jaimearodriguez
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Also: Larry basically told setlist complainers to shove it since diehards represent only 20% of a show's audience.
My big takeaway is that Songs of Experience is nowhere near ready.
Also: Larry basically told setlist complainers to shove it since diehards represent only 20% of a show's audience.
My big takeaway is that Songs of Experience is nowhere near ready.
I didn't hear or read the interview. Not surprising I guess, but what did they say that suggests Songs of Experience is not anywhere close to being ready?
Edge was very clear that the band is taking their time. He said something also along the lines of "we are nowhere near the finished product, but we are excited with what we have so far"
My big takeaway is that Songs of Experience is nowhere near ready.
Also: Larry basically told setlist complainers to shove it since diehards represent only 20% of a show's audience.
I also agree that the message to hardcore fans was essentially: "Screw you. We're (still) way more interested in appealing to the masses."
This is SOA all over again. Not only will SOE not be released during this tour, it will never be released. Next U2 album will have nothing to do with SOE and will arrive sometime around the year 2020, after being reworked by 15 different producers, and scrapped at least 5 times. The end result will sound like everything they've done since 2000: very, very safe.
I think so, unfortunately. Whatever happened to SOA? Is it somwhere down in thrash bin?
I believe some of the SOA songs got rewritten, morphed, broken into pieces and copy and pasted into different songs, some of which ended up on SOI, and some that might be on the hypothetical SOE. Some of the SOA songs probably did get thrown down the trash bin. One thing is for sure; Songs of Ascent was never some complete 12 song album that just got thrown away.
after listening to the really enjoyable, not to mention promising "u talkin u2 to me" interview they did, reading this thread is disappointing, won't bother listening.
I also agree that the message to hardcore fans was essentially: "Screw you. We're (still) way more interested in appealing to the masses."
As a hardcore fan, that's certainly not the message I got. Although I am not surprised to hear that they're going for the 80% instead of the 20%. That should not surprise any fan.