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  1. 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.



    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!
  2. 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!

    R&B as in the true rhythm'n'blues? I catch your drift there, for sure
  3. i 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
  4. 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

    Yeah, I like them - Wild Honey is a bit too happy-go-lucky to be a real favourite of mine, but it's still a fun song, and A Man And A Woman is a real album track; I can understand why it never made it live, but it's a real driving song for me, it's got the kind of rhythm I can imagine just lapping up if I were driving down a motorway on a sunny evening or something.
  5. Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
    R&B as in the true rhythm'n'blues? I catch your drift there, for sure


    Yeh exactly. What I think the boys (U2) are getting at with all these influences is that music is trying to evolve out of all these pigeon holes. Listen to Dj's in London like Mark Ronson and Rythem Factory...they just make music that sounds good....ie just pick up their instruments and PLAY...no matter what genre it sounds like.....Im hoping that this new album will be that...and thats why I think in terms of quality of instrument playing.....this is gonna be their best EVER!
  6. 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.


  7. Just give us something brilliant. They might use some new stuff, the technology also improves. Like Edge says in U2 By U2 (oh, yeah...my first 'quote' of the book). He says something like: 'I wanna make new sounds and see how the modern technology can help me with that.'

    Well, that instrument we've been talking about months ago is something like that. The Continuum fingerboard it was called...brilliant if they use that on the album.
  8. Originally posted by Ariees[..]


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



    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!!
  9. Originally posted by Yogi[..]




    great post! I agree with you but I also think every other album was a trademark. Rattle and Hum showed blues and jazz and the gateway into American music. War was boombastic at the time. Although it didn't sound so different than the previous Boy and October it still delivered this raw sense of "tough" that I dont think many bands at the time were doing. Then Unforgettable Fire showcased the first experimental side of them. Groundbreaking, no, however the songs that they nailed were! And then again with Zooropa; no monument, but act of pure innovation. 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, I just don't think the records worked particularly well. Elevation Tour on the other hand is completely different. From what I have heard from the new record and the stuff on Daniel Lanois site, I hear a lot of Hendrix, Beatles, Bowie and Arcade Fire and Achtung Baby U2. Eclectic bands to intertwine but who better than U2 right?
  10. 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...


    Completely agree there...

  11. 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!!


    they might not have influenced them but i am almost 100% positive that your big players in the UK know who Bono is. If you are a musician you pretty much know. I myself have been DJing since 1997 and I knew of U2 (not Bono in particular) but U2 and the songs long before breakbeats/trance/ progressive house.
  12. i see my Pop comment is somewhat controversial...
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