Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
Agreed. It was a proven formula until it wasn't - you can only catch lightning in a bottle so many times, and being that NLOTH was maybe one of their worse albums (in my opinion) - I don't want them to try going up that alley again when it didn't work so well the last time. Not unless they were committed to releasing an album without worrying about performing, chart positions, etc. (which is what caused them to add songs like Boots to the album).
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IF the next one is their last album, then yeah - there's no other choice. I really don't see U2 doing it, they're not nostalgic like a lot of their fans are- but not calling their final album Man would be a hugely wasted opportunity.
I've said this before to much disagreement, but I'd even be okay with "Man" being the final album they record - but it being a re-recording of Boy, all this time later. Let Bono frig around with the lyrics if he wants (he does it live anyway), let the band change up the arrangements if they want, etc. I think it'd be a really cool way to cap off their career, revisiting those tunes but having done everything in-between.
What would that album look like all these years later? Would I Will Follow change from being about Bono's mother following him, to Bono following his own children? Would Out of Control be more about waking up in an older man's body, but still with that fiery rage inside?"Monday Morning, 60 years of dawning, still say hoooow loooong" - that might seem cheesy to some but it's cool as hell to me. Would A Day Without Me turn from a tongue-in-cheek song about arrogance to a self-reflection of what impact Bono has had on the world? Would it be better? Worse?
Fuck I want that to happen.
