SOE 33: Bono to open the batting on new album, Larry to keep wicket

[trevgreg]

Do we get another new “single” or song next week right before the album drops or that’ll be too much?

Four is usually the limit I see for other artists, so my guess would be no?

 

[dan_smee]

I don’t want there to be another. Four is almost too many, and ruins the flow of the first listen

 

[CosmoKramer]

I was just thinking, it’s going to be really hard on the first listen to get through tracks 3-5. Not because I think they’re bad or anything, but because I can’t wait to hear what comes after them.

Like you, i really enjoy these tracks too but
i was thinking the same thing the other day. i mean do we listen through 12 min of songs we already heard when each second that passes, from the first strum of TBT to the last beat of American Soul, all we are thinking about is “when does Summer of Love start”. Granted, there is merit in listening to the album in order but the first time through, i think we are good to skip 3-5.

 

[Popmartijn]

Now, it may not mean anything to some, but I found it very interesting not a single track reaches the five minute mark. If legit, this would make SOE the only U2 album, aside from October, to not have a single track of five minutes or more.

Yeah, I noticed this before. No tracks over 5 minutes, the first U2 album since October. Also, at 2:41 opener Love Is All We Have Left is the shortest U2 album track since MLK.

With 13 songs I figured SOE would be a shoo-in as the longest U2 album by runtime. I haven't added up each track but it's shorter than Pop's 12. Definitely a surprise to me. I figured at least one or two songs would be longer expansive numbers, especially considering the descriptions that have done the rounds.

Total length of the album proper is about 51 minutes. So that makes it even shorter than Achtung Baby (and not much longer than The Joshua Tree).

 

[BEAL]

I think you look at the production of the album as to why it's so short despite having the most songs ever for them.

Safe bet that this is an album of singles, but from reviews it does sound like it flows together well making it an album versus collection of songs

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I think we need this one to leak by tomorrow so I can listen to it while I make my turkey

 

[Sickly Vulpine]

I think we need this one to leak by tomorrow so I can listen to it while I make my turkey

Doing chores while listening to new U2 is definitely a plus.

 

[Hewson]

I think we need this one to leak by tomorrow so I can listen to it while I make my turkey

Are you also making homemade gravy, Davey?

 

[CosmoKramer]

I think we need this one to leak by tomorrow so I can listen to it while I make my turkey

What if the ALBUM is a turkey, jerky!

 

[Haywa1979]

Agree with the posts saying that it doesn't make sense for American Soul to be the next single. What exactly are they thinking here? I don't hate the song by any means, but when you have a song like The Blackout available, YOU RELEASE IT AS A SINGLE!

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I am sing while I glaze the ham, pam.

 

[Irvine511]

Do you call it stuffing or dressing, Debra Messing?

 

[Hollow Island]

Agree with the posts saying that it doesn't make sense for American Soul to be the next single. What exactly are they thinking here? I don't hate the song by any means, but when you have a song like The Blackout available, YOU RELEASE IT AS A SINGLE!

are we pretending that the single tracks U2 released to promote SOE aren't singles?

 

[Hewson]

Do you call it stuffing or dressing, Debra Messing?

Definitely stuffin', Muffin.

Wait, what?

 

[Hollow Island]

will you make cranberry sauce, Ross?

 

[Hewson]

will you make cranberry sauce, Ross?

Just going to open up the can, Stan.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Stuffing for me, Lee

 

[Hollow Island]

how about bread puddin', Doc Gooden?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Hell no, Joe

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I make a killer apple pie, Ry

 

[Hollow Island]

ice cream on the side, Si?

 

[Irvine511]

I’m in the south so here it’s dressing made from cornbread, Ted.

 

[Axver]

will you make cranberry sauce, Ross?

How the fuck does "sauce" rhyme with "Ross", Moss?

 

[Hewson]

How the fuck does "sauce" rhyme with "Ross", Moss?

It does rhyme here in the first world, Earl.

 

[Axver]

It does rhyme here in the first world, Earl.

Now you're just having me on, Ron.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Let's put another shrimp on the barbie... Barbie

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I’m in the south so here it’s dressing made from cornbread, Ted.

We live in the same city, P.Diddy

 

[Irvine511]

We live in the same city, P.Diddy

We drove to Memphis to see his family, Stanley.

 

[Axver]

Let's put another shrimp on the barbie... Barbie

That's not a knife, this is a knife, Leif.

 

[CMIS]

This is just insanity, Hannity