Make good music.
I'd be okay with sell-out pop music or whatever if it sounds like ATYCLB. SOI's songs are just weak.
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Between Bono and the band wishing to be hugely relevant again (which is not going to happen) and the fans wishing that U2 somehow become either some sort of a hipsterish underground respected band (which is not going to happen) or a huge massive popular act (which is not going to happen), the whole U2 community lives in constant frustration instead of enjoying what imho are really good songs that enriches the already great catalog of a great band like U2.
Of course maybe these guys really enjoy writing songs for someone or about Volcanoes or whatever. If that's the case, well fine, guess its better than writing about .
Honestly, I'd rather they just embraced being a nostalgia act. No new albums, just tours, performing the songs they're proud of, that they enjoy, that are fan favourites. I don't need new U2 in my life and I wouldn't be fussed if they never released another new song, but I'd love to go to a gig and hear 11 O'clock Tick Tock or A Sort of Homecoming or Love Is Blindness or Exit or whatever. U2 have always been a better band live than in studio anyway.
Yeah, I think they did this a few years ago. Some experimental concept album called No Line On the Horizon.
But what it they want to make 'hits' or songs that people might actually like? Why should we assume that they would automatically make songs that either don't have vocal hooks or prominent guitars on them if the commercial factor were no longer factored in?
Of course maybe these guys really enjoy writing songs for someone or about Volcanoes or whatever. If that's the case, well fine, guess its better than writing about Battlestar Galactica.
Hey, nobody thinks more Edge solos will make future U2 albums awesome....?
I think it would be an excellent time to record Passengers volume 2 and 3. Make some music for the art fag in you as Bono would say.
I think it would be an excellent time to record Passengers volume 2 and 3. Make some music for the art fag in you as Bono would say.
'Art Fag' single to debut with a new video/commercial during Super Bowl XLIX. To accompany the commerical there will be aautomaticfree download available immediately on itunes. For every download, the New England Patriots organization will donate an official underinflated football, autographed by Tom Brady, to a high school chosen by Indianapolis Colts fans.
Here's a 1997 article where he uses that phrase, it's interesting reading: U2′s Mega-Million Dollar Trash Fest - MTVI dunno, I think Bono would be above saying "art fag."
For me, it would be something akin to the Million Dollar Hotel Soundtrack. I pretty much love all of the songs on that, and all of the songs credited to Bono or U2, I feel like they're in their wheelhouse, and would be wildly popular, albeit maybe to a niche audience.
Double sadly, I'm afraid this is largely true.
I personally think the recent album is quite good, and is overall a better recording from a musical/artistic standpoint than anything since Zooropa. Unfortunately, it's only going to be remembered for the iTunes P.R.-disaster.
It's hard to understand how U2 jumped the shark in terms of public perception. They were once the poster-boys for musical integrity and non-commercial (non-corporate sponsored) popular music with integrity and passion. They have somehow become the poster-boys for the exact opposite.
Here's a 1997 article where he uses that phrase, it's interesting reading: U2′s Mega-Million Dollar Trash Fest - MTV
Here's a 1997 article where he uses that phrase, it's interesting reading: U2′s Mega-Million Dollar Trash Fest - MTV
I don't think that that statement needs anything else to be true.SOI is a fantastic album
Here's a 1997 article where he uses that phrase, it's interesting reading: U2′s Mega-Million Dollar Trash Fest - MTV