Put those damn sunglasses away!
I’ve just been listening to the current episode of the Coverville podcast, which focuses on U2. And I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not the music that I dislike, it’s the band. All the covers on the podcast are really nice - but the covers done by U2 of others’ songs are awful.
Unchained Melody, you would think, would be difficult to do wrong: it’s an amazing song and almost universally loved. But those Irish twits manage to mess it up anyway. Emotionally empty and, if you listen closely, you can hear that ever-present The Edge guitar sound that Bill Bailey parodied so effortlessly.