Discussion of U2's future: new singles, new tour, etc.

Originally posted by Ariees[..]

haha my bad. i took your post the wrong way..

i feel that u2's tours and albums in the 90s were totally techno based and influenced.

in the 00s hip hop and pop music was huge. i dont really see how ATYCLB AND HTDAAB fit in with the music influences of the era.

today's music really sucks if you ask me. now-a-days im into linkin park, newsboys, keane, coldplay, toby mac, lots of christian based music.

as far as pop music though... regetone, hip hop (which still sucks in my opinion) etc.. pop music is not good now a days.

i would love to see u2 start a totally new sound that will ride a wave for 10 years of future music style similar to how achtung baby paved the way for techno music.

Originally posted by Ariees[..]


in the 00s hip hop and pop music was huge. i dont really see how ATYCLB AND HTDAAB fit in with the music influences of the era.

Originally posted by AllBeacauseOfZoo[..]

I can hear a lot of R&B in U2's music. Before everyone laughs or jumps down my throat, I dont mean R&B as it is used today (artists like beyonce etc ) but real soul...people like eric benet and musiq soulchild.....and where I hear it is Adam. His bass playing sounds very soul influenced and even sometimes reminds me of Bob marley! Listen to the bass in Man and a Woman/Mysterious Ways etc and you'll see what I mean. I think this "funk" factor is what gives U2 the edge (no pun intended) over bands like Coldplay/Oasis......they could never NEVER come up with something as funky as Mysterious Ways!

Originally posted by Arieesi think a man and a woman is a great u2 song. not too powerful or funky but just great music.

same goes for wild honey.. i love these u2 love songs. there a modern day sweetest thing

Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
R&B as in the true rhythm'n'blues? I catch your drift there, for sure

Originally posted by stj0691This album is very influenced by what 60s artists did. They vacationed out in Morocco (I think).

The Beatles..... not the cheesy crap from 1963-1965. I'm talking about Revolver's George Harrison stuff. Fuck Eleanor Rigby. Her time was in ATYCLB.

This album, if anything will be largely influenced by later 60s stuff, the better half of the 60s.

Jimi Hendrix style stuff? That would be crazy. If anything, can Edge do what Pete Townshend did and start smashing guitars? THAT, would be awesome.

So sure, Bono wants to be like John Lennon more and more each album. Whatever. Edge is still from the future. Larry will drum like Mitch Mitchell (JImi Hendrix stuff). Adam, will still play the way he does, but I see that he will be more featured in this album.

If I have learned anything, its that deserts produce the best music:

Where the Streets Have No Name
Paint It Black

ok, maybe thats all I can come up with for now, but I know that they know what they're doing:

It will be a U2 album, nothing like what we've seen, ever. Thats what U2 does. I'm pretty sure they are sick of stereotypical rock stuff.

As for the Achtung 2 idea.... NO. We want the same level of innovation as Achtung, which I think will definitely happen.

Why? Because U2 isn't the kind of band to keep doing the same thing. Thats what the Rolling Stones and the Who and the Beatles and every other band did. They all wanted to have a trademark sound. U2 has no history, which is why they have come up with everything awesome. The Joshua Tree, Achtung, and Pop are their innovative successes. The Joshua Tree - taking a look at American music. Not the 80s shit, but REAL american music like R&B and the blues, which created rock to begin with. Achtung, where they decided to make a new sound..... that sound which BECAME the 90s. Pop, the underrated Pop, now being hailed because the club scene is now bigger than ever. The ideas which were their own, what they wanted to exemplify in their albums made them who they are today. Whatever they are making has some sort of theme. If its as big as the three I've mentioned, we have a winner.

Originally posted by Ariees[..]


to defend electronic/club music.. it was my first love and it came out well before u2's pop.

Originally posted by Yogi[..]

Originally posted by Jcbasket[..]
ATYCLB and HTDAAB are good records in my opinion, just didn't break the mold for future music to come. It was them trying to get back to the status they used to obtain...

Originally posted by AllBeacauseOfZoo[..]

Yes I agree. U2 are the most amazing band in the world but to suggest that they have influenced club music is just plain and simply WRONG!

I have been a DJ for 7 years in Manchester and London in the UK and the big players in this scene probably dont even know who Bono is. I have also been heavily involved in this scene and it is a VAST scene which spans the world- its fairer to say IT has influenced U2- not the other way round!!