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.
