-08-05 02:30 PM by StopTheMorans
:thumbsup:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 03:27 PM
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16. Does the lead singer of Dream Theater aspire to great humanitarianism...
and zealously publicizing himself at the same time?

I rest my case.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 03:28 PM
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17. Not as far as I know
There's no section of thier website about environmental activism.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 03:35 PM
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18. Does Dream Theater have really hot guys in it?
That could affect my vote.

I think U2 is fantastic, supposed pomposity and all. All four of them are just so adorable and sweet in spite of themselves, sometimes.
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pdx_prog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 04:03 PM
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19. John Myung has double bass drums...
and he's not afraid to use them!

Must every song have double bass drum?!?!?!?

thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:32 PM
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20. Dream Theater
U2 can be pretentious, but always in a way that doesn't bother me. In my world, U2 has always rocked!
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