Album 13: [Insert News Here]

[ChargedVT]

I'm 33 right now. I fully expect to be in my 40's by the time the follow up to this new one comes out.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using U2 Interference mobile app

Yep I was 29 when NLOTH came out and expect to be 40 when the next one comes... 1 U2 album during my 30s? Geeeeeez.

 

[JOFO]

Ummm yea, exactly this. Literally. I'm also 33.

Nobody can have their money back, though /screennamejoke

Sent from my android cause iphones are for old people

Turnin tricks w/ yo crucifix? Lol....

I got 10 years on you pal, as well as a wife (2nd), a house, and a kid.
I'd like a U2 album any day now, yeah...because...isn't there something "more to life"?

The answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAhGfVr_4U

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I was 14 when NLOTH came out, I laughably still had dial-up internet.

 

[JOFO]

I was 14 when NLOTH came out, I laughably still had dial-up internet.

Oh man, then you've never known staying up until midnight on a Sunday night to watch MTV's "120 minutes" to see the world premire of a new U2 video....

 

[jeevey]

I want my mtv.

 

[LadySpinHead]

Oh man, then you've never known staying up until midnight on a Sunday night to watch MTV's "120 minutes" to see the world premire of a new U2 video....

120 Minutes. What all the cool people watched.

 

[Axver]

I was 14 when NLOTH came out, I laughably still had dial-up internet.

At least when I joined this forum from a dialup connection, it was 2003 and having dialup wasn't quite so outdated.

I can't believe that when I joined this forum, it was in the wash-up from the Elevation Tour. That feels forever ago, and we've had just two albums in the intervening years. EYKIW's existence then seemed based on endless re-runs of Pop vs ATYCLB arguments. There was still some residual disappointment that Elevation hadn't run into 2002 or come to Australia. We still believed an album was coming at the end of 2003. U2 taking over four years to make an album hadn't become a common joke yet. Ah, simpler times.

I also can't believe that in the entire time since I graduated high school, we've had just one U2 album. My ten year reunion's coming up! I'm fucking twenty-seven!

 

[JOFO]

In all seriousness, I feel bad for you 20 somethings that grew up in the wake of 9-11, even if you are not American....the mood around the globe was grim indeed.
I grew up in the 70's /80's.....I call it a glorious time in pop culture....and I was in college in the 90's when ZooTV was killin it.....I mean, I was a lucky kid.....

 

[Earnie Shavers]

Dear U2, This had better be pretty fucking good. (No pressure!)

 

[JOFO]

Dear U2, This had better be pretty fucking good. (No pressure!)

Fuck that. Pressure: ON.
Deliver the goods lads!!!

 

[Axver]

In all seriousness, I feel bad for you 20 somethings that grew up in the wake of 9-11, even if you are not American....the mood around the globe was grim indeed.
I grew up in the 70's /80's.....I call it a glorious time in pop culture....and I was in college in the 90's when ZooTV was killin it.....I mean, I was a lucky kid.....

I'm old enough to remember the nineties. Despite the glow of childhood nostalgia, that was not a good time in New Zealand. It's precisely why my family and I don't live there any more.

 

[Peter_The_Roman]

Oh man, then you've never known staying up until midnight on a Sunday night to watch MTV's "120 minutes" to see the world premire of a new U2 video....

I can remember hanging on MTV's every word when POP first came out...waiting, waiting, waiting and finally the Discotheque video came on. lol

 

[Aleh_Hewson]

Same here. I only witnessed the birth of two albuns - HTDAAB and NLOTH, and never had the chance to see a ZooTV concert, or to enjoy the epicness that were the 80's or had the chance to see the glorious Achtung Baby era.

I was 11 years old, watching DragonBall Z on my local network, getting ready to go to school, when the anime stopped, and the tv showed what I thought it was an action movie. I was wrong, and I saw live the second tower being hit.

I remember in a very vague mode what was the Elevation tour, mainly because the band never brought this tour to Brasil (except for that brief moment when they recorded the clip).

For the Vertigo Tour, I was only 15, and my parents didn't let me go alone to SP for watch the concert. NLOTH was the only album I had the chance to see them live, but the "buzz" and "media" involved on it weren't that great.

Now I'm 23, graduated, working, I think this is the time to truly enjoy all aspects of being a U2 fan. I try not to raise my hopes, but they're already up. I'm really really looking for this new album, like no album before

 

[Peter_The_Roman]

Same here. I only witnessed the birth of two albuns - HTDAAB and NLOTH, and never had the chance to see a ZooTV concert, or to enjoy the epicness that were the 80's or had the chance to see the glorious Achtung Baby era.

I'm 34. I started liking U2 when I was 13 and Achtung Baby was my first album. Popmart was my first concert tour.

 

[Earnie Shavers]

I'm 34. I started liking U2 when I was 13 and Achtung Baby was my first album. Popmart was my first concert tour.

Same, same, same and same.

 

[Peter_The_Roman]

Same, same, same and same.

Achtung Baby never gets old!

 

[Raid]

Wondering if there is any actual news on the new album yet?

 

[Peter_The_Roman]

Wondering if there is any actual news on the new album yet?

Not that I know of...lots of speculation about a June Release. Bono says that they are recording in a basement with mice. The Edge says it's a hard record. Maybe we will learn more when we watch Fallon on Monday?

 

[Vlad n U 2]

In all seriousness, I feel bad for you 20 somethings that grew up in the wake of 9-11, even if you are not American....the mood around the globe was grim indeed.
I grew up in the 70's /80's.....I call it a glorious time in pop culture....and I was in college in the 90's when ZooTV was killin it.....I mean, I was a lucky kid.....

I was 6 when 9/11 happened, and I remember it quite well. The world has been grim to me throughout my whole life, naturally.

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

That's U2's (and their management's) whole strategy...keep us guessing...that's what the discussion should be. I don't think we'll get anything concrete until they actually drop it.

Interference's evidence for a surprise release:
1. Beyonce did it

2. David Bowie did it before Beyonce.
3. Nothing about this album is "typical" of a U2 release
4. They have all new mgmt and McG is nowhere near this thing, so all bets are off.

Oh, and for the "age" argument...my first "official" album was Bomb and I was turning 21. (I grew up with parents who were fans during JT/AB). I was a teen during ATYCLB and hated it. (I turned 18 exactly one month after 9/11....my senior year of high school was defined by it.)

When Bomb came out, I was dating Mr CK. Now we have both Lil CK and Lil Miss, and this is our 3rd album in 10 years. Mind boggling.

BONO ON PIERS! YAY!

 

[namkcuR]

Bono said Ordinary Love on Fallon will be acoustic, and that it will be full band on the Oscars.

 

[bono_212]

That's weird, since he just said that they were only going to play Ordinary Love once...

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

That makes zero sense.

 

[jeevey]

He probably backed himself into a corner by saying that in the middle of a flow, and all the others went . Of course they kind of have to play it if Oscar voting is still going on, and they have to play it AT the Oscars too. He just says stuff.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

Bono said Ordinary Love on Fallon will be acoustic, and that it will be full band on the Oscars.

To me that means more than one song, as if they are going to perform an acoustic ol then that's it

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

He probably backed himself into a corner by saying that in the middle of a flow, and all the others went . Of course they kind of have to play it if Oscar voting is still going on, and they have to play it AT the Oscars too. He just says stuff.

I def went in front of my television.

And yeah, it's Bono. He just says stuff. Although I thought the bit about wanting his mom to be able to see him sing one last time was sweet.

Anyone else think Pharrell's interview was MUCH worse?

 

[popacrobat]

Yeah Bono lies, that talentless scum.

 

[Aygo]

A few days ago, I was reading this latest interview to the band. Just as many other interviews and statements over the past 10-15 years, they - specially Bono - mention that feeling and that need of going back to their early years, whether sonically, whether spiritually (even if in the end that's not exactly what it shows up). This time, they even mention having been listening to bands they used to venerate when they started as a band as teens.
And then, it occured to me...

...I remember this and other forums having the Man name as hipothetic album title (or working title) for what became HTDAAB and NLOTH, as some sort of magnetic contraste to the Boy name (and idea).

This may sound really stupid, and 99,9% won't happen, but it's just a thought I'd like to share...
What if the upcoming album, inspired by that early-years-reminiscent aura, was titled The Hype, using it as a reference to their early years and pure state, and as an irony to mediatism/need of relevance?
[...and then if there was a sequel-album - Zooropa-style, it could be called Feedback ]

Just a hallucinatory fan thought I think I should share.

 

[corianderstem]

LOLBONO.

LOLzzzzzzzzz.

 

[prbiker15]

Oh Bono.