MrPryck2U
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The funny thing is that there never was or has been a release date.
Predictions For The New Album
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The funny thing is that there never was or has been a release date.
Musikwala
War Child
My initial thought was The Cure's 1981 album.
It's funny because my big brothers used to listen to George Michael's "Faith" album all the time in the late '80s; I remember watching the "Father Figure" video with them all the time and one time being told by our father that it wasn't appropriate for me to stay in the room. I totally forgot about that album.
I wonder if U2 got scared about The Cure's press release for a new album this year. Fear of Grammy competition, perhaps. (Kidding, though The Cure is a nobler band.)
Nicely done, mate.
Hewson
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Prediction: Album will have6-7songsproducers that Edge is unhappy with.
Fixed.
dazzledbylight
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i'd be happy w an album that had 6-7 song edge is happy with
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Coldplay is finally putting out something interesting with Ghost Stories
aMansAman
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i'd be happy w an album that had 6-7 song edge is happy with
I'd be happy with an album that had 12 songs Adam and Larry are happy with!
Edge tends to turn each song into some cheesy stuff, which at least I am not happy with.
purpleoscar
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Coldplay's new stuff is not dissimilar from the stuff being scooped up in your avatar.
RockNRollDawgie
Rock n' Roll Doggie
U2's new album will contain a certain number of songs. It will have cover art and a title.
Sergiodino
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it wont have any hit song... 
Afliktor
The Fly
bold prediction there mate. I'll take it one step further and predict that the tracks will be put in some kind of order, and they might even have names.
or they might just leak a random untagged collection of songs onto a torrent site... yea... I think that's what will happen. (Seriously though, what if they did that? And someone found it? WOULDN'T THAT BE AWESOME?)
Galeongirl
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And then have someone link it to here, with nobody believing that it's actually U2. That would be an epic bitchfest.
jon_lemire
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Take it for what it's worth.....
I have a friend of does advertising for Bank of America and was involved in the Super Bowl ad. He's been hearing developments as they go (the plan originally was to announce tour/album after the Fallon appearance but that's when U2 got cold feet) so I asked again yesterday. He said there's been some news:
The tentative plan is to release the album in October or November of this year. Around that same time, the band will do a short "We're back" tour. He said about 8 cities, likely a few shows per city (he didn't know if that was just domestic or international but did believe NYC was one of them). He then also believed it would be followed next year with a more substantial tour. As an aside: BOA has agreed to sponsor the short tour, unclear if they would do the larger one too.
Encouraging, I think. Also, as an even more random aside, I bumped into Adam Scott (from the hysterical U Talking U2 to Me podcast) at an event in New York last week. He knew nothing about release dates, but he said he was talking to someone in the music industry recently who says a) he had heard a few songs, which he called "epic" and thought they'd be hits and b) the band had considered released a surprise 4-song EP last month before deciding to scuttle it.
Hopeful! But who knows. We shall see.
I have a friend of does advertising for Bank of America and was involved in the Super Bowl ad. He's been hearing developments as they go (the plan originally was to announce tour/album after the Fallon appearance but that's when U2 got cold feet) so I asked again yesterday. He said there's been some news:
The tentative plan is to release the album in October or November of this year. Around that same time, the band will do a short "We're back" tour. He said about 8 cities, likely a few shows per city (he didn't know if that was just domestic or international but did believe NYC was one of them). He then also believed it would be followed next year with a more substantial tour. As an aside: BOA has agreed to sponsor the short tour, unclear if they would do the larger one too.
Encouraging, I think. Also, as an even more random aside, I bumped into Adam Scott (from the hysterical U Talking U2 to Me podcast) at an event in New York last week. He knew nothing about release dates, but he said he was talking to someone in the music industry recently who says a) he had heard a few songs, which he called "epic" and thought they'd be hits and b) the band had considered released a surprise 4-song EP last month before deciding to scuttle it.
Hopeful! But who knows. We shall see.
The most intriguing thing to me is: if they got cold feet in February, and are planning a release this November, what kind of material did they come up with between February and now? That's about 5 months. How many "new" songs? Change in style? Re-recorded tunes already written?
In other words, what changed between February and now?
In other words, what changed between February and now?
zoopop
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It could be anything with these guys. Again, there in a different state in their lives right now rather than 10 yrs ago. U2 can afford to delay anything they want. 3- 6 months could make or break a band in years past but this is U2 2014. Maybe Bono wanted the summer off. Maybe Larry just got a new puppy. Who knows??
But maybe they wanted to tinker with a few more songs or write some new ones. History has shown the Oct/Nov release has worked for U2. Also, Bono even stated they wanted to keep things separate with Invisible and the new album release. On top of that they had the Oscar promotion going on. It makes sense for U2 to put a new album out while there out in about but it would have gotten lost with Super Bowl ad & the Oscars. Just hope we get something this Fall
This all seems, at the very least, plausible.
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Hewson
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Lost his soccer ball and needed something else to kick?
LUNEDEMINUIT
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They got cold feet before christmas,not after the Tonigth show appearance.Because on the red carper at the gloden globes,the band were already saying that the new single wouldn't be the lead single of the new album.
jeevey
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I think that's because they had another single planned to open the album. Visually speaking, there's no doubt that the band was ready for liftoff at the Globes. I know people hate it when a PLEBAN calls inner band history by fashion and appearance, but in this case it's just so clear. Look at the trajectory of the band's visual look from summer 2013 (their Aslan cover) through the release of Ordinary Love to the Invisible video and Fallon appearance to now, and you can see how close they were to all systems go. Hell, just a photo series of Adam's hair can tell you that!
When I stopped by the ATM this morning, I decided I'd ask the local teller if she knew anything about the new album. A lovely lass by the name of Shaqueeta told me that the album will be out in November, and that now is a wonderful time to look into an IRA.
mikal
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I stopped at the same ATM machine.
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LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Whenever I see pancake batter, I have to do a double take because it looks so much like Bono.
Mrs. Garrison
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Were you punching in the numbers?
Nick66
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The consensus of opinion is that this ATM machine redundancy was merely an unintended mistake, but did not detract from the end result of the song. Besides, Bono has been writing down song lyrics like this since U2 first began, and if past history is any indication, these type of superfluous redundancies will be repeated again.
Anyway, I could care less about the whole thing.
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