
I've never thought of U2 as boring, but I was born in the mid 70's, and don't listen to much recent pop music because I can't stand the sound of autotune.
I've got to ask,has the author listened to "The Joshua Tree", "Rattle and Hum", "Actung Baby" and "Zooropa"?
For the record, I enjoy a range of music from They Might Be Giants to relatively recent dance music (e.g. Justice or Jon Hopkins), but including ska / two tone (topical, because of the recent album with many artists sending their listeners to Coventry ;-), rap, a range of electronic music and some of the lighter bits of heavy metal...