TH: I remember back in the ’90s when the song came out that these talk show guys on KROQ out here in L.A.—Kevin and Bean—they kept going, “Okay, we’re going to play you a little bit of the U2 song. We’re going to play you a little bit of the new U2 song. We can only play a little bit of it and here it is right here. Ready? Okay!” Then they’d play that Rick Astley song [starts singing] “Never gonna give you up / Never gonna let you down!” And then they’d turn it off really quickly and go, “That’s the new U2 song! They’ve changed direction!” And the funny thing is, a couple of weeks before, Tommy Lee had been interviewed so they had a sound bite of Tommy Lee going, “You guys are fags!” So they’d go, “We’re going to play the new U2 song, we’re going to play a little snippet of it. Here it is,” [starts singing] “Never gonna give you up / Never gonna let you down,” then they’d turn it off and you’d just hear Tommy Lee go, “You guys are fags.” And it was so fucking funny, man.
― balls, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
xpost
― balls, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
'pop' is dope imo.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
that whole thing may be the dumbest conversation ever transcribed. a post-exodus av club writer talking to the second best drummer in the foo fighters.
― balls, Friday, 23 May 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
next up ask him about vaccines and whether or not HIV causes aids.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, I can't think of a drummer who's more of an utter non-entity than Taylor Hawkins.
Like, who listens to "Achtung Baby" and just thinks such a dark record is actually the band being silly, ironic and goofing around?
This is otm.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, May 23, 2014 10:43 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ this. They should've packed it in after Pop, because everything after was strictly snoozeville.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
"AVC: It feels like both Pop and Achtung Baby were supposed to make listeners think U2 was this fun party band, which they never really were."
featuring such floor fillers as "so cruel" and "wake up dead man"
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah but he likes Queen. Those guys were fags. It was so fucking funny, man.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
I'm down w their post-pop stuff generally (NLOTH >ATYCLB>>>HTDAAB) but probably the worst thing abt U2 is how they distanced themselves from their most bizarre '90s stuff so quickly.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
achtung and pop : quite simply, brilliant albums.
i hated, i mean, really hated, u2 before these albums (and bh was even more anti-u2 than me, out of principle !).
however, a friend gave me tix to see the zooropa live show in leeds, and i have never seen anyone totally denouce their previous groove as quickly as bh did that night.
after the gig the band became hq faves ..
i do wish the band would kick that groove again (there is a chance given that the new track was all about the minimal electro drums ?)
― mark e, Friday, 23 May 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 23 May 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Kevin and Bean, holy shit, they were (are?) the worst.
― tylerw, Friday, 23 May 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
Taylor Hawkins: Let me start out by saying that I love U2. I really do, especially the first four records. They’re very, very important records. They were super, duper important to me growing as a musician, whether I was 10 or 12 or 14. Boy, October, War, The Unforgettable Fire, and The Joshua Tree, those records, they’re part of my musical DNA and structure.
(Insert Drummer Math Joke Here)
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 May 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
Achtung Baby is cool and I liked No Line on the Horizon, remember old friend giving me shit for how dad-rawk some of it was though and I have to concede he was right in parts
― nova, Friday, 23 May 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
This HateSong seems like bullshit
Or rather, a mildly diverting idea executed terribly
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 23 May 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
Their panicked backsliding from Pop is so tragic. They were really finding something there, oh well.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
The panicked backsiding started with Pop itself. Jettison the U2 anthems, begin with "MOFO," and you got something.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
Actually, I've liked a few of those. The Black Lips guy's Lorde one was good, the Black Eyed Peas one was good, the Macklemore one was good (both by comedians, it helps). It's Taylor Hawkins who executes poorly.
http://www.avclub.com/article/bitchface-comedian-joe-mande-why-he-hates-macklemo-202946
http://www.avclub.com/article/eugene-mirman-on-why-the-black-eyed-peas-i-gotta-f-92678
http://www.avclub.com/article/black-lips-cole-alexander-naivete-lordes-royals-202578
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 May 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Maybe this was the Macklemore?
http://www.avclub.com/article/al-madrigal-on-why-he-abhors-macklemore-ryan-lewis-98825
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 May 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
So ... there's a new album out.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
01 The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)02 Every Breaking Wave03 California (There Is No End To Love)04 Song For Someone05 Iris (Hold Me Close)06 Volcano07 Raised By Wolves08 Cedarwood Road09 Sleep Like A Baby Tonight10 This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now11 The Troubles.
I love this tracklisting so much I almost want to hear the album
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
Sounds fine so far.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Snap reaction: the fact that this is the real Bono and not any of a few dozen not-Bonos is a benefit to an album that's trying (albeit not too hard) to sound like all the bands fronted by not-Bonos.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
1. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)Produced by: Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
Jesus fucking
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Haha are those really the song titles? Those are great.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
track-by-track at rolling stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/u2-songs-of-innocence-surprise-album-guide-20140909
― da croupier, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
The amazing song titles on "No Line on the Horizon" are what sparked the ILX precovers concept.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
However "Songs of Innocence" is a terrible album name.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
the next album is called Songs of Experience
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Sex of Songperience
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
the tedderization of everything is complete
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Dongs of Senecense
― Liquid Plejades, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
I guess there was a proposed album called Songs of Ascent that was never released?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
Please tell me there isnt a song on this thing called The Troubles
jesus
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Not about the IRA! But an earlier song is.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
the mIRAcle (of joey ramone) right?
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
The Miracle (Of the Troubles)
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/09/09/u2-makes-history-offers-new-album-for-free-on-itunes-during-apple-event/
U2′s new album being automatically added to our iTunes library is the most disgusting invasion of personal space by technology in history
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
lol
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
when I got my first Mac in 2001 it came with some songs preloaded, including New Order's "Age of Consent", and I guess Apple did that? so not unprecedented ... though still it's 2010s we're talking about here
― Euler, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Wait, is this getting downloaded to our computers without us asking for it or do you have to click download to get it in your iTunes?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
You have to click download. (Note: you do not have to click download. No one is forcing you to listen to U2.)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
some folks on twitter exaggerating a bit, and quoted in that Post article
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
some folks on twitter exaggerating a bit
nothing new to ILX there tbf
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I remember that my sister's macbook has Nick Cave's 'Into My Arms' preloaded sometime in the early 2000s
― wolves at doors: they flan @ u face (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Free album? When is Bono gonna come through with some fuckin' free t-shirts, man?
― dave matthews' gland (sic), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Is there really supposed to be a period after Troubles?
The Troubles.
WTF man
― Rand McNulty (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
That is so fucking precious