MERGED ----> New Album Update! + BONO: 'U2 Fans will feel difference on new album'

[bono_man2002]

I'd say 4 months

Remembering that this is the U2 of the 2000's not the 80's.

Its a Summer Olympics year....don't they coinside with U2 album releases?

2000-Sydney/ATYCLB
2004-Athens/HTDAAB
2008-Beijing/???

 

[coolian2]

Presumably this is the new albums Punk Rock from Venus announcement.

How long until it comes out then? If the same schedule from wild announcement to album is kept from HTDAAB?

 

[Nate Dogg]

Polka Music from Uranus.


2008.

 

[giddyap]

Remembering that this is the U2 of the 2000's not the 80's.

Its a Summer Olympics year....don't they coinside with U2 album releases?

2000-Sydney/ATYCLB
2004-Athens/HTDAAB
2008-Beijing/???

by decade sorta

JT - 3/87
POP - 3/97
Molten Metal - 3/08

 

[Aygo]

I think dance influence and actual dance music are two different things.

The only music U2 has ever had that has been successful in dance: Mysterious Ways and Discotheque.

Even Better Than The Real Thing (#12, then #8 with the dance remix at the UK)?

 

[Numbology]

Edge spins me right round, baby
right round like a record, baby
Right round round round


Now that's a dance tune!

 

[bono_man2002]

by decade sorta

JT - 3/87
POP - 3/97
Molten Metal - 3/08

 

[coemgen]

It almost sounds like another Achtung Baby!

And the hint at a double album?

 

[t8thgr8]

he didnt say shit about a double album, the telephone game is running rampant in here. i swear it said clear as could be, "two albums"

 

[Rosebud]

*dies*

(can I bear the wait?)

 

[Utoo]

while we got this update in another thread, just re-reading Bono's comments, it seems like they actually want to put out a double album, or at least two albums (i.e., Use Your Illusion). seems like he's saying they'll do a double album just so long as it meets their standards.

sounds good to me.

To me, he's actually saying they'll only put out one album of the cream of the crop. "We have enough for two albums, but it has to be extraordinary." That seems to me like an album now of the best and then great leftovers for b-sides or the next album down the road.


The article quoted shows how Bono quotes get taken way out of context, create wrong expectations of the album, and then get Bono slagged by wannabe-funny fans down the road. A Bono hyperbole of "Edge is playing molten metal" becomes a headline of "U2 album inspired by metal."

 

[kingofsorrow]

It almost sounds like another Achtung Baby!

And the hint at a double album?

shut your mouth

 

[rihannsu]

Actually, he said enough material for two albums, which is what they had for JT but they only did the one album and used some of the other songs for b-sides, so we could be looking at something like that again.

Dana

 

[david]

i'm just glad they're changing their sound up.

 

[Zoots]

i'm just glad they're changing their sound up.

Yes. At least, that's what it sounds like. But like LMPA said, I'll believe it when I hear it!

 

[pacemaker]

The thing that will realllly make me believe, and get excited about, THIS pre-album hype, is that they spent time in Morocco. AND they're working with the dream team, AND they're working with Rick Rubin.

The myriad possible combinations of the above leads me to believe that they really have, or are about to have, something very special.

Not to be a doomsayer or anything, but if they're to put something mind blowing out before they quit, there is no better time than now. Try something radical again before exiting with something great, but more traditional.

Or something.

 

[Rosebud]

Yes. At least, that's what it sounds like. But like LMPA said, I'll believe it when I hear it!

The skepticism is wise indeed. Not that I would go so far as to say that "Bono is full of shit" as many say on a regular basis, it's just that it's terrible to build up these amazingly high expectations which nothing can really live up to. And of course it's waaaaaaay more difficult to please us, the die hards, because not only do we constantly analyze their entire career's work on a daily basis and thus judge everything new through that filter of knowing intimately how good they've been, but simply we will have been waiting for SO LONG.

The pressure it is a-buildin'....

I hope they come out with something that is totally left field and unexpected. And if that means staying quiet about it (or us disregarding it when they do say something), then so be it!

 

[catlhere]

U2 metal. hehe.

Well at least Bono is already halfway there singing about "souls" all the time.

 

[shaun vox]

(punk rock shouter) LOL
bono you-z a crazy man.

 

[RavenBlue]

Awesome!

 

[shart1780]

I was really excited when I first read this, but then I realized that Bono said it, and that his words most likely don't mean anything.

 

[kingofsorrow]

watch. its going to be a "rock polka" album. with searing bango riffs by edge.

 

[shart1780]

I'd like to hear U2 sound like Massive Attack.

 

[BVS]

Just buy a Massive Attack album then.

 

[Lancemc]

Danceable U2 album = Me happy.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Now I'm waiting for the inevitable Uranus joke.

Don't disappoint me, people.

If Bono blasted off in a rocketship made of toilet paper, do you think he'd circle Uranus...





Molten metal guitar...


Reality...

I hope they mix it up a bit...

 

[t8thgr8]

lol

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

Re: BONO: 'U2 Fans will feel difference on new album'

But there's some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal.

hmmmm I don't know if I like the sound of that

 

[kingofsorrow]

MOLTEN METAL GUITAR means edge caught on fire again and burned up his gheetharr. hence it is now molten.

 

[last unicorn]

Well, I'll believe it when I hear it, but at least we get some interesting new Bono-isms.