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  2. Originally posted by BonoGlasses:[..]

    Choo choo, all aboard! I love the speculation right now, very exciting stuff, lots of fun to get caught up in -- true or not.


    I'd love a U2/Dre collaboration. Jay-Z would also be amazing but I feel like everyone is doing collabs with Jay-Z these days.

    That's mad, sorry. A U2/Dre collaboration would be good? No way. Catastrophe springs to mind.

  3. Not being combative, just genuine curiosity: Why is that?

    I know Coldplay did a Jay-Z collab that was good, so I like to think it'd be like that. Plus I like both U2 and Dre
  4. I've honestly never liked a rap/rock mash-up apart from Lincoln Park and Jay Z a long time ago, but even Lincoln Park have like a rapper in their group so its different. Jay Z is fucking annoying and that Coldplay collab was awful.

    Now, let me tell you how I really feel
  5. Dre in the 90's with Achtung/Zooropa/Pop U2 would have been INCREDIBLE... but both of these artists are hardly at their peak and would just reek of $$$ grabbing and advertising I think.
  6. The only thing that makes this slightly plausible for me is a combination of Iovine now being a puppet of Apple along with dre, and the fact that for some ridiculous reason, the band loves rappers. They've brought Kanye and jayz to Australia as support acts and on 360 bono even rapped in moment of surrender. Only thing that makes me go wow this could be true
  7. True
  8. It's just all been so bloody frustrating, this wait. Can the album POSSIBLY be good enough now? I'm not on about the quality of the music itself, but the weight of expectation. Stone Roses lost their audience in four years and that first album was generation defining. No Line was fantastic, imo, but it didn't set the world alight. The notion of relevance bothers me, too. If the music's out there and it's great, relevance comes with that. Over thinking and second guessing it for five years, well, that's not a good atmosphere in which to be creative. I'm sure I'm going over old ground - 430+ pages? I'm not reading all that... - but Zooropa was made while they were touring, and, for me, it's still their best, most exciting, innovative and free album. They were trying everything, doing it quickly and using the creative, spontaneous spark to make a masterpiece. Sponsorship, commercial tie ins, concerns about relevance - this is not the band who recorded Lemon. My fingers are crossed, but I just wonder if any of us are going to be satisfied with the album when it - finally - drops.
  9. Although Dr. Dre is mainstream now, his own history is full of hate and violence with a disregard for women and life in general. I would seriously doubt them aligning themselves with somebody like that. And Dre himself is more famous for being in the right headphones at the right time. Has he actually done anything "relevant" in music other than having a huge "solo" album that Snoop Dog did most of the actual performing? Producing some hits, sure, but as an artist? Nothing.

    And the "source" who posted this info...do they have an amazing track record on this site for having advance info that turned out to be true? There have been way too many bad rumors around here that fizzled out.
  10. Even so, Dr Dre is hardly mainstream as far as "current" and "relevant" goes. He's kind of a has-been at this point.
  11. Originally posted by BonoGlasses:[..]

    Not being combative, just genuine curiosity: Why is that?

    I know Coldplay did a Jay-Z collab that was good, so I like to think it'd be like that. Plus I like both U2 and Dre

    Everything that Alex said backs up my point. The guy would make U2 sound pathetic. Dr. Dre is a has-been, Alex is also correct on that point. Everything he does now is totally irrelevant. I'm surprised people would even listen to his points now.

  12. I am assuming you were replying to my statement? You may have missed my main point:

    Has he actually done anything "relevant" in music other than having a huge "solo" album that Snoop Dog did most of the actual performing? Producing some hits, sure, but as an artist? Nothing.

    I am pretty much laughing at the person who is suggesting Dre and U2 would be doing anything. As much as "Boots" was a failure of a lead single...it was bigger than anything Dre has done in ages.
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