ChargedVT
Refugee
* Waits for the onslaught of posts blaming the Spiderman fiasco for delaying work on new U2 album *
How about an EP at least FFS
So now we have
* Rubin album - buried
* Songs Of Ascent - buried
* Danger Mouse album - buried
I'd love to see them do something similar to what Damon Albarn did last year with The Fall: just quickly write/record some songs and release them to the public, critics be damned, no six-month hype cycle necessary.
Sounds like new album in 2013 at the earliest... maybe we'll get an EP after the tour of those songs they debuted live, but somehow i doubt it.
I'd love to see them do something similar to what Damon Albarn did last year with The Fall: just quickly write/record some songs and release them to the public, critics be damned, no six-month hype cycle necessary.
Well, of course they don't, given that they apparently don't have the guts to release finished studio albums.they do not appear to have the guts to do something like this anymore. it would be nice if they did.
Everything Edge said in that interview was just so vague. He couldn't bring himself to say the tour ends in Moncton. Couldn't say no Songs of Ascent. Are they just wracked with indecision or past caring? Have they rid the room of all argument (something Bono has always been careful not to do in other areas) so those close to them don't point out to them the negative effect all this fannying about has?
All the misleading info about a new album in May certainly helped boost ticket sales. We booked a trip to the US on the back of it - not to hear the same songs as in '09 and '10 but to hear some new album songs.
Oh well, won't be fooled again.
The Interference background screen colour should be black today.
Its what is behind the decision that is truly fucked.
Its nice of Edge to say they have truckloads of material and its all so great and they just don't know what to do with it all, what direction to go in, but we all know that's complete bullshit, right? We know they did make a directional decision. And that they were happy enough with that material for a long, long time. Up until early February - and possibly later - that thing was on-target for a May release. The decision came after then. And had nothing to do with having too much material and it all being so confusing.
They'd made that decision and nailed it down. Then... so... do we actually release it? Why should we release it? Why should we hold back?
Think about that. Try imagining that conversation between the band. If you think that decision had anything to do with direction or quality of material or whatever, you're pretty naive. Enjoy your bloated biggest ever greatest hits tour and don't forget to re-up your annual $50 subscription to a meaningless website each year while you are on your long wait till your next $100 blown on four different super deluxe limited exclusive edition versions of a seriously underwhelming and massively compromised creatively stale album.
To be honest, there are five or six tracks on No Line that are starting to look more and more as though they were just a final twitch coming from a body that has otherwise been lifeless for some time.