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Agree on the Letterman residency. By the time 2009 rolled around, the world didn’t want new music from U2 any longer. Those songs sounded great live but failed to engage their audience. In the years since, no amount of producer swapping or knob twiddling in the studio has changed this.

No they go back to watching countless other sports that actually have an existence outside of one country and where the idea of being a world champion is actually true to the definition.

Punk rock AI from Mars.

I’d add The National to that list. 25 years young.

Indeed. There is unbound genius at work with Nick. Take the song Frogs for instance. No words.

Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen, Carnage, Wild God. Off the scale, four letter word, extraordinary.

Here’s what needs to happen. It has not happened for a long time. Edge needs to find some interesting guitar sounds. Huge, big, immersive sounds ala When I Look At The World. Bring those sounds to the studio. This is the base. Put words and the rest of the songs around those sounds. Bono...

At this point though, I’d take that. What else is in the tank? It just needs to be rethought a little to accommodate Bono singing a lot more in his lower register or else it will sound way overdone ala the past few releases. People just want to hear some songs that remind them of how U2 got...

So I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Listening to recent albums from long time and successful bands such as The Cure, Springsteen and Pearl Jam. At this stage in their careers all these bands / artists have a core sound and this is what they fall back on when recording a new album. Not to...

Yes it is. It’s an album track though. Nothing wrong with it being amazing and staying that way.

Trump Is Bigger Than Anything In His Way

Literally all of SOS.

Nope. Not when Bono’s voice is shot to bits. His lower register is mostly gone. Many many older songs just wouldn’t work or would be embarrassingly bad compared to the original. Like no way he can sing Gloria like he used to. I think their options re older material are actually very limited...

Maybe it’s as simple as U2 still being wedded to the traditional album + tour cycle and there is not yet an album.

Agree! It’s the type of song there should be a lot more of in the past 20 years. So much better than forced attempts at hit making. Also suprised at the disdain for Yahweh. It’s gorgeous too.

I’d like another Ahimsa remix.

100% this. The sterility of it is just terrible. It’s why I prefer SOE since it has less of this. There may be nothing else left. They aren’t exactly known for being prolific in the studio.

I was at that show and it was astonishing. Basing a concert around the Ghosteen album was very brave. That album is as dark as fcuk and translating to a live setting like he and Warren did was incredible. Very few artists can do this. Throw in songs from his back catalogue and it’s just...

The fact we have posts listing songs that folks prefer to the originals is really good. I like the lyric changes too. It reinforces that nothing was sacred when recording these songs. I still haven’t got through all of it as I keep putting it on when I go to bed. But it’s all very positive...

Listening to it now. Might struggle to get through it all in one go. Bad is stunning. Just stunning.

Do we know for sure that Adam and Larry, in particular Larry, actually played on this?

Play with only 3 members? Yep they’ve got you covered.

A good test for these songs would be to imagine these were new songs and not reworkings. BD is the only one that is up to scratch. These rest are meh.

Well I’m almost done. 3 songs in and I have practically zero interest in hearing any additional SOS songs. Bono croaking over musical nothingness doesn’t do it for me. Presumably these are 3 of the better songs. Agree with the earlier sentiment that this should have been tightly linked to...

They may as well put Terry Lawless on stage now.