Songs of Ascent - U2's next album?

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:
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.

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
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.

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
WHERE DO I BUY THAT ALBUM!?!?!

Originally posted by mattfromcanada:[..]
I Will Follow - as told to Bob
Twilight - man meets boy
An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart - new music approach by The Edge and Eno / Lanois
Out Of Control - same song by 60 year olds...raw rock...updated lyrics. The original was about realizing you didn't choose to be born. This one could be about not choosing to die (and trying to avoid the obvious suicide sidebar to that statement)
Stories For Boys - intermix against the Vertigo comparison, musically and lyrically (hello hello)
The Ocean - again with Eno / Lanois
A Day Without Me - dedicated to those they've lost along the way. Hutchence. Ramona. Sinatra. Bowie. I've heard this song has suicide tones....this is the platform to re-address that.
Another Time, Another Place - featuring alternative English lyrics
The Electric Co - featuring guest guitarist Billy Corgan. Despite not being a huge Pumpkins fan, I can almost hear the Butterfly guitar solo here....
Shadows And Tall Trees - strip it down. Maybe almost acoustic.

Now shut up and take my money

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.

Originally posted by justinpushplay:[image]
Unrelated but I wanted to share this, I was putting together a U2 - Best Of 00-10 compilation. It has the ridiculous title of Noughtie..Noughtie.. (if you know what oughtie is) but I’m proud of the artwork i put together for it

Originally posted by bpt3:[..]
I like it. What songs did you include?

Originally posted by Caledonia:It's more likely to be called 'Elderly Man' rather than 'Man' by the time they get round to putting it out. No doubt there will be a change of president and politics by the time they're ready to put it out, so they'll end up scrapping it, and rewriting and re-recording it from scratch.