Originally posted by petejv:U2 are the most divisive band in history.
I love that about them.
The reasons why are more complex.
U2 are Irish [ I am part of the Irish Catholic Diaspora ] - desperately uncool
[ like me - bar Larry ] no real Rock lineage there and the British Music Press deep down resents the fact that an Irish brotherhood with no lineage [ even though British Rock lineage in the great pantheon - Beatles, Zep, Stones, The Who is all cultural theft ] appropriate The Clash, Joy Division, and....cared and stuck together. Oh and were bloody Christians. I love the fact that they are still together. I love their earnestness. I love the fact that their best songs are ours.
They belong to you and I.
Bono knows it too.
I love the fact I hear the ' light ' when I listen to them.
So - the new album - U2 are running the last race. I am running it with them.
An utterly divisive album by the divisive band.
Where do I stand?
With them. They care far, far too much.
A lovely quality.
I LOVE U2. Treasure them before they are gone.
Originally posted by petejv:U2 are the most divisive band in history.
I love that about them.
The reasons why are more complex.
U2 are Irish [ I am part of the Irish Catholic Diaspora ] - desperately uncool
[ like me - bar Larry ] no real Rock lineage there and the British Music Press deep down resents the fact that an Irish brotherhood with no lineage [ even though British Rock lineage in the great pantheon - Beatles, Zep, Stones, The Who is all cultural theft ] appropriate The Clash, Joy Division, and....cared and stuck together. Oh and were bloody Christians. I love the fact that they are still together. I love their earnestness. I love the fact that their best songs are ours.
They belong to you and I.
Bono knows it too.
I love the fact I hear the ' light ' when I listen to them.
So - the new album - U2 are running the last race. I am running it with them.
An utterly divisive album by the divisive band.
Where do I stand?
With them. They care far, far too much.
A lovely quality.
I LOVE U2. Treasure them before they are gone.
Originally posted by petejv:U2 are the most divisive band in history.
I love that about them.
The reasons why are more complex.
U2 are Irish [ I am part of the Irish Catholic Diaspora ] - desperately uncool
[ like me - bar Larry ] no real Rock lineage there and the British Music Press deep down resents the fact that an Irish brotherhood with no lineage [ even though British Rock lineage in the great pantheon - Beatles, Zep, Stones, The Who is all cultural theft ] appropriate The Clash, Joy Division, and....cared and stuck together. Oh and were bloody Christians. I love the fact that they are still together. I love their earnestness. I love the fact that their best songs are ours.
They belong to you and I.
Bono knows it too.
I love the fact I hear the ' light ' when I listen to them.
So - the new album - U2 are running the last race. I am running it with them.
An utterly divisive album by the divisive band.
Where do I stand?
With them. They care far, far too much.
A lovely quality.
I LOVE U2. Treasure them before they are gone.
Really good interview producer Andy Barlow by @billboard on recording anywhere but in studios, Bono's lyrical approach (Bongolese) and working with Bono: https://t.co/WOzwuzXMhE #U2SongsofExperience pic.twitter.com/OjjsyL3oH6
— U2start.com (@U2start) December 7, 2017
Originally posted by petejv:U2 are the most divisive band in history.
I love that about them.
The reasons why are more complex.
U2 are Irish [ I am part of the Irish Catholic Diaspora ] - desperately uncool
[ like me - bar Larry ] no real Rock lineage there and the British Music Press deep down resents the fact that an Irish brotherhood with no lineage [ even though British Rock lineage in the great pantheon - Beatles, Zep, Stones, The Who is all cultural theft ] appropriate The Clash, Joy Division, and....cared and stuck together. Oh and were bloody Christians. I love the fact that they are still together. I love their earnestness. I love the fact that their best songs are ours.
They belong to you and I.
Bono knows it too.
I love the fact I hear the ' light ' when I listen to them.
So - the new album - U2 are running the last race. I am running it with them.
An utterly divisive album by the divisive band.
Where do I stand?
With them. They care far, far too much.
A lovely quality.
I LOVE U2. Treasure them before they are gone.
Originally posted by Remy:https://twitter.com/U2start/status/938679494642229248
Really good interview.
Originally posted by eddyjedi:“Right back at the beginning, [then-day-to-day manager Brian Celler] took me out for dinner and said, "There's this track called 'The Little Things That Give You Away,'" and he basically just read a list of the world's top producers -- Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite, Paul Epworth, Danger Mouse -- who have had a go at it. He said, "The band knows there is a great song in there and if you can get this off the ideas table, then you've done something that none of these other producers could." So that became my personal mission. Although quite a few of us worked on it, Jolyon and myself really shaped that track. It's got that Lamb kind of shape to it. The way it goes up the gears and explodes at the end”.
There must be so many versions of this song! I think he absolutely nails it though, it’s stratospheric in its approach.
