womanfish
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
I wonder if the re-recording is some effort at damage control, kind of like JT Tour post-iTunes, and best of 80-90 post-Pop.
That’s not all it is, I’m not that cynical, but success requires strategy.
I think you may be right. But unfortunately I think it would be a bad decision. And is there really "damage" to control? Unless they are still trying to dig out from Apple. But it's not like they didn't just have two really successful tours after the last two albums.
I'll be honest. Reading Adams comments scared the shit out of me. I have just been mulling over how to feel about it for a couple days now.
First the fact that Your Song... came out of actual album sessions... wooo. I mean, best case, Bono took some lyrical idea from there, or maybe there was a chorus that they sort of used to make this song, but it wasn't actually a song that they had come up with independently and then used it for the movie. Please God.
Second, the re-recording of past songs... ugh. I believe Adam a few months ago had mentioned it being acoustic re-interpretations or something. Listen. I am a die-hard fan of 35 years. I have stuck through thick and thin, been about as optimistic as I can each cycle, and always find some good and great things from their releases. But if they are going to go out as an acoustic cover band of themselves. I think it might be my wall.
I'm just imagining them doing an acoustic tour, with a bunch of people sitting in their seats with their hands folded in their laps.

So worst case for me would be they take up almost two years of redoing older songs, release it as an album, go on a full acoustic tour, and then put out an album of NEW shitty acoustic/piano songs.
Best case. They do this acoustic thing. Maybe an EP. Maybe just releasing a song every month or so on streaming platforms. They do a very limited tour of arenas in NY, Chi, LA, London, Paris, Rome, etc.. etc... maybe play with an orchestra each night like the BBC thing. Or, they don't tour it at all.
They get the low key acoustic thing out of their system and are hungry to get back to some rock and guitar greatness, and release one great last album, followed by a full tour.
Not sure how it will play out. But waiting to see over the next 3 years is gonna be brutal.