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> they have become as much a universal cultural cliche

Same thing happened to me when I first listened to U2's Joshua Tree and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. The first halves just sound like Greatest Hits records. But nope, they're just so ubiquitous that I've already heard half the album through cultural osmosis.

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Bono doesn’t think he’s a very good singer.

https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/bono-embarrassed-by-u2.html

Ironic nickname, then ("Bono Vox" being the original form)

TIL what that actually means (the wiki bit below). Its also the name of a hearing aid company in Ireland [0], making it even more ironic. Pretty sure this is where the name originated from.

Found out that (according to wikipedia)[1]:

"is an alteration of bonavox, a Latin word which translates to "good voice"."

[0] - https://www.bonavox.ie/ [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono

He is far from alone in thinking that. Even among music critics that are generally positive about U2 there has always been a fair amount of criticism of his voice.

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