The Slow Loris
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“It’s a song that every generation has to sing, it’s the eternal song. It’s about what’s possible and still everything is possible.”
- Bono
Wow.
- Bono
Wow.
The Slow Loris said:“It’s a song that every generation has to sing, it’s the eternal song. It’s about what’s possible and still everything is possible.”
- Bono
Wow.
The Slow Loris said:By the way, I can post the full article which is from Melbourne's Herald Sun. It didn't appear on their website, but it did appear in the paper's Saturday edition....
Back to the topic... If this is indeed a "generation" song, one that people from every generation will be singing, could it really be 400? Sounds more like 404 to me, but redone with piano. Of course, it may be none of the beachclips at all!
The speculation continues....
The "eternal song"....wow, Bono really outdid himself this time....I mean, wow.... just wow.
The Slow Loris said:The article is posted at...
http://www.lyptonvillage.org/u2/?p=231
Here's the entire posting:
Bono Talks on New Songs
9:29 am In Aussie News, Vertigo Tour, Vertigo Oz, BonoVox, Melbourne
From today’s Melbourne Herald Sun
For some reason it is not on the Herald Sun Website but Saturday’s edition has an interview with Bono. Amongst Bono’s usual “two crap albums and were out” type banter the article includes a passage where he talks about the two new songs from U218 for the first time:
“It’s never been done (duet with Greenday), oddly enough. Two bands like this, two bands having a baby… and were not the chick,” he chuckles. “The Edge was the one who found the song and it was one of my favorite songs and it turns out one of his, from that time. And the lyrics couldn’t be more apt”.
The other new song is Windows in the Skies. With Soaring strings and a haunting piano melody, this tune is remarkably different to the stadium rock sound of their smash hit album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It’s huge but in a very different way for a very different reason; Bono is learning to play piano.
“I’ve been taking piano lessons with my kids and every time I took a piano lesson, I wrote a song. I had eight piano lessons and eight songs. They (the rest of U2) were all like, ‘He’ll never have any songs this time’, and In I bring eight. Whoa! Of course, they have much improved it.
“I think that is going to be our biggest song in a long time. It’s a psychedelic pop song with 6/8 timing. You never hear that, it’s very, very rare,” he says.
“It’s a song that every generation has to sing, it’s the eternal song. It’s about what’s possible and still everything is possible.”
Let’s hope that he continues with the piano lessons!
Point 1: It's all about possibilities, and the beach clips are too good to ignore.chocky said:Bono says he wrote 8 songs on the piano and brought them to the studio. I presume Window is one of these (given it has piano/orchestra) but it could be a leftover from previous album sessions.
So why is everyone so caught up in trying to fit 'Window' into one of the beach clips when:
1. we know they have at least 8 new songs plus any leftovers from HTDAAB (ie far more songs than there are beach clips)
2. clearly none of the beach clips sound like the descriptions of 'Window'
No worries, no worries....Swan269 said:
thanks for posting that for us loris.
No, fill me in....now I'm curious! (I've turned into such a geek.)Lancemc said:Well, I just want to hear the damn thing. From the sound of things the best songs on HTDAAB to compare this to are City of Blinding Lights and Original of the Species, which is excellent, because they are the two best songs on that album.
But honestly, does anyone remember my inspiration for the "Ultimate U2 pop album" I was throwing around a while back? Well, this is sounding more and more along those lines. Man, if I'm right about that one, I'll shit a gold brick! I certainly hope so though.
Lancemc said:But honestly, does anyone remember my inspiration for the "Ultimate U2 pop album" I was throwing around a while back? Well, this is sounding more and more along those lines.
Screwtape2 said:
Was that when you were saying that U2's best move would be to make a pop record like Pet Sounds?
If so, we are totally on the same wave length. An ambitous and exciting pop record is what the beach clips hint at. A song for all generations would be the perfect lead into a classic pop album. Listening to the band's demos, I hear that kind of potential in thier music.