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  1. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:It's been said that things always change in the 11th hour, with U2. And that is true.

    Bono went in and recut the vocal to "A Sort Of Homecoming", literally as the tapes were to go to mastering. Yet, they put the tapes up, he nailed it, improved upon it, and the album was better for it.

    Achtung Baby is another example. Everyone from band, crew to producers have said that if that album came out, even a week earlier, it'd have been a different animal. Many mixes and ideas changed in the 11th hour.

    I understand REMY and agree that I hope that they don't OVER think it or OVER produce it. I do think that any 'problems' with HTDAAB were over-cooking some bits.

    Example?
    The guitars are music are much more razor sharp on "Native Son" than they are on "Vertigo". I'm not saying "Vertigo" is bad or week, I'm saying the guitars on "Native Son" are sharper, and in my view better. It goes back to what they said in interviews, that they were listening to their early influences and recapturing that spirit.

    That said, the Jacknife Lee 7" mix of Vertigo, is ALSO better (rawer, sharper, better mix) than the album version (Has a lyric difference or two also).

    So time used wisely and with inspiration = The Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby goodness. Let's hope it is in that vein that they are travelling and not watering anything down for 'radio'.


    exactly!
    thank you for this.... very well put!
  2. 50/60 songs
    I want them all lol...

    Probably half of those are weak...
  3. I must say that I am getting a little bored with the 'let's re-release all the old albums and cash in before our new LP comes out' CD's!!!
    Oasis are around with a superb new tune, new LP due and a World Tour shceduled, what a shock, U2 put back the release of the new CD until their tour finishes.....Um, conspiracy?
  4. About the anger on HTDAAB...they left it out and made them B-Sides..: Native Son, Xanax and Wine, Are You Gonna Wait Forever. These songs have anger in them.

    One thing in this all is certain though: Bono is saying a lot of things, even too much for himself to udnerstand, I think.
  5. Originally posted by chloesdad1:I must say that I am getting a little bored with the 'let's re-release all the old albums and cash in before our new LP comes out' CD's!!!
    Oasis are around with a superb new tune, new LP due and a World Tour shceduled, what a shock, U2 put back the release of the new CD until their tour finishes.....Um, conspiracy?


    aww come on you gotta be kidding. U2 worrying about what Oasis) are up to? Not a chance


  6. Agree with you...the new material from Oasis is decent, strong but nothing special to me. Must say I'm not that much of a fan though.
  8. U2 isn't worrying about any band in the world, whatever will be released.
  9. http://www.atu2blog.com/2008/09/03/scattered-thoughts-2009-optimism/




    a good piece....good video of Bono and Ron Wood talking and Bono actually states something about how bands are now taking years to make records, and how the Joshua Tree took 3 or 4 months, which Bono said was too long and that he doesn't want to spend that much time in a studio.....haha
  10. Oasis have only two good songs wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger.

    The only real competition this year was from Coldplay.
  11. Originally posted by vanquish:Oasis have only two good songs wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger.

    The only real competition this year was from Coldplay.


    yeah i was just thinking the other day that Coldplay officially has the "album of the year" title
  12. Coldplay aren't even entered in any competition. They shouldn't be anyway. I hate how everyone at my school is all "Have you heard Coldplay's new album?" or "Have you heard Viva La Vida?".

    Okay, maybe not everyone at my school, a majority of the population there wouldn't even know who Led Zeppelin or the Beatles are. But all I'm saying is, Coldplay are just one of those new bands that DON'T sound like every other band these days, which I give them credit for, thats good. But that doesn't mean they're a great band. They're just different, and they're stuff is repetitive and Chris Martin is just annoying with that Falsetto of his. Who does he think he is? Timerlake? (just kidding)

    If U2 comes out with their new album this year, it will blow every other album that's come out among the popular music scene out of the water. No band or artist that teens like now days (Coldplay is one of them) can compete with any band that was out before like 1995. Most people suck now days. There are some exceptions, but still. Nothing will ever come close to classic bands. Thats why I don't listen to the Top 40 or watch Much Music or MTV or anything like that.
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