That's much more betterBono on Kimmel to announce 2019 Australia tour, visiting well-known Australian cities Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Boston, New York, and concluding with a special show in the national capital, Jefferson City, Missouri.
There will also be a New Zealand show in Toronto.
Idea for a swansong. The band reunite with Eno/Lanois to finish Songs of Ascent and produce their first masterpiece in years with a mature, meditative and ethereal send off.
But it also wouldn’t surprise me if they can’t resist putting out another album of resistance songs around the next presidential election.
Bono on Kimmel to announce 2019 Australia tour, visiting well-known Australian cities Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Boston, New York, and concluding with a special show in the national capital, Jefferson City, Missouri.
There will also be a New Zealand show in Toronto.
Bono will be on Kimmel on Monday... sooooooooo that wasn't a very long break.
Well sure... but it's like "omg Bono is dead he needs 30 hours of physical therapy just to lip sync to Love is all we have left and couldn't go past 2.5 hours for a show or he will spontaneously combust... But dude gets on a plane immediately following Berlin to fly 10 hours to LA for a benefit gig.Red benefit show, probably just doing the lounge devil act or similar.
While I’d love to hear another album with Eno/Lanois, there’s a part of me that sees this as some kind of regressive move. Like “well we tried all these flavor of the month people but I guess we’ll just return to the comfort of old friends”. It’s not exactly a fresh idea. I don’t know what the preferable alternative would be, other than fully trusting a younger, creative producer to get something different out of them, without compromise. SOI could have been that.
And also, Eno/Lanois could mean getting another ATYCLB, and that’s the last fucking thing I’d want to hear.
I've never understood the animosity towards All That You Can't Leave Behind. It's not as heavy on the subject matters as previous albums, but it's enduring sense of optimism reigns supreme and I feel it's a very worthy album in the U2 canon. In fact, if they called it a day after that one, it would mark as a fitting end in my opinion. There's an overall feeling of peace and serenity (barring Elevation...) I get from it more than any other U2 without anything getting melodramatic of gimmicky ala the desperate attempts to appeal to younger listeners on the recent albums.
There is a cohesion to it also. And this is something Eno and Lanois are experts at.
While No Line is a mess, I don't think blame can be put at the feet of Eno and Lanois, more so due to the fact that the album the duo envisioned was compromised by utterly pathetic decisions by the band themselves (that middle three tunes, and in particular, the laughable attempt at trying to be contemporary by hiring Will.I.Am to work on Crazy Tonight - and where is he these days? Yep, that's right he's a coffee salesman, what a masterstroke that was U2....).
While I get the idea that it is somewhat regressive to go back to the tried and tested, it's never been Eno's model to rest on their laurels anyhow. Although he's 70, and the band nearing their 60s, it might seem old hat in todays industry... but then again Bowie worked with Tony Visconti on Blackstar to disprove the notion that you can only be rooted to the past.
Certainly, bringing Eno back on board in particular is far far preferable to any of the producers they worked on in the last two albums - barring one individual, that being Andy Barlow.
Barlow was by far the most effective producer from the last two albums, producing arguably their strongest work. Book Of Your Heart, Love Is All We Have Left and The Little Things That Give You Away. His productions seemed to acknowledge U2's qualities and pushed them to the fore, taking on board the band's more spiritual and mystical qualities. Contrast that to somebody like Ryan Tedder who got them to write rent-a-choruses and who didn't understand the ethos of U2 in any way, such was his amateurish boy band ways.
Idea for a swansong. The band reunite with Eno/Lanois to finish Songs of Ascent and produce their first masterpiece in years with a mature, meditative and ethereal send off.
I have absolutely no idea what you mean by shouty songs.