U2 can do a limerick

Pitchfork Media reviews the “Best of” – possibly not a very new review, but we hadn’t read it yet. Though we find it amusing, (“This CD is for the fairweather fans who can afford the good seats at U2 shows; it’s a coarse chronicle of a band inarguably masterful at creating four-minute forty-second atmospheres in which Bono pants and prolongs his falsetto triple-threat of “heeeee,” “hooooo,” and “hiiiiii.” “) we were more interested in the rather weak limerick featured in it. Knowing that our readers are all smart, literate and funny people, we thought we’d ask you to do better. Because you can. Take it away, readers of u2log.com:

38 thoughts on “U2 can do a limerick”

  1. u2log, you’re lucky I’m snowed in. here’s my take:
    There once were these four guys from Dublin.
    Some poncey critics loved to snub ’em –
    Over the coals they’d rake them
    Just for releasing some lame compilation.
    Big deal – the fans all still love ’em!

  2. u2log, you’re lucky I’m snowed in. here’s my take:
    There once were these four guys from Dublin.
    Some poncey critics loved to snub ’em –
    Over the coals they’d rake them
    Just for releasing some lame compilation.
    Big deal – the fans all still love ’em!

  3. OK, here’s mine…

    There once were four lads from Mount Temple
    Whose early tunes were quite simple.
    As they grew more complex,
    The music press became vexed
    Because they’re brains just aren’t that nimble.

  4. OK, here’s mine…

    There once were four lads from Mount Temple
    Whose early tunes were quite simple.
    As they grew more complex,
    The music press became vexed
    Because they’re brains just aren’t that nimble.

  9. thats the millionth time someone’s said they should’ve just re-released achtung baby. I was a little disappointed with this best of, but it showed the band’s insight on the decade and gave some cool mixed b-sides. i’m not even going to try a limerick…

  10. thats the millionth time someone’s said they should’ve just re-released achtung baby. I was a little disappointed with this best of, but it showed the band’s insight on the decade and gave some cool mixed b-sides. i’m not even going to try a limerick…

  15. No matter what
    “who is he anyway”,
    say: You’re not a star.
    I’m not coming down: I’ll be up with the sun, U2.
    Stay..
    With you hands,
    You Can: Do something to build. Not just America…A world of dreams.
    You know your’re chewing bubble gum, you know what it is and you STILL WANT SOME. Just admitt it…
    You need to be staring at the sun.. the rest of us are happy to blind….
    Just don’t try to make since… You give me colors I have never seen
    You feel love
    or you don’t.
    And if you still don’t get it: You’re wheels are turning, but you’r upside down….

  16. No matter what
    “who is he anyway”,
    say: You’re not a star.
    I’m not coming down: I’ll be up with the sun, U2.
    Stay..
    With you hands,
    You Can: Do something to build. Not just America…A world of dreams.
    You know your’re chewing bubble gum, you know what it is and you STILL WANT SOME. Just admitt it…
    You need to be staring at the sun.. the rest of us are happy to blind….
    Just don’t try to make since… You give me colors I have never seen
    You feel love
    or you don’t.
    And if you still don’t get it: You’re wheels are turning, but you’r upside down….

  17. Geez, I read this while listenig to 1990-2000. Excuse me while I go plant another Joshua Tree on a Red Hill. Also, sleep is coming like a drug in God’s country. Hey, he opened up this can of words, now he’s going to have to trip through the wires… Who needs to make it up it’s all there.

  18. Geez, I read this while listenig to 1990-2000. Excuse me while I go plant another Joshua Tree on a Red Hill. Also, sleep is coming like a drug in God’s country. Hey, he opened up this can of words, now he’s going to have to trip through the wires… Who needs to make it up it’s all there.

  19. BTW, anyone *ever* heard of Pitchfork Media? Anyone? anyone? Bueller? Or is this just another two-bit cyber-rag that decided to make a name for itself by trying to bash our boys?

  20. BTW, anyone *ever* heard of Pitchfork Media? Anyone? anyone? Bueller? Or is this just another two-bit cyber-rag that decided to make a name for itself by trying to bash our boys?

  23. there once was a band with a plan; they thought that the Edge was the man; to banish all guitar solos and prententious mofos; but now he jams with Wyclef in Dub-lan….

  24. there once was a band with a plan; they thought that the Edge was the man; to banish all guitar solos and prententious mofos; but now he jams with Wyclef in Dub-lan….

  29. There once was an internet reviewer Whose job he believed was to skewer With a thesaurus in one hand, his wanker in the other He published his drivel and lived with his mother “7 dollar words are all that I need, perhaps 5 consecutive metaphors and they will take heed….” the junior college lit major strived to be great producing a u2 review five months since release date “we’ve already bought it”, cried the internet masses “but thanks for the poetry and all those foul gasses” The reviewer retreats even more angry and vexed “HA! I’ll make ten cents per page!!!!!….and Steely Dan’s Next!!!!

  30. There once was an internet reviewer Whose job he believed was to skewer With a thesaurus in one hand, his wanker in the other He published his drivel and lived with his mother “7 dollar words are all that I need, perhaps 5 consecutive metaphors and they will take heed….” the junior college lit major strived to be great producing a u2 review five months since release date “we’ve already bought it”, cried the internet masses “but thanks for the poetry and all those foul gasses” The reviewer retreats even more angry and vexed “HA! I’ll make ten cents per page!!!!!….and Steely Dan’s Next!!!!

  33. The next big invention was ripe:..
    a weblog with Feedback and Hype..
    where U2 was both praised and mocked..
    Hear The Edge crying out, as if shocked:..
    “They switched it to Movable Type!”

  34. The next big invention was ripe:..
    a weblog with Feedback and Hype..
    where U2 was both praised and mocked..
    Hear The Edge crying out, as if shocked:..
    “They switched it to Movable Type!”

  37. here i sit all loney hearted,
    came shit but only farted,
    wasted a trip oh what the hell,
    at least i can sit and enjoy the smell! – larry mullen jr

  38. here i sit all loney hearted,
    came shit but only farted,
    wasted a trip oh what the hell,
    at least i can sit and enjoy the smell! – larry mullen jr

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