nirniva
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
I'd guess they'd at least play a few tracks from the club album on 360. Perhaps they could put together a track from this, a track from Pop, and the CT remix for a club-themed encore?
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The Club Album - Will.I.Am
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gvox
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Well they did have outside help on it, clearly. I'm just saying, dance/house/techno/other variants etc etc music is mainly "produced" music anyways, so just because it isn't played by four musicians in a room per se, if they produce the thing, well, it's still them doing the song.
As for dance music "dying"...I don't think so. It's not a throwaway genre, it's been around for decades (4+ if you count the disco era, come to think of it house/dance has lasted far longer than disco did!) and isn't going anywhere. It shifts, it changes shape a bit, but it's here to stay imo.
powerhour24
ONE love, blood, life
I wish they'd work with Justice and/or their cavalcade of other 90's producers for this project.
nirniva
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Niceman
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Hmm..... I guess that a new club album makes the return of Discotheque a lot more likely? 
aahh perfecto remixes
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Registered Dude
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
no one said dance music was dying..
but that slick sound of today's production will one day sound really dated, like disco, hair metal and the War album
subnet
New Yorker
there's some crazy electro out there right now that doesn't really sound dated. i think it's due to the production method of darker tones and less "crisp" of a sound - although very textured. More industrial than ever.
come to think of it, is pretty hate machine and achtung baby all that dated?
come to think of it, is pretty hate machine and achtung baby all that dated?
Niceman
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I think PHM is really dated..... Brilliant album, but needs re-recording....
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Registered Dude
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definitely.. but this is seemingly not the music of David Guetta, RedOne and WillIAm
subnet
New Yorker
yeah i guess i was commenting on my pipe dream
gvox
Ghost of Love
powerhour24
ONE love, blood, life
War doesn't strike me as particularly dated? It is definitely of its era, but not 'dated' in the pejorative sense.
nirniva
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Registered Dude
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
it's not necessarily a negative thing. I mean it sounds like it comes from 1983.. especially that drum sound..
gvox
Ghost of Love
Really? I dunno..
I do know that I would fucking love U2 to bring back Like A Song..Two Hearts (I know, dream on)...hell, even SURRENDER!
BVS
Blue Crack Supplier
Really?
To me I can't even make myself listen to it because it sounds so dated. No other U2 album does that to me except War
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Sunday Bloody Sunday sounds dated? New Year's Day? Like A Song? Surrender and Red Light are the only songs on it that even suggest the possibility that music outside of the world of U2 might exist. Otherwise, I think there would at least be synths throughout.
gvox
Ghost of Love
^^ Yeah seriously on the synths comment there..when I compare it to the other stuff I was into at the time (Depeche Mode, New Order, The Smiths, The Cure etc)..War sounds nothing like that stuff, to me!
Construction Time Again by way of example..now THAT'S 1983
Construction Time Again by way of example..now THAT'S 1983
powerhour24
ONE love, blood, life
To me Boy is the only U2 album that screams the exact time period it was made in while listening to it, much of their 80's work outside of JT and TUF is obviously from the 80's but you can pinpoint Boy as the transition period between post-punk and something new.
BVS
Blue Crack Supplier
Oh, I cannot listen to the album versions anymore of SBS or NYD, they sound very dated. I like 'Like a Song' so I'll listen to it just because there aren't many great live versions out there...
Mountain Dew Ma
War Child
New Year's Day studio sounds perfectly fresh to me. Sunday Bloody Sunday does not.
powerhour24
ONE love, blood, life
I think NYD studio sounds timeless, but while SBS studio certainly has aged, there's just so much energy there I still love listening to it.
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Okay, well, after reading this I have two thoughts:
1. People like the 90s remixes? Wow....
2. People think War sounds dated? I mean, maybe as much as The Beatles sound dated. But so much so that you can't even listen to studio versions? I feel very sorry for those of you.
1. People like the 90s remixes? Wow....
2. People think War sounds dated? I mean, maybe as much as The Beatles sound dated. But so much so that you can't even listen to studio versions? I feel very sorry for those of you.
dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
Yeah, SBS studio sounds dated only insomuch as it sounds tinny, clunky and abrasive - EXACTLY how it was supposed to sound.
I do like some of the 90's remixes though. Much prefer the recent ones (CT kick the vocal, Mag falke and RAC, GOYB FishOW and Justice)...
I do like some of the 90's remixes though. Much prefer the recent ones (CT kick the vocal, Mag falke and RAC, GOYB FishOW and Justice)...
theedgeu2
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
War in no way at all sounds "dated" to me. I think New Year's Day and Sunday Bloody Sunday both sound fresh enough today. And the studio versions sound amazing. Edge's guitar work and tone is just brilliant. I still go back to the studio versions a lot. Although I enjoy SBS from Red Rocks about the same.
ozeeko
Refugee
I love the cold, abrasive, unforgiving sound of the War album. Dated? I dunno. But it doesn't sound like a victim of production. It just sounds bleak, wintery. I love that about it though.
Which would be a bad thing because...?
Not saying its a bad thing at all. Just that an actual club or dance album seems far fetched.
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