Originally posted by vanquish:More Unknown Caller type stuff! More synth, less of Edge's signature chiming guitar tone
Some proper dance tunes (read not GOYB) wouldn't be bad either, something like Discotheque/
And for the love of God please give us another hit single like Vertigo or BD, Just one to stop their slide into irrelevance
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
Yeah i'd like to hear less of Edge's guitar sound as well. Not because i don't like it, it's what got me to become a musician. However, I value him as a changing musician, and he hasn't changed much in the past decade.
Bono said he only want to release a new album if its better than NLOTH
Originally posted by drewhiggins:I was thinking something along the lines of hard rock. They've never quite 'gotten it', although Is That All and Electric Co. are about as close as they've been. Get out of the pop-rock (because U2 don't do pop-rock all that well) and start looking at what made music so very cool in the 60s and 70s and late 80s - and what made U2 cool in the 90s.
I think even a prog-rock album would be something to behold. Come up with a concept like Tommy or Dark Side Of The Moon or Killer and work with that - Bono is a good enough writer to make something like it happen. It doesn't have to be hard rock or rock and roll, it could be half and half of whatever, but actually making something better and more original than they have ever done before.
And by god I hope he doesn't tell us it's punk rock from some undiscovered planet. Remember the result of U2's Vision of Punk Circa 2004? Vertigo.
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Does he mean the songs that were their best in 12 years or the worst in 30 years?
Originally posted by drewhiggins:I was thinking something along the lines of hard rock. They've never quite 'gotten it', although Is That All and Electric Co. are about as close as they've been. Get out of the pop-rock (because U2 don't do pop-rock all that well) and start looking at what made music so very cool in the 60s and 70s and late 80s - and what made U2 cool in the 90s.
I think even a prog-rock album would be something to behold. Come up with a concept like Tommy or Dark Side Of The Moon or Killer and work with that - Bono is a good enough writer to make something like it happen. It doesn't have to be hard rock or rock and roll, it could be half and half of whatever, but actually making something better and more original than they have ever done before.
And by god I hope he doesn't tell us it's punk rock from some undiscovered planet. Remember the result of U2's Vision of Punk Circa 2004? Vertigo.
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Does he mean the songs that were their best in 12 years or the worst in 30 years?
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
I wouldn't say Dark Side of the Moon is a prog rock, nor is Pink Floyd. It's almost too hard to put PF in a genre, i geuss Psychadelic Rock is what they are. And I don't think u2 would ever do a prog rock album, simply because they're too used to the basic music structure. Prog rock is totally different than U2's usual stuff. Even though U2 has changed over the years, they've never changed their actual structure (perhaps Passengers and a bit of Zooropa did, and some other songs off of the albums that aren't famous). But yeah. It would be really sick I agree with you, but i don't see that happening at all.
Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
Acid Rock for early Pink Floyd. Not so sure about everything that came after - in particular The Division Bell which shows signs of the foundations cracking.
The interviews say we're changing our sound, we're making stuff like never before. Moment Of Surrender and Unknown Caller and Fez - Being Born are surely different to most people, but they use the exact same structure as a traditional U2 rock song, but they've stepped into those territories before and with varying degrees of success.
Passengers is closer to concept - they're all for movies and so follow a structure and have a story. You can imagine the bullet train and the fee-evading family ghosts in United Colours. They need to remember what made the music great in 1993 - 1997 and forget whatever has come from 1998 - 2009 onwards. Maybe even go back to the demos of those albums and re-record them, not breaking away too much, but at least remembering what they did with them and making them updated for 2000-and-whatever-year.
Sure, it wouldn't get them radio hits - which is what they seem to be chasing - but it would appeal to a wider, experimental audience. Maybe work with Underworld for a few tracks. Ah well - we'll see what they come out with. Maybe they'll give away the album at the 2010 shows with VIP passes or something. Who knows.
. I think they need a commercially successful hit, or else they will fail. I'd like to see an experimental album as well, but at hte same time i know they need something that will reel in new fans and reel in more cash and publicity and popularity. They need a new BD or Vertigo. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
Ah, very true about PF. And yeah I agree with you. I think it'd be nice to see them get very experimental. I think they tried a bit of the "Story" concept with NLOTH (vividly remember Bono mentioning this) but to me it didn't pan out as well as they wanted it to. If you want a story, listen to the Wall
