The Edge
Hola The Edge
well, it´s easy for you to realize I´m not an usual fan who says "I love you The Edge, You´re the best, U2 always will be the best band in the world, etc, etc", since I´m a musician and I produce my own songs. I´m very critical with my songs, as well as with the music I listen, so, thinking as musician and producer, I always think in how would have been better a certain album. For example, "Pop" has been perfect if it would have included single versions of "Last Night On Earth", "If God Will Send His Angels" and especially "Please", besides changing the tone of "If You Were That Velvet Dress" "Wake Up Dead Man" and to sing it to the style of Pop Mart and Elevation Tour.
I always think a truly great album must comunicate something, in many different ways: For example, with "The Wall" we have a fantastic double LP, with several concepts, some of them more obvious, and some more hidden, making a deep album, that kind of albums you must listen from the first song until the last one if you want to aprecciate the whole album, like "Sgt Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Plastic Ono Band", "Ok Computer" and other ones.
With other albums, sadly, we just have a couple of hit singles ( always the first songs of the album ) but then... filler songs.
A casual U2 fan can think that about "Joshua Tree" or "All That You can´t Live Behind" just checking the tracklisting. But with "Joshua Tree" that guy will find a deep album, with extraordinary non-singles songs like "Running To Stand Still", "Exit", "Bullet The Blue Sky", because I think "Joshua Tree" wasn´t work at 11 singles album.
But... ( sorry Edge but I want to be honest and please respect me ) ATYCLB was that 11 singles style album, making an LP without depth, without a universe of sounds , without concepts, without continuity, etc giving for result an album easy to listen, but lacking of merits to become a disc escencial nor classic.
So I´m wondering
what about this new album ?
What should we have to hope with this new album ?
What do you hope with this new album ?
What´s the sense of that tracklisting ?
What U2 are trying to comunicate with this album ?
Please The Edge, don´t answer "Raw album, rock guitars, etc" you´re a truly genius on guitar, so that kind of answers of answers is not worthy of somebody like you.
And another question:
For so many fans, specially ones who collect bootlegs, South America was without a doubt the best leg of the whole Pop Mart Tour. Truly great performances in Brasil, Argentina and Chile ( specially in Santiago, far better than Mexico City 1997 ), sold Out Stadiums, great audiences, etc.
why have not U2 played in South America again?
Take Care my friend