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AcrobatMan said:
Bring out a METAL album !!

Get a guy from Tool, Disturbed or Opeth...

And collaborate U2's first metal album
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Excuse me while I roll on the floor laughing....:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: ....you're joking right?!? NO!?! Goes back to rolling around on the floor laughing!!! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
 
intedomine said:
loud guitars blended with the hip hop influence of kanye west......that's what i see happening
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I think you'd hear my death rattle over that.

:sad:
 
I am not joking..

I want metal.... from U2...

I am not into metal..but that will help me like metal..

I really really really thing U2 can do justice to metal.. ( they will have to collaborate with someone)

Not an all out metal album...May be 5 tracks out of 11 - pure metal

3-4 rock

1-2 electronica...

basically a metal album with few rock songs and 1-2 zooropa style songs..

it will expand the fanbase to other people... the fanbase might just double !!
 
I'd love to see U2 going for something a bit heavier and rockier, but I don't know about metal. I do like metal, but I can't really see U2 pulling it off.
What I really want is more songs like Last Night on Earth :drool:
 
I want metal from U2.

I don't want first wave metal or NWOBHM stuff. Leave the classic heavy metal back in the 70s and 80s.

I don't want nu-metal, which isn't metal in the first place.

Oh no. I want to see U2 not just adventure into metal, but go the whole bloody way.

What do I want? DRONE DOOM. Get out some Earth, jesu, Khanate, or Sunn O))) and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Something to make In Cold Blood look tame. :drool:

(I'm not sure I'm being fully serious, but it'd blow my mind if it happened.)
 
AcrobatMan said:
Not an all out metal album...May be 5 tracks out of 11 - pure metal

3-4 rock

1-2 electronica...

basically a metal album with few rock songs and 1-2 zooropa style songs..

it will expand the fanbase to other people... the fanbase might just double !!
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Double the fanbase?:laugh: Are you sure about that, dude?

U2 could make metal, but in that moment, not only bashing would start from traditional fans but metal fans too.
Usually, fan of the metal style do not like much of U2 (neither the classic pop scene). Well, U2 is not a 100% rock group, so... can you imagine of what a hardcore metal fan would think about a pop/rock band trying to do metal?

I could see the band get again in the heavy and loud guitars, but - despite the disagreement of many people here - the last album represented to the non-fan, a return to the true rock style and for them Vertigo (Elevation and Electrical Storm too) is the heaviest thing they've done in 25 years. I'm not seeing the band going even further in adopting an even more heavier style.

Then, I could see electronica, ambient music, jazz, blues, folk, post-punk, even hip-hop or RnB experimented by U2... but I don't think they're the kind of band that are interested to go through styles that don't seem to resurge or that only works as funded in some regions...
 
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YBORCITYOBL said:


Wait...... isn't Tool, Disturbed, Opeth..... all the same band with one drawn out boring song that they just change a few words too?
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whoa dude, that is ignorant. I'll admit I know literally nothing about Opeth so I can't say anything about them, but what I've heard from Disturbed sounds nothing like Tool. Tool is fucking TIGHT and i would LOVE to hear U2 go that direction. Not quite that heavy, and I don't think we need U2 to "bring in metal guitarists," but if U2 did something that sounded remotely like Tool it'd probably be awesome.

actually the song Disposition reminds me of U2, call me crazy

If U2 incorporated prog-metal influences into their work, I think we could get some killer stuff. note that I said INFLUENCE. I'm not saying I want U2 to become any sort of metal. but their heavier stuff is some of their best.
 
More people need to know about Opeth. They're one of the best progressive death metal bands out there; highly musically original, and Mikael Akerfeldt has a very beautiful clean singing voice (and when he does death growls, he's one of the most comprehensible growlers I have ever heard).

Opeth = :up:
 
Well, The Cure had Ross Robinson (Korn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit) produce their last album. It didn't sound like nu-metal; it sounded like The Cure, only harder. I think something like this could possibly work for U2.

Then again, the Cure album didn't do well and the band lost several members in the aftermath.:shrug:
 
Danny Boy said:
Then again, the Cure album didn't do well and the band lost several members in the aftermath.:shrug:
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When HASN'T The Cure lost several members? :wink:
 
Axver said:


When HASN'T The Cure lost several members? :wink:
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So what Axver? The Cure is one hell of a band. Probably my all-time favorite. Robert Smith IS the Cure and a musical genius, and he's always been there. I don't know what you are trying to imply here.
 
Axver only knows about The Cure's history with members because of me. (my personal favourite Cure era is 80-82, and that's the only era he's heard)

But U2 making a heavier album like the Cure's self titled would be awesome. Some things already lean in that direction (Exit, God Part II, I Threw A Brick)
 
chucky28 said:


So what Axver? The Cure is one hell of a band. Probably my all-time favorite. Robert Smith IS the Cure and a musical genius, and he's always been there. I don't know what you are trying to imply here.
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Talk about reading my post wrong. The post I quoted mentioned The Cure lost a number of members after the most recent album; I pointed out that (as Liam has told me at least), The Cure has gone through plenty of line-up changes so losing members after the last album doesn't really prove much.
 
Isn't metal one of the only music styles U2 has ever critisized? That doesn't mean they wouldn't do it, maybe they'd think that they could improve on previous efforts, but it seems unlikely that U2 would sit down and say, "Lets bring in a metal guitarist and make a metal album."
And if a metal album were made by U2, it would probably be more Black Sabbath influenced, because Bono has said that he likes one Sabbath album.
 
I know I'm going completely off topic with this post, but...

THE CURE'S LINEUP CHANGES, 1979-2006

(I've chosen to omit anything before Killing An Arab because I'm lazy)

(please note: no release means no new material release. A compilation may have been released in these years. I'm lazy.)

1979: Killing An Arab (single) / Boys Don't Cry (single) / Three Imaginary Boys (album, UK) / Boys Don't Cry (album, elsewhere): Robert Smith (guitar/vocals), Michael Dempsey (bass), Laurence Tolhurst (drums)

1980: Seventeen Seconds (album) / A Forest (single): Robert Smith (guitar/vocals), Simon Gallup (bass), Laurence Tolhurst (drums), Matthieu Hartley (keyboards)

1981: Primary (single) / Faith (album) / Charlotte Sometimes (non-album single): Robert Smith (guitar/keyboards/vocals), Simon Gallup (bass), Laurence Tolhurst (drums)

1982: Pornography (album) / The Hanging Garden (single): Robert Smith (guitar/keyboards/vocals), Simon Gallup (bass/keyboards), Laurence Tolhurst (drums/keyboards)

1983: Let's Go To Bed (single): Robert Smith (guitar/bass/bass6/keyboards/vocals), Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards), Steven Goulding (drums)

The Walk (single): Robert Smith (guitar/bass6/keyboards/vocals), Laurence Tolhurst (Drum machine)

The Lovecats (single): Robert Smith (guitar/keyboards/vocals), Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards, vibes), Phil Thornalley (bass), Andy Anderson (drums)

1984: The Top (album) / The Caterpillar (single): Robert Smith (guitar/keyboards/vocals), Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards), Andy Anderson (drums), Porl Thompson (saxophone)

Concert (live album): Robert Smith (guitar/keyboards/vocals), Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards), Phil Thornalley (bass), Andy Anderson (drums), Porl Thompson (guitar/keyboards/saxophone)

1985: The Head On The Door (album) / In Between Days (single) / Close To Me (single): Robert Smith (guitar/vocals), Porl Thompson (guitar/keyboards), Simon Gallup (bass), Boris Thompson (drums), Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards)

1986: No release

1987: Kiss Me! Kiss Me! Kiss Me! (album) / Why Can't I Be You? (single) / Just Like Heaven (single) / Hot! Hot! Hot! (single) / Catch (single): Robert Smith (guitar/vocals), Simon Gallup (bass), Porl Thompson (guitar/keyboards), Boris Thompson (drums), Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards)

1988: No release

1989: Disintegration (album) / Fascination Street (single) / Lovesong (single) / Lullaby (single) / Entreat (live album): Robert Smith (guitar, bass6, vocals), Simon Gallup (bass, bass6), Porl Thompson (guitar, bass6), Boris Williams (drums), Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards)

1990: No release

1991: No release

1992: Wish (album) / High (single) / Friday I'm In Love (single) / A Letter To Elise (single): Robert Smith (guitar/bass6/vocals),Simon Gallup (bass/bass6), Porl Thompson (guitar), Perry Bamonte (keyboards/bass6), Boris Williams (drums)

1993: Show (live album) / Paris (live album) Robert Smith (guitar/bass6/vocals),Simon Gallup (bass/bass6), Porl Thompson (guitar), Perry Bamonte (keyboards/guitar/bass6), Boris Williams (drums)

1994: No release

1995: No release

1996: Wild Mood Swings (album) / The 13th (single) / Mint Car (single) / Gone! (single) / Strange Attraction (single): Robert Smith (guitar/bass6/vocals), Perry Bamonte (guitar/bass6), Simon Gallup (bass/bass6), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards), Jason Cooper (drums)

1997: no release

1998: no release

1999: no release

2000: Bloodflowers (album): Robert Smith (guitar/bass6/vocals), Perry Bamonte (guitar/bass6), Simon Gallup (bass), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards), Jason Cooper (drums)

2001: no release

2002: no release

2003: no release

2004: The Cure (album) / end of the world (single) / taking off (single) / alt.end (single): Robert Smith (guitar/bass6/vocals), Simon Gallup (bass/bass6), Perry Bamonte (guitar/bass6), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards/percussion), Jason Cooper (drums)

2005: Live 8 (performance): Robert Smith (guitar/keyboard/bass6/vocals), Porl Thompson (guitar/keyboard/bass6), Simon Gallup (guitar/bass6), Jason Cooper (drums)

...I have no life, but I'm sure someone will appreciate this.
 
intedomine said:
loud guitars blended with the hip hop influence of kanye west......that's what i see happening
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All that, plus a New Orleans horn section from Edge's days down there! Pavoratti on background vocals! Chris Martin of Coldplay playing the cowbell!
 
AcrobatMan said:
I am not joking..

I want metal.... from U2...

I am not into metal..but that will help me like metal..

I really really really thing U2 can do justice to metal.. ( they will have to collaborate with someone)

Not an all out metal album...May be 5 tracks out of 11 - pure metal

3-4 rock

1-2 electronica...

basically a metal album with few rock songs and 1-2 zooropa style songs..

it will expand the fanbase to other people... the fanbase might just double !!
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DEATH METAL LYRICS FROM U2

(edge plays growling riff on a chainsaw, Larry beats rhythms on garbage can lids that he borrowed from the group STOMP) (Willie Williams set design incudes scenes from Dante's inferno and of course Stonehenge. The Satanic pentagram, the Al Qaida symbol and others form disturbing messages in the same style as the COEXIST logo)

BONO growls these lyrics in a demonic trance. His rap-around shades are now replaced with color effects contact lenses

"Love and Peace or Else Maggot Head! (Edge screams/repeats Maggot head)
"Love and Peace or we kick your head! (Edge repeats/Kick your head!)
Bono bites off the skin of a Lemon onstage in a failed attempt to pay homage to Ozzy Osbourne
 
:mad:

BONO Angry! Bono make metal album! Bono Smash!

I like it. Actually I like their heavier stuff, but it works because they keep a U2 feel on it (Acrobat, Mofo, etc)
 
Nube Gris said:
The Cure:drool:
Desintegration:bow:
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I like you already Nube Gris. Best post I have read in a long time! :wink:

And for Axver : I didn't read your post wrong. The way you wrote it, it was sarcastic...as usual.
 
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