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There's also that story of Daniel Lanois locking Peter Gabriel in the studio because everyone was fed up of him not finishing the lyrics on the 'So' album, and then forgot about him while they all went off and had dinner.

Another good one top left here: https://twitter.com/SphereVegas/status/1708153049712103901

Interesting look at the Sphere and its potential impact here, didn't realise they're also trying to build one in London as well:

It's a youtube thing, I've seen it happen with different artists channels too. It seems youtube just vacuums up any version of a song from any old shite compilation album and shoves it on their channel.

I wonder what they could have done with a track like 'Love Is Blindness'. I know we've had Edge's accoustic version already, but hearing this almost Bond-esque cover recently I kinda wanted to hear what it'd sound like in the vein of 'Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad'.

Also liked his interview with Brian Eno earlier:

Well, he did warn you the end was cumming...

U2’s ‘Songs Of Surrender’ Becomes Band’s 11th UK No.1 Album, First Since 2009 The new release outsells the competition more than two to one. "As a side benefit of the new success of Songs of Surrender, the Irish band’s 2006 greatest hits collection U218 Singles jumps back into the chart at...

And the line "In your eyes alone I see the lights of home", I thought, was a call back to I Will Follow's: "Your eyes make a circle, I see you when I go in there". Bono's often said that his home just became a house after his mother died, and now on the verge of his own death he might finally...

In terms of songs I kinda wanted to hear alternate versions of were Mofo; based on Bono's comments in a recent interview, being more of a Led Zeppelin-esque track. And One Tree Hill; but with the lyrics being completely about Greg Carroll, without the Víctor Jara part which always felt...

They clearly didn't do this album to "get popular" again, though it is nice to read stuff like this: "U2 outselling rest of the Top 5 combined on the way to 11th Number 1 album with Songs of Surrender Songs of Surrender would be the iconic rock outfit's first Number 1 LP in over 10 years."...

Perfect! :hyper:

I want an unreasonable tamborine album.

Being able to look back and maybe recenter yourself is the right of every artist. The fact it's taken U2 so long to get to this point is a testament to how strong they always were as musicians and songwriters, a fact SOS proves, and demolishes the criticisms about how they were all just audio...

There's definitely some that slowly worm around and past some of the originals so far. I won't say this is a pared-down list of my faves, but this shortened tracklist of 20 is working for me on repeated listens so far. Where the Streets Have No Name Pride (In the Name of Love) Sunday Bloody...