Songs Of Experience - General album discussions

Originally posted by Hoosier2012:"Summer of Love" is on the album, too...

So that means we have "Summer of Love," "You're The Best Thing About Me," "The Little Things That Give You Away," "The Blackout," and "The Lights of Home" for sure...

Originally posted by Remy:[..]
Bono's also confirmed Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way to be on the album. American Soul is pretty certain as well.

Originally posted by Hoosier2012:[..]
So that's, what, 7/12 (likely) tracks? Nice.

Originally posted by u2paddy:I got lost in all information .... it is offical that the new album is released on Dec 1st?

Originally posted by Remy:[..]
I think we can fill in 10 of the 11 names without problem.

You're The Best Thing About Me
The Blackout
The Little Things That Give You Away
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
The Lights of Home
American Soul
Civilisation
Much More Better
Red Flag Day
The Showman

Originally posted by dieder:The final mix is six weeks away. Does he mean the final mix of The Best Thing will be ready in 6 weeks? LOL

Edit: O I think he means it was done 6 weeks ago

To start wrapping up here, this year is the 20th anniversary of Pop. Are you aware of the cult that's grown around it in the U2 fan community?
Well, it's something I've only recently became aware of. I love the record and I think there are some great things on it. But at the time we released it was the one that sort of got away slightly because it was rushed. We'd committed to the tour and if we had more time I think we all feel it would have been more fully realized. We started out trying to make a dance-culture record and then realized at the end there are things we can do that no EDM producer or artist can do, so let's try and have it both ways. In that case, we probably went too far in the other direction. We probably needed to allow a bit more of the electronica to survive.

I think songs like "Please" and "Gone" have aged very well.
I love both those songs. I even like "Wake Up Dead Man." I love that tune. One of the tunes I was trying to persuade everyone to play on the last tour was "Playboy Mansion." But I think Pop is a great record. I was very proud of it by the end of the tour. We finally figured it out by the time we made the DVD. It was an amazing show that I'm really proud of.

Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:Maybe there was something wrong with bono all along.

Originally posted by dieder:[..]


I like the way this interviewer thinks. I think he wanted to imply to Edge that they should play some of these songs live (which they should) but Edge's answer is a bit avoiding of that