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Taylor Hawkins - drummer for Foo Fighters - has compared U2's new album to "a fart".
The musician slammed the rockers for having 13th album 'Songs of Innocence' automatically downloaded onto people's iTunes devices, even comparing the LP to a totalitarian regime.
Speaking to Australia's The Music he explained: "I don't know that any of that new album has anything great on it. I listened to it once, but it's so marred by that whole sort of, like I said, Orwellian, '1984' extreme that it just kinds sounds like a fart any way you listen to it."
He added: "I mean, I think they probably thought it was gonna be a great idea, 'Here's the deal: everybody who has an iPhone, gets your record. And they get it for free!'
"And they thought, probably, 'Well that's pretty awesome!' but hey didn't really take into consideration the Big Brother feeling that kinda goes along with like, 'You have the new U2 record'... You couldn't get rid of it and they actually had to come up with an app to get rid of it, that's horrible."
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