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  1. are these actual quotes? or did you make them up (second one)
  2. Both are actual quotes. Translated from today's la Repubblica


  3. Chris Martin may be right, for once...

    25 songs ready. That's enough for two albums, not 4!

    Aren't they trying to do too much?

    Btw, Bono said in the interview that he started smoking again. This is very sad; not good for him, and not good for his voice...


  4. he better makes his words come true then. If they really release 3 new products we can start to believe him again.
  5. 25 songs? never in a million years, sadly.....
    We have heard that more then once, and it never turns out that there were that many songs. You only have to count the actual outtakes that surfaced on the remastered albums to know that Bono is probably overdoing it a bit here.......
  6. Originally posted by u2joost:25 songs? never in a million years, sadly.....
    We have heard that more then once, and it never turns out that there were that many songs. You only have to count the actual outtakes that surfaced on the remastered albums to know that Bono is probably overdoing it a bit here.......


    Maybe, though there are the songs from the Rubin sessions, the left overs of NLOTH, i.e. SoA, some new songs they might have been recording, plus the Spiderman material. 25 songs is a big number, I agree, but it isn't implausible; we're talking about a time span of even more than 4 years after all.

    With 25 songs, I would produce a double album. If they're ready, as Bono says, I would get the album out on December 15. If they're not ready, I'm afraid it probably means they've got a bunch of unfinished material, of varying quality, with no clear singles...
  7. I wonder what happened to the 40 songs they had left off NLOTH, though.

    It’s an idea that’s paid off. Following sessions in Morocco, in Dublin
    and through the summer in France, the band have written ‘fifty or
    sixty’ tracks. And counting.
  8. You just can tell that they didn't have THAT many material 'ready' for a new release, otherwise they shouldn't just play two new pretty unfinished songs live.
  9. Originally posted by dieder:You just can tell that they didn't have THAT many material 'ready' for a new release, otherwise they shouldn't just play two new pretty unfinished songs live.


    Yep. The slow song, especially, seems unfinished. There's also the fact, or at least my conviction, that U2 struggle a little more when they play acoustically. [Compare the acoustic songs on the Stones' Stripped with most of the U2 acoustic performances. Though there are notable exceptions (SATS 1997, Stuck 2009).] So perhaps the studio version looks much better.

    The 50-60 songs from the NLOTH sessions; well, probably most of them are not even worth a B-side. I still find it plausible that U2 have 25 songs at a relatively advanced stage, like the 2 new ones we heard, although I'm worried by the proliferation of projects. Remember JT, AB? U2 would lock themselves in the studio, working on the next album - not on 4 projects. Knowing how much it takes to U2 to finish one album, I wonder what's gonna happen if they work on so many different things. A 6 years break?


  10. How's that possible? Bono said they're diamonds.
  12. So does this mean the whole band is working on Spiderman?
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