sounds a lot like...

I don't know a lot of their stuff, but what I've heard doesn't sound much like them.

I used to think Simple Minds sounded like U2, mostly in the way that they tried to make socially conscious music. They were often accused of being U2 wannabes.

Most people in North America knew them only for two 80s pop hits from movies, but a lot of their home grown stuff was very U2-ish. Belfast Child is pretty much a U2 anthem song. Replace Jim Kerr with Bono and Mandela Day would be right at home on a U2 album.