SOE 22 - 2018 it is... (it isn't)

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Forgive me if this already sounds nauseating. Like some kind of combination of Stand Up Comedy and Window In The Skies.

Maybe God kicks the little old lady into traffic?

Will wait to actually hear it, but in regards to the description I prefer U2 stay away from Beatles sound. That's what they've been striving for after Pop, and ATYCLB is the only record that works
 
Just watched the interview with Zane. Good stuff... although the end of the "following America into the bathroom with the liner notes" lines Bono keeps trotting out can't come soon enough.
 
That's ok. We know the album will be out this year. I don't want song by song previews 4.5 months before the release.

Me neither. To be honest, I'd just like a release date please.

Will have a listen to the full thing tomorrow as it's apparently a good interview, but the stuff mentioned in here just sounds like a typical paint-by-numbers U2 interview, right down to Bono quoting some random lyrics.
 
Will have a listen to the full thing tomorrow as it's apparently a good interview, but the stuff mentioned in here just sounds like a typical paint-by-numbers U2 interview, right down to Bono quoting some random lyrics.

And Larry and Adam barely talking.
 
At least Bono seemed very passionate by saying "we better be fucking good" and saying it's going to be a "ridiculous" album

Like I've said before, the band know how important Songs Of Experience is especially as a follow up to the success of touring the Joshua Tree.

I believe they will deliver...whenever it comes out.

I agree! It's a big moment coming up the release of this album, and after the controversy surrounding the still good SOI, they need to better themselves with this record
 
Really enjoyed watching that inrerview. Loved edges story about the magic mushrooms!

Really excited for the new album,you can see the passion and fire is still in them.
 
Nothing really to pick apart and evaluate.

... unless you count the fistfight. There's probably a lot to unpack there.
 
Wait was Stop (The Poverty) actually a rumored song at some point and not an Interference joke?



???

No, it was an interferencer who pretended to be an insider and created this title and some lyrics. He stuck hard to the script, some fell for it, but most saw the trolling from miles away.

He eventually admitted it, but still some would bring it up as a grievance to Bono's writing so then that poster tried to pretend he never admitted it.
 
I always thought Stop (The Poverty) was the song Bono did with Alicia Keys. But that was actually called Don't Give Up (Africa). Either way, I've never listened to that song until now. Ehh...

That lead me to both versions of "American Prayer", one with Beyonce and the other with the Wheaton College choir.

Which then lead me to "Stranded" with Jay-Z and Rhianna.

Ugh... I feel dirty... somebody get me some 11 O'clock Tick Tock (Red Rocks version), quick!!!
 
I always thought Stop (The Poverty) was the song Bono did with Alicia Keys. But that was actually called Don't Give Up (Africa). Either way, I've never listened to that song until now. Ehh...

That lead me to both versions of "American Prayer", one with Beyonce and the other with the Wheaton College choir.

Which then lead me to "Stranded" with Jay-Z and Rhianna.

Ugh... I feel dirty... somebody get me some 11 O'clock Tick Tock (Red Rocks version), quick!!!



There was no song called Don't Give Up (Africa)

That was a cover of Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up :facepalm:
 
Just like everyone said of The Morning After Innocence lyrics, and then when they were heard as a song it was a fairly popular opinion that it was his best lyric in 20 years.

But the lyrics completely changed. The Morning After Innocence began "Is that your fountain pen? Navy with a nib of gold. Could you write your name again and do anything you were told in 10 Cedarwood Road." We've never heard that as a song.
 
There was no song called Don't Give Up (Africa)

That was a cover of Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up ?





So are you mocking me because I don't know this Peter Gabriel song? Their version is called "don't give up (Africa)", and I don't like it... that's all I know.
 
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No, it was an interferencer who pretended to be an insider and created this title and some lyrics. He stuck hard to the script, some fell for it, but most saw the trolling from miles away.

He eventually admitted it, but still some would bring it up as a grievance to Bono's writing so then that poster tried to pretend he never admitted it.


Thank God. I found a livejournal from 2008 talking about Stop (The Poverty) seriously, so I thought it was actually a thing.
 
There was no song called Don't Give Up (Africa)

That was a cover of Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up :facepalm:

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To answer BoMac: No.

To answer Laz: A metric fuckton amount of times.

To the thread in general: I really like that duet/cover.
 
The interview was interesting.....okay great. Look. It's like waking up one day to realize your hair has fallen out or you are pregnant with a giant monster inside of you, maybe spiritually, mentally, who knows. At the end of the day you've still got this thrill on your side like the hardest of the porn stars or a guy who just went ten rounds with a grizzly bear, and the bear threw in the towel.

For most of us, it would probably be enough just to have that towel. Some but not all. The way these guys talk they want to get back into the cage with the shark. Poke that bastard in the eye and reach deep in between the jagged rows of death to see what you find in the belly of the beast.

That's different than those old timers sitting around a table in some dark smoky basement telling war stories from their glory days, to be clear, these are war stories... from the most respected guys on the block. And these guys are still packing.

Sure the old embargo hasn't been lifted and the blockade is still being enforced. Who cares? Not me, i don't fly by those controls and i know the difference in being different for the sake of being free in yourself, not going with the flow and following some self anointed leader because, well, that's what most people do.

Sometimes it's life in the form of a great magic pizza, where you started out happy with just a few crumbs. When that wasn't satisfying enough you dug in a little bit deeper for love and acceptance and then worked your way up to power and control. Sooner or later it all comes to pass that you kick the new crumb seekers to the curb to save more for yourself. Such is life. You had saved that last slice intentionally thinking it's the heaven you so desired, but as it always turns out you eat too much and it's going to be hell to pay for you later on when the light is all gone.

It was never really supposed to end this way...or at all?

Time and pain
makes flickering shadows fade
the space between lightning
a quiet hollow soul
full of empty holes
pounding at the heart
beats the blood from the wound
echoes in the distance
from the chorus of ghosts
like sand to the ark
where the footsteps wash away
the wind of oblivion
 
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I feel like this interview serves no purpose other than to kick the U2 promo machine into gear.. not for TJT tour, but for the U2 brand, for SOE, and beyond..
 
The interview was interesting.....okay great. Look. It's like waking up one day to realize your hair has fallen out or you are pregnant with a giant monster inside of you, maybe spiritually, mentally, who knows. At the end of the day you've still got this thrill on your side like the hardest of the porn stars or a guy who just went ten rounds with a grizzly bear, and the bear threw in the towel.

For most of us, it would probably be enough just to have that towel. Some but not all. The way these guys talk they want to get back into the cage with the shark. Poke that bastard in the eye and reach deep in between the jagged rows of death to see what you find in the belly of the beast.

That's different than those old timers sitting around a table in some dark smoky basement telling war stories from their glory days, to be clear, these are war stories... from the most respected guys on the block. And these guys are still packing.

Sure the old embargo hasn't been lifted and the blockade is still being enforced. Who cares? Not me, i don't fly by those controls and i know the difference in being different for the sake of being free in yourself, not going with the flow and following some self anointed leader because, well, that's what most people do.

Sometimes it's life in the form of a great magic pizza, where you started out happy with just a few crumbs. When that wasn't satisfying enough you dug in a little bit deeper for love and acceptance and then worked your way up to power and control. Sooner or later it all comes to pass that you kick the new crumb seekers to the curb to save more for yourself. Such is life. You had saved that last slice intentionally thinking it's the heaven you so desired, but as it always turns out you eat too much and it's going to be hell to pay for you later on when the light is all gone.

It was never really supposed to end this way...or at all?

Time and pain
makes flickering shadows fade
the space between lightning
a quiet hollow soul
full of empty holes
pounding at the heart
beats the blood from the wound
echoes in the distance
from the chorus of ghosts
like sand to the ark
where the footsteps wash away
the wind of oblivion



This was epic!!! Thank you.
 
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