New album talk: I heard that it was big but this... is really big

[mama cass]

This gives the flake a run for it's money...

....and if you so wish the UBerFlake Box Set

Both Flake and Ripple are awesome!

i love galaxy ripples too - hell, i don't think there is any kind of chocolate i don't like, but i think a flake and/or ripple would be my desert island chocolate bar for sure haha

 

[popacrobat]

that's one awful disease so don't make light of it....but lighten up stop being serious suzy Are you in life to cause me grief or a good time because Its hard to tell and I haven't seen one or the other just interference

i hope you follow dril

 

[LPU2]

Can't be for Ordinary Love. A song about Mandela shot in a damp coastal Irish village?

 

[david]

Can't be for Ordinary Love. A song about Mandela shot in a damp coastal Irish village?

Depending on how it is filmed and what footage from the movie is going to be shown in the video it's possibly they could just slap something together.

And lets not rule out CGI! Maybe they will CGI Mandela walking out of the ocean across the beach to the ice cream truck.

 

[gvox]

Can't be for Ordinary Love. A song about Mandela shot in a damp coastal Irish village?

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

I was bleeding when I wrote this

but make no mistake, bleeding is part of living, and those motherfuckers over there laying face down in shit, they fucked with me, they don't bleed no goddamned more!

 

[Van Cleef]

that's one awful disease so don't make light of it....but lighten up stop being serious suzy Are you in life to cause me grief or a good time because Its hard to tell and I haven't seen one or the other just interference

do you like to sing my mom and I sing in a choir that meets every tuesday last week we sang Christmas carols at a nursing home the residents of the nursing home enjoyed our visit it was fun

 

[jeevey]

AMAAW sounds like something off ATYCLB; U2 does pop - like OOTS.

LAPOE - Zooropa era U2 in the intro, and that riff is something Edge might have thought up in the 90's.

I was thinking of the genre references. Of course there are sonic similarities because it's U2, but I thought the most prominent feature of AMAAW was a 70's R&B, almost disco feeling that they had never touched before.

 

[Van Cleef]

I was thinking of the genre references. Of course there are sonic similarities because it's U2, but I thought the most prominent feature of AMAAW was a 70's R&B, almost disco feeling that they had never touched before.

Are you serious? Disco? R&B?

Man and woman is pure solo Sting. Something made to housewives listen while scrubbing dishes.

 

[Rob33]

do you like to sing my mom and I sing in a choir that meets every tuesday last week we sang Christmas carols at a nursing home the residents of the nursing home enjoyed our visit it was fun

 

[youarenotimmune]

i love galaxy ripples too - hell, i don't think there is any kind of chocolate i don't like, but i think a flake and/or ripple would be my desert island chocolate bar for sure haha

 

[youarenotimmune]

Wow I missed this, good find

I hope it's true and not just pre-album Bono speak.

Yea that's the worry. And to be honest it does seem like Bonospeak. (I love whoever came up with that btw; makes Bono sound like an Orwellian villain )

I hope this true...but is it just me, but didn't Bono say just about
the same thing about another new album?

Bomb. What was most disturbing was how All Because of You supposedly epitomized (in the band's - or more specifically, Bono's - eyes) their return to that sound. A throwback punk rock song, a la The Electric Co. Which is just sad, because The Electric Co. is one of the best songs they ever wrote, and All Because of You is one of the worst

 

[Registered Dude]

Here are U2 filming their new video in Bray ? The Daily Edge

It was a video shoot for Desire, if you're to believe the extra quoted in that article

 

[mikal]

Here are U2 filming their new video in Bray � The Daily Edge

It was a video shoot for Desire, if you're to believe the extra quoted in that article

I caught that too. Either it was Bono fucking around with the person or they were actually doing something R&H related......which still just doesn't add up, imo.

 

[chork]

Jesus Christ on toast, you wander into a thread here and there perhaps mentioning peripherally in passing that you may find one or two members of the band marginally attractive and all of a sudden you've got a reputation...

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I caught that too. Either it was Bono fucking around with the person or they were actually doing something R&H related......which still just doesn't add up, imo.

yea I mean... It makes zero sense. And if it ends up that they are doing it just to further hype a Christmas cash grab instead of finishing the new album? Well... that would be terrible

 

[subnet]

But they need some way to finance the next tour

 

[gvox]

I guess they feel that a significant number of people will freak out over yet another reissue and run out to scoop it up. Wow

(Worst part is, they're probably right)

 

[david]

If the remaster has good extras, a re released blu ray with extras I'd buy it.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

until it's announced I still don't believe it has anything to do with a rattle and hum reissue.

 

[gvox]

As would I, probably. Lol

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

In the video that's linked in that article you can clearly hear them singing Desire, though.

 

[mama cass]

Here are U2 filming their new video in Bray � The Daily Edge

It was a video shoot for Desire, if you're to believe the extra quoted in that article

the article says "upcoming 25th anniversary of Rattle and Hum" - hasn't it passed already?? (i can't keep up lol!)

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

they are really fucking with us.....

 

[ascender_RS]

But I thought it was confirmed in at least one article that they played a few impromptu songs for passers by/watchers? That's what I love about internet sites who can just reprint anything and pass it off as news without even checking it. Like the "10 reasons to exist" quote that had now become the working title of the album.

If there was to be a Rattle and Hum reissue, why would it be late? There's no way they'd be that sloppy unless a new album was derailed unexpectedly and pushed back to an unknown date.

It's been a bit more low key than in recent times (which can only be a good thing) but all the signs are there that the machine is being cranked up and we'll have some new music and release dates soon.

I guess if I was being very pessimistic and making wild leaps of guesswork based on the location of the shoot, the lead single ain't going to be a Discotheque or The Fly....

 

[lemonfly]

they are really fucking with us.....

Totes. I would actually get excited at the prospect of an R&H reissue (fucking love that album), so I'd buy the uber super duper deluxe boxset in a heartbeat. But assuming for a second that's what they're actually doing, where the feck does this leave the new album? Surely they're not going to engage in some moderately intense promo campaign for R&H, then embark on the prolonged new album campaign just a month or two later? The media feeds will get over saturated with their ugly mugs.

 

[Registered Dude]

Yeah all of this is just weird.

 

[Registered Dude]

on the plus side, Arcade Fire have released their new album to youtube in its entirely

Arcade Fire - Reflektor (Full Album Teaser - Official) - YouTube

what say you, U2?

 

[Hollow Island]

U2 will say "At least we've never been that bad."

 

[Registered Dude]

what's that Hollow Head?