Originally Posted by
KonAaron Snake
I must be the only person in existence who finds U2 annoying as hell. They started out as a second rate Clash, they morphed into a 2nd rate Simple Minds and now they're a second rate U2.
The Edge 'borrowed' heavily from Keith Levene (Clash, PiL) and to a lesser extent, Bernard Sumner (Warsaw, Joy Division). Listen the Levene's guitar work on the first two PiL albums and it's easy to hear where The Edge got his sound. Sumner's influence is a little more subtle, but you can detect the similarities in his work with Warsaw and the early Joy Division singles.
One of my best friends from high school was sued by U2, BTW.