New Album Discussion 1 - Songs of..... - Unreasonable guitar album

[Registered Dude]

this is fun. I've never seen this.

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I wonder who that is on the lead vocal for 2nd verse (around 0:55)?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

with the america rant at the end... seems like this version of treason was merely.. an idea.

 

[dan_smee]

Deeper voice on the actual recording worked well

 

[PookaMacP]

My word, this is dreadful.

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[MattD]

Christ almighty, awful stuff. More Hallmark style platitudes from him.

I think the final nails are ready to be hammered for Bono's songwriting.

 

[JWR1992]

I don’t think Bono has anything worthwhile to write about anymore

 

[Irvine511]

"The sun and the moon and stars"

wasn't this once a rumored song title? like going back to 1999/2000.

 

[DaveC]

"The sun and the moon and stars"

wasn't this once a rumored song title? like going back to 1999/2000.

It definitely was. I also remember it was a rumored album title for HTDAAB at one point, along with "Solar".

 

[namkcuR]

"The sun and the moon and stars"

wasn't this once a rumored song title? like going back to 1999/2000.

That sounds right.

But, I mean, it's John Lennon before that. We all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Bono co-wrore a few lyrics on a crappy techno song.

Oh no.

It's all over.

 

[JWR1992]

Eh I feel like Bono has had more meh and flat out bad moments than good since SOE

 

[BEAL]

It’s his glasses

 

[DeVaul]

My word, this is dreadful.

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“Bono’s longtime songwriting partner, Simon Carmody“?

 

[vaz020202]

“Bono’s longtime songwriting partner, Simon Carmody“?

I was literally going to post just that.

This is absolute news to me. Never heard of this person before, never been credited

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

That's Simon Carmody.

And he's been credited as recently as the Bomb reissue. Smile.

 

[dan_smee]

Sun moon stars lyrics and Simon carmody credit. Reckon this was unearthed, sent to remixer as not good enough for reassemble and now here we are.

 

[super fly guy]

That's Simon Carmody.

And he's been credited as recently as the Bomb reissue. Smile.

I bet Bono wishes he could delete that photo.

 

[DeVaul]

That's Simon Carmody.

And he's been credited as recently as the Bomb reissue. Smile.

That’s the only time I recall him being credited on a U2 song, and it stuck out to me as it wasn’t mentioned when Smile first was released… only when it got renamed for rerelease on Reassemble.

 

[mikal]

I bet Bono wishes he could delete that photo.

Being on Interference was fun when that photo came out.

 

[super fly guy]

Being on Interference was fun when that photo came out.

I was here at that time,now it has "epstein island" vibes.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

 

[lazarus]

Bikini Line on the Horizon

 

[Fly-2000]

"The sun and the moon and stars"

wasn't this once a rumored song title? like going back to 1999/2000.

Pretty sure it was mentioned in one the old Propaganda issues as a title from Pop, likely became/was used for an early version of Discotheque, since that has a similar line in the Hairy B remix:

 

[AndrewCowley]

Am still thinking there’s a chance of no album and instead they pile everything into a final tour, with Larry of course.

 

[Achtung Ya'll]

Bono co-wrore a few lyrics on a crappy techno song.

Oh no.

It's all over.

Seriously this is an entirely ridiculous over-reaction to this type of song.

 

[mikal]

Am still thinking there’s a chance of no album and instead they pile everything into a final tour, with Larry of course.

If this happened and we got a POP companion album like they gave us for HTDAAB...one that isn't butchered by new vocals, I would probably be more happy than I would be by getting a new album. I get the feeling that there is for sure a full album's worth of POP demos.

 

[Rich79]

If this happened and we got a POP companion album like they gave us for HTDAAB...one that isn't butchered by new vocals, I would probably be more happy than I would be by getting a new album. I get the feeling that there is for sure a full album's worth of POP demos.

My hunch is also that there are a lot of demos for POP, but probably in a much more "sketchbook" manner because of the old rushing to complete it story; to the point they'd be very tempted to "finish" them with extra touches. However, do I see it happening? No. Let's face it. While a POP reissue sounds more likely lately on its upcoming anniversary than I ever thought it would, it's still historically one of the more "Don't look over here" albums in their catalog. My guess is a deluxe edition would/will look like five discs/LPs: 1. remaster 2. the b-sides/outtakes/single-edits we already know 3. & 4. Audio of the Mexico City show 5. A remixes disc of remixes we mostly already know with maybe one or two new remixes thrown in.

 

[MattD]

Why do they continue to pretend Pop doesn't exist? It clearly has its admirers from an artistic point of view, whether that be the fanbase of music media.

Yet on the other hand they continue to batter everyone over the head with the embarrassing slop of the last 10 years.

 

[Irvine511]

My hunch is also that there are a lot of demos for POP, but probably in a much more "sketchbook" manner because of the old rushing to complete it story; to the point they'd be very tempted to "finish" them with extra touches.

This would be my U2 white whale.

Although I lived and breathed this album when it came out, and it remains the tour I saw most (2xNYC, Boston, Montreal), I'm more critical of it than many in here, as I really don't think it's of the quality of many of their other albums. Interesting, sure. But it isn't quite great.

However, I've always wanted to know what they were doing in the mid-90s, beyond Passengers, and how that very weird and very mixed-up record came into being. I think Pop might be an example of when they actually were lazy, that they had huge ambitions -- marrying techno with rock in order to reinvent the genre that had gone stale after grunge -- but they didn't put in enough work to actually pull it off or think it all the way through. sure, you can blame the tour, and Larry's bad back, but I think there was an justifiable overconfidence after Zoo that they could do anything. and they could, but they still had to put in the time, and they may not have had it in them. and this then resulted in their collective PTSD that has given us 21st century U2.

To get something like "Reassemble" for Pop would be a dream.

 

[vaz020202]

Just been listening to the No Line album again.

Before release, I remember the band and producers saying Bono was singing like a bird etc

The only memorable vocal on the album was a line during White as Snow