NLOTH overproduced, you say? Blame JAY-Z!!111!1!

[gvox]

Jay-Z's book 'Decoded' provides insights to relationship with U2 frontman Bono

That FUCKER!

 

[Galeongirl]

So they were selling out for Jay Z? Damn. All Bono's fault.

 

[gvox]

He planted the seed, man! HE PLANTED THE SEED!11!11!

 

[purpleoscar]

That's hilarious!

 

[domo-kun]

Thats it! Rappers should never interfere with rockbands anyway!

Now I understand why the album was such a failure!

 

[gvox]

 

[Moser]

Wait, so the Edge wasn't on fire? It was just Jay-Z getting in Bono's head.....

LAME

 

[Catman]

I applaud you, Jay-Z

 

[U2BROTHR]

Ha.....I read that and I took it as a compliment. As in....perhaps if Jay-Z didn't get into Bono's head, the album................

Spoiler

could have been WORSE!

 

[coolian2]

i don't think it was overproduced by any means

 

[purpleoscar]

Breathe is an example where more production helped. The final version seems perfect.

 

[Rachel D.]

It sounds like Bono really values Jay-Z's opinion, maybe too much. He let that one comment bother him like that? Although, we may never know what NLOTH would have sounded like, so there's no way to know if Jay-Z helped or hindered the album's success. But now we know part of the reason why it didn't come out in 2008 like it was supposed to.

 

[gvox]

Surely at least SOME of you know I was just kidding with the overproduced thing!

 

[domo-kun]

 

[Vlad n U 2]

No, you're overproduced.

 

[Galeongirl]

Surely at least SOME of you know I was just kidding with the overproduced thing!

Ofcourse you weren't kidding. It's so the truth!!!!!oneoneoneeleven

 

[nirniva]

I would like to see a U2 album produced by Kanye West, but I'm afraid that their combined egos would destroy the universe.

 

[nielsgov]

I blame Canada.

 

[gvox]

I would like to see a U2 album produced by Kanye West

You're not the only one.

 

[Sicy]

No, you're overproduced.

This.

 

[Rachel D.]

No, you're overproduced.

 

[purpleoscar]

I think U2 can get this way already. Jay Z simply ticked off a Bono's twitch by just mentioning workethic. It reminds me of Fred Flinstone with gambling addiction. The band are addicted to the studio.

YouTube - BET BET BET

http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f189/i-heart-rattle-and-hum-197396.html

Hawkmoon 269

"But the 269 isn't actually a motel room, it's the fact that we mixed it two hundred and sixty-nine times before we got it right (Band laughs), and, uh (Bono laughs) we're that professional MAN."

(from Rattle and Hum U2 Nationwide Broadcast, October 26, 1988)

 

[doctorwho]

If only all of U2's albums could be as over-produced as NLOTH. That would be

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Surely at least SOME of you know I was just kidding with the overproduced thing!

this whole idea sounds pretty half baked.

 

[Cactus Annie]

Pretty weak if you let other people's comments get to you. It proves that he is not strong enough to have a mind of his own. Now you can see why Dr Muller was able to manipulate and bully him for nearly 10 years

 

[lemonfly]

I remember seeing an interview on youtube from 1989, where Bono is talking about JT. A couple of days before the album was due to be released, he was in a panic thinking that he got it "terribly wrong", and he even phoned up Paul McGuiness demanding that the album not be released! Thankfully, PM told him that it was too late as the record had already been pressed and sent out from the factory, and the JT we all know and love was let out into the world.

 

[JamietheEdgefan]

I remember seeing an interview on youtube from 1989, where Bono is talking about JT. A couple of days before the album was due to be released, he was in a panic thinking that he got it "terribly wrong", and he even phoned up Paul McGuiness demanding that the album not be released! Thankfully, PM told him that it was too late as the record had already been pressed and sent out from the factory, and the JT we all know and love was let out into the world.

Wow, i can't believe that!

 

[BVS]

It proves that he is not strong enough to have a mind of his own. Now you can see why Dr Muller was able to manipulate and bully him for nearly 10 years

Really?! That's what it proves?

 

[cobl04]

My LCD tv is trying to kill me!

 

[The_acrobat]

I remember seeing an interview on youtube from 1989, where Bono is talking about JT. A couple of days before the album was due to be released, he was in a panic thinking that he got it "terribly wrong", and he even phoned up Paul McGuiness demanding that the album not be released! Thankfully, PM told him that it was too late as the record had already been pressed and sent out from the factory, and the JT we all know and love was let out into the world.

I remember Bono saying something about how he really wanted JT to be a double album. One quote was "With or without you" doesn't make any sense unless it's followed by "Luminous Times" and "Walk to the water". He also wanted "Beautiful Ghost" to segue into "Where the streets have no name" for the album's intro. I've tried making my own extended version of the JT using b-sides and outtakes from that era. I think they made the right decision releasing the album they did.