who keep saying "how much more experimental can U2 be those days? Make a country album? Make a Polka album?" bla bla bla...
Who said that in order to be experimental and to make brave, edgy music, U2 has to make a "country, polka or bla bla bla" album?
AB-Zooropa-Passengers-Pop were brilliant magnificent pieces that were both experimental and well succeeded commercial music.
On ATYCLB U2 WASN'T U2. U2 was a boring adult contemporary band trying to be big again in "America". Pop was a big hit all over the world but not in "America". I guess U2 felt the need to be big in the USA again... And they felt they could only make it by producing a boring album... So they gave life to ATYCLB and the experimental days were over...
But U2 was always about being experimental. Boy is experimental. The way Edge played the guitar on that album with all those harmonics and unusual chords were experimental. Nobody did that b4. Not even Television, who had great influence on The Edge. October and War were experimental too. U2 was alone in the 80's. Nobody was making the kind of music they were creating.
You don't need to make a country or polka album to be experimental, ok all you cynics? Just push things to the limit, try harder and create music that is fresh. And don't worry about sales. If it's not big in "America" so be it. The rest of the world will get it.
Who said that in order to be experimental and to make brave, edgy music, U2 has to make a "country, polka or bla bla bla" album?
AB-Zooropa-Passengers-Pop were brilliant magnificent pieces that were both experimental and well succeeded commercial music.
On ATYCLB U2 WASN'T U2. U2 was a boring adult contemporary band trying to be big again in "America". Pop was a big hit all over the world but not in "America". I guess U2 felt the need to be big in the USA again... And they felt they could only make it by producing a boring album... So they gave life to ATYCLB and the experimental days were over...
But U2 was always about being experimental. Boy is experimental. The way Edge played the guitar on that album with all those harmonics and unusual chords were experimental. Nobody did that b4. Not even Television, who had great influence on The Edge. October and War were experimental too. U2 was alone in the 80's. Nobody was making the kind of music they were creating.
You don't need to make a country or polka album to be experimental, ok all you cynics? Just push things to the limit, try harder and create music that is fresh. And don't worry about sales. If it's not big in "America" so be it. The rest of the world will get it.