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  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]Well, Edge, Bono and Adam wore leather jackets on the Dismantle cover, didn't they? That looks rings a bell to me (don't misunderstand me, I love it!).


    Not again. The back of How To Dismantle would have been better as the front cover, and the front as the back cover. The back photo looks like they're actually trying to find something, like trying and dismantling an atomic bomb, or possibly Edge's stolen CD or Bono's briefcase, whereas the front looks like they said "Ah fuck it, I can't find the bloody bomb. I'm gonna take a rest." Certainly not my favourite cover of any album in recent times.

    Still, the use of black, red and white was a pretty cool colour scheme for everything (and matched the theme of the album).
  2. I think Edge is jumping on the hype train, when he agrees with Bono that the record is going to be a JT to AB departure. That is just plain wrong. We have heard 5 of the songs and from them the albums sounds like an evolution of the HTDAAB/ATYCLB sound with some AB thrown in. The boys like their album trilogies remember.

    It's not going to be a "dream it up all over again" kind of record, innovative maybe, but a reinvention U2 are going to reinvent into what ... hip hop? death metal? classical?

    I hope the Edge doesn't truly believe that, it would be a worry, hopefully he is just marketing the new album like his PR people want him to.
  3. BTW wasn't there recordings stolen around HTDAAB? Which the band threatened if they were leaked online, they would launch 'Bomb immediately.

    its 5 years on now, have any of those tracks made it on to the net yet, ie more HTDAAB outtakes like Mercy, like the one with Michael W Smith.


  4. Originally posted by vanquish:I think Edge is jumping on the hype train, when he agrees with Bono that the record is going to be a JT to AB departure. That is just plain wrong. We have heard 5 of the songs and from them the albums sounds like an evolution of the HTDAAB/ATYCLB sound with some AB thrown in. The boys like their album trilogies remember.

    It's not going to be a "dream it up all over again" kind of record, innovative maybe, but a reinvention U2 are going to reinvent into what ... hip hop? death metal? classical?

    I hope the Edge doesn't truly believe that, it would be a worry, hopefully he is just marketing the new album like his PR people want him to.


    You're talking like you've heard the album. Have they let you in to their studio?


  5. No, the beach recordings, while quite hard to hear the lyrics, give you a shockingly clear taste of what the album sounds like.




  6. I think this album is going to be U2's Chinese Democracy..
    appearance will be around 2021, when the boys are in their 60's and this will probably their final studio effort


  8. So your telling me that saying that the album won't be a JT/AB reinvention is a rash call. Have you heard the Beach Clips, it isn't exactly the sound of 4 men dismantling an atomic bomb, (keeping in theme with the JT/AB parallel)

  9. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    So your telling me that saying that the album won't be a JT/AB reinvention is a rash call. Have you heard the Beach Clips, it isn't exactly the sound of 4 men dismantling an atomic bomb, (keeping with the JT/AB parallel)




    It's a rash call to say exactly what the album isn't going to be and that Edge and Bon are wrong for decribing what they think the new album is. You actually don't know. I've made a deliberate decision not to listen to the Beach Clips because it's not the new album.
  10. Originally posted by drewhiggins:Not again. The back of How To Dismantle would have been better as the front cover, and the front as the back cover. The back photo looks like they're actually trying to find something, like trying and dismantling an atomic bomb, or possibly Edge's stolen CD or Bono's briefcase, whereas the front looks like they said "Ah fuck it, I can't find the bloody bomb. I'm gonna take a rest." Certainly not my favourite cover of any album in recent times.

    Still, the use of black, red and white was a pretty cool colour scheme for everything (and matched the theme of the album).
    I agree except on your dislinkg of the cover. I like it a lot
  11. Originally posted by vanquish:BTW wasn't there recordings stolen around HTDAAB? Which the band threatened if they were leaked online, they would launch 'Bomb immediately.

    its 5 years on now, have any of those tracks made it on to the net yet, ie more HTDAAB outtakes like Mercy, like the one with Michael W Smith.





    There were. All Because of You, Miracle Drug, Vertigo and Love and Peace or Else.

    Check the Album Outtakes Thread to see what's leaked and what hasn't so far - it's a pretty good guide. That torrent you linked to, we had a discussion on it a while back and with a file like Open Me.rtf, would you trust it? Believe me, if the album had leaked properly, you'd know, and with a song like 'It's Six O'Clock'? The only bit we know of that - is when Bono plays the song and the opening line goes "It's six o'clock".


  12. The covers fine, but not their best. Them posing in a typical middle aged rock band attitude , fits the 'our first rock album' theme of HTDAAB.

    I like the (still currently used) red & black theme and stripe decor, it's distinctive and powerful like their music.
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