Originally posted by u2joost:I can see your point!
so not track 2, but I still think a complete rework (acoustic, singer songwriter-style) could work for this song.
I think 11 songs in total is pretty sure though...
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
I hope you meant BD and not Bad
Originally posted by RUMMY:[..]
I personally have mixed feeling about the above group of songs but one thing for sure is that I wish they'd play Kite more often.
Originally posted by u2joost:Tonight I dreamt about the tracklist of "Songs of Experience":
I wonder if some of it turns out to be true....
1. Beautiful Ghost (Introduction to songs of experience)
(rock version: the track starting with a long, ruthless guitarsolo-intro to silence all the "where was Edge on SOI?" - moaning..., then parts of the poem, followed by more guitar)
2. Invisible.
(not the synth-heavy version we know, but a dirty, goosebumpy acoustic version).
3. new song
4. new song
5. new song
6. Dreaming it all up again.
7. Red
8. new song
9. new song
10. new song
11. North Star (full force guitar version with long outro chorus, a cross between Love is Blindness and 40)
Originally posted by ahn1991:Let's be honest. If U2 decides not to put Invisible on the tracklist, I'm perfectly fine with it because it means they must have enough new songs to bridge the gap.
Originally posted by LikeASong:U2 is featured on the next issue of Time Magazine...
http://time.com/3393297/u2-apple-new-digital-format/
As an article in the new issue of TIME reveals, Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr believe so strongly that artists should be compensated for their work that they have embarked on a secret project with Apple to try to make that happen, no easy task when free-to-access music is everywhere (no) thanks to piracy and legitimate websites such as YouTube. Bono tells TIME he hopes that a new digital music format in the works will prove so irresistibly exciting to music fans that it will tempt them again into buying music—whole albums as well as individual tracks. The point isn’t just to help U2 but less well known artists and others in the industry who can’t make money, as U2 does, from live performance. “Songwriters aren’t touring people,” says Bono. “Cole Porter wouldn’t have sold T-shirts. Cole Porter wasn’t coming to a stadium near you.”
(...)
There’s more music on the way, not just an acoustic version of Songs of Innocence and bonus tracks but also a whole new album and a world tour. Plus there’s their not inconsequential plan to save the music industry, news that will doubtless draw more 140-character darts in their direction.
And other interesting pieces
