New U2 Album Discussion (alt title: Lose Your Will To Live Here)

[LuckyNumber7]

You may have seen it before but...

digest.

U2 frontman Bono says that the band’s new album, rumored to be coming out in the Spring, will be a marked departure from the band’s last release, No Line on the Horizon. The singer told Billboard.com that the album, which features production work from Danger Mouse, will be more streamlined.

“We were trying to write an album with No Line on the Horizon that had a kind of narrative and if I look back on it now, it’s probably too long. Maybe just by one song or two,” Bono said. “It’s incredible that people think, ‘Oh gosh, I can put 17 songs on this’ … it’s like more corn flakes in a better box.”

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

so there's no perfect game? who'd they walk, or did somebody commit an error?

Larry was hit by a pitch

 

[Jive Turkey]

You may have seen it before but...

digest.

2 songs is the correct answer

 

[LuckyNumber7]

I was more interested in the corn flakes.

Also, I promote my 20 minutes of wasted time last night:

Pick a card any card.

 

[God Part III]

North Star will be a b-side. Mark my words.

 

[atomicman]

Might well be a bonus track ;-)

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

Pick a card any card.

royal flush?

 

[JamietheEdgefan]

North Star will be a b-side. Mark my words.

I hope it is, simply because it would be cooler to have an album made entirely of stuff we haven't heard yet.
I maintain that it's possible all the 'new' songs debuted on tour were unconnected to the studio work, and were just put out there to freshen up the tour.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

royal flush?

We'd have to make Tobey Maguire a queen.


Wait a second. No such thing as a royal straight. Scratch that idea.

 

[lazarus]

Why doesn't Terry Lawless have a card?

Is he ok??



Also, I hope to the fucking gods that North Star isn't the next single. I'm not going to debate the overall merit of the song, esp. when we don't have a recorded "official" version yet, but it sounds rather generic.

Of course, the last time the band was rebounding from a perceived failure, we got Beautiful Day, which was also generic in the sense that it seemed designed to press all the right classic U2 buttons.

 

[lazarus]

Also, I don't know if this has been said already, but this most recent Spider-Man news could turn out to be a good thing for the band. Since they now have some guy rewriting the script, Bono and Edge shouldn't be needed in the short term, and will instead be able to focus their energies on whatever work the album hypothetically needs during this month off.

A quiet few weeks may wind up being the best case scenario here, as much as it appears to torture some people.

 

[theedgeu2]

I WANT A NEW ALBUM THIS YEAR!!!!

They recorded Zooropa in what... six months? Sure some people look at it as a collection of mostly B-Sides but I think we got a really great album out of that. C'mon U2 and give us some news.

 

[Hollow Island]

Adam talking about hits:

U2 has never written a song specifically to get a radio hit, says Clayton, who insists that they never will. "In the early days when we delivered singles," he recalls, "various people would always suggest edits, and we'd say, 'Okay, you guys know what you're doing.' And we'd do the edits, and we never liked it, and it never made any difference.

"We don't bother making any concessions now," Clayton laughs. "It's like, 'That's the record, see what happens.'

This was from 1985. The man knew what he was talking about then.

The "Spider Man" musical is the worst idea I've ever heard of. There's no way it could have been good and there's no way that Bono and Edge should have got involved. If they want to do a musical they should have done a good one. Or one that at least had the potential to be good.

Maybe U2 will do a Radiohead style sneak-attack; maybe they trust their fans to pay attention to what they are doing. They should!

 

[BVS]

and this has to do with the new album how?

 

[popacrobat]

We get it. You want U2 to copy Radiohead's promotion, then we can have a slew of people saying how U2 ripped off Radiohead, etc.

I do hope they do something new and unique for their promotion - what that is, I don't know. If not, whatever, I really don't care, it's just promotion. I just want a new album from them this year.

And I agree with Laz- the current secrecy/ silence is good, especially in conjunction with the German Amazon listing a few weeks back. I think mikal said he gives it until mid-to-late March for a deadline for news, and I think that's pretty realistic/accurate.

My guess based on absolutely nothing is they are trying to figure out what to release right now. It does sound like they've a lot of material, leftovers from No Line (Every Breaking Wave, whatever else), songs they recorded towards the end of the US leg (remember, they went to the studio after the Rose Bowl show or something), and stuff they've done with Danger Mouse over the past year or so as well.

And nobody really knows what exactly they've given to RedOne to work on either - maybe he is producing actual songs and not remixes as well. Or maybe it's just remixes.

 

[BVS]

Radiohead is so cool, why can't U2 be like Radiohead?

Why can't U2 do what I want them to do?

ME, ME, ME!!!

 

[gherman]

I fucking hate Radiohead... shit band so stop talking about them

 

[MMP]

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Happy now?

 

[corianderstem]

 

[JamietheEdgefan]

Radiohead is the best u2 album since achtung baby

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

have you guys heard the new Duran Duran?

 

[corianderstem]

Yes, it's very good.

Maybe U2 should bring in Mark Ronson to join the gaggle of producers? The more the merrier.

 

[hpantazo]

Yes, it's very good.

Maybe U2 should bring in Mark Ronson to join the gaggle of producers?

The new Duran Duran album is fantastic! U2 would be lucky to get that kind of rejuvination from a producer.

I also like Duran Duran's marketing strategy with their new album. They released a 9 trach version only on itunes back in december, and will release the full 14 track version on cd next month.

 

[powerhour24]

Radiohead is the best u2 album since achtung baby

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

Yes, it's very good.

Maybe U2 should bring in Mark Ronson to join the gaggle of producers? The more the merrier.

oh no!

They just need to keep it simple and stick with WILL.I.AM, RED1 (makes sense doesn't it), JAY-Z, Lady Ga Ga's EGG, Phil Spector, Chris Thomas, Rick Rubin, Quincy Jones, Big & Rich, Dr. Dre, M&M, Eazy E, Marilyn Manson, Henry Rollins, Toby Keith, and Yoko Ono.


And of course Lillywhite, Lanois, & Eno can come in and put the finishing touches on it.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

The new Duran Duran album is fantastic! U2 would be lucky to get that kind of rejuvination from a producer.

I also like Duran Duran's marketing strategy with their new album. They released a 9 trach version only on itunes back in december, and will release the full 14 track version on cd next month.

IM actually listening to it right now and will be buying the cd next month when its released.

Maybe im bad a first impressions, but this is the best shit i have heard in years.

 

[PhilsFan]

My brain melted reading this thread. Everyone is wrong.

 

[Hollow Island]

and this has to do with the new album how?

Since you asked, I'll explain it to you: They are preoccupied with writing hits. When they were good, they did not feel the need to compromise.

 

[Hollow Island]

Radiohead is so cool, why can't U2 be like Radiohead?

Why can't U2 do what I want them to do?

ME, ME, ME!!!

U2 are perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really, Radiohead have good ideas but U2 are stuck in the old, irrelevant world.

OK, and seriously...Duran Duran love and "radiohead are shit"...says it all about current U2 fans. I guess you can't see that radiohead occupy the space once held by U2.

Duran Duran are a fuckin joke.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

My brain melted reading this thread. Everyone is wrong.

BLAME THE MACHINES!

IT's, well, take it away Admiral:

YouTube - ITS A TRAP!