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  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    Danger Mouse HAS spoken about the U2 album before quite extensively - that's why it worries me that he's avoiding it now and even sounding annoying when asked about it.

    And Alex,
    I'm getting that from "inside", it's a gut feeling more than anything else. I had thought about the producers issue before we learnt that they are finishing the album with other people... but after we learnt it, the issue became pretty relevant and worrying to me. I hope I'm terribly wrong with this feeling and they're on a great writing/recording/producing vein and we get a release asap, but it's what I feel.

    Yeah he has, but not anything besides, "I'm working with them at the moment" he's not one to talk like say Lillywhite or Lanois who'll give us clues and hints as to song titles, or how they sound like.
  2. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    Danger Mouse HAS spoken about the U2 album before quite extensively - that's why it worries me that he's avoiding it now and even sounding annoying when asked about it.


    He's probably not allowed. If Bono and The Edge doesn't spill any beans then you know that they want to keep it secret. And that's it.

    Hell, when I started to work on a new radio station that was about to launch in couple of months, I had to sing the damn papers that I won't tell anything to anyone. And it's just a radio station.
  3. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/u2-interview-oscar-hopes-unfinished-679321

    Sitting down with the members of U2 between photo setups, it soon emerges that writing and recording "Ordinary Love" was a major disruption in the U2 flow and still is having fateful repercussions. Intensive work on the band's 13th studio album, the first since 2009's No Line on the Horizon, was underway in the summer, with a target release date of December 2013 when Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Co. and a longtime friend of Bono and the band, called on behalf of Mandela's South African producer, Anant Singh, and director Justin Chadwick to solicit a song for the nearly completed film.

    "When we got the call from Harvey to say, 'It's happening, are you in?,' it was like, 'Oh man, really? Now?' " says The Edge, the U2 guitarist whose passport reads David Howell Evans. "But we just had to do it, with the history that we have with the man and the cause."
    "It was hard to stop what we were doing," says drummer Larry Mullen Jr. "We were on a roll -- it was clear where we were going. And a decision was made to abandon ship, more or less, to focus on this."

    (...)

    The question of how badly the "Ordinary Love" detour slowed forward momentum on the still-unnamed and now long-overdue next album is not easy to answer from outside U2's opaque inner circle, but the distractions were compounded by promotion duties for the film, the pause to mourn Mandela's death and the nominations hoopla. The band's track record in the studio is replete with evidence that U2 is perfectly capable of languishing there without needing outside help. (Bono has been joking that the working title of the album-in-progress is Insecurity.) As always with U2, reports and rumors swirl about producers and collaborators coming and going: Danger Mouse (the stage name of Brian Burton), Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder ...

    "We've always needed collaborators to challenge us," says Mullen. "We're slow learners. We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going, it's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work."

    Adds Bono: "The album won't be ready till it's ready. But right now, people are walking a little differently -- well, they're not walking, they're running as if to a finish line. There's a couple of songs that are part of the story we haven't quite finished. We know we have to spend a couple of years taking these songs around the world, so they'd better be good."
  4. So depressing to read that... They were close, but now they aren't.
  5. Bono, call Springsteen and his producers.........., and just make music and don't talk so much...........
  6. A good piece, thanks for sharing Sergio.

    But I just wonder: how difficult could it be to get back in that flow? Ofcourse the promotion duties for the film, the recording process and all took a lot of time and still do (Oscars).. but they could catch up where they left it.

    Maybe that's why Dander Mouse doesn't want to speak a lot about it. There's a lot of 'insecurity'..

  7. Wow, that's really depressing indeed.

    For f**ks sake, how hard can it have been to write Ordinary Love? With all respect; its the kind of song that you can write during a lunchbreak and record in one evening. So the next day they could have been back on that "roll".... Why make yourself feel that you are "abandoning ship?" that is just between the ears! Get a grip!
  8. Originally posted by u2joost:[..]

    Wow, that's really depressing indeed.

    For f**ks sake, how hard can it have been to write Ordinary Love? With all respect; its the kind of song that you can write during a lunchbreak and record in one evening. So the next day they could have been back on that "roll".... Why make yourself feel that you are "abandoning ship?" that is just between the ears! Get a grip!

    Indeed, sounds more like a lame excuse for the continuing album postponement.
  9. Self confidence zero - possible album title
  10. Originally posted by u2joost:[..]

    Wow, that's really depressing indeed.

    For f**ks sake, how hard can it have been to write Ordinary Love? With all respect; its the kind of song that you can write during a lunchbreak and record in one evening. So the next day they could have been back on that "roll".... Why make yourself feel that you are "abandoning ship?" that is just between the ears! Get a grip!

    I thought basically the same. Not to disrespect U2 and not even comparing myself to them, but I've written and recorded far more complex songs (not necesarely better, but each) in less than one week
  11. God got tired of them and walked out of the room.
  12. I just want to know how Larry still didn't kill anyone. It took them two months to make The Joshua Tree. I would understand if this one took two years. But nooo, one song messed up everything. Jesus O.o
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