Originally posted by u2joost:I don't like my hero's to chicken out.
Dare to take risks for goodness sake!
Even the setlist for Vancouver (apart from the new songs) smells like "playing it safe" to me...
Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
meeeh... you're already mentioning the new songs, there's nothing safe about that... if playing it safe just means including the songs that the majority of the people attending the concert are expecting to hear, then yes, they'll always play it safe.
It's not like the majority of people wanting to attend a show is so into U2 that they'd prefer to listen b-sides than warhorses.
I consider myself a fan of soooo many bands that I would love to go to a concert of them, and yet I haven't even listened to all their albums and I'd be totally expecting them to play their classic hits. U2 is different for me, but I can see why they have to play the classic songs.
As long as they're still pushing their new material, they're not playing it safe at all for me.
Originally posted by Macphistfly:[..]
It was a failure, and it was their fault that it was.
In a last minute edit they decided to change it from a concept album to a regular one. This totally fucked the flow of the album, the tone of the album, and Anton Corbjin's Linear ---> See : The guy eating Paella to Fez - Being Born.
This actually makes me want to re-watch Linear for comparison.
Originally posted by iTim:Where is that one from?
). Originally posted by Remy:Get Out Of Your Own Way ("about getting of your own way, not to fight with yourself, in striving to perform at the top of your game") added to the listing of known tracks from SOE.
THE EDGE TALKS ABOUT SONGS OF EXPERIENCE AND SAYS IT COULD BE FINISHED THIS YEAR
Posted: May 15, 2015
By: Fernanda Bottini
Before the amazing opening show of Innocence + Experience tour in Vancouver last night (details here), Edge said to Independent.ie that Songs of Experience is not finished yet but could be complete later this year.
“We have a lot of material that we are really happy with. We have been working on it, recently, but it is coming together. I would say it is a lot more developed than Zooropa was when we started the Zoo TV Tour. I guess it really depends whether we feel it is worth pushing for within the ten weeks that we have at the end of this tour. We might just go for it. We might just say, ‘It is more important to get it out than to make it perfect.’ Which was the truth with Zooropa. And it is a lot of people’s favourite album!
We love to do stuff that kind of breaks rhyme and you are not doing the obvious shit. It gets more challenging. In the case of Passengers, it was not so bad because no one thought of it as a U2 album. But there are no kind of small U2 albums any more. You can’t sneak anything out."
The Edge also said Songs of Experience might have an influence of dance and electronica “but it’s quite malleable”.
“And actually the last few mixes are quite raw again. So, it is really too early to say, I have to be honest. We could make all the announcements but then it would probably serve to make a fool out of us at the end when the album comes out – and the album is a country and western album!” he laughs.
We might just go for it. We might just say, ‘It is more important to get it out than to make it perfect.’ Which was the truth with Zooropa. And it is a lot of people’s favourite album!
