1.It is not confirmed that there has been a change in plans. Their plans are to release this year, as per Bono, Edge and Dallas (indicating two albums and a summer 2014 release - Dallas even mentioned April). All recent comments, as late as post-Fallon appearance.
In direct contradiction with Billboard that claims no release until 2015.
2. We're all aware of Billboard not being a fan forum. I'm sure other sources are picking it up, since they're the first to put it out there (that's how it usually works, you know...)...doesn't make it any more official until U2 talks about it.
3. What source ? It's a perfectly legitimate question that can be answered without naming anyone specifically. Band members certainly didn't say anything of the sort. Oseary ? U2's tour crew/band techs ?
And given this is all over the place, including U2.com's own forum, what makes you so sure U2 won't react? This is the biggest meltdown in the fandom since those Vertigo tour presales. That time, Larry personally adressed the situation. We can fully expect U2 setting the record straight.
4. Everything is a rumour unless U2 confirms it.
This is just a theory of mine, but could it be U2 had massive sour grapes over their Oscar loss? Is it a coincidence that a few days after they suddenly say 'no album release this year'
I love the guys, but they can be really, really stubborn. They hate losing much more than anyone else and they just don't want to release an album soon after their loss? Just a theory.
Strange the comments Edge made a month earlier; "I'm going to have no summer because I'm going to be busy."
Something went very wrong in the last month.
Here is the new U2 Album Cover:
I have finally reached the end of this thread
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I have a feeling - just a feeling - that Adam will leave U2 within the next 12 months. The dude is moving to London, has a young family, and just seems like he genuinely has had enough. And U2 will replace him with a 25 year old hip kid who will jump up and down on stage ala RHCP's Flea.
Hey isn't recording in the 21rst century supposed to be easier and faster? Then say the 1960s?
Hey isn't recording in the 21rst century supposed to be easier and faster? Then say the 1960s? When bands managed to tour and release a album like every year? That might be what's really insane about this. And also a statement about music in general.
Hey isn't recording in the 21rst century supposed to be easier and faster? Then say the 1960s? When bands managed to tour and release a album like every year? That might be what's really insane about this. And also a statement about music in general.
I guess if we start seeing pictures of Edge without dye in his goatee then we won't be seeing an album for a while!
Discipline is something they are lacking. Too many options. How funny that at this stage of this careers they are freaking out about direction.
Discipline is something they are lacking. Too many options. How funny that at this stage of this careers they are freaking out about direction. When they are already rock immortals and in the rock and roll hall of fame. Thier legacy can't really be tarnished even if the album stunk. (They just wouldnt be adding to it). Shouldn't this have happened in 1990? When thier next move could have made or break thier careers. ? The difference between being just big 80s band that couldn't hack it in the 90s? And not really legends? Or extending your careers to being immortals and being worthy of a rolling stones comparsion? WOULD THAT NOT BE THE TIME TO FREAK OUT! !!!! LOL?????? not at the 34 year mark. Mabey u2 wants ascend higher on the mount Rushmore of rock? Like how peyton Manning was trying become a even greater quarterback then he was by getting to a third Superbowl for that 2nd ring? He did the first part. Are u2 simply to get into a even more elite class of rock legends?
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
-Seneca
1.It is not confirmed that there has been a change in plans. Their plans are to release this year, as per Bono, Edge and Dallas (indicating two albums and a summer 2014 release - Dallas even mentioned April). All recent comments, as late as post-Fallon appearance.
In direct contradiction with Billboard that claims no release until 2015.
2. We're all aware of Billboard not being a fan forum. I'm sure other sources are picking it up, since they're the first to put it out there (that's how it usually works, you know...)...doesn't make it any more official until U2 talks about it.
3. What source ? It's a perfectly legitimate question that can be answered without naming anyone specifically. Band members certainly didn't say anything of the sort. Oseary ? U2's tour crew/band techs ?
And given this is all over the place, including U2.com
's own forum, what makes you so sure U2 won't react? This is the biggest meltdown in the fandom since those Vertigo tour presales. That time, Larry personally adressed the situation. We can fully expect U2 setting the record straight.
4. Everything is a rumour unless U2 or U2.com or Oseary confirms it.
edit : as for WHY, plenty of that. Coldplay releasing this year, losing the Oscar to Disney, OL and Invisible not taking off...take your pick.
really, these are uncharted waters... rock hasn't been around long enough to know how bands 34 years into their career are meant to behave...
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
I agree with this, and I said some time ago here, that U2 is in a unique position, probably the first rock band so situated, well, ever.
Certainly, there have been and are still bands who have been around 30+ years and still touring/making music. But of U2's stature? And trying to make relevant music that competes with contemporary artists (i.e. not just be a legacy act)? I don't think any band has ever been here before. My beloved Rush has been around as long as U2, and still are putting out music and touring, but they have absolutely no illusions or attempts at real relevancy or playing beyond their own fan base.
So in that way, I really, really admire these guys for what they're trying to do...stay vital and still compete in the arena. They may fail spectacularly, but at least they won't go into that good night quietly. As the biggest band in the world, fabulously wealthy, and as musicians whose legacy is assured no matter what they do from this point out, U2 is in the unique position of simeltaneously having everything and nothing to lose.
What the hell, since I already quoted Seneca:
I agree with this, and I said some time ago here, that U2 is in a unique position, probably the first rock band so situated, well, ever.
Certainly, there have been and are still bands who have been around 30+ years and still touring/making music. But of U2's stature? And trying to make relevant music that competes with contemporary artists (i.e. not just be a legacy act)? I don't think any band has ever been here before. My beloved Rush has been around as long as U2, and still are putting out music and touring, but they have absolutely no illusions or attempts at real relevancy or playing beyond their own fan base.
So in that way, I really, really admire these guys for what they're trying to do...stay vital and still compete in the arena. They may fail spectacularly, but at least they won't go into that good night quietly. As the biggest band in the world, fabulously wealthy, and as musicians whose legacy is assured no matter what they do from this point out, U2 is in the unique position of simeltaneously having everything and nothing to lose.
What the hell, since I already quoted Seneca: