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MrsSpringsteen said:
I am renewed through March of next year but I don't see any way to order the hoodie.
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When you last renewed if you selected the "future gift" option or whatever they called it, click on "account info" under your profile and there will be "gift status" on the left just under the renew option and you can select your size, and it takes you to the page to place the order.
 
ESPN is giving Lil Wayne fans a sneak peek at his The Carter VI album mere hours before it arrives.

Unreleased track “The Days” featuring Bono has been used in a promo ad for game one of the NBA Finals between the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday (June 5).
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“I pledge allegiance to what I believe in/ Live to fight another day,” he raps. “I ain’t getting younger, but I’m getting better/ No time to waste that’s another man’s treasure/ They say every dog has hit day.” The U2 frontman then takes the baton to handle chorus duties. “These are the days,” Bono sings.
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Hewson said:
When you last renewed if you selected the "future gift" option or whatever they called it, click on "account info" under your profile and there will be "gift status" on the left just under the renew option and you can select your size, and it takes you to the page to place the order.
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Well that explains it, I don't have a future gift. I was actually foolish enough to think they were giving the hoodies to everyone. But Bono Adam Edge and Larry do have to eat, so I will sacrifice the hoodie.
 
WTF, a hoodie?

What a random turn of events. And no email from u2.com to actually tell me about the hoodie but I'm sure it'll come at some point.
 
Rich79 said:
I was in the fan club in 23 for Sphere tickets, but the prior gifts and minimal benefit otherwise never enticed me (aside from maybe that e+i tour DVD that was never made commercially available).

This hoodie almost makes me want to sign back up...almost. I don't care for pullover hoodies, but this feels like a step in the right direction for the gifts and I'm a bit surprised by the reaction here. It seems generally positive in social posts that I've seen. I'd take this over a CD of live tracks I'll listen to once or a book of lyrics that'll gather dust on a shelf.
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Truth be told, it’s mostly the tickets deal for me too. But I was always happy getting actual music and live downloads with these things. A few of the other bands I’d pay never really offered much more than a Xeroxed welcome letter and items I’d never use, like generic earbuds or a tote bag.

But it’s hard to admit that there wasn’t at least some thought put into these items, whether it be posters or vinyl or CDs, etc. And I suppose while a sweatshirt isn’t the most exciting thing, it is at least a change of pace for some.
 
Funny how the fab club started out just sending photocopied booklets as the first issues of Propaganda or what would become Propaganda was. That was so cool, because info was not as easily accessible. I used to have all the issues going back to number one. Then REM and Pearl Jam would send out fan club singles, so fun! Does anyone still do cool fan club stuff anymore?
 
Irvine511 said:
Eve is just as confused as the rest of us.
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this is legitimately hilarious lmao

for real, when the hell did bono and lil wayne meet???

how did that go??

that sounds like the premise for an SNL sketch lol

bowen yang as bono with kenan thompson as lil wayne hopelessly trying to understand each others' accents
 
As Headache said earlier, the lyric videos coming out for old songs is strange enough, but it's downright infuriating when it's for a song from an album that the band seems to actively loathe and tries to ignore, much to the chagrin of its most ardent fans.
 
Seems to reek of album delay. Like they thought they would have had new music out by now. So, instead here's a bunch of "remember us?!" videos. I still have to wonder though what the point is. The hardened fans haven't forgotten them and they likely aren't going to attract newbies by releasing these. Tis a head-scratcher.
 
I've actually seen a few artists doing this. There are random lyric videos popping up for old tunes. Talking Heads just released a music video for Psycho Killer, which is almost 50 years old.
 
The only thing I can think of for 'Wake Up Dead Man' is the next Knives Out film:

"As it turns out, Wake Up Dead Man shares its title with a 1997 U2 song off their album Pop. “Pop is a very underrated album, and that song is very right for the title,” Johnson tells us. “But I’ve had ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ in my head for a long while, and I first heard the phrase in American folk music.”

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Fly-2000 said:
The only thing I can think of for 'Wake Up Dead Man' is the next Knives Out film:

"As it turns out, Wake Up Dead Man shares its title with a 1997 U2 song off their album Pop. “Pop is a very underrated album, and that song is very right for the title,” Johnson tells us. “But I’ve had ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ in my head for a long while, and I first heard the phrase in American folk music.”

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Bono's melody is decent and the vocals are fine. But Christ, the lyrics are - to use our own clichés- Hallmark's finest platitudes. That's Chris Martin style nonsense.

Anyhow, does anyone reckon the vocals are from over ten years ago? Not quite as frayed as recent years. Add to the fact that RedOne is listed as a 'producer,' (i.e. codeword for co-songwriter/collaborator in U2's world, and the only credit he has on the Lil Wayne album), I reckon this is sampled from those RedOne sessions from 2010-2011.
 
MattD said:
Anyhow, does anyone reckon the vocals are from over ten years ago? Not quite as frayed as recent years. Add to the fact that RedOne is listed as a 'producer,' (i.e. codeword for co-songwriter/collaborator in U2's world, and the only credit he has on the Lil Wayne album), I reckon this is sampled from those RedOne sessions from 2010-2011.
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The song is weak, but this is the glimmer of hope we can take from this. Is this U2 finally giving up on the EDM idea and dumping all of the work they did with Guetta, RedOne, etc?Fingers crossed it means they've turned a corner completely on that idea.
 
So things that are probably from this redone period:

- we are the people
- stars don’t go
- the days
- skyscrapers

Anything else?
 
I guess the lyric videos are a low cost way to get more content out on Youtube. Stuff that will be there forever more for people to see, generate a wee bit of income and all that jazz. Its just seems like a random number generator is picking the order that they're being done in.

If there's a bunch of songs from the RedOne period which were finished in one for or another, they could easily release those digitally as part of a "lost albums" series like Springsteen is doing as part of a box set.
 
Just listened to it. I really don’t dislike it. It doesn’t make me cringe, it doesn’t stick out (in a bad way)

It fits really well and doesn’t sound like a ‘try hard’
 
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