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  1. Originally posted by Buttons:Anybody know where I can find any pics of bono lookalikes trying to show a friend that there are some not the same but close if your not a huge fan you wouldnt know.

    Nevermind I found them, how shocking, I wonder how the stars feel about impersonators.
  2. Originally posted by dieder:If they quit, I hope they'll do it the REM way. Great last album, no tour, and 6 months after release announce 'that's it'.

    LOL
  3. Originally posted by dieder:If they quit, I hope they'll do it the REM way. Great last album, no tour, and 6 months after release announce 'that's it'.

    They better not do that this time then...I'm yet to see them live and am really counting on a next tour!
  4. This band needs to take it's head out of it's ass and start releasing some of the music that they have recorded over the past 6 years. Bono is worried about being relevant in today's music world but if you don't release anything does that not make you irrelevant. The "real" fans are gonna love anything this band releases so let's make the ones that wait the four years between albums happy and start making music again.
  5. Originally posted by AMLBONO:This band needs to take it's head out of it's ass and start releasing some of the music that they have recorded over the past 6 years. Bono is worried about being relevant in today's music world but if you don't release anything does that not make you irrelevant. The "real" fans are gonna love anything this band releases so let's make the ones that wait the four years between albums happy and start making music again.

    +1
  7. Not true. I'm sure a lot of real fans (and there's heaps here) wouldn't think everything U2 ever put out is great.

    Most of Bomb, ATYCLB and most of War is crap. But yes, it would be ideal for the band to put something new out. When was the last time they had a new studio recording out?
  8. Originally posted by AMLBONO:This band needs to take it's head out of it's ass and start releasing some of the music that they have recorded over the past 6 years. Bono is worried about being relevant in today's music world but if you don't release anything does that not make you irrelevant. The "real" fans are gonna love anything this band releases so let's make the ones that wait the four years between albums happy and start making music again.

    I'm gonna go with Drew and disagree with you here, I have high hopes for their next album and I don't think everything they release is amazing. Those aren't "real" fans you're describing, those are "fanboys", people who are so in love with a band they can't even think critically about them like they should be able to.
  9. that's it

    even if one (like me) can be so in love with the band and still think even more critically about them right for that
  10. Sorry if my message came off a little unclear. What I meant by the statement "real" fans are gonna love anything they put out is that U2 have been so concerned about being relevant and looking the perfect album that we just want to hear some new music. I take the song North Star as an example. When this song was performed in concert during some nights on the 360 Tour the crowd sang it right back to Bono which he credited to the internet. Fans seemed to genuinely like the song so why not release it (and other songs). I am not a fanboy as described by RattleandHum1988 and I can critically think and speak to their work.
  11. Originally posted by AMLBONO:Sorry if my message came off a little unclear. What I meant by the statement "real" fans are gonna love anything they put out is that U2 have been so concerned about being relevant and looking the perfect album that we just want to hear some new music. I take the song North Star as an example. When this song was performed in concert during some nights on the 360 Tour the crowd sang it right back to Bono which he credited to the internet. Fans seemed to genuinely like the song so why not release it (and other songs). I am not a fanboy as described by RattleandHum1988 and I can critically think and speak to their work.

    Ah, well that makes more sense. I agree that I think right now we'd be happy to hear anything, but whether we're happy with the work is another story!
  12. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    Ah, well that makes more sense. I agree that I think right now we'd be happy to hear anything, but whether we're happy with the work is another story!

    Yes, indeed. I wasn't fond of the Glastonbury song, for instance. (And I'm not a great fan of Mercy either, for the record!) But I did like other new songs, e.g. Boy Falls, North Star, EBW, and other stuff that at some point leaked via youtube.

    I think they've still got the potential to do great work, although I hope they won't get as stressed as they got in 2008/2008. They'll do really great work if they'll have fun while doing it.
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