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Originally posted by Yogi:[..]

It's not unfinished, that's just urban legend between U2 fans. As an artist, I can buy a paper and draw one line over it and say it's finished. But I can also draw two lines. Will that make first artwork unfinished? No, because it's piece of art.

Same thing with Pop. That album is perfect.

Originally posted by shkee23:[..]

Well, actually according to the band, they were forced to release the album before they really fine-tuned the songs. Bono said, "If we'd just had another month, we could have finished it." In that way, it was an unfinished record because their vision of it was not realized. They sort of corrected that on the singles released for the album because they had more time to work on them (they were done throughout the PopMart tour).

"U2 and Muse band members chilled together after wrapping up their South American stadium tour, and wound up jamming and singing karaoke in a secret nightclub gig in Brazil at which they covered songs by The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Talking Heads.

NME reported yesterday that the Wednesday night (04/13/11) crowd at the Sao Paulo nightclub Bar Secreto were entertained by U2’s Bono and Larry Mullen, who joined forces with Muse’s Dom Howard to perform David Byrne and company’s classic track ‘Psycho Killer.’

Later in the evening, U2 guitarist The Edge belted out karaoke-style versions of Bowie's 'Let's Dance' and The Stones' 'Miss You'.

Muse warmed up the veteran Irish rockers at a number of dates in Brazil and Argentina. "

Originally posted by u2joost:quote from NME and www.examiner.com:


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I'm kinda curious....

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

It's on youtube. It was posed in the Brazil topic.

Eno made the discovery while recording with the band after Mullen rejected his use of a click track to keep the beat.

"I was working with Larry Mullen, Jr on one of the U2 albums," Eno tells the New Yorker magazine. "'All That You Don't Leave Behind', or whatever it's called."

"I said, 'No, that can't be so, Larry'," Eno recalls. "'We've all worked to that track, so it must be right'. But he said, 'Sorry, I just can't play to it'."

Mullen thought that the click track was slightly off and insisted it was a fraction of a beat behind the rest of the band. "I said, No, that can't be so, Larry," Eno recalls. "We've all worked to that track, so it must be right." But he said, "Sorry, I just can't play to it."

Eno eventually adjusted the click to Mullen's satisfaction, but he was just humouring him.

It was only after the drummer had left, that Eno checked the original track again and realised that Mullen was right: the click was off by six milliseconds.

"The thing is," Eno says, "when we were adjusting it I once had it two milliseconds to the wrong side of the beat, and he said, 'No, you've got to come back a bit'. Which I think is absolutely staggering."