gvox
Ghost of Love
Why? I'd rather him have something to do with it than Chris Martin, frankly.
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Why? I'd rather him have something to do with it than Chris Martin, frankly.
dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
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Danny Boy
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
youarenotimmune
Refugee
Super Yo
New Yorker
GG-winner Daniel Lanois talks U2, Peter Gabriel – and hockey - The Globe and Mail
The complete interview with Daniel Lanois.
And then the connection with Eno led to your work with U2.
Yes. Actually, Bono just came to my place in L.A. a few weeks ago. He let me hear the new record that they’re doing with Danger Mouse. It sounded amazing. Very, very big and powerful-sounding. Some of it was adventurous. There were shades of Achtung Baby. A couple of songs I was familiar with, because we worked on them before but had not completed them. Now they’re back on the burner. Bono is very excited, and he’s singing beautifully. He makes me jealous. Those barrel-chested Irish tenors.
It’s part of the business, but how do you feel about Danger Mouse producing this album, and you not being involved this time around?
I’m actually glad that I’m not making this record with them. I don’t think I’d survive the experiment. It’s hard work. It’s two years, and it will be a character-building experience for Danger Mouse. You really have to be physically fit to make a U2 record. But, really, they’re all hard. All records are hard to make.
The complete interview with Daniel Lanois.
And then the connection with Eno led to your work with U2.
Yes. Actually, Bono just came to my place in L.A. a few weeks ago. He let me hear the new record that they’re doing with Danger Mouse. It sounded amazing. Very, very big and powerful-sounding. Some of it was adventurous. There were shades of Achtung Baby. A couple of songs I was familiar with, because we worked on them before but had not completed them. Now they’re back on the burner. Bono is very excited, and he’s singing beautifully. He makes me jealous. Those barrel-chested Irish tenors.
It’s part of the business, but how do you feel about Danger Mouse producing this album, and you not being involved this time around?
I’m actually glad that I’m not making this record with them. I don’t think I’d survive the experiment. It’s hard work. It’s two years, and it will be a character-building experience for Danger Mouse. You really have to be physically fit to make a U2 record. But, really, they’re all hard. All records are hard to make.
JamietheEdgefan
Refugee
In the spirit of jumping to conclusions:
Some pop and rock......
'Pop and rock' is surely a fairly accurate description of u2 though? At least to a casual listener!
dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
So why the assumption that NLOTH actually was better before thy reworked it? It could have been shit
Danny Boy
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Just don't want it delayed another six months.
youarenotimmune
Refugee
Indeed. My concern stems from the implication (by Dallas) that the new record is different because it has "some pop and rock". So does that mean stuff in the vein of Crazy Tonight, Stand Up Comedy, Vertigo etc.....but with an even more of a tinge of "pop and rock"?
Of course this is based on a tweet by someone who claims she heard it from Dallas....so like I said, jumping to conclusions and stuff
Nick66
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Ugh. Pop and rock songs are what U2 does. Their last album had pop and rock elements. So did the one before that and the one before that and the one before that going back to Boy. So will this one. I'd read ZERO into that Tweet...any more than that is really grasping.
The Lanois comments, however, are very interesting.
The Lanois comments, however, are very interesting.
youarenotimmune
Refugee
I couldn't agree more. Practically the entirety of U2's catalogue is pop and rock. But this tweet seems to be implying that the new album is different because it has some pop/rock songs.
FlyontheHorizon
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I'm not a "resident organizer," but this is a good idea that no one seems to have heeded, so...
http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f196/new-album-discussion-electric-lady-studios-215656.html
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
Boy is not "pop" as the term is widely regarded. Neither are October or War for that matter. Unless you consider post-punk only played on coolege radio to be part of pop.
Pride is pop but the rest of TUF isn't.
Their first "pop" album would be JT, though even that sounded out-of-step with the times. When I think of the term and it's relation to U2, ATYCLB comes to mind first.
Pride is pop but the rest of TUF isn't.
Their first "pop" album would be JT, though even that sounded out-of-step with the times. When I think of the term and it's relation to U2, ATYCLB comes to mind first.
Nick66
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
I'm not sure anyone said all (or any) of their records were pop records. I merely said they all have both rock and pop elements. Which they do. And I wouldn't regard TJT as a pop record...actually, I don't think any of their records are strictly pop.
Gonna Run 2 U
New Yorker
I take Danny's comments as saying this album beats no line on the horizon. So I'm super excited.
gvox
Ghost of Love
Where's it saying that JayZ delayed the album by 6 mos? Missed that part..
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
No, they don't.
There isn't anything on Boy or October that I would classify as pop. It's total post-punk.
I guess on War you have Red Light. But that's a brutal price to pay for pop.
I wouldn't consider JT either, really. But ATYCLB is pretty damned pop.
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