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  1. Originally posted by dieder:This talk is really frustrating. In a few months one of the band will be quoted that it's really new and experimental and that it's really gonna be their best ever. For them to do something they have to lose Brian Eno, doesnt matter how good he's been, he's now better suitable for Coldplay. Bring in Flood


    Omg I was thinking of writing that Flood or Rubin, they need a proper rock n roll album again, what they really need is a good proper anthem like Vertigo or Beautiful Day.
  2. Originally posted by dieder:This talk is really frustrating. In a few months one of the band will be quoted that it's really new and experimental and that it's really gonna be their best ever. For them to do something they have to lose Brian Eno, doesnt matter how good he's been, he's now better suitable for Coldplay. Bring in Flood


    Still gets me excited though...even though I know it's just talk. Dammit, U2!
  4. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    I dunno, new Bono seems a bit lazy - at least when it comes to songwriting. I was watching R&H (particularly the scene where Bono is reading the lyrics to WLCTT to BB King) and it just reminded me how different his songwriting was back then as compared to now.

    It's much more clunky and not as elegant, even songs like MoS or UC which have good lyrics will have some hammy line like "ATM machine" which detracts from the song.

    Anyone else notice this? It started around the ATYCLB era and is everywhere by the time HTDAAB rolled around.

    Maybe it's just middle age or he's given up being perfectionist in his lyric writing like he was in the 80s/90s.

    But as it is now, while it doesn't really affect their rock/pop tunes (like Crazy Tonight etc.) it willl somewhat hamper any attempts at a Zooropa like album.


    Yeah I've been thinkin about this too, especialy the ATM machine thing does't fit with the rest of the song, although Magnificent and Being Born have lyrics with a sense of spirt and wonder.

    I'd like another song like Ultraviolet eg. "your love was a lightbulb hanging over my bed"

    A new rock and roll album would suit me fine, maybe with more experimental like Achtung Baby and with rocky-ness of Vertigo
  5. like what i read about 3 possible albums
  6. I agree with the change on Bono's songwriting. It's much less poetic now, less metaphores, less images and more cheesy and easy lyrics...
  7. We need a new mole digging in a hole.
    A cat wearing a hat or something like that. Now that's poetic.


  8. We had that kind of poetry:

    I got a submarine
    You got gasoline

    Will be remembered in 100 years


  9. and if you ask Bono, he will tell you that Edge is "on fire" this time!
  11. I guess we have good news about new stuff, but I'll wait till something more official comes to get excited about it



  12. Epic stuff
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