Originally posted by rmann83Well hello you lot.
Ali I've been very good and i've been very bad. A trip through some of the world's most beautiful countries has a way of breathing new life into you. It's feels like opening all the windows in your house/life and letting a fresh breeze in. But, see recently I'm hitting my 'Fly' phase in life and have been acting like a spoiled rockstar even though I'm not spoiled or a rockstar.
Is this a bad thing? No dude, life couldn't be better
How you doin?
Yogi you and me, same page my friend. U2 is not a theme band, they're not a concept band and they're definitely not a trilogy band. In fact HTDAAB is no sequel to ATYCLB, its got a completely different feel and a whole different color of sunglasses to it.
The only sequels U2 have made were R&H and Zooropa, both on the road albums, far from this next one. But if that's the quality of their sequels, I wouldn't mind another one, would you?
No, I think Bono's done with the cold, dark and heavy. U2's whole career lyrically seems to arc with life itself. We got the wide-eyed baby 'Boy', the burning coming of age in 'War', adolescent and understanding teens in 'Unforgettable Fire', building, searching and making of oneself in 'Joshua Tree' and the flourescent turbulence, tumble and up-down, static-in-the-airwaves freefall through your adult life with 'Zootopia + Pop' (my current phase thankyaveramuch)
The mid-life understanding, mortality and appreciation that would come with age (I imagine)is where 'ATYCLB' found its voice and 'HTDAAB' was a broad look, not only to the world and what it is but a look back at yourself and what you are and where you came from (giving the album a sense of duality which was nice).
No, Bono has never backtracked lyrically and I wouldn't imagine he would with the next (SUPERNOVA!!!) album. The clues are in where he is with his life and I imagine its the sense of his newfound appreciation with music and what it can do to you and what you can see through it . Africa is no doubt playing on his mind and will surface in one form or another in the next album for sure and despite how everyone else feels about that, for that I couldn't be happier.
Because does anyone else remember the effect Africa's beautifully rich light and shadow of poverty cast on Bono? Something about desert plains and dust clouds dissappearing...?
MacPhisto's Fly's words of wisdom:
So if U2 has already looked back at where they came from, what's the next stage in life? Perhaps a tribute to their old material and a bunch of references to their old stuff with the new sound? I doubt that though. It's new and innovative sounding.
So if they've "understood" the world, mortality and whatnot, what's this next album about? Old age? In the words of Keith Moon, talking about "Tommy" (something about a geezer...)
So, I then learned the Who are working on a non-conventional Who album. Odd, since my favorite band always had a theme in their music.
That got me to think this:
Wait, so if they're not a theme band, then why did rmann83 list a common theme in all the songs pertaining to their album? is U2 going to work on a rock opera (just throwing that out there).
So I'm going to throw out everything I think about what the band has done, and think new. Think different. Hell, I'll go to Morocco myself, just to see what sound they're talking about.
Back to my tribute rant. I think U2's going have another duality album, bringing together past and present. When I mean past, I mean the rock heroes we sometimes talk about today like Jimi Hendrix and 60s/70s rock bands. Capturing that sound and bringing it into todays light. That's just me though. I will tell you this:
"Everything You Know Is Wrong
Watch More TV"
So Far...
No Line On the Horizon,
No line between the earth and sky
I'm All Alone
Hold me close
Hold me, kiss me, squeeze me, kiss me, squeeze me
Alone
I'll teach the world Love
No Line On the Horizon...
