Re: U2 are [not] crap

[<phillip.ernest@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Lee McC wrote:
> 
> Respectfully disagree with phillip re: Bono's trashing of Cobain.  
> Can I
> understand phillip's point?  Sure.  If KC had ever been of any 
> importance to
> me I'd probably be mad about disparaging remarks made towards him 
> too.   But
> Kurt never meant much to me at all.  Didn't like his band, didn't 
> like his
> music, didn't care what he had to say, didn't care that he stopped 
> saying
> it.  So I can't get too worked up over Bono being cruel.

Well, even though much of Cobain's music continues to mean a lot to 
me,
and to seem very good just _qua_ rock music, it wasn't just this that
outraged me about Bono's tiresome, banal condemnation of Cobain's
depression and suicide.  Having had problems with depression and
alcoholism that nearly killed me-- nearly made me kill me-- I can't 
help
feeling a lot for people who find that the world weighs too much to 
carry
anymore.  I can't identify with the strange anger that suicide seems 
to
evoke in so many people, and I feel a sympathetic pang of woundedness 
when
I hear such sentiments expressed.

Pip