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I still haven't found the tour shirt I'm looking for.
Thank you.
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LOL. It's weird, i haven't seen anyone on the streets wearing the tee shirt with Larry hugging his shirtless son.
Edge needs to start laying down some sick and twisted solos and blow our minds. He needs to get in touch with his inner Yngiweiee Malmsteerin.
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Q described... "No Line on the Horizon 2" as "a punk-y Pixies/Buzzcocks homage
Adam's comments to Q about the sound if SOE being born from the band's early "punk" energy doesn't excite me as much as it once might have..
I'd assumed that the the album's songwriting and arrangements (however "aggressive") would be more complex/nuanced than SOI, to mirror the idea of experience
Comparisons to punk probably mean they're going for something more direct. More stuff like Volcano I suppose
Adam's comments to Q about the sound if SOE being born from the band's early "punk" energy doesn't excite me as much as it once might have..
I'd assumed that the the album's songwriting and arrangements (however "aggressive") would be more complex/nuanced than SOI, to mirror the idea of experience
Comparisons to punk probably mean they're going for something more direct. More stuff like Volcano I suppose
My favorite story about the SOI release was about an older guy who bought a new vehicle and took it back to the dealership to complain that every time he plugged his iPhone into the car, gay porn would appear on the vehicle display.
Turns out the only music he had was the Apple-issued SOI and the album artwork automatically went right to the screen.
I call it what it is.
Also, the "relevant" sellout rockdinoland tour ? This is a rather short tour. If U2 can't sell out these few shows, they can truly roll over and quit.
People are interested in a famous old album. No kidding. And how many of those interested in JT30 know and/or care about SOE being worked on ?
Ergo, bad comparison. People caring more about SOE than JT would be pretty much unheard of in rock.
Relevance isn't whether or not people are interested in your new work, it's whether your new work can capture the times you're writing about ( U2 reacting to Trump with new versions of Desire and Bullet and more time to write on SOE).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Line_on_the_Horizon_(song)#Composition
I'm gonna add punk to my list of nothing words such as visceral or relevance.
Definition of relevance
1
a : relation to the matter at hand
b : practical and especially social applicability : pertinence <giving relevance to college courses>
2
: the ability (as of an information retrieval system) to retrieve material that satisfies the needs of the user
The matter at hand being the new music of 2017.
I can't help but feel like it's a smarter idea to simply call Songs of Experience something else.
It ties it too much to SoI and to resume the Innocence & Experience tour after 2 years off and an entirely different tour sandwiched in the middle seems odd to me. I can't help but feel like your average ticket buyer is going to go "The Innocence and Experience tour? Didn't I already go to that?"
If relevance is what the band is looking for, it's an odd way of remaining relevant - by tying themselves to a 3 year old album that pissed people off because of a misguided marketing strategy and a tour that they already saw.
Keep the songs - repackage them as something new, with a new tour to follow.
To be honest, the average ticket buyer probably won't even notice, or care about the fact that 2 years passed between legs of the I&E Tour. However, I do agree that whenever it eventually happens, it will be called something else (both album and tour). It'll probably be the same basic stage concept (main stage, catwalk, b-stage, long screen running the length of the arena), but with some different elements. Kind of like how the Vertigo Tour was pretty similar to the Elevation Tour.
There are sequels to movies and albums that come out all the time that are a decade apart, this seems to the only place that thinks sequels have an expiration date.
It's a strong theme, the strongest they've had, and obviously Bono's been toying with it for a long time.
I hope they see it through, it would be a lost if they didn't.
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