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  1. Not completely, but then you could say The Wanderer doesn't belong on Zooropa, When Love Comes To Town wasn't a true U2 song, North Star doesn't belong on any forthcoming album, The Saints Are Coming, Don't Give Up, Rockin' In The Free World and Tower of Song weren't proper U2 songs, either.

    They all had the same concept of other singers taking parts or taking over almost completely.


    Sure it is connected with NLOTH... That Bono shot looks like a cover shot for the album to me...


    Now, I don't think it is for a cover shot. Listen to the first few seconds where someone says "playback". Playback is for a video shoot of some kind. Looking at the video, it looked like the Please video, right towards the end.
  2. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Not completely, but then you could say The Wanderer doesn't belong on Zooropa, When Love Comes To Town wasn't a true U2 song, North Star doesn't belong on any forthcoming album, The Saints Are Coming, Don't Give Up, Rockin' In The Free World and Tower of Song weren't proper U2 songs, either.

    They all had the same concept of other singers taking parts or taking over almost completely.





    wellllll those songs were written by U2, as a band and happen to have been collaborations as well, Ballad of Ronnie Drew, was a collaborative effort that U2 was involved with but it's just as much a Sinead O'Connor song as it is a U2 song for that matter, or a Corrs song, so many people were involved with it, i'm just saying it's not a "formal" U2 song
  3. Originally posted by thefly07:[..]

    don't think we can make serious assumptions on the new album based on the beach clips, they surely offer something, but for one the audio is more or less crap and you can't really hear everything going on, they definitely wet the appetite, but I don't feel like i have heard the new album just because I have heard some shoddy fan recordings on the beach, my interest is just more than peaked


    If you listen closely to the clips, in bed in the dark like I did. You can tune out most of the noises and focus on the songs being played. While its very hard to make out the lyrics, you can clearly hear the structure and overall sound of the song.

    Make no mistake, I think the album will be great, better than HTDAAB but hoping for an AB style soundscape shift (and encouraged by such comments from the band) is mindless optimism, which will just lead to disappointment when the final product doesn't meet such lofty expectations.
  4. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    If you listen closely to the clips, in bed in the dark like I did. You can tune out most of the noises and focus on the songs being played. While its very hard to make out the lyrics, you can clearly hear the structure and overall sound of the song.

    Make no mistake, I think the album will be great, better than HTDAAB but a hoping for an AB style reinvention (and encouraged by such comments from the band) is mindless optimism, which will just lead to disappointment when the final product doesn't meet such lofty expectations.


    As George Michael once said....Gotta have Faith!
  5. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    If you listen closely to the clips, in bed in the dark like I did. You can tune out most of the noises and focus on the songs being played. While its very hard to make out the lyrics, you can clearly hear the structure and overall sound of the song.

    Make no mistake, I think the album will be great, better than HTDAAB but hoping for an AB style soundscape shift (and encouraged by such comments from the band) is mindless optimism, which will just lead to disappointment when the final product doesn't meet such lofty expectations.


    did you hear the beach clips for HTDAAB? I was listening to those as if to get a sense of the album and the songs sounded totally and completely different and shattered my assumptions for the album, and I do think they are capable of doing something ABish again, in regards to changing the sonic landscape again
  6. I hope the best...Would love a surprise release, that would make my christmas the best ever.
  7. I find the new clip very clever and for once, it does look like a considerable info they're giving us there
  8. I can say that U2 could be touring the Summer in the US next year...let's just say someone told someone else who's in the concert biz that U2 were one of the acts for next summer.

    Oh, and can we keep this U2start's little secret, considering my friend said she would kill me if I said anything
  9. Originally posted by stj0691:I can say that U2 could be touring the Summer in the US next year...let's just say someone told someone else who's in the concert biz that U2 were one of the acts for next summer.

    Oh, and can we keep this U2start's little secret, considering my friend said she would kill me if I said anything?


    Once it's on the net you can't stop it
  11. Originally posted by stj0691:I can say that U2 could be touring the Summer in the US next year...let's just say someone told someone else who's in the concert biz that U2 were one of the acts for next summer.

    Oh, and can we keep this U2start's little secret, considering my friend said she would kill me if I said anything?

    Thanks for the info, I'll keep it secret!
    And in Europe they will probably play in the fall 2009. Let's see.
  12. Damn.
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