I'm not sure if I agree with you on this all the way but, seeing the the new Mrs Adam Clayton Esquire's state of health..... I'm wodering if a later in the year release for 2014???
Someday U2 will have a new album. Today is not that day. discuss.
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I'm not sure if I agree with you on this all the way but, seeing the the new Mrs Adam Clayton Esquire's state of health..... I'm wodering if a later in the year release for 2014???
The Slow Loris
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"Let Uncertainty Be The Guiding Light"
With the recent radio interview of Bono saying that he'd "like to
think" that there will be a new U2 album out next year--coupled with this giant vacuum of news, infact almost total silence--I am thinking this could be U2's most mysterious album release (or lack of release) ever, perhaps more so even than Achtung Baby. They are either completely lost and uninispired, or they are about to create a masterpiece. I can't help but be intrigued to say the least, and am actually enjoying the mystery of it. We will find out soon enough! (Or will we?
) Anyone else feel the same as me?
With the recent radio interview of Bono saying that he'd "like to
think" that there will be a new U2 album out next year--coupled with this giant vacuum of news, infact almost total silence--I am thinking this could be U2's most mysterious album release (or lack of release) ever, perhaps more so even than Achtung Baby. They are either completely lost and uninispired, or they are about to create a masterpiece. I can't help but be intrigued to say the least, and am actually enjoying the mystery of it. We will find out soon enough! (Or will we?
) Anyone else feel the same as me?
pacemaker
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Ever since the rooftop performance and Electric Lady sightings, the lack of real information has been both exciting and frustrating. For those of us who spend time here, it has been an interesting summer, to say the least. I can't help but wish I was a member of the unsuspecting public of U2 fans who might not be clued in to any of the activity that has stirred up in the past few months - no prior knowledge of listening parties, sightings in NYC, etc.
However, I agree with you, Loris. There is no way to tell if and when the next album will come out, and how well it will be received by us and everyone else, but the air of mystery surrounding this release has made the wait more fun... even if it has become a bit excruciating.
However, I agree with you, Loris. There is no way to tell if and when the next album will come out, and how well it will be received by us and everyone else, but the air of mystery surrounding this release has made the wait more fun... even if it has become a bit excruciating.
chork
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At present, I feel like simultaneously dry-humping/punching each of them in the teeth.
mikal
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The mystery was exciting until the band started pulling out the old familiar lines like "lost in the music" and other crap like that.
For the first time in a while I actually felt like the band had confidence in their music and maybe a secret release plan that was new for them. But now all signs point to them being the same old band that's not confident in their music.
My expectations for the quality of this album whenever it comes out are at an all time low. I expect nothing more than an album with a couple great songs sandwiching throwaway attempts at having a big radio single.
For the first time in a while I actually felt like the band had confidence in their music and maybe a secret release plan that was new for them. But now all signs point to them being the same old band that's not confident in their music.
My expectations for the quality of this album whenever it comes out are at an all time low. I expect nothing more than an album with a couple great songs sandwiching throwaway attempts at having a big radio single.
lazarus
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Why does this necessitate a thread separate from the regular one?
Because you still think you're special?
Because you still think you're special?
last unicorn
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My poor little heart just stopped for a second because I thought this thread title was the title of U2's new album.
Of course, a crappy one.
Of course, a crappy one.
jeevey
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mikal
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Because Alan Cross tweets about him.
We've already got a thread to discuss the (potential of a) new album.
Lillywhite has been pretty adamant that he will not be involved in this album. Unless he's lying, this doesn't seem like something worth worrying about too much to me.
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martha
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Sometimes people say "I'd like to think (whatever)" when it's already a done deal and they're just being a smartass.
subnet
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I think U2 wants to be like Moby of the late 90s. An album full of singles.
youarenotimmune
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If the new album is filled with crappy sell-out filler, with just two songs as good as these....
U2 - Until the end of the world - Washington 1992 - YouTube
U2 - A Sort of Homecoming (Extended Live Version / Different Mix) - YouTube
....I'll be first in line to take that shit sandwich with a side of fries and Coke.
trevgreg
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If they're good songs in the end, why not? Not everything has to sound like a Passengers b-side or Cedars of Lebanon.
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An album full of singles is bad?
(quickly runs thru U2's history of singles),
Whoa.
U2 have had a lot of awesome singles. Epic, epic stuff.
I'll take an album full of that.
(quickly runs thru U2's history of singles),
Whoa.
U2 have had a lot of awesome singles. Epic, epic stuff.
I'll take an album full of that.
Von Schloopen
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They sold out ages ago, the first strains of "I Will Follow" are proof of that. They are and always have been a pop band who play rock with an ear for the masses.
Does anyone really view "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" as some giant experimental F-U to the masses?
Of course not. It's a giant honking rock song with a chorus (hook) as big as the world. And they meant to do it. They tried to do it. And, well, they did it. It's every intention was to be a giant honking rock single.
And it's brilliant.
LemonMelon
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An album full of singles is bad?
(quickly runs thru U2's history of singles),
Whoa.
U2 have had a lot of awesome singles. Epic, epic stuff.
I'll take an album full of that.
I don't think anyone claimed that U2's singles record is less than immaculate.
I also don't think anyone would argue that U2's best albums lack thematic unity and coherence. An album full of singles would have neither.
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That's why I asked if an album full of singes would be considered bad.
Seems like the "single" idea is really hated around here.
No?
I really don't care. If U2 put out an album full of "singles" as good as the "singles" they've historically put out, I'd be very happy. Their range is very underrated. Especially when it come to their singles.
Songs are all that matters to me. U2's best records have the most great songs. Lots of them could've been singles.
Achtung Baby has 1 track that wasn't radio ready. The Joshua Tree has 2?
subnet
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I seem to have started something.
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LemonMelon
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This is all cool. Fair enough. Fine.
I've yet to hear a good U2 album that was created with the theme of "lots of hits!" though. ATYCLB isn't good. HTDAAB isn't either. That's my opinion. Understand where I'm coming from here. Good songs add up to good albums, sure. But there's deep-seated fear in many of us when we hear "it's a fun rock album yay!" because we've heard that before and it didn't turn out well for us. Theoretically, there's no problem, but we don't need theories now that it has already happened. I'm far more interested in "Passengers b-sides" because I haven't heard that from them in a while. "Lots of hits" has been the slogan for a while now and it's turned off a lot of fans (while gaining others that I don't care about tbh).
I'm most interested of all in hearing something I've never heard before though. That's where U2 thrives.
These two tracks are a reminder of why I love(d) this band - I wish they could pull it off again, but it must be extremely difficult for them now to produce this kind of music. Certainly the last 13 yrs has proven that, and now this coming on 5 yr delay for the new album...too much time guys. Not even an EP??
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It's a U2 record. You're gonna hear pop/rock songs with a big chorus and big guitar riff. That's what they've always done. Passengers was an anomaly, not the new norm. Hell, it was nearly 20 years ago. I kinda think expecting "Passengers" style U2 is setting one up for eternal disappointment.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
I don't expect anything from them anymore, except delays. I would just like for them to go into the studio with a singular vision and actually follow through with it instead of changing course 10 different times in the service of a confused product.
Bear in mind, I really liked NLOTH. Three tracks prevented me from loving it. They were so close.
Mrs. Garrison
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Ive been a u2 fan since....
aw fuck it, I don't know.
aw fuck it, I don't know.
subnet
New Yorker
I was referring to the Play album released by Moby as many of you probably know. I wouldn't regard it as an album full of singles per se, but an album that works as a cohesive whole, all the while having each song be good enough to spend their own little time in the limelight.
I doubt anyone in the U2 camp are thinking up an album "full of hits" in the literal sense of the meaning. I think it has more to do with their approach to crafting the songs. Treat the recording process like a good book - know what the general theme of the album is going to be about before starting out, but have a chapter 1 finished before a chapter 2 is ever written. Perhaps there is a delay because the publisher came back asking for a prologue or an afterword.
I doubt anyone in the U2 camp are thinking up an album "full of hits" in the literal sense of the meaning. I think it has more to do with their approach to crafting the songs. Treat the recording process like a good book - know what the general theme of the album is going to be about before starting out, but have a chapter 1 finished before a chapter 2 is ever written. Perhaps there is a delay because the publisher came back asking for a prologue or an afterword.
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