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  5. I was crazy when i first posted on u2start lol

    Originally posted by stj0691:First off, ny nickname will be MacPhisto's Fly, or any mix if ya want. I feel stj0691 is getting a bit old now. My fav album is Achtung Baby, as you may have guessed by now. ZOO TV, the only thing that keeps me going, my affection.

    Ok, I think I have dug up a hypocracy to all the hype:
    U2 always has sounded hand-played (I think)
    So does the drumming from Hendrix's material. Which has been listened to. Hand played, to me, is defined as the music giving you the feel of the power behind the music.
    Electro music? In Wiki they say this:
    the definition of the electro sound is the use of drum machines as the rhythmic base of a track
    But it also sounds hand played? Stop the music for a sec.
    So the rhythm sounds machine like, set to something, but the drums (half the rhythm) also hand played. Contradiction in sight? Nope.

    So someone did say what Bono says is a joke, ya could be right on there kiddo.

    Zoo Station, my favorite station, oh. Think of that for the coming months. The new album sounds so electro to me, like my album. I see a return to my favorite station, with lighter sounds. It is electro, and it does sound hand driven. Wasn't my love (Zoo TV) the sound of chopping down a tree? The tree hasn't withered in the sand though. The tree that has blocked the shade from my album and has given this innovation new shed light, new direction, new hope. The tree however reminds us all what we're from. The roots go further. I see this album as a celebration of old and new. A tribute to our past and present. A mix of the the tree's roots and the static waves from ten to fifteen years ago. After all, U2's past two works were root based, right I am. But enough about the roots and TV and dance, I must get some rest. As for the new album, more jabber tomorrow. I hear Daft Punk in the back, hmm.

    G'night y'all.




  6. I don't think so...he uses wierd shoes, with heels etc...elevation shoes had the word 'soul' in sole (but no one will notice that lol)
  7. Originally posted by Ale91:[..]

    I don't think so...he uses wierd shoes, with heels etc...elevation shoes had the word 'soul' in sole (but no one will notice that lol)


    hell to the no i am not wearing platform shoes. i'm taller than bono so ha!


  8. What was that!?!? LOL
    btw, Still looking for you first GC post? lol


  9. hahahaah get some kind of wierd boots and it's alright!


  10. I actually found it then lost it lol

    My first post was made on the new album topic.


  11. nah....black shoes will do. i think they have a heel lol
  12. first ever post:

    Originally posted by stj0691:Glad to see U2 working on a new album. From what I've heard, it should be great. We know Bono's voice hasn't gone away, especially after hearing some tracks off of Across the Universe and the Union Chapel show. Which reminds me, if U2 does intend to start touring their new album, is Bono going to be singing some Beatles cover songs to advertise ATU? It could happen. I can see Bono singing I am the Walrus or Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds live, giving the songs U2's special touch. Who knows? The songs could be even better than the real thing.

    Anyway, being a new U2 fan, I can't help but notice a pattern in U2's work. Correct me if I am wrong, but the studio album order goes from Boy, October, War, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby, Zooropa, Pop, ATYCLB, and HTDAAB. 11 beautiful albums, to the U2 hardcore fan. The pattern I see is that after U2 released one of their best albums, JT, they released a film about a year later (R&H). HTDAAB came out in 04, but the Vertigo tour did end at the end of 2006. The new film, U2 3D, came out a year later after the end of the Vertigo tour. After Rattle and Hum, we got to hear another masterpiece, Achtung Baby, which was described as innovative. U2 then went through their experimental phase in the 90s, which may have caused some U2 fans to ponder as to what were they doing. However as a live band they didn't disappoint.

    Back to topic matters

    This new album should be great. They were listening to some Hendrix material, especially the drumming. I just a short while ago had a Hendrix phase, in which I concentrated on hearing some Hendrix stuff because of the Who's influence on Jimi (I am a Who fan). I heard Mitchell drum, he was good. TJHE's instruments sound on their songs is balanced, more as a band, much like U2. I see people freaking out at the mention of collarboration. To me that only means they (Eno and Lanois) are helping out with the album. Why not? The Who had Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert give them the idea of a rock story, which influenced Pete Townshend to write Tommy. That was an album that defined that era's sound. This new album is said to be innovative. Hopefully it's not another Passenjers like album, because there will not be a tour if it is.

    Also I see that the album will be innovative. So I'm guessing U2 has come up with a new sound too.

    To me, all of this news reminds me of Achtung Baby. That album was innovative, hinted rock origins, and was a commercial success. However, that was their first stab at innovation, and the band nearly broke up. Thank God for "One". Their next attempts at innovation didn't do so well. Zooropa captured supposedly what was the Zoo TV sound (but was more European in some reviews) and Pop's material was so far off U2 had strayed from their roots. Then we got ATYCLB, where U2 had gone to their roots. HTDAAB was similar in sound as well.

    So we're getting an experimental album, to thought. In the 60s, pshycodelia influenced a lot of music, but at its beginning was innovative. With this album and U2's popularity, could we get a sound that could influnce a generation of music? So here is what I see. We got JT, R&H, and AB in that order. JT and AB were commercially successful while R&H was seen as not so good. I see the next pattern as HTDAAB, U2 3D, and the new album. HTDAAB was a masterpiece, U2 3D isn't getting much attention, and I hope this new album follows suit.


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