The U2 Cycle - A (Not) Bold and (Un) Risky Prediction

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The cycle is starting again. I'd say we're all expecting something like...

1.Hope for more beach clips, listen to them if they come and over-analyze every little shred of information that comes our way about the new album.

2.Once the album title, tracklisting, and rough radio release date for the first single are made known to us, most likely sometime in August, go into hype over-drive, and continue doing everything in #1 even more intensely until mid-September when we spend the three or four days leading up to the specified radio release date for the first single listening to radio stations like KRQQ and the like when they say they're going to play the single on 'day x' in advance of the official radio release, but don't say exactly when, so that we're all glued to the radio stations online for hours/days on end not knowing if they're actually going to play it or not. When the first clean mp3 of the first single is finally posted here on Interference, we all go nuts, play it over and over again, and overanalyze it to death for the next 1-2 months.

3.When the whole album leaks two weeks prior to the official release(late October or early November, depending on when the official release is), all hell breaks loose, the Interference servers are given all they can handle, and we all go nuts with 'Top 5 songs on the album', 'Worst 5 songs on the album', 'rank the songs the on album', 'Where do your rank this album in U2's discography', 'song x is overrated', 'song x is underrated', etc etc threads a full two weeks before the album is even out.

4.We have party threads for every single show of the fall pre-tour(SNL, some not-so-secret secret show in a small venue in a big city somewhere, some little gig from their studio in Dublin broadcast over an online radio station, etc etc) and wait with baited breath for someone to upload the video/audio of each.

5.Once the new year comes, we spend endless hours, days, and weeks trying to guess what songs from the new album will be regulars in the setlist, what 'classics' will be regulars in the setlist, what songs U2 will 'revive' that haven't been played in a long time, which albums they will favor in the setlist, etc.

6.When the tickets for the tour go on sale, a plethora of threads will be unleashed bitching about how hard it is to get tickets to a U2 show and how they're too expensive, and using colorful language to express disapproval of scalpers.

7.On opening night of the tour, someone somewhere will be telling us what songs they're playing as they're playing them, and we all post :rockon: or :banghead: accordingly after each song is listed.

8.Later in the wee hours of that night and into the next day, the first boots of the first show appear and the Interference servers temporarily break down as a thousand people click the same link at the same time.

9.For the rest of the spring, summer, and fall, everyone goes to shows, everyone takes part in setlist parties, debate is had between each leg about what songs will be dropped and what songs will be added, and fun is had.

10.In November of 2009, the first DVD from the tour is released.

11.The tour finishes, and we start reminiscing. In the fall of 2010, some compilation of some sort is released.

12.EYKIW becomes relatively quiet until mid-late 2011 when the first barely audible beach clips and random misinterpreted lyrics are posted, and we start all over again.

Does that about cover it?

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Great fucking post :up: :wink:

Well covered, you missed one important thing. Most of us will salivating when the new album finally leaks. And in one year, after the tour cools off, the real new album criticism will begin. There will be more and more bashing threads.

Yess and "how the hell am I going to save up the money!!" will be one you'll hear, at least, from me! :)
 
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