Recent content by pocketmerlin

Agreed. I can't believe there's so much negativity about the song, to me it seems so well crafted and expressive.

I get what you're saying. It's definitely not cut out of the same cloth as "Elvis Presley and America". I can get on board with the significance of putting emotion into the delivery to the point that the emotion is driving the song more than the specific words. At the same time though, U2 would...

I think you're oversimplifying/missing the message of the song a bit. After doing some reading of a Christian theology book last night that kind of put U2 in a negative light for more or less being too soft in their beliefs/professions of Christian faith, I kind of gained a newfound...

Wasn't Bono just on a ship somewhere within the last 24 hours (rubbing that dude's shoulders)? When were these pictures taken? It's the middle of the night in Dublin right now. Edit: Looks like prbiker15 beat me to it.

I guess I kinda just don't like the idea that they're sort of giving off this impression like "oh, hey, it's this new single FOR RED" and then come Super Bowl time it's gonna be more like "oh hey, it's the new single FOR OUR NEW ALBUM." Sort of like they're using an AIDS charity to play...

Ha ha, it was actually posted on October 10th. Maybe he was originally told it would come out sooner?

Guess we must be even closer then, right? ;)

Oh hey good point. Oops.

Just said this on the new album thread, but Oliver Jeffers said in his Instagram teaser that he'll be showing his project (which pretty clearly seems to be the "Ordinary Love" lyric video) "in a few days" so we must be close.

Asked the dude on this site about it and he actually corrected himself this morning and said it was indeed an alternate version of "Breathe," which matches what U2.com put up this morning. Also, did anyone notice Oliver Jeffers said he was "showing his project in a few days"? We can't be too...

Maybe this means we could have a single before the year is over. Maybe not...but maybe.

Oh yeah? Well...fuck, you're right.

I wish I could know how this went down. "OK...so we're almost done with the album." "Cool, wanna finish it right now?" "No...let's call up someone really cool and invite them over to hang with us." "OK...who should we call?" "Hmm...maybe we could call up Billie Joe?" "No, he'll only want...

<insert super-funky wah pedal guitar part here>

"Kite" is perfect as is. STAHP.