1. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Yes. That's why I haven't bought any of the singles off NLOTH. No GOBY, no Magnificent, no I'll Go Crazy. I'm coherent with my ideas, you shouldn't worry about that

    But that doesn't imply that I must be OK with the fact itself. I am not OK with it.

    When I look back and I see singles like Stay (with I've Got You Under My Skin, Slow Dancing, Bullet The Blue Sky-live and Love Is Blindness-live as B-sides... and yet another version of the single with two remixes of Lemon), or like EBTTRT (with 3 or 4 remixes of th track itself, plus Where Did It All Go Wrong? and Salome as b-sides), or like One (with Lady WTSH, Satellite Of Love and Nighat And Day as b-sides), or like PopHeart, or like Walk On (with Beautiful Day live and remixed, Big Girls Are Best and New York live as b-sides, and yet another version with Stay, Streets and Gone as b-sides), or like.............. (the list goes on and on)........... it makes me sad


    I complain not because I like; it's because I want them to make things better, that's all.


    +1

    I totally agree with this. Get on Your Boots single was poor, they could have easily expanded that with more songs. It was disappointing.
  2. I think that U2 worries too much about the fans they dont have and casual fans and not so much about the ones who dig them a lot (like us) and recently the´ve lost manyof these fans (like my uncle).

    The site is terrible, they should make it simpler, more direct. Put up more things, after each show put up a video of the highlight, release a free live song for download, put pix. Make it more organized (I find it a mess).

    As for singles, I do miss B-sides like Always and Levitate and Lady with the Spinning Head. I also miss live versions, even if it´s with that raspy voice or that one little note off.

    This "lets please all generations thing" is also bad for their confidence and live shows. I just wish they released their songs well finished and produced (not over), with nice work around it (good merchandising, nice artwork) and when they think it´s done release it and o on a tour with a nice stage. U2 360 s way too much. I don´t know... my thoughts

    I love them though hauhau
  3. Anyone else think that the fact Eno is producing Coldplay's new album due out this year is not good news - for U2 anyway.

    I can't see a Songs of Ascent 'meditative' album being done without Eno involved.
    So does that definitively rule out a 2010 release for SOA?
  4. Originally posted by vanquish:Anyone else think that the fact Eno is producing Coldplay's new album due out this year is not good news - for U2 anyway.

    I can't see a Songs of Ascent 'meditative' album being done without Eno involved.
    So does that definitively rule out a 2010 release for SOA?


    Eno also produced Viva La Vida and NLOTH..so what's the point?
  5. Just to add my two cents...
    Brian Eno isn't the atmospheric and ethereal producer and musician that he was on the 70s and 80s... anymore.
  6. Originally posted by NLOTH_Victor:I think that U2 worries too much about the fans they dont have and casual fans and not so much about the ones who dig them a lot (like us) and recently the´ve lost manyof these fans (like my uncle).

    The site is terrible, they should make it simpler, more direct. Put up more things, after each show put up a video of the highlight, release a free live song for download, put pix. Make it more organized (I find it a mess).

    As for singles, I do miss B-sides like Always and Levitate and Lady with the Spinning Head. I also miss live versions, even if it´s with that raspy voice or that one little note off.

    This "lets please all generations thing" is also bad for their confidence and live shows. I just wish they released their songs well finished and produced (not over), with nice work around it (good merchandising, nice artwork) and when they think it´s done release it and o on a tour with a nice stage. U2 360 s way too much. I don´t know... my thoughts

    I love them though hauhau


    I agree - the Coldplay site is cooler, and you get to see lots of live stuff. It's simple and accessible. The U2 site is a little Kafkian compared to that... And the subscription thing. They're rich enough to be a little more generous. That would help keeping them a bit more in touch with us, and other potential fans.
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:Just to add my two cents...
    Brian Eno isn't the atmospheric and ethereal producer and musician that he was on the 70s and 80s... anymore.

    Have you heard Life in Technicolor ii, Lost or Lovers in Japan?
    If that isn't ridiculously lush, atmospheric production I don't know what is.
  8. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]
    Have you heard Life in Technicolor ii, Lost or Lovers in Japan?
    If that isn't ridiculously lush, atmospheric production I don't know what is.



    I really hate Life In Technicolour II - compared to the first it just loses the whole idea behind the song. I actually hate that whole EP they rushed out. However, I understand where Sergio is coming from; the same Eno from the 70s and 80s is not the same Eno of the late 90s and 00s and anyone who says he is hasn't experienced Music For Airports or even Nerve Net, although selected works aren't bad.
  9. Originally posted by vanquish: Have you heard Life in Technicolor ii, Lost or Lovers in Japan?
    If that isn't ridiculously lush, atmospheric production I don't know what is.


    Have you heard Promenade, The Unforgettable Fire, Bad? You should give them a try to experience a really atmospheric production
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    Have you heard Promenade, The Unforgettable Fire, Bad? You should give them a try to experience a really atmospheric production


    Of course I have, but Lovers in Japan is atmospheric too, there's always some sort of synth waves and timbral shifting going on in the background.



    But they came out in different years, SOA and CPs new album are but scheduled for late 10.
    Also Eno is curating the Vienna Biennale or something
  11. Originally posted by vanquish:But they came out in different years, SOA and CPs new album are but scheduled for late 10.
    Also Eno is curating the Vienna Biennale or something


    For another album, they should get someone else in to produce like Jack Douglas.