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Now you can all log off and enjoy the weather, your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse or whatever it is that this place keeps you from enjoying.
*goes off to a corner and shoots up*
thanks, Cosmo!
Now you can all log off and enjoy the weather, your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse or whatever it is that this place keeps you from enjoying.
Bottom line from someone who doesn't know the band, a friend of the band, a friend of a friend of the band or anyone who lives in Ireland for that matter:
Mid August we will have single details
Mid to late September we will have have a single released and album info
Album will be out the week of or before Thanksgiving
Now you can all log off and enjoy the weather, your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse or whatever it is that this place keeps you from enjoying.
Cosmo has spoken and you can take it to the bank. You're welcome.
Sent from my iPhone using U2 Interference
Bottom line from someone who doesn't know the band, a friend of the band, a friend of a friend of the band or anyone who lives in Ireland for that matter:
Mid August we will have single details
Mid to late September we will have have a single released and album info
Album will be out the week of or before Thanksgiving
Now you can all log off and enjoy the weather, your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse or whatever it is that this place keeps you from enjoying.
Cosmo has spoken and you can take it to the bank. You're welcome.
Sent from my iPhone using U2 Interference
Can we really trust someone who only has 642 posts in ten years?
Can we really trust someone who only has 642 posts in ten years?
I'm not sure how much that matters. We have people here who have more than ten thousands posts and have been here longer than ten years who have proven to be completely untrustworthy.
That said, as Digitize pointed out, we heard all this last year as well. It will happen when it happens.
I'm not sure how much that matters. We have people here who have more than ten thousands posts and have been here longer than ten years who have proven to be completely untrustworthy.
That said, as Digitize pointed out, we heard all this last year as well. It will happen when it happens.
I had never even posted here and everyone believed my gut feeling.
I had never even posted here and everyone believed my gut feeling.
I had never even posted here and everyone believed my gut feeling.
aside:
there's been a lot of bitching, maybe too much bitching, about U2's quest for relevance. Many conflate this aim with their aim for being on radio, getting the number one single etc. In doing so, the suggestion is that U2 will make music that panders to the masses, in an effort to get radio play and therefore Relevance.
this article features this now classic Bono quote:
love this quote. doesn't it just fly in the face of the common accusation that u2 have gone lite, safe, coldplayed, etc? that the don't just make music for themselves anymore, that they're catering to the kids... In fact - they're just making music they like. What a fucking concept.
anyway, that's all.. no need to discuss further.. nothing to see here...
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is. We asked to be in the ad. We could see where rock music is, fighting for relevance next to hip-hop. And I love hip-hop. It's the new black entrepreneur. It's about being out there, loud and proud about what you're doing. Selling it on the streetcorner if you have to. From penthouse to pavement. Advertising the new song in another song. Taking on the world.
Meanwhile a bunch of white middle-class kids are practicing in daddy's garage saying [adopts fake Midwestern whine], "No, man, that is just so uncool." And, "Hey, Bert, get me a knife. I have to cut my ear off!" It's the bleeding ear brigade. They try to find some viruses, interesting neuroses, or bad habits, to make their round washed faces look grubby enough to be taken seriously by the indie press. Hip-hop looks at this, and says, "What is this [expletive]?" I got excited about hip hop production values, the extraordinary drama to their music. They're way ahead of anyone else in terms of working their way around the studio. Someone like Timbaland.
They make pop music. As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.We never wanted to be a garage band. We wanted to get as quick as we could out of the garage. The people who say they like the garage usually have two or three cars parked outside. Rock music is niche.
There was a survey that said 70 percent of youth culture listens to hip-hop. There are lessons to be learned from that. I don't like all the values that go with it sometimes. But I do think we need to take up the challenge. Wherever you go, you hear hip-hop. We want people who aren't in our niche listening to our music. If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting. Rock music was most exciting when it was in the 45 [rpm single], when it was disciplined into a single. Whether it was the Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, Nirvana, the Beatles, the Stones. When the wind starts blowing in the hair, and it meanders off, you can get some great [stuff], but it doesn't interest me as much. The 45 is the pure rock to me. That is why I wanted to be in a band
Radiohead just looked at the pop machine and the machinations of pop and just said, we don't have it in us, we don't have the energy, to have our way with that. I don't hear [Radiohead's] Thom Yorke singing on the radio. I want to hear Radiohead, extraordinary band that they are, on MTV. I want them setting fire to the imaginations of 16, 15, 14 year old kids. I was 14 when John Lennon set fire to my imagination. At that age, you're just [angry], and your moods swing, and it's an incredible time to be hit with something like that. I don't blame them [for not wanting to be on MTV].
But I think, what would my life be like without the Beatles? If the Beatles had just kept going on experimenting after "Sgt. Pepper," I'd be interested to hear it, of course …Our last two albums are essentially about the combo. We used the limitations of the combo. We had 10 years of experimentation. We decided to rope it in, and tie ourselves to only one thing. And that's the only discipline. Is it a great song? Is it fresh? Experimenting in rock is at its best when you dream from the perimeters and bring it back to the center. All my favorite innovators disappear into the woods and bring something back, and you get to hear the songs distilled from those experiments.
I used "Kid A" as an example, because I love the album. We did our "Zooropa," we did our "Passengers," even our "Pop" experiment. There were great ideas on that album. "Discotheque," we viewed it as our response to Peter Gabriel experimenting. We wanted it to be our "Sledgehammer." Imagine if "Discotheque" was a No. 1 pop song? Now that record makes sense. We didn't have the discipline to screw the thing down, and turn it into a magic pop song. We didn't have the discipline to make "Mo Fo" into a loud concoction of rock 'n' roll, trance crossover. We learned from that album. We'd become progressive rock! Ahhh! It's on us!
We decided to rope it in, and tie ourselves to only one thing. And that's the only discipline. Is it a great song?
There was a survey that said 70 percent of youth culture listens to hip-hop. There are lessons to be learned from that.
They want to be relevant in the same way Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift are relevant. That's what they mean by relevance.
"If that's relevant to other people, great" is lovely all by itself, but only if he hadn't already admitted what it was all about when he felt the need to defend U2's creative choices in the middle of (IMO) their worst period as a band. That "take it or leave it attitude" that Bono wants to represent (or that you hope it represents) is found NOWHERE ELSE in their actions or words as of late. They care so much that people will take it, "please, please just take it! Love us! Love us!" it's taking them years to find "perfect pop songs". Bono said that too and whole lot of other stuff.
long post about U2 selling out
So here's some news...and Im not one to post unless its credible. The album will be released this year. Late October early november. Official single to come out late september/early october. The tour will be announced in December with the first date sometime in March/April. The band are looking to release a high paced single to kick off the album.
This comes from the same friend who had given me news for the last 14 years starting with ATYCLB and HTDAAB. He works at universal music in L.A. Things may change but thats what the band have agreed to. Now he did say he believes the band have struggled with this album because Paul McGuinness has not been actively involved with their day to day studio work. Looks like they need their 5 member more than ever. Thats what I know.
The band are looking to release a high paced single to kick off the album.
Why does nobody even consider that making pop songs is what excites them?
Is it that hard to believe that all they want is to write extrovert, poppy rock music with catchy melodies and iconic riffs? That's what they've been doing for most of their career, including Pop by the way, and I really think it's weird to expect anything else all of a sudden.
So here's some news...and Im not one to post unless its credible. The album will be released this year. Late October early november. Official single to come out late september/early october. The tour will be announced in December with the first date sometime in March/April. The band are looking to release a high paced single to kick off the album.
This comes from the same friend who had given me news for the last 14 years starting with ATYCLB and HTDAAB. He works at universal music in L.A. Things may change but thats what the band have agreed to. Now he did say he believes the band have struggled with this album because Paul McGuinness has not been actively involved with their day to day studio work. Looks like they need their 5 member more than ever. Thats what I know.
You don't say? A high paced single to kick off the album? Who could have guessed that?
So here's some news...and Im not one to post unless its credible. The album will be released this year. Late October early november. Official single to come out late september/early october. The tour will be announced in December with the first date sometime in March/April. The band are looking to release a high paced single to kick off the album.
This comes from the same friend who had given me news for the last 14 years starting with ATYCLB and HTDAAB. He works at universal music in L.A. Things may change but thats what the band have agreed to. Now he did say he believes the band have struggled with this album because Paul McGuinness has not been actively involved with their day to day studio work. Looks like they need their 5 member more than ever. Thats what I know.
They're looking for a high paced single huh ? Shouldn't they know already what the single will be ? Out of 11 tracks, the first single should immediately stand-out to the band as the main contender...I mean, they have to pick the "Vertigo" "Beautiful Day" of the bunch and voila !
What say you Jick ?
So here's some news...and Im not one to post unless its credible. The album will be released this year. Late October early november. Official single to come out late september/early october. The tour will be announced in December with the first date sometime in March/April. The band are looking to release a high paced single to kick off the album.
This comes from the same friend who had given me news for the last 14 years starting with ATYCLB and HTDAAB. He works at universal music in L.A. Things may change but thats what the band have agreed to. Now he did say he believes the band have struggled with this album because Paul McGuinness has not been actively involved with their day to day studio work. Looks like they need their 5 member more than ever. Thats what I know.
I'm personally hoping for a blistering, face melting cover of "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
Cheers,
Nick
I hope this is true, but I also hope a "high-paced single" isn't meant to be another Vertigo.
I hope this is true, but I also hope a "high-paced single" isn't meant to be another Vertigo.