Project Zero One / Songs of Ascent / New Album Discussion

[dan_smee]

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Provision titles: Project Zero One or Songs of Ascent
Provisional Release Date: 27 May (according to Amazon.de)
Producer: Danger Mouse

MusikWoche | News | Neues U2-Album in der Pipeline

English Translation:

At Midem assured U2 manager Paul McGuinness talks to Music Week that the new album the group is largely completed. It should come ahead of the other North American tour dates in May to market.

The band was in the studio in southern France about to miss the songs the finishing touch, "said McGuinness. Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse is seized of the production. That should take the new work entitled "Songs of Ascent", as rumored in the past several months is unlikely.

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And to put this where it belongs:

Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. It was I who allowed the public to know the location of the Spiderman musical. It was quite distracting for your pitiful little band. Now, an entire legion of our best songs awaits you. Oh, I'm afraid the Danger Mouse album will be quite operational when the North American tour arrives.

 

[corianderstem]

Oooooooooooooooooooh
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
Baby.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

im disappointed, the other thread has not reached 1000 posts yet.

 

[dan_smee]

^ didn't want any new info to getlost in the final posts of a closed thread. Anything new can go here.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

new info? I thought we weren't getting any of that until 2013?

 

[mikal]

wow. so this may actually happen?

 

[purpleoscar]

I guess U2 is not so sneaky this time with the manager reaffirming what he said before.

 

[dan_smee]

Starting to look more and more solid. Don't think my fandom can take too many more delays/teasing soundbites for no result

 

[corianderstem]

wow. so this may actually happen?

Throw this onto a Packer win this weekend, and this week will officially be AWESOME.

 

[purpleoscar]

Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. It was I who allowed the public to know the location of the Spiderman musical. It was quite distracting for your pitiful little band. Now, an entire legion of our best songs awaits you. Oh, I'm afraid the Danger Mouse album will be quite operational when the North American tour arrives.

 

[dan_smee]

LOL... I still love Carter Pewterschmitt's interpretation

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

Throw this onto a Packer win this weekend, and this week will officially be AWESOME.

A Packer win means a Steeler loss, so YES, GO PACKERS!

 

[Super Yo]

Project zero one ?

 

[JamietheEdgefan]

Project zero one ?

The title that anonymous french dude from gave a couple of weeks ago (i think)

 

[dan_smee]

^yeah, that is older news. Just a provisional title, probably indicating that it is DM's first priority

 

[Super Yo]

^yeah, that is older news. Just a provisional title, probably indicating that it is DM's first priority

Well, It's good that is a provisional title, cause it's awful !

 

[dan_smee]

Really???? I think it would be their best title since.... well, ever!

 

[Super Yo]

Really???? I think it would be their best title since.... well, ever!

Ok, I know everything is better than "How to dismantle an atomic bomb"...

 

[stealthboy]

I think they need a return to one-word album titles. ATYCLB and hutdab have been mouthfuls.

 

[dan_smee]

Ok, I know everything is better than "How to dismantle an atomic bomb"...

Yeah, NLOTH didn't bother me that much, HTDAAB was terrible. ATYCLB seemed a bit corny and generic, Pop ok for novelty value, Zooropa I quite like, Achtung Baby again, novelty, Rattle & Hum meh, The Joshua Tree meh again, The Unforgettable Fire, probably nd fav realy title, War boring, October boring, boy boring.

 

[Super Yo]

I think they need a return to one-word album titles. ATYCLB and hutdab have been mouthfuls.

Yes, please !!!! Larry was right, it's impossible to put those titles in the tshirts !

 

[Super Yo]

Yeah, NLOTH didn't bother me that much, HTDAAB was terrible. ATYCLB seemed a bit corny and generic, Pop ok for novelty value, Zooropa I quite like, Achtung Baby again, novelty, Rattle & Hum meh, The Joshua Tree meh again, The Unforgettable Fire, probably nd fav realy title, War boring, October boring, boy boring.

I like Joshua Tree, epic title for an epic sound.

 

[popacrobat]

A Packer win means a Steeler loss, so YES, GO PACKERS!

yes. this exactly.

 

[powerhour24]

Joshua Tree fit the album for sure; AB may have been a gimmick but did fit in with tbe nature of the album's production; Pop was supposed to be ironic; ATYCLB is fitting and ties right into the lyrics, themes, and U2's career; I personally really dig HTDAAB, it's mysterious but deeply personal and so U2; and NLOTH is probably my favorite U2 album title ever, so evocative.

 

[dan_smee]

Joshua Tree fit the album for sure; AB may have been a gimmick but did fit in with tbe nature of the album's production; Pop was supposed to be ironic; ATYCLB is fitting and ties right into the lyrics, themes, and U2's career; I personally really dig HTDAAB, it's mysterious but deeply personal and so U2; and NLOTH is probably my favorite U2 album title ever, so evocative.

Fair call: in light of this though, no value judgements good or bad, can be made on Project Zero One as a title until we hear how suitable it is.

re HTDAAb though, it sounds to me like a pamphlet you get at a hardware store

 

[cobl04]

i still don't think we'll get it in May. but that's just me.

Dan have you heard The Decemberists new album? i remember you loved Hazards of Love.

 

[dan_smee]

i still don't think we'll get it in May. but that's just me.

Dan have you heard The Decemberists new album? i remember you loved Hazards of Love.

Yeah I have, and I'm not in love with it. SOme beautiful songs, but it hasn't drawn me in like HOL, CaC or HMTD

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

re HTDAAb though, it sounds to me like a pamphlet you get at a hardware store

i go to hardware stores quite frequently, and im positive ive never seen or heard of any pamphlets on how to dismantle atomic bombs? Maybe overseas...

 

[powerhour24]

I kind of loved how the fact that the title sounds political played with the world's perception of U2, and it turned out to mostly be an album about personal reflection with calling for peace being as 'political' it gets.

 

[cobl04]

i think if the album was better the title would have been received better.