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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. Originally posted by ahn1991:[..]


    I'm worried that Adam used the words "we've decided" as opposed to just saying that the album isn't finished. To me it says the album was at a state where the band may have called it "complete," but the band decided to pull it back into the studio. Of course, there are many ways to interpret this. The best case scenario could be that they have 12-15 completed songs, but are looking to slim that down to a final 10. Of course, a lot of people have predicted an early 2017 release followed by a spring/summer tour, so maybe this is nothing new.
    You don't need 3 more months to trim down 15 songs to 10-12. The songs weren't finished (to their ears, that is) and that's all.
  2. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    You don't need 3 more months to trim down 15 songs to 10-12. The songs weren't finished (to their ears, that is) and that's all.
    Or... as I've been saying. They started over.
  3. Yes, that might have been the consequence due to the fact described above.
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    You don't need 3 more months to trim down 15 songs to 10-12. The songs weren't finished (to their ears, that is) and that's all.
    I'm not at all familiar with the creative songwriting process, but how much can you actually get done in 3 months?
  5. Originally posted by ahn1991:[..]
    I'm not at all familiar with the creative songwriting process, but how much can you actually get done in 3 months?
    Alot, i can get 4 songs a month if i put everything to it myself
  6. Originally posted by ahn1991:[..]
    I'm not at all familiar with the creative songwriting process, but how much can you actually get done in 3 months?
    The whole of The Unforgettable Fire album was written, recorded, mastered and pressed between early May and late August 1984. Not to mention Zooropa, which was fully recorded between mid February and mid May 1993.

    There you go.
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    The whole of The Unforgettable Fire album was written, recorded, mastered and pressed between early May and late August 1984. Not to mention Zooropa, which was fully recorded between mid February and mid May 1993.

    There you go.
  8. Originally posted by ahn1991:
    I'm not at all familiar with the creative songwriting process, but how much can you actually get done in 3 months?


    I think I don't oversimplify too much if I say that the vast majority of all the records from sixties were done in way less than 3 months. I know, the process was different, the bands were younger...but a 3-minute song is still a 3-minute song and an album is still an album. Most of the very best of this kind of music was done this way.
  9. So I guess the consensus is that U2 can get a lot done in just a couple months if they put their mind to it. I'm concerned because other artists follow that timeline now, but their objective is just to produce that next hit radio single.
  10. Well, there is one more major difference between the sixties, seventies, eighties (nineties to a degree) and now - records were the way to make money, tours were to support the records with tickets being cheap. It is the other way round now - there are enormous money in tours, the ticket prices are sky high, while the record sales are joke. With big acts the records are still there as an excuse for tours and to somehow make old artists look relevant.

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