Songs of Ascent - U2's next album?

Originally posted by LikeASong:On a related note, I wonder, I really wonder what their workflow between tours/albums is like. Do they really save all of the tiny ideas and half-songs and then resume work on them at any future point? Who and how keeps track of these song sketches, and who and when proposes to come back to them? What if they "finalize" a song but they are in the middle of a tour and can't (or don't want to) go into the studio to record and mix it? As a songwriter myself I find it quite hard to keep track of the sketches I produce, and even harder to come back to an unfinished song x months or years later and get it properly done - and I know I'm not alone in this. You just don't feel the songs the same way as you did when you wrote them.

Originally posted by LikeASong:On a related note, I wonder, I really wonder what their workflow between tours/albums is like. Do they really save all of the tiny ideas and half-songs and then resume work on them at any future point? Who and how keeps track of these song sketches, and who and when proposes to come back to them? What if they "finalize" a song but they are in the middle of a tour and can't (or don't want to) go into the studio to record and mix it? As a songwriter myself I find it quite hard to keep track of the sketches I produce, and even harder to come back to an unfinished song x months or years later and get it properly done - and I know I'm not alone in this. You just don't feel the songs the same way as you did when you wrote them.

Originally posted by LikeASong:On a related note, I wonder, I really wonder what their workflow between tours/albums is like. Do they really save all of the tiny ideas and half-songs and then resume work on them at any future point? Who and how keeps track of these song sketches, and who and when proposes to come back to them? What if they "finalize" a song but they are in the middle of a tour and can't (or don't want to) go into the studio to record and mix it? As a songwriter myself I find it quite hard to keep track of the sketches I produce, and even harder to come back to an unfinished song x months or years later and get it properly done - and I know I'm not alone in this. You just don't feel the songs the same way as you did when you wrote them.

Originally posted by LikeASong:On a related note, I wonder, I really wonder what their workflow between tours/albums is like. Do they really save all of the tiny ideas and half-songs and then resume work on them at any future point? Who and how keeps track of these song sketches, and who and when proposes to come back to them? What if they "finalize" a song but they are in the middle of a tour and can't (or don't want to) go into the studio to record and mix it? As a songwriter myself I find it quite hard to keep track of the sketches I produce, and even harder to come back to an unfinished song x months or years later and get it properly done - and I know I'm not alone in this. You just don't feel the songs the same way as you did when you wrote them.

Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:Whatever we get in terms of music from here on out will be a bonus.