1. Possibly the most lowkey of them all...and that's including 4th of July
  2. Billboard posted an article more or less rehashing what U2.com said, but included that one of their sources who has heard some of the material said it's, "amazing, and a little out there. I hope they don't change anything"......that sounds good
  3. My 'stupid little man' comments were in reference to Leave Behind and was clearly a little light hearted. They wanted 12 singles to make up and album. In my opinion that is just the wrong way to make an album. Singles are often over produced and cheesy and putting 12 of those on one album made a terrible album in my opinion. Bonos comments referencing the new album to JT and AB could be just a little too much. He says in that article that they are just making music for the sake of it so why the need to compare it to their greatest 2 albums? That just sets the bar extremely high leading to added pressure on the bad and giving us massive expectations that I think the band will struggle to fulfill but .. . . . .that doesnt mean the cant.
  4. Originally posted by germcevoy:My 'stupid little man' comments were in reference to Leave Behind and was clearly a little light hearted. They wanted 12 singles to make up and album. In my opinion that is just the wrong way to make an album. Singles are often over produced and cheesy and putting 12 of those on one album made a terrible album in my opinion. Bonos comments referencing the new album to JT and AB could be just a little too much. He says in that article that they are just making music for the sake of it so why the need to compare it to their greatest 2 albums? That just sets the bar extremely high leading to added pressure on the bad and giving us massive expectations that I think the band will struggle to fulfill but .. . . . .that doesnt mean the cant.


    But did he ever compare ATYCLB or HTDAAB to AB or JT?
    I going to back the B-Man on this one!


  5. Even mentioning those albums sets a massive expectation on the album. I hope they can pull it off.
  6. Originally posted by BonoWe have what it takes, we have the songs, new rhythms and a guitar player who is not ready to re-enter earth's atmosphere until he's taken a slice of the moon![...]people don’t want another U2 album unless it is our best ever album. It has to be our most innovative, our most challenging … or what’s the point ?



    Originally posted by Bono"There’s only one reason for U2 to put an album out right now — it has to be a monster, a dragon, and this is. [...] It's filled with big tunes and it's driven by a guitar player who is sick of the sight of me shaking hands with dodgy politicians. The anger is unbelievable."




  7. 'the anger is unbelievable' omfg hahaha. One Step Closer, A Man And A Woman, Original. . . .
  8. Sceptics!
  9. In the end I don't feel a delay is good.
    It doesn't seem necessary when they already have 50 or 60 (!) songs!
    If that number is really true (I've learned to take the way Bono hypes new albums with a BIG pince of salt), then they are in fact many times more productive then they've ever ever been. In my perception none of the albums really have more then say 5 or 6, or maybe 10 'leftovers' that don't make it to the final twelve.
    Delay usually means 'overproduced' which means: smooth instead of raw, safe instead of daring, radiofriendly instead of transitional and exciting........ please don't "soften the edges" now, please don't let creativity and intuitivity smother in to much rationality



    (sorry if i sound to pessimistic, let's hope they are really on a big creative wave right now and make a 2cd with 22 new songs........... )
  10. Originally posted by u2joost:In the end I don't feel a delay is good.
    It doesn't seem necessary when they already have 50 or 60 (!) songs!
    If that number is really true (I've learned to take the way Bono hypes new albums with a BIG pince of salt), then they are in fact many times more productive then they've ever ever been. In my perception none of the albums really have more then say 5 or 6, or maybe 10 'leftovers' that don't make it to the final twelve.
    Delay usually means 'overproduced' which means: smooth instead of raw, safe instead of daring, radiofriendly instead of transitional and exciting........ please don't "soften the edges" now, please don't let creativity and intuitivity smother in to much rationality



    (sorry if i sound to pessimistic, let's hope they are really on a big creative wave right now and make a 2cd with 22 new songs........... )


    That's not entirely true, HTDAAB also had thirty+ songs. You can however put your question marks with what Bono means by 'songs'. It means they have fifty sets of lyrics and a melodies. Some would call that songs, others just pieces of music. It surely doesn't mean that they are fifty full songs which can be put on an album.