Album 13: Are We Gonna Wait Forever?

[mikal]

I must have missed it, where did the song title 'The Light' come from??

LOST

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[last unicorn]

I like the new song titles especially "Song for Someone" and "This is where you can reach me". Nice

Also, "The Light" was mentioned in an article earlier. Now we already have about half of the song titles for the new album, but still no album title.

I don't like, however, how Bono is calling NLOTH "esoteric". What a shitty word. Why is it so hard to see it as a great album, no matter how "commercially successful" it was. I also still think most of the songs were great live. With an approach like that I don't think we can ever expect Songs of Ascent to be released as an actual U2 album because it would have hit the same vein as NLOTH.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I thought that most of the article was pretty promising aside from the 'esoteric' bit.

 

[Nick66]

I don't like, however, how Bono is calling NLOTH "esoteric". What a shitty word. Why is it so hard to see it as a great album, no matter how "commercially successful" it was. I also still think most of the songs were great live. With an approach like that I don't think we can ever expect Songs of Ascent to be released as an actual U2 album because it would have hit the same vein as NLOTH.

+1

If NLOTH is "esoteric", then so is half their catalogue (and the better half at that).

Really, it's just so much incomprehensible gibberish from Bono. If 50+ year old guy wants to embarrass himself by talking about making a punk record, fine. But you don't need to slam your other work while doing it (particularly NLOTH, which is one of their best songs).

If I were Brian and Danny, the only producers ever capable of coaxing true greatness from these guys, I'd be more than a little annoyed.

Fuck you Bono.


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[Catman]

...maybe I overlooked something in that article, but Bono didn't really come across as particularly negative of NLOTH. I mean, right before he labels it "esoteric" (which isn't a pejorative term, IMO), he says he enjoyed the record

 

[trevgreg]

...maybe I overlooked something in that article, but Bono didn't really come across as particularly negative of NLOTH. I mean, right before he labels it "esoteric" (which isn't a pejorative term, IMO), he says he enjoyed the record

It means he bashed the ambient material and just wants to make popular music. Therefore, he's a bad person.

It's not really a bad or inaccurate description though.

 

[purpleblackeye]

That LA Times article is actually more concerning than anything else. What I read is forget adventurous songs (I happen to love No Line title track) and let's go for the hooks....it's great to draw inspiration from the Clash and Kraftwerk but does anyone believe that spirit will survive through countless producers and months of tinkering?

 

[lemonfly]

Par for the course, really (see R&H, Pop). Next he'll be saying that MOS was self-indulgent with no decent hook, and would've worked as a "punk rock" number

 

[Nick66]

...maybe I overlooked something in that article, but Bono didn't really come across as particularly negative of NLOTH. I mean, right before he labels it "esoteric" (which isn't a pejorative term, IMO), he says he enjoyed the record

It was Bono trying to align himself with the public perception of that record...he always does this when something they've done is received with anything less than universal accalim. When he even hints that a record might have been a little prog rock (he did the same with Pop), coming from Bono, that's a slam.

And in this case, it's a real shame, because I suspect it means we probably won't be hearing NLOTH on the tour.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Psst when will they stop being so quiet and tell us something?

Assholes. Liars.

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[Registered Dude]

where does the song title Song for Someone come from? I dont see it in the LA Times article..

and what is it about the LA Times? They're getting all the scoops..

$10 says the "real" first single is one of the recently mentioned titles

 

[jeevey]

I wonder if A Song For Someone will be the Edge vocal that was working-titled Morleigh's Song?

Really, it's just so much incomprehensible gibberish from Bono. If 50+ year old guy wants to embarrass himself by talking about making a punk record, fine. But you don't need to slam your other work while doing it (particularly NLOTH, which is one of their best songs).

If I were Brian and Danny, the only producers ever capable of coaxing true greatness from these guys, I'd be more than a little annoyed.

Fuck you Bono.

It seems like Bono does this in the runup to every record, doesn't it? "Well, that one was okay but we've really left that phase behind because just wait'll you get a listen to this!!" I've worked with other musicians who always felt the same about new work over old.

 

[jeevey]

Hey, white quote box is back!!

 

[The_acrobat]

Whenever it's announced I can promise you I will still be surprised.

Lol great quote!

 

[mama cass]

I like the new song titles especially "Song for Someone" and "This is where you can reach me". Nice

Also, "The Light" was mentioned in an article earlier. Now we already have about half of the song titles for the new album, but still no album title.

I don't like, however, how Bono is calling NLOTH "esoteric". What a shitty word. Why is it so hard to see it as a great album, no matter how "commercially successful" it was. I also still think most of the songs were great live. With an approach like that I don't think we can ever expect Songs of Ascent to be released as an actual U2 album because it would have hit the same vein as NLOTH.

+1

If NLOTH is "esoteric", then so is half their catalogue (and the better half at that).

Really, it's just so much incomprehensible gibberish from Bono. If 50+ year old guy wants to embarrass himself by talking about making a punk record, fine. But you don't need to slam your other work while doing it (particularly NLOTH, which is one of their best songs).

If I were Brian and Danny, the only producers ever capable of coaxing true greatness from these guys, I'd be more than a little annoyed.

Fuck you Bono.


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i guess B-man is fairly well placed to describe the songs... i mean, he did write them

 

[mama cass]

...maybe I overlooked something in that article, but Bono didn't really come across as particularly negative of NLOTH. I mean, right before he labels it "esoteric" (which isn't a pejorative term, IMO), he says he enjoyed the record

It means he bashed the ambient material and just wants to make popular music. Therefore, he's a bad person.

It's not really a bad or inaccurate description though.

 

[mama cass]

Psst when will they stop being so quiet and tell us something?

Assholes. Liars.

Sent from my android cause iphones are for old people

this place is nuts sometimes... here we are, finally, with a few titles, and people are crying into their cornflakes

 

[mama cass]

where does the song title Song for Someone come from? I dont see it in the LA Times article..

and what is it about the LA Times? They're getting all the scoops..

$10 says the "real" first single is one of the recently mentioned titles

i think Bono mentioned it in the NRJ interview a couple of pages back

 

[jeevey]

My cornflakes are soggy.

 

[mama cass]

When he even hints that a record might have been a little prog rock (he did the same with Pop), coming from Bono, that's a slam.

i would think coming from anybody it's a slam

 

[mama cass]

My cornflakes are soggy.

 

[Nick66]

i guess B-man is fairly well placed to describe the songs... i mean, he did write them

Indeed.

How have you been enjoying your punk rock from Mars?

this place is nuts sometimes... here we are, finally, with a few titles, and people are crying into their cornflakes

I think for some here, Bono could piss in their cornflakes and they'd call it milk.

 

[mama cass]

Indeed.

How have you been enjoying your punk rock from Mars?

seriously, have you ever been to Mars?! maybe that's what punk rock IS LIKE THERE!!!!1!!2!!3!!14!!!!

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Punk rock on mars is like the top of a new born baby's head.

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[Reg McGowan]

I wonder if A Song For Someone will be the Edge vocal that was working-titled Morleigh's Song?


Makes a lot of sense and that would hint that some song titles from the so-called "fake list" last summer were legitimate.

 

[Fullonedge3]

Punk rock on mars is like the top of a new born baby's head.

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So it smells like freedom?

 

[CosmoKramer]

U2 isn't dumb enough to lose all the momentum they're gaining from the Superbowl, Fallon, The Oscars, etc.

Agree 100%

 

[chork]

The perfect coup right now as far as momentum goes would be for Oseary to release all of the sex tapes that McGuinness had buried underneath Principle.

 

[Super Yo]

Now we can start with the speculations about how the new Coldplay would delay the new U2's album.

Coldplay - Midnight - YouTube

 

[YBORCITY]

Now we can start with the speculations about how the new Coldplay would delay the new U2's album.

Coldplay - Midnight - YouTube

OH NOEZ!!!