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lazarus said:
I really like this book. I thought it was cool to see the various band members' providing material that wasn't the typical interview stuff (see: the No Line special edition). We got to see a different side of the band members. Weird charts and diagrams from Edge, photos by Adam, photos and art from Larry, and Bono's musings including the full lyrics to Mercy.

The bonus DVD didn't have much, but whatever.
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We also got the bonus track "Fast Cars," which wasn't available on the regular disc.
 
U2 in NYC: Mixing the New Album with Danger Mouse

At least three members of U2 (Bono, The Edge and Larry) have been spotted in New York City over the past week. Bono has been seen walking the streets, posing with fans and in the doorway of Electric Lady Studios. That's also the subject of the now-infamous Chris Blackwell tweet, where the Island Records co-founder said he was listening to new U2 songs with the band and producer Danger Mouse.

So, what's going on?

According to well-placed sources, Danger Mouse has been mixing the album at Electric Lady and the band has recently joined in. U2 is apparently finished recording, and hasn't done any new recording at Electric Lady. There was a playback last week, which is apparently what Blackwell tweeted about.

Album mixing typically happens when recording is finished. It essentially involves putting all the pieces together, adding effects, making sure sound levels are correct, etc. That said, U2 is legendary for continuing to work on songs even during the mixing process. As Steve Lillywhite said in an interview last year, "They'll write the song after you've mixed it!"

U2 in NYC: Mixing the New Album with Danger Mouse
 
I just love that all indications are that they are mixing / finished yet the most recent band member quote was not even committing to an album this year. Looks like they are getting brave with this one :hyper:
 
:D

It was because of the Lanois comment; "i dont know if i'd survive the experiment". it might catch on in the media like 10 reasons to blah blah did :shifty:
 
SecretFly said:
U2 in NYC: Mixing the New Album with Danger Mouse

At least three members of U2 (Bono, The Edge and Larry) have been spotted in New York City over the past week. Bono has been seen walking the streets, posing with fans and in the doorway of Electric Lady Studios. That's also the subject of the now-infamous Chris Blackwell tweet, where the Island Records co-founder said he was listening to new U2 songs with the band and producer Danger Mouse.

So, what's going on?

According to well-placed sources, Danger Mouse has been mixing the album at Electric Lady and the band has recently joined in. U2 is apparently finished recording, and hasn't done any new recording at Electric Lady. There was a playback last week, which is apparently what Blackwell tweeted about.

Album mixing typically happens when recording is finished. It essentially involves putting all the pieces together, adding effects, making sure sound levels are correct, etc. That said, U2 is legendary for continuing to work on songs even during the mixing process. As Steve Lillywhite said in an interview last year, "They'll write the song after you've mixed it!"

U2 in NYC: Mixing the New Album with Danger Mouse
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:up: Figured they were finished when they started playing the music to others...so Mouse all the way, down to mixing.

U2 4.0 phase is about to begin. Without the usual three midwives -

https://twitter.com/Sillywhite/status/339272529220882432
 
U2 4.0 phase huh?... :hmm: I wonder... Guys, what are the chances do you think that U2 will seriously surprise us with a new sound this time around? I mean... For it to be considered a new phase, it has to sound significantly different like Achtung Baby did and also ATYCLB did. Of course, it will still retain some amount of the classic U2 sound like those aforementioned records also did, but the majority of it has to sound like a total departure from what came before it. We simply cannot have HTDAAB part 2 or NLOTH part 2.

If the new record doesn't sound significantly different from NLOTH, then the trilogy theory goes in the garbage! :D

At the end of the day, of course I don't give a shit as long as the album is good but it would be interesting to have a radically different new sound.
 
also, this is going to be a killer Adam album, as evidenced by this haircut

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LemonMirrorSky said:
U2 4.0 phase huh?... :hmm: I wonder... Guys, what are the chances do you think that U2 will seriously surprise us with a new sound this time around? I mean... For it to be considered a new phase, it has to sound significantly different like Achtung Baby did and also ATYCLB did. Of course, it will still retain some amount of the classic U2 sound like those aforementioned records also did, but the majority of it has to sound like a total departure from what came before it. We simply cannot have HTDAAB part 2 or NLOTH part 2.

If the new record doesn't sound significantly different from NLOTH, then the trilogy theory goes in the garbage! :D

At the end of the day, of course I don't give a shit as long as the album is good but it would be interesting to have a radically different new sound.
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I'm really, really curious how it will sound. The thing is, i don't think it being experimental/revolutionary is necessarily true. Maybe it's because i'm cynical after that was promised of NLOTH, but i don't think it's a given that this will be the next achtung baby.

I mean, it could be - they're working with a producer who's entirely different, so to a certain extent a new sound is a given, and around the AB anniversary u2, even Larry, were talking about the desire for a total reinvention. It seems to me that they wouldn't have chosen a completely new producer unless they wanted a new sound... otherwise they would've gone back to Lillywhite, who probably could've guaranteed hits.

Then again, maybe they went to Danger Mouse just for help with songwriting/thinking outside the box. It may be that they looked at NLOTH, and how, despite having some new sounds, it didn't have the big singles they crave, and so this time round they focused on just writing songs, and worried about how to 'dress them up' (rock/dance/electronica etc) afterwards.

Its still entirely plausible that the 'feel' of the songs (traditional chiming guitar etc) stays, but the songs themselves feature unusual chord progressions or something like that. Which i suppose would be a reinvention, but to me it would be in the opposite way to AB, which focused on replacing folk with industrial production/crazy guitar effects, but when you stripped away all that, the songs themselves weren't too different from anything on the JT.

I'm rambling, but what i'm getting at is that sure, they might completely reinvent themselves 100%, down to new vocal and guitar effects and production sound. But it could be the other way round, with the standard 'u2 sounds' there as much as on ATYCLB and HTDAAB, but very new melodies and chord progressions.

Or both. Or neither! They might just have focused on writing the best songs they could, and chose Danger Mouse to help with that.
 
digitize said:
There are times when I feel ripped off for buying a $10 normal version of Bomb.
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:lol:

But that's nothing. I knew people who torrented Bomb who felt cheated. :)

Seriously though, I don't really care about the "Deluxe Editions" and the inserts that I'll look at once and never see again. For the next record I'd just just prefer inspired, non-brickwalled music to a glossy book of the band's finger paintings. But that's just me.
 
JamietheEdgefan said:
Its still entirely plausible that the 'feel' of the songs (traditional chiming guitar etc) stays, but the songs themselves feature unusual chord progressions or something like that. Which i suppose would be a reinvention
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What you just described there applies well to a song like Magnificent. Same old chiming guitar but with interesting chord progression. And I certainly don't consider Magnificent to be a reinvention! lol. So they'd have to do more than that!!
 
Nick66 said:
It would have been more clever had you left off explaining that is was a Seinfeld reference...that just kind of takes the piss out of the whole thing. :)
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But in a dorkier way isn't funnier that I am 'splaining myself? :lol::wink:
 
LemonMirrorSky said:
:lol:



Haha now let's not get carried away with all this "experimental" talk. :p We know what happens. The band is re-creating punk music on Mars and then we end up with Get On Your Boots. I'll get excited when I hear something.
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What is it with all this people hoping it's going to be another "experimental" record? No one has ever been able to tell me when this so-called "experimental" stage of U2 occurred. Passengers is the closest U2 came to doing something truly experimental (and it really wasn't), and that's a record most people on here hate and call "boring filler music". I'd imagine if they did something like that the next time around the reaction would be similar.
 
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