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  1. Rolling Stone hit the nail on the head. make the next album/tour cycle for the fans, not the public.

    like a wise man once said, they might lose some of the pop kids, but they don't need them.
  2. Originally posted by clover68i'm quite agree with what's written
    i always find curious that always only Bono is named in certain sentences
    they are 4!


    Because Bono is the only one flapping his gums about relevance and radio play.
  3. ok but they're not Oasis or Bono & the E Street Band
  4. I guess "lead vocalist" goes beyond just the music.

    Rolling Stone is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.

    They are right this time - very right.
  6. Bravo!

    I think I'll go and have a beer now.
  7. I certainly hope U2 doesn't decide to wage war with Lady Gaga and other artists who base their entire careers on pumping out songs to be played on the top 40 or top 100 or whatever they are calling the radio these days.

    Look at all of the big rock acts out there. Coldplay and Muse songs aren't getting any plays on the radio simply because the work they do isn't what the radio stations want. But frankly speaking, what the radio stations want are generic, shallow tunes. U2 needs to recognize that they are not a radio band. They are a record band. It's a formula that has worked for them repeatedly. Release a stellar record and take the world by storm with an otherworldly tour.

    As for their direction, I suspect they will try to go back to basics and look at what worked and what didn't. I personally hope they revisit their HTDAAB album and play around with that motif again. While people may hate that album, I personally think it was their most relevant album regarding the sound and lyrics.
  8. and do you really think Bono is totally in comand for the directions to take and whatever?!
    we would have had an album labeled U2 - Spiderman flies to mars lately .. just for making one example.
    the only true thing is that he's a big mouth since .. uhm .. ever
  9. I don't really think it's fair to say "it's what radio wants"....radio wants LISTENERS, and frankly on a drive between the shopping mall and my house I'm far more likely to want to rock out to something accessible like "Summer of '69" or even modern pop like that Usher/David Guetta song "Without You" than I am some epic tune like Stairway to Heaven or a powerful masterpiece like The Doors' "Light My Fire".

    Point remains though, radio shouldn't be their main concern. Bono needs to have trust in a fanbase again.
  10. Or rather, Edge needs to step in and take a huge creative control and convince the band to listen to what he has to say. He's the only one who stands by GOYB as being a good first single, which means he's down for the different. He didn't watch it flop and then go "Oh well clearly we made a bad decision because the people didn't play it 10,000 times". He doesn't care what they think about it.

    If the others had realized GOYB wasn't going to be great radio, and instead tried for the poppest, friendliest hit first, we would have gotten Crazy Tonight as the first single, and how excited would we all have been that January morning that the first single dropped in 2009 hearing the same old textbook anthemic pop that they've been churning out for 10 years now? We would have been pissed.
  11. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3Or rather, Edge needs to step in and take a huge creative control and convince the band to listen to what he has to say. He's the only one who stands by GOYB as being a good first single, which means he's down for the different. He didn't watch it flop and then go "Oh well clearly we made a bad decision because the people didn't play it 10,000 times". He doesn't care what they think about it.

    If the others had realized GOYB wasn't going to be great radio, and instead tried for the poppest, friendliest hit first, we would have gotten Crazy Tonight as the first single, and how excited would we all have been that January morning that the first single dropped in 2009 hearing the same old textbook anthemic pop that they've been churning out for 10 years now? We would have been pissed.


    Well, Edge complained about GOYB too, it's right there in the Q mag that's dedicated to the 20 years of AB. He said he sees now how it could be so much better song.
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