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Did they blow U2 off the stage?

Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 9 January 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link

well, it was in the racecourse and obviously, the sound was lousy.
you could hear the songs but the crowd didn't really get into it.
I'm still glad I can say I saw the VU live !

AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link

is it wrong that i am already looking forward to the 30th anniversary tour of bono's classic jam session with tinariwen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqh6x29bc64

NickB, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link

please god let us all live that long

NickB, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link

haha i love the constant monocle adjusting that goes on whenever a popular old band decides to play shows featuring songs that a lot of people love and will enjoy....it's so sad really, they should have a little moral fibre and play b-sides from the how to dismantle an atomic bomb era

who gives a shit? they seem like they are probably still good live, there's a lot of ppl who would like to hear the joshua tree live what's the harm?

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 January 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link

when I saw them at the Elevation tour's opening date in Ft Lauderdale, PJ Harvey was supposed to open; it was why I bought tickets. But strep throat forced U2 to replace them with...the Corrs.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link

Cor!

Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 9 January 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link

four months pass...

I sympathize, but Jon Pareles' review of the Joshua Tree tour redux reads like a robot wrote it. On the other hand, it concludes with this:

The band couldn’t let that energy go; Bono impulsively called for an oldie, “I Will Follow,” U2’s first single. Bono urged the crowd to take the roof off, but this was U2’s longtime habitat, a stadium. There was no roof.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link

Which maybe is meant to be sort of portentous? But I think it's hilarious.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

I'm giving All That You Can't Leave Behind a listen now for the first time in years and while the singles jog memories of the years 2000-2001, I can see why I don't listen to this more often - it's more than a bit dull.

Not to mention that I'm 9 tracks in and I've already heard 'The Sun Always Shines On TV' ('Beaitiful Day'), 'Here Comes Your Man' ('Walk On'), Bon Jovi's 'Always' ('Kite'), an outtake from a shit late-period Stones album ('In a Little While') and just general shittiness ('Peace on Earth') ...

'When I Look at the World' is underrated, tho.

The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 1 July 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link

*'Beautiful Day', rather.

The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 1 July 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link

('New York' is underrated too, and possibly the best track on the LP. Sounds like it would have been more at home on Zooropa ... just needs more swirly FX.)

The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 1 July 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link

you could craft one of their best albums out of the tracks from the tail end of their last 4 LPs.

nomar, Sunday, 2 July 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link

these songs have all made zero impact on the U2 fanbase but they'd make a good playlist. none of them go beyond mid-tempo(ish), most are slower mood pieces or odd tracks they would never play live.

Breathe
Cedarwood Road
New York
This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
FEZ (Being Born)
White As Snow
One Step Closer
When I Look At the World
Grace
The Troubles
Cedars of Lebanon

nomar, Sunday, 2 July 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Ready your barbs, new album imminent, new song circulating in some form. Sounds different from what I would expect from them, kind of generic alt rock maybe?

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link

https://www.facebook.com/u2/videos/10155989836631686/

mark e, Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link

This one's... uh... Songs of Incontinence, wasn't it?

more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 31 August 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link

like with the pre-release of their Invisible track, i aint taking this on face value.

mark e, Thursday, 31 August 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link

i loved Invisible and had high hopes for a lot more of the same kind of groove (i.e. the minimal electro drums), and we all know how that turned out.

mark e, Thursday, 31 August 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link

Reports that edge in particular is v concerned about opinions itt

passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 August 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link

Oh god is my iPhone safe?

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 31 August 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link

The Edge? More like the Dull!

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 August 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link

"You're The Best Thing About Me"

Mark G, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

1. Zooropa
2. Achtung Baby
3. Boy
4. The Joshua Tree
5. The Unforgettable Fire
6. War
7. Pop
8. All That You Can't Leave Behind
9. October
10. Rattle and Hum

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 21 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link

11. the rest

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 21 December 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link

pretty much OTM. I might have Unforgettable Fire ahead of Joshua Tree but why quibble?

Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link

I listened to Boy a couple of nights ago and it blew me away how punchy and fresh it sounded.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link

glad to see POP in the list.
for all the crap that is thrown at the album (incl. from the band themselves), i still really enjoy it.

mark e, Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link

I think that Pop had the potential to be one of their best but they cocked it up during the recording... I really like 'Discotheque', 'Do You Feel Loved', 'MOFO', 'The Last Night on Earth', 'Gone', 'Staring at the Sun' and 'Please' and weirdly for all of Pop's flaws I don't like the attempts at remixing the tracks anywhere near as much as the ones that made the LP.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link

as you say, something was not right. it sounds muddy.
there is no clarity in the mix at all for Discoteque.
i wouod suggest that a good straightforward remaster/remix to seperate the instrumentation would reawaken several of the tracks, but i think the band have disowned this album, so we just have to put up with it as it is.

mark e, Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link

I think they've gone off the LP, which is a shame because there's a lot of great material on it and it would have been amazing if the production had been more OTM - maybe they would have carried on in this direction. A lot of potential new directions opened up on Achtung Baby, Zooropa and the Passengers LP, and it would have been great if they'd explored more.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link

They seem to regard the tour as being one of their best, at least presentation wise.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link

A lot of potential new directions opened up on Achtung Baby, Zooropa and the Passengers LP, and it would have been great if they'd explored more.

as i am sure i have said elsewhere, i came onboard at AB and so have always preferred this era.
at times NLOTH revisited the same kind of groove for me hence why i rate that one highly.
still working on the new album.
always takes a few weeks before i either get fed up, or i succumb.
at the moment, it's looking like the latter.

mark e, Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link

Fucking hell, Bono.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42502453

U2 frontman Bono has criticised what he says is a lack of rock and roll in today's music.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the singer said: "I think music has gotten very girly.

"And there are some good things about that, but hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment - and that's not good."

He added that one of his sons, Elijah, "believes that a rock and roll revolution is around the corner".

And the singer said he agreed with his son that the genre "will return".

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link

stfu bono

Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link

"When I was 16, I had a lot of anger in me. You need to find a place for it and for guitars, whether it is with a drum machine - I don't care.

looool. I love that that's where he draws the line.

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link

"Lady GaGa stole this music...we're stealin' it back!"

Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link

Bono is a knob but not quite sure why this is so offensive - the word 'girly' or a misunderstanding over his comment about hip-hip?

PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link

yes "girly" as a pejorative, because there are a lot of women making great rock music right now and the idea that male anger is somehow underrepresented in rock music or the world in 2017 is fucking ridiculous

Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link

The drummer from Shed Seven isn't in agreement

Yes @U2's Bono is a top cunt, but fuck me, if you can't use the word "Girly" anymore to describe something as a bit sissy. In the name of.....

— Alan Leach Shed7 (@AlanShed) December 28, 2017

PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link

BONO PLEASE JUST GO THE FUCK AWAY

calstars, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link

The most generous interpretation of the hip-hop line: "that's not good" meaning that hip-hop shouldn't be the only genre through which young men express anger. But I'm not feeling generous, and fuck Bono for "girly."

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link

Is this the same Shed Seven drummer who said girls couldn't be drummers in the 90s?

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link

It's also remarkably immature to be in your fifties and still be obsessed with expressing anger

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link

The same Alan Leach who declared in one of the weeklies that ALL female drummers were inferior to him

Master of Treacle, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link

Xp lol sorry

Master of Treacle, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link

Boner, Stink, please just go retire together in Tampa

calstars, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link

I think it's the same Alan Leach who claimed the band name stemmed from his losing his virginity to his own dad in a shed, aged 7

PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 December 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link

Good band, lots of good songs

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link

Shed Seven is terrible

Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 December 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link


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