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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. I think they have the "Man" album in mind.

    I have this theory that they've been saving some songs for this great "Man" album which should be released only when they know for sure there's no possible way they'll record another album anymore.

    Not sure how much I wish this album to contain Mercy, All My Life, North Star, et al...
  2. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Anyway to get back on topic....

    Someone yesterday said that if SoI and SoE are together, if they’re considered sort of one double album/companion piece, they’d put them up there with U2’s best work. On my third listen today of SoE, I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually we all feel this way.

    Not only is this album fantastic and probably U2’s best in years, dealing with mortality, aging, being a parent, a partner, etc, it also does for SoI what something like Star Wars: Rogue One did for A New Hope (stay with me). By alluding back to certain points on that album, it by nature gives THAT album even more context and meaning now. This album doesn’t feel like a “sequel”, it feels like a brother or sister to SoI, intertwining itself with it, and both albums gain even more as a result. It’s quite something.

    I used to always say that from an artistic standpoint and what U2’s “legacy” means, they’d should’ve stopped after Window in the Skies. For me that would mean never being able to see them live, never getting 360, the songs on NLOTH I like, etc. I was still beating that drum after SoI because I still felt as though it would’ve been a good moment for them to walk away.

    How wrong I’ve been. I hope this isn’t U2’s final chapter, but what a finale it is if it is to be the finale. This album, the companion albums of SoI and SoE, just..wow. Thank you, U2.


    Yep. I agree with everything you said.

    One point I will say is, I think there are clues this could be their last album, because Bono said in an interview that nobody talks about your legacy at a funeral and only what sort or person you were. His recent health scare and all the other health problems he has endured in preparation for Tours, makes me think he thinks his body is saying he can't endure it anymore as much he would love to go on forever doing it, and that he would rather be around longer for his family and be remembered as a great father, husband, grandfather and friend.
  3. Originally posted by Bloodraven:I think they have the "Man" album in mind.

    I have this theory that they've been saving some songs for this great "Man" album which should be released only when they know for sure there's no possible way they'll record another album anymore.

    Not sure how much I wish this album to contain Mercy, All My Life, North Star, et al...
    when i heard Love is All We Have Left , i thought they need to do more stuff like that. Coldplay type of stuff ,String songs with synth
  4. Originally posted by Bloodraven:I think they have the "Man" album in mind.

    I have this theory that they've been saving some songs for this great "Man" album which should be released only when they know for sure there's no possible way they'll record another album anymore.

    Not sure how much I wish this album to contain Mercy, All My Life, North Star, et al...
    I believe Bono mentioned (maybe jokingly) that they considered Man as a title for Atomic Bomb.
  5. They considered it a title for Achtung Baby, that's certainly a fact. Along with "Adam", "Cruise Down Main Street", etc.
  6. They might have done, but it was also one of many working titles for Achtung Baby, together with Adam, Fear Of Women, and Call It 68 And I'll Owe You One'.
  7. Someone on interference claims a CD Rip 192 Kpbs leak is out...
  8. Originally posted by Bloodraven:I think they have the "Man" album in mind.

    I have this theory that they've been saving some songs for this great "Man" album which should be released only when they know for sure there's no possible way they'll record another album anymore.

    Not sure how much I wish this album to contain Mercy, All My Life, North Star, et al...
    I've had this same theory.
  10. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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