U2 should make a Reggae / Dub Album

[redhill]

After listening to the Baby TTTYAATW and Everybody loves a Winner I am convinced U2 should do a Reggae album.

No, I'm not kidding. Maybe not for the next album, but still.

F--k relevance.

(also consider the Rub-a-Dublin version of DTYGTTown including how crisp Mullen's drumming was and how well that style fit Bono's vocal.)

 

[LemonMelon]

Adam would make the most of this idea I think.

 

[redhill]

U2 - Don't Take Your Guns To Town (1999) - YouTube

 

[TheEdge25]

They should do it

 

[redhill]

I really think it would be outstanding...a lot of fun to listen plus Bono's tendency for "throwaway" / slightly corny lyrics would fit perfectly in that context.

Edge would bring a shimmer to it, Larry would be great in this style, and Adam is exceptional at coming up with catchy grooves!

 

[Nick66]

Four 50 year old white guys doing reggae?

Hmmmm.......

 

[mikal]

Four 50 year old white guys doing reggae?

Hmmmm.......

oh give 'em some pot and it'll be fine.

 

[lemonfly]

Bono in dreadlocks. Just the new hairstyle he was after.

 

[U2girl]

Four 50 year old white guys doing reggae?

Hmmmm.......

Agreed. They're having enough trouble with being relevant already.

 

[redhill]

Agreed. They're having enough trouble with being relevant already.

I think their problem (at least Bono's at the moment) is being too worried about relevance.

This concern has never informed their best work and never will.

 

[corianderstem]

I try not to discount entire genres of music even if I don't tend to care for it.

And I try not to completely dismiss something I haven't even heard.

But I have to say, if they announced they were doing this, I would be less than thrilled.

 

[redhill]

I try not to discount entire genres of music even if I don't tend to care for it.

And I try not to completely dismiss something I haven't even heard.

But I have to say, if they announced they were doing this, I would be less than thrilled.

Art that gets the most attention / is the most powerful seems to always polarize opinion (like U2 themselves.)

 

[corianderstem]

I'm not sure if that's just a random general comment, or if you're saying that reggae/dub is art that gets the most attention and is the most powerful.

(Not that I'd have anything to say in response either way.)

 

[redhill]

I'm not sure if that's just a random general comment, or if you're saying that reggae/dub is art that gets the most attention and is the most powerful.

(Not that I'd have anything to say in response either way.)

Well...not a comment on reggae/dub..and not a random but a general observation.

 

[corianderstem]

Gotcha.

 

[digitize]

Veto

 

[LemonMelon]

Countryman (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYfJInX0etk&ob=av2e

 

[cobl04]

Only if Morrissey approves it.

 

[WalkOn21]

Four 50 year old white guys doing reggae?

Hmmmm.......

People will go: these U2 guys are such a rip-off. They even copied their name from UB40.

 

[mad1]

oh GOD!!!!!!!!!

now I want to hear U2's own version of the song Monkey Man! (even thou its more Ska sound, LOL)


FUK! I can imagine Bono in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts and sandals and no shades on, singing that on a beach somewhere while dancing up and down like he does in the I Will Follow vid.

 

[Aardvark747]

I hate reggae.

 

[redhill]

Reggae is wild.

Cobbler is a troll.

 

[Rachel D.]

The only way that I think they could get by with making a reggae album would be if they collaborated with someone else and changed their name, like they did with Passengers. If they tried to do it just as a U2 album, there would be a huge risk of sounding like old white guys trying too hard to be cool.

 

[gareth brown]

it worked for a certain person when he was 50 back in 1979 Aux armes et cætera

Serge Gainsbourg - Des Laids Des Laids - YouTube

 

[gareth brown]

if U2 tried it though, it'd probably sound pretty naff....and the obligatory bob marley cover makes me cringe just thinking about it

 

[11o´clock]

I don´t like Reggae....I don´t know

 

[LemonMelon]

Cobbler is a troll.

He comes from a bridge down under.

 

[theedgeu2]

I'm reggae if you're reggae.

 

[gvox]

It would sound like early Police, probably, but with Bono's voice.

Not that it's necessarily a bad thing..I dunno it might be fun for a song or two. I'd like to hear what they'd come up with ie not covering someone else's song.

 

[INDY500]

Snippets of Exodus and Get Up, Stand Up reaches my reggae quota.

I'd vote for an album of surf songs.

"Everybody's gone surfin',
surfin' I-re-land."