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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  2. I hope Iris and Cedarwood make it back for e/i tour!
  3. I'd like to see them too, in fact any of the SOI regulars would be welcome (except the miracle) . What do you think we'll get though? Maybe every breaking wave just? I'm also hopeful California isn't done with not just because I like the song but I thought them playing it at dreamfest showed they still fancy giving it more of a live run out.
  4. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    I'd like to see them too, in fact any of the SOI regulars would be welcome (except the miracle) . What do you think we'll get though? Maybe every breaking wave just? I'm also hopeful California isn't done with not just because I like the song but I thought them playing it at dreamfest showed they still fancy giving it more of a live run out.
    I think California has a good chance of popping back up, though probably only in California shows. I honestly thought it was going to be one of SOI's live classics!!
  5. Originally posted by CMIPalaeo:[..]
    I think California has a good chance of popping back up, though probably only in California shows. I honestly thought it was going to be one of SOI's live classics!!
    Guaranteed if they had used that big thick synth in the chorus in their live shows and put more of an effort into the production behind it (a la Iris and Cedarwood) it would've been.
  6. Sad that we don't really have much news about the album, and we are getting sidetracked. But then again, 75% of my posts are off topic and mindless, but I still love them lol. I think I just want a ten disc set of every idea they have had since SOB, uh SOI. I really should stop picking on SOI, but oh well. The acoustic EBW is the best song on it, or not on it, with Lucifer's Hands and Crystal right there. In fact, those 3 songs are better than anything on SOI....well, maybe California is better I am among the few California supporters it seems. But yeah, make it ten discs, make disc 1 the album, and then I can spend a year figuring out what I want the album to be.
    Seriously, I would do that. They could make a limited numbered edition of the ten discs say 10,000 at $79.99 each lol. Cash McCashes would want to become Manager again...
  7. And for a more cohesive insight to my mind, I started this on the Pop thread, but figure it fits better here, and I have conceded that 3 discs is at least attainable for the band, as 10 would be showing them with too much courage than they ever could have lol.
    As one would expect from my user name, Pop is in my top 3, at number 3, but since my # 1 AB, and #2 JT are at the level of over analysis, Pop is the one I most like to talk about. Getting another innovative album from anybody over 45 is a tough task. Even 40 can be that age where artists become too conservative for their own good.
    Prince was a major exception. 3121 was a near masterpiece just before he turned 48, and Lotus Flow3r, just before turning 51. And some Prince fans accused him of playing it safe, but having over 30 albums makes it tough. But I feel Prince avoided the traps for those two albums that he had fallen into over and over again, as U2 sometimes have.
    As I have followed U2 intensely, the comparisons to Prince's career have been inevitable for me. I always saw Prince as the far superior musician, but U2 as the far superior with business sense, and having far better ability in choosing which songs to put on their albums. That 20 year article about Pop's 20 year anniversary has some very interesting points.
    Sadly, U2's ability to innovate can be summed up in one song, "Gone." Could they make the improbable comeback? Perhaps, but they seem really comforted in the shoes they walk in that look for the hot young producer, and look for the relevance that they believe can be attained out there. Sadly, relevance is something they will never find, as it really does not exist. It's simply reading some young writer at Rolling Stone whipping out a five star review when he doesn't know October from the Fire he never knew anything about to forget.
    The solution? I'd love U2 to hire me as a consultant producer, even though I actually have a better chance of getting ten supermodels to marry me, but I will pretend here...nothing like a U2 studio fantasy, where I demand they call up Steve Lillywhite, Eno, Lanois, and a few more of the cast of characters from the past. I demand 5 songs that they think will be relevant, 5 songs that show innovation, 5 songs that they think are playing it safe, 5 songs that they think I will hate, and 5 songs that they absolutely must make with no producers involved...five songs that are U2 by U2, relevant, or not, good or bad, but no ideas from the Ryan Teddy Bears of the world searching for anything...just simple U2 by U2.
    So if my math is right, I'm asking for 25 songs, but we can also look at outtakes of SOA/SOI/SOE/SOB, and any other scraps, like Mercy, or North Star, and just look at 50 or so, and choose the best 15, and the rest will be on the deluxe 3 disc version. No need to make the sonic landscape be so linear, simply take the best songs no matter what era they seem to fit in, and make that the album. They already have tons of albums where the production sounds the same on each track, go out on a limb. Just having a different production vibe from section to section of the album would be a step up in chance taking from an Artist that used to take them.
  8. I think that Songs Of Experience will be a very dull album for some... Songs like Little Things and Ordinary Love
    display a rather mature and "grownup" idea of experience; that is, not the Hendrix kind of experience.
    Perhaps some songs will have a feel reminiscent of things like Crystal Ballroom, or Moment Of Surrender, but I don't
    expect SOE to be "experimental." Rather safe than sorry, I guess.
  9. I just want to hear the album that would've been the Rick Rubin album. You know, the one that would've housed Window in the Skies and presumably All My Life.



    Originally posted by BigGiRL:I think that Songs Of Experience will be a very dull album for some... Songs like Little Things and Ordinary Love
    display a rather mature and "grownup" idea of experience; that is, not the Hendrix kind of experience.
    Perhaps some songs will have a feel reminiscent of things like Crystal Ballroom, or Moment Of Surrender, but I don't
    expect SOE to be "experimental." Rather safe than sorry, I guess.


    But...but...Bono said that even HE thought SOI wasn't sonically experimental enough! I'm still holding out hope that there's a little more to it in that regard. I still think Songs of Innocence is good, but it's just not that interesting to listen to. It doesn't really take me anywhere.
  10. Originally posted by BigGiRL:I think that Songs Of Experience will be a very dull album for some... Songs like Little Things and Ordinary Love
    display a rather mature and "grownup" idea of experience; that is, not the Hendrix kind of experience.
    Perhaps some songs will have a feel reminiscent of things like Crystal Ballroom, or Moment Of Surrender, but I don't
    expect SOE to be "experimental." Rather safe than sorry, I guess.
    Honestly, if "experimental" means the Kygo song, I'd much prefer an album of the above stated songs.

    But who knows where "experience" will take them... Berlin? Morocco? Paris 2015? America, late 2016?
  11. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
    Honestly, if "experimental" means the Kygo song, I'd much prefer an album of the above stated songs.

    But who knows where "experience" will take them... Berlin? Morocco? Paris 2015? America, late 2016?
    Man, I'm in the other camp. I hope if that song does get released, U2's version sounds pretty close to that one Kygo performed. I'd rather see them be a little risky and release something that sounded like that than give us a traditional U2-sounding version. That song is fun as HELL. Catchier than anything they've put out probably since Vertigo.
  12. I'm all good with SOE not being too experimental. It doesn't need to be for the songs to be good. All I would like that's maybe been missing since Achtung Baby is a bit heavier guitar but I wouldn't consider that particularly experimental.
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