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  1. 7 weeks imo.

    That Dutch radio station (KinkFM) has answered to an email of a Dutch fan @ Zootopia and they say they get the single mailed this week and play it immediately....
  2. Originally posted by dieder:7 weeks imo.

    That Dutch radio station (KinkFM) has answered to an email of a Dutch fan @ Zootopia and they say they get the single mailed this week and play it immediately....


    What do you mean? they'll ignore the embargo and play the single almost a week early?
    Won't they get sued? Not that i'm complaining though
  3. “It’s full-on, a full-throttle record. It’s like punk rock made on Venus. It is a mad sound The Edge is making. People are saying, ‘Bono, people are sick of you. You’ve been around, you’ve been winning all these awards. You have to go away for a while.’ This record is so good that it won’t even matter that people are sick of U2. And by the way, I’m sick of Bono.''


    This was about the final tracks from HTDAAB in 2004. Sound familiar?

    So Kink is gonna play it as soon as they get it?


  4. Who would else fuck it up then the Croats.

    How earlier did they play it? Do you know the name of the radio station that played it? I didn't hear a word about this before.

  5. Originally posted by drewhiggins:“It’s full-on, a full-throttle record. It’s like punk rock made on Venus. It is a mad sound The Edge is making. People are saying, ‘Bono, people are sick of you. You’ve been around, you’ve been winning all these awards. You have to go away for a while.’ This record is so good that it won’t even matter that people are sick of U2. And by the way, I’m sick of Bono.''

    This was about the final tracks from HTDAAB. Sound familiar?


    Yes - very familiar unfortunately. The only thing swaying me this time around is the fact that both Steve Lillywhite & Brian Eno, whose opinions I would value more than Bono's in terms of objectivity (particularly Lillywhite's as he only comes in at the end to mix etc), are saying it's their best album - only time will tell, I suppose??!!
  6. Originally posted by Yogi:[..]

    Who would else fuck it up then the Croats.

    How earlier did they play it? Do you know the name of the radio station that played it? I didn't hear a word about this before.



    They played it a day earlier. Don't know what station, though.
  7. Originally posted by nowiamthemaster:[..]

    Yes - very familiar unfortunately. The only thing swaying me this time is the fact that both Steve Lillywhite & Brian Eno, who would be prone to seriousness etc, are saying it's their best album this time round - only time will tell, I suppose??!!


    Steve Lillywhite said the original Bomb tracks (All Because of You, Yahweh, Sometimes, Native Son, Xanax and Wine) had no substance and nothing to them, changing them to what we hear now. I wouldn't trust him at all, not with what was done to those songs.

    Brian Eno has a real mind, and provided he gives it his all, could do some really interesting stuff and definitely bring a new sound for 2009. The really long tracks, if you know a lot of works by the man, is influenced by him. Also, he comes up with some unusual ideas and titles for songs you wouldn't think of in a million years. If the record is good, then he's done his job and so have the rest of the band and the crew.




    Time for another Bono quote, this time about All That You Can't Leave Behind:

    Actually, there's kind of a space theme to this album.


    ?
  8. It's a pity the 'dancefloor shock' thing was just Bono fibbing. It would have been interesting, the last time we got something along those lines was Pop.

    It just shows you that NLOTH is not going to push the envelope as far as they would all have us believe.

    PS: He must be thinking about In A Little While and getting carried away. Though ATYCLB is their most 'spacey' album after Zooropa and maybe Pop.
  9. Originally posted by vanquish:It's a pity the 'dancefloor shock' thing was just Bono fibbing. It would have been interesting, the last time we got something along those lines was Pop.

    It just shows you that NLOTH is not going to push the envelope as far as they would all have us believe.

    PS: He must be thinking about In A Little While and getting carried away.


    Maybe at the time dancefloor shock was the way to describe it at the time, or the only way Bono knows how. NLOTH was due to come out in October last year, so maybe that's how it did sound.
  10. Originally posted by NME
    "U2 in dancefloor shock!" joked Bono. "Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dancefloor. And that may not be true of this. There's some trance influences. But there's some very hardcore guitar coming out of the Edge. Real molten metal. It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either."


  11. Originally posted by yeah:What else is he gonna say about a yet to be released album?
    Especially if you keep in mind that he's more involved than ever... "It's okay" - "Some nice stuff but it can't reach JT or AB" - "Some great tracks, some weak stuff" - "Shit"?

    Oi, that's my line, I said that lol! But people usually listen to you as opposed to me when this kinda thing comes up lol...

  12. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    Oi, that's my line, I said that lol! But people usually listen to you as opposed to me when this kinda thing comes up lol...




    Same here

    It's a perfectly logical line of reasoning, and yet some of us get branded as anti-u2 pessimists.
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