From the Guardian : (more of the same slightly reworded)
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U2 are having such a good time recording their new album that they are not going to stop, Bono has announced on their website. The group have already racked up "fifty or sixty" new songs but they are keeping at it. "We said to each other that if we got to the great place then we wouldn't stop," he said.
With 50 or 60 tracks already recorded, it seems U2's follow-up to 2004's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb will carry either the creamiest crème de la crème, or else it's going to be a very long – and presumably mediocre – record.
Bono clearly hopes for the former. "We have what it takes," he said in his message. "This is our chance for us to defy gravity once again ... We have the songs, new rhythms and a guitar player who is not ready to re-enter earth's atmosphere until he's taken a slice of the moon!"
Changing metaphorical tacks, Bono compared the recording process to digging in a mine. "We've hit a rich songwriting vein," he said. "It gets a bit dark down here but looks like we've found diamonds not coal. I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there's more priceless stuff to be found? We know we have to emerge soon but we also know that people don't want another U2 album unless it is our best ever album."
Though the album was originally promised for late 2008, the extent of their musical mining expedition has pushed the release back to 2009.
"I'm always the one who underestimates how easy it is to simply 'put out the songs now,'" Bono said. "If it was just up to me they'd be out already! But early next year people will be able to start hearing what we've been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we're going to start making an impression very early on."
Producers Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno and Steve Lillywhite have all been on hand for portions of the sessions, which took place in Dublin, Morocco and the south of France. Bono raved about the Morocco sessions, at an open-air studio, where the "beautiful ... sound of a swallow's nest close to the building" made it on to the tape. Apparently, U2 couldn't afford proper soundproofing.
Bono sounds invigorated, however. "Everyone we've played the tracks to has said that musically it feels like another departure," he emphasised. "The last two records were very personal, with a kind of three-piece at their heart, the primary colours of rock - bass, guitars and drum. But what we're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby."
Let's hope when they again put the colours of rock together, it doesn't come out some messy shade of brown.
Chris appeared on the Who's VH1 program.....the Who being one of U2's big influences as an early band. Plus he also mentioned something about ASOH being one of his favorite songs. I wish I had the inside scoop lol, but I get a vibe that he likes U2 a lot.
True....when you said in key thats what i meant, it just wasn't said lol.
Fair kop - I've read a couple of quotes from him saying that U2 are the only band who's discography he knows off by heart, and that he loves ASOH, but I don't see your link between him being on a Who programme and guarenteeing that he'd join up on U2start lol...
and don't say Chris Martin sucks....it offends me as a coldplay fan
Just as it could offend Alex when you ask him not to say that, because he could be equally offended that he's being told he can't voice his opinion (and he didn't say he sucks, he said the singing style annoys him which is a different matter lol...)...I'm a Coldplay fan y'know, but don't get touchy about people criticising artists - we all are critical of genres and artists we don't like, but we should still respect other people's views even if they differ from our own (although it's always hoped that such people take a mutual stance)
Bono sounds invigorated, however. "Everyone we've played the tracks to has said that musically it feels like another departure," he emphasised. "The last two records were very personal, with a kind of three-piece at their heart, the primary colours of rock - bass, guitars and drum. But what we're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby."
Truly showing us how to dismantle the atomic bomb and taking a trip to another horizon, in a similar style to Joshua Tree > Achtung Baby?
That particular article, the way it's worded, and the bird near the building, sounds really interesting - great way to jazz up an existing article.
In regards to Coldplay, I've never heard a bad song or bad demo from them in all the years from listening to them - although The Scientist, Clocks and Fix You stand right up in their entire catalog, as well as The World Turned Upside Down, and Yellow and Speed of Sound are great. That video clip is stunning with the LED display they're in front of.
What about a self-titled album? They haven't done that yet. Maybe:
"October Boy In War Completely Unforgettable When Under Joshua's Tree Near The Baby At The Zoo Going Pop And Can't Leave Any Original Atomic Bombs Behind".
at the earliest it would be released January 6th, the first Tuesday of the year, or I guess it would be the 5th for the Europeans. Hot Press is one of the few resources I actually take seriously, given their history with the band, I'll believe them, so I think more than likely it will be February.
"October Boy In War Completely Unforgettable When Under Joshua's Tree Near The Baby At The Zoo Going Pop And Can't Leave Any Original Atomic Bombs Behind".
"October Boy In War Completely Unforgettable When Under Joshua's Tree Near The Baby At The Zoo Going Pop And Can't Leave Any Original Atomic Bombs Behind".
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