Songs Of Experience - General album discussions

Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
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My hope is that U2 will return to their passion and their joy of being in a band and making the music they love. To me SOI
was a success at least artistically because they've done just that. It was innocence with a big ironic wink (nothing innocent
about production, ambition & perfection). The sort of wink that makes music timeless, or at least transcend the issues of the day.
If it takes a disguised trip to the nostalgia of the JT, so be it. I'm looking forward to it. But please make it a trip of passion and
of joy and stop whining about relevance. In the words of that famous commercial slogan: Just do it!

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]
That screams of self importance from U2. Like the world has to hear what U2 say on their new album that will probably come out long after the dust settles on whatever narrative they want to preach. I call bullshit. The songs are there and they are in the studio mixing it and overproducing it beyond recognition.

Originally posted by MWSAH:How much I love the announcement of the JT-shows, it also feels a bit like a filler. Let's keep them (audiences and fans) happy while we postpone SOE again.

Let's hope 2017 will be a quiet year in terms of disasters, coups, attacks, etc. Otherwise U2 will indeed never release it. U2 and politics always had a relationship, but postponing an album because of Trump, whether you like him or not, is ridiculous.

Originally posted by bartajax:
Bring on ATYCLB 2 yeeeeehhhhh

Throw us a bone - give us the title of one of the new songs… and a lyric. Are you going to play some of the new songs on TJTT?

Might. My favourite at the moment is “The Little Things That Give You Away”.Here’s a couple of verses:

"The night gave you a song,
a light had been turned on,
You walked out in the world
like you belonged there
As easy as a breeze,
each heart was yours to tease
Is it only me who sees there’s something wrong here
It’s the little things that give you away
The words you cannot say
Your big mouth in the way
It’s the little things that reveal and betray
Has the hunter now become the prey
It’s the little things, the little things
That give you away
I saw you on the stairs
You didn’t notice I was there
That’s cos you were busy talking at me
Not to me
You were high above the storm
A hurricane being born
But this freedom, it might cost you your liberty
It’s the little things that give you away
The words you cannot say
Your big mouth in the way
It’s the little things that reveal and betray
Has the hunter now become the prey
It’s the little things, the little things that give you away"

Theres a very big tangent at the end of this this, that’s very revealing – but that’s enough for now.

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:

Uh, OK: https://t.co/cpuLjt3gQo

— Fakethony Newstano (@theneedledrop) January 13, 2017

BEWARE: If you don't like U2 haters, don't venture forth.

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:

Uh, OK: https://t.co/cpuLjt3gQo

— Fakethony Newstano (@theneedledrop) January 13, 2017

BEWARE: If you don't like U2 haters, don't venture forth.