martha
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martha said:is too.
doctorwho said:Well, let's see...
Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry all perform on it = U2
Brian Eno is on it = U2
Guest performers, true, but guests on other albums too = U2
U2 performs "Miss Sarajevo" in concert and put the song on a U2 "Best Of" album = U2
In 1996, Edge was asked when U2 was going to release their next album and Edge replied, "We just gave you an album!" = U2
Sorry, it's a U2 album.
Chizip said:im sorry but if they wanted it to be a U2 album they would have put the name U2 on it
Chizip said:im sorry but if they wanted it to be a U2 album they would have put the name U2 on it
notice how it is not listed in the U2 discography on U2.com
it may be a project that includes all members of the band, but its not a "U2" album
Chizip said:im sorry but if they wanted it to be a U2 album they would have put the name U2 on it
notice how it is not listed in the U2 discography on U2.com
Axver said:
Ever checked the U2 Best Of 1990-2000 tracklisting?
doctorwho said:
RademR said:true, but then technically "Gangs of New York soundtrack" is a u2 album
If U2 were heavily involved with the whole album and those albums were credited to a single pseudonym that happened to include every U2 member plus their longtime producer, then yeah, there'd probably be some wiggle room on that.Chizip said:bb king has when love comes to town on his greatest hits cd, does that mean its a bb king song or rattle and hum is a bb king album? no, it was a collaboration he was a part of that he wanted to include on his greatest hits cd.
If we knew that, we could probably put this debate to rest. I think it was purely for marketing reasons (like, they gave the album to the record company, they pissed themselves, boom, they're the Passengers now), but who knows? That doesn't definitely say anything.Chizip said:And why are the band members names listed after Eno as individual Passengers, as if they were contributing toan Eno project instead of the other way around?
Chizip said:if anything its more of a brian eno album than a U2 album. if you look at the list of credits eno's name is the first one listed.
bb king has when love comes to town on his greatest hits cd, does that mean its a bb king song or rattle and hum is a bb king album? no, it was a collaboration he was a part of that he wanted to include on his greatest hits cd.
nobody has answered the question that if it is a U2 album, why does the bands name appear nowhere on the packaging?
And why are the band members names listed after Eno as individual Passengers, as if they were contributing toan Eno project instead of the other way around?
typhoon said:
If U2 were heavily involved with the whole album and those albums were credited to a single pseudonym that happened to include every U2 member plus their longtime producer, then yeah, there'd probably be some wiggle room on that.
That's like saying that Rattle and Hum isn't a U2 album because Sterling Magee gets a track with no U2 involvement. We're looking at the project as a whole, not cherry-picking individual songs (but if we were, God knows what we'd make of the "Miss Sarajevo" single, where they "cover" two U2 songs).
If there were any other U2 "side projects" that had as much involvement as the Passengers project, you could draw an analogy to that, but there isn't (save maybe the Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack--kind of the Lanois Passengers--which makes it easy for us by giving each track its own credits), so there's no reason for all the lame analogies.
If we knew that, we could probably put this debate to rest. I think it was purely for marketing reasons (like, they gave the album to the record company, they pissed themselves, boom, they're the Passengers now), but who knows? That doesn't definitely say anything.
I don't think you can get too bogged down with semantics in music. I mean, Paul McCartney released some stuff as just "Wings" and not "Paul McCartney & Wings," but I don't think there's anyone who'd argue they're not McCartney works.
Anyway, I think Original Soundtracks No. 1 is a pretty important part of their discography either way, and since it does involve every member of U2, it's basically essential to a complete U2 library, even if not every single track is U2 up the wazoo.
namkcuR said:
And if it's not a U2 album, then why did U2 include it in 'The Complete U2' digital boxset?
It IS a U2 album
doctorwho said:
Therefore, while in name it's not U2, in my mind, it is. And it nicely fills that long 4 year gap between "Zooropa" and "Pop" (of course, U2 did release a lot of material - including collaborations - during that time).
Well, there are four members of U2 and only like three aspects of Brahman Eno.U2Man said:Why cannot it equally well be regarded as a Brian Eno album?