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Agreed, it's Mercy reconstituted but with weaker lyrics. WAS is way better and I'm glad it was the one included on NLOTH.
WAS is way better and I'm glad it was the one included on NLOTH.
"cowardly" is more than a little harsh.
use your head. Bono and Edge are the most ambitious members of this band
Interesting!
#1 I wonder if they finished it?
#2 I would assume now that it won't be on SOA!
Exciting to see some more potential songs in the issue of Mojo in thread III, I think they have lots of candidates. Winter I'm guessing would not be on there bc wouldn't it be on the Brothers soundtrack??
c'mon now, this is Muldfeld we are talking about, the same person who once said u2 should use Battlestar Gallactica for inspiration...or something like that. Whatever!
didn't Mudfeld say earlier this year that he thought NLOTH was a really weak album, and then later admitted that he never actually listened to the whole thing?
TGBHF (U2 wanted it on the ATYCLB tracklist, Universal didn't).
More recently, he says he wished he wrote Oasis' "Wonderwall". Oh, what little ambition that is to just be popular.
You know there's a really ugly inside club attitude about a lot of you folks on this site. You love to gang up on people. Very petty. Why can't you just deal with what I say instead of descending into personal attacks just because you can't stand someone criticizing your band. You're the cowards.
You know there's a really ugly inside club attitude about a lot of you folks on this site. You love to gang up on people. Very petty. Why can't you just deal with what I say instead of descending into personal attacks just because you can't stand someone criticizing your band. You're the cowards.
You know there's a really ugly inside club attitude about a lot of you folks on this site. You love to gang up on people. Very petty. Why can't you just deal with what I say instead of descending into personal attacks just because you can't stand someone criticizing your band. You're the cowards.
Right because U2 has never used works of fiction for inspiration. I'm talking about something for which the UN assembled a panel to discuss and this hasn't happened for any fictional work in the UN's history. Its first 3 seasons show far greater realism and moral ambiguity about the challenges facing our world than any of Bono's lyrics in the 12 years. You have to go all the way back to "Please" for anything truthful. Bono just tells the world Israelis and Palestinians have to "lay down your guns" to create peace, but occupation and apartheid don't require active warfare. When the Palestinians stop using violence, the suffering continues -- as it has in Gaza the last 10 months -- and the Israelis get to ignore them and continue destroying their lives.
Eno knows much better:
YouTube - Brian Eno | Stop Gaza Massacre protest London Saturday 3 January 2009
You know there's a really ugly inside club attitude about a lot of you folks on this site. You love to gang up on people. Very petty. Why can't you just deal with what I say instead of descending into personal attacks just because you can't stand someone criticizing your band. You're the cowards.
If they feel they need a big hit to go with SOA they could possibly revisit some of the Rubin songs or something and add one or two to SOA, even if it doesn't fit in with the album. I'd prefer one or two odd-ball radio-friendly tracks to go with the rest of the album if it meant we received an album in 2010. Plus, sometimes those catchy-pop songs can be pretty good. I've got nothing wrong with it when they want to write a few of those.
i apologize. i won't respond to your posts anymore unless they make sense. otherwise, i'll stay away.
No thanks. I feel like the reason NLOTH was not an amazing record is because there were some last-minute attempt at a big hit songs; and having those mixed in with some experimental gems, really made the album feel disjointed and incoherent. I'd rather they use the material they have (because it probably is the more experimental stuff that wasn't used on NLOTH and I bet it fits together nicely as an album - all speculation of course) rather than write up some hurried "Crazy Tonight/Crumbs From Your Table/SYCMIOYO/Original of the Species/Stand Up Comedy" re-hash or another "Vertigo/GOYB" style song.
Unless they are writing songs in a Zooropa-style way where they really want to capture the spirit of a new direction and experimentation and see what they can come up with within just a few months time, I think I'd rather hear what they have in the bag already.
To me, this recent song-writing news just sounds like they're second-guessing themselves and I think that's where they've been going wrong lately. I just feel like the harder they try to make big hit songs, the more they won't succeed in doing so. Too much focus on being the biggest band, when they already are; no need to prove something we already know is true.
Honestly: does anyone really think we're going to get another album before, say, 2012?
This is U2 we are talking about.
Honestly: does anyone really think we're going to get another album before, say, 2012?
This is U2 we are talking about.
They almost have to in order to keep this tour relevant.
They seem disappointed, so we might get an album purely out of desperation.
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This makes me sad They are disappointed with the NLOTH? I wasn't....
I hope this doesn't drive U2 to put out a easy record just to boost sales? This doesn't seem like them
If they judge their success only on chart hits then sure.. NLOTH is a flop to them. But to me, NLOTH is so much more.. it came to me at a time when I really needed it and was a guiding lifeline that helped me through one of the most difficult times of my life. Maybe they need to look more at personal impact than the charts.. besides.. what are the charts full of these days anyway... mostly crap.