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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  2. Also
    Musically, we know that this song was being worked on extensively during the rehearsals of The Joshua Tree 2017 tour in Vancouver with producer Andy Barlow who just joined the band at the time.


    But the link leads to an article about the rehearsals in Vancouver of 2015?
  3. Originally posted by Remy:Just published:

    The origins of Songs Of Experience

    Months of work, research and much input has gone into our extensive analysis of everything that is Songs of Experience: themes, lyrics, music, mortality, Blake, religion, letters, photographs, Ned & Jack and what is next for U2.

    Hope you all like it, it's a long read but worth it!


    Thanks, Remy! And Cesar and Caledonia, too! Fantastic read. Love the biblical references and the Blake references, the references back to old song ideas and interviews, the innocence and experience dialogue between the two albums, etc. All of it! Makes me appreciate the album even more. Definitely continuing to grow...
  4. Originally posted by Remy:Bono also says: "The idea in theory is to have the indoor tour jump outdoors when the companion album comes out".

    Which will mean that:
    * SoE will be released end 2015/begin 2016
    * There WILL BE an outdoor part of the tour


  5. album from u2.com arrived today
  7. Amazing read! Thanks!!!!!! Remy, cesar_garza01 and Caledonia.
  8. Originally posted by Caledonia:This has been a real labour of love for Remy over the last few weeks and probably months, getting to the origin of all these songs and what they're all about. It's a very insightful read and definitely worth your time reading through. There are probably all kinds of tidbits in there that you perhaps didn't know about.

    Remy... you do realise that you now have to go through the entire back catalogue and do the same for each album?! You've set such a high standard with this one that I think that's probably the next few years of your life fully mapped out then!

    Indeed, I want to give Remy all the credit he deserves for his immense research and patient compilation of interviews, articles and tidbits about this new album. What he did was impressive academic work, and this comes from someone from academia.
  9. Originally posted by Remy:Just published:

    The origins of Songs Of Experience

    Months of work, research and much input has gone into our extensive analysis of everything that is Songs of Experience: themes, lyrics, music, mortality, Blake, religion, letters, photographs, Ned & Jack and what is next for U2.

    Hope you all like it, it's a long read but worth it!

    Great read Remy, thanks for the work you and anyone else involved put into this.
  10. Originally posted by Remy:Just published:

    The origins of Songs Of Experience

    Months of work, research and much input has gone into our extensive analysis of everything that is Songs of Experience: themes, lyrics, music, mortality, Blake, religion, letters, photographs, Ned & Jack and what is next for U2.

    Hope you all like it, it's a long read but worth it!


    A fantastic read - very well done indeed. Thanks!!!


  12. Obviously, My post was not meant to gain Prince any new fans. Your earlier post counted U2 among the few older artists who still rock, so my response did have a tie in to what you were saying. I was just noting that despite the lack of older artists who rock, Prince made a gem of a rock album in 2009, that was ignored due to him releasing way too many albums. U2 is one of the few still rocking in their 50's but not the only ones. R.E.M.'s Accelerate is another. As frustrating is it is that we have to wait a half century for every U2 release, their strategy kept the market hungry for new product, and Prince could have learned a lot from U2's planning and strategy from about 1985 to 2009. After that, older artists are not "relevant" even if they want to be. So it matters little who likes Prince or U2 or R.E.M. The basic simple point, was that real rock is not as dead as it is said to be. It is on unsafe life support though.
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