NLOTH: General discussion thread

Originally posted by iTim:Not the best place to put the Q watermark on The Edge.

Originally posted by Genaro92U2:I hate Bono's "modern" Fly glasses I LOVE THE Vertigo era Bono glasses the one pic of bonos side face HAHA those rock hard.

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

The other Vertigo-era glasses are nicer with the cut open arms. Those look cheap - and probably more flimsy than the other types.

Great pictures - I thought Bono looked a bit like Keith Richards.

Originally posted by Genaro92U2:[..]

Keith ROX HARD Yea bono looks better with the glasses that have the star on the side. and he should change the hat for another one.

Hat - good idea, poorly chosen.

Jacket makes him look like an old gentlemen

Bono had just finished playing me a demo track from their upcoming album, a song called "No Line on the Horizon" that he was inspired to slip into the CD player by the gorgeous white sunset settling over the surrounding mountains.

Bono looks back at the guitarist and says, "Edge -- look, it's 6 o'clock," and the two look from the green digits on the stereo to each other. Bono explains that numbers are significant in each of the new songs, and slips in another CD that may be the first track on the album. It's opening lyric is, "It's six o'clock..."

I said, "Isn't it weird how certain numbers seem to turn up in our lives? It seems like this kind of thing is especially common kind of game with musical people, who must make numbers and patterns a part of their art." "Yeah, we like numbers," Bono says.

Some friends of mine in a Pittsburgh band called Race the Ghost have that thing with 316, which would pop up with all of us at strange times -- the address of a party, part of an important phone number, the title of a Van Halen song, the row and seat number at a concert...

"Three-sixteen?" Bono says, turning down the music to ponder it. For a moment I think he's going to dismiss the phenomenon. Then he jerks his head toward the guitarist and says knowingly: "Edge's is 42."

"I discovered recently that it is actually the secret number of the universe," The Edge says.

"What is it?" Bono asks, and The Edge repeats himself. Bono feigns concern and says, "Steady on, The Edge..."

"Why is that funny? Quite honestly..." The Edge replies. He's so stoic it's hard to tell if he's joking -- but he's joking. "It was in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...But scientists have recently discovered that it's actually true..."

Originally posted by aussiemofo:Some good little updates in the last couple of days guys! Thanks for posting!

Some observations/quesitons from me:

1) No Line On The Horizon sounds like the first single - similar sort of cheap rockin' number to Vertigo.

2) I'm not giving up on Mercy yet. (A manifestation of it could be hidden in amongst one of the tracks with a different name).

3) Still no word on McGuinness's comment a couple of months ago on the "innovative" album cover. "Co-efficient" or whatever he was talking about

Originally posted by Yogi:[..]

1. NLOTH will not be Vertigo-like, I'm sure. Get on Your Boots or Crazy Tonight might be.

2. Mercy would not fit onto new album as we know it. It's totally HTDAAB song. So we'll not hear it or we will but it will be completely reworked.

Originally posted by iTim:Not the best place to put the Q watermark on The Edge.

Originally posted by Genaro92U2:[..]
Yea i also dont see why people are so obsessed with mercy on the next album i mean come on that is so HTDAAB i want the album to be completely different to that.

Originally posted by MWSAH:I usually hate it too talk about the looks of the band, but Bono surely dropped some weight in the past few months. He's like the skinny Zoo-Bono.