I'm done with this.
Wow. Woooooooooow.
The entire point he's making is that this has NOTHING to do with the "status." He's not having "issues" with it.
And his statement about R&H was not intended for you, it was intended for doctorwho.
I guess that's why he always goes crazy about it, yeah. I'm not sure how "U2-productive" it is when half the material are instrumentals and the record lacks in the department of Bono lyrics, not to mention Eno clearly being in charge musically. The guy even instructed the band to try out different instruments. U2 were not remotely as much in charge as in any regular recording.
I know it was. Again, no clue what it's doing in a reply to a post that said absolutely nothing about Rattle and Hum but anyway.
As was said in another post "MDH was being worked on concurrently with ATYCLB to the point where Lanois was even quoted as saying he did the project to get it over with so that Bono could get back to the U2 album. The other band members were quite involved on various songs and some of the songs even though not credited U2 on the soundtrack had originally been demos for the U2 album and worked on by the band but laid aside."
Material such as GBH and Stateless. (and there are rumours Spiderman musical leftovers are being saved for the next U2 album/s)
I don't see much difference between that and Passengers. U2 was involved in both, as were other people, as were their longtime producers. Both projects overlapped with material that later made it onto U2 albums later (articles on Passengers mention a song or two delayed for the "rock U2 album" to follow). Making a soundtrack vs a one-time coalition of artists.
We can compare the decades after 2010 rolls by, anyway. Should be fun.
"If U2 ever settled this issue, they did it when they included TWO Passengers tracks on the second U2 best of?"
The only reason it made it onto the best of is they lacked material for the Best of and that MS and YBR were a single and a B-side. Doesn't change anything. BTW Edge said in an interview that he and Bono deliberately wrote two "U2 sounding" song at the time, and that's what came out of it. Those two songs.