BonoVoxSupastar said:
That was in reference to the removal of Mercy off the album, apparently it was removed "last minute" due to the band thinking the album was too long. This is what happens when you make these imaginary time constraints.
guill said:
I'm listening to vinyl a lot - mostly because you get less music on a record - it just doesn't last so long.
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
Brian Eno, 1996
Zootlesque said:I guess it would be like Radiohead's In Rainbows... except the first disc flows very well and is a real album and the second disc is more like an EP of singles that don't necessarily flow but are great songs that can be released as singles. That way, people who like a cohesive album like UF, JT or even AB will like the first disc. And people who prefer a singles approach like The Bomb will like the second disc. That's how I see what he is trying to say.
U2girl said:Well, originally Bomb was 13 songs (what we have now, plus Mercy plus Fast cars) which would be... an hour of music, not to mention those songs wouldn't fit in.
Pass.
U2DMfan said:
God knows you can't have an hour of music on a disc.
You couldn't interupt the 'exceptional flow' of HTDAAB, of which Bono has praised so loudly.
LemonMelon said:
When was this? He bashed its flow in U2 By U2.
Varitek said:
I think that was teh sarcasm
ponkine said:Actually Tourist idea rocks!
U2DMfan said:
God knows you can't have an hour of music on a disc.
You couldn't interupt the 'exceptional flow' of HTDAAB, of which Bono has praised so loudly.
Only 95% of artists that release albums put that much music on a disc. U2 are rebels!!! They've got 'A Man and a Woman'. They don't need Mercy, Smile and A Man and a Woman, combined, that's just too much. People can't take it.
Zootlesque said:I guess it would be like Radiohead's In Rainbows... except the first disc flows very well and is a real album and the second disc is more like an EP of singles that don't necessarily flow but are great songs that can be released as singles. That way, people who like a cohesive album like UF, JT or even AB will like the first disc. And people who prefer a singles approach like The Bomb will like the second disc. That's how I see what he is trying to say.
U2girl said:I know he said it's a really good song collection (as did the rest of the band). The last *album* was AB, anyway.
Yes, I think 60 minutes is too much (see what happened the last time they did that), U2 can do just fine with circa 11 songs and roughly 49-48 minutes. They can even do with with less (see War and UF).
the tourist said:
I'm not so sure.
PookaMacP said:
But that's not the point. You don't just stuff everything on to a disc and throw it out there. If it's an album, then the point is that it's a collective statement rather than a compilation.