it's pretty rare for me to dislike a band just because everyone else says they're good.
the reason i mentioned that they'd been around so long is because i pretty much grew up hearing them on the radio, meaning that i've heard A LOT of u2 songs, and while i don't normally think that singles are the best representation of a band, they are at least good songs, for the most part.
and in this case i think that i've heard enough to know that i don't want to hear the rest of what their albums have to offer. make sense?