"Cedars of Lebanon" Bono's contribution to peace in the Middle East?
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 16 January 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
^^^ Must be the Garth Brooks collab.
― "Two Ears" Laybelle (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 January 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
bono has compared the U2 sound as being influenced by trance, Led Zep and Moroccan music
back in december 2007
People will “feel the difference” when they hear the new U2 album, Bono tells The Independent. The album will find the Irish rockers taking on trance, metal and Moroccan influences. “Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dance floor. And that may not be true of this. There’s some trance influences,” says Bono, forgetting his band’s own Pop album. “It’s not like anything we’ve ever done before, and we don’t think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either.” According to Bono, guitarist The Edge has “real molten metal” coming from his guitar, and that the band has recorded enough material to fit two CDs.
2009
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a140783/u2-album-inspired-by-led-zep-jack-white.html
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the guitarist said that he is a big fan of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and recently contributed to the documentary It Might Get Loud with the legendary musician.
"I was just fascinated with seeing how Jimmy played those riffs so simply, and with Jack as well," said The Edge.
The new album is said to include blues rock tracks, with the first single expected to be 'Get On Your Boots'.
Bono commented: "There's some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal."
― djmartian, Friday, 16 January 2009 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Please tell me that 'Stand Up Comedy' is a spoken word interlude.
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
At last Larry gets to shine!
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Fez - Being Born - this must be the Moroccan track
― djmartian, Friday, 16 January 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Fez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fesis the fourth largest city in Morocco, after Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakech with a population of 946,815 (2004 census). It is the capital of the Fès-Boulemane Region.
― djmartian, Friday, 16 January 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee305/azou7/TommyCooper-1.jpg
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
just like that
― djmartian, Friday, 16 January 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Just when I thought our cherished Martian comedy was gone for good, it's back. Incongruous painstaking revival of a U2 thread, with pasted information about North Africa? What next?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 17 January 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus this album sounds bad. trance blues....shudder.
― Local Garda, Saturday, 17 January 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
tho haven't u2 always been influenced by trance?? or indeed influencing it? it's no coincidence that Paul Oakenfold used to play "Where The Streets Have No Name" or that that "Take Me To The Skies" above record used the bassline from "With Or Without You"
― Local Garda, Saturday, 17 January 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
the new single gets premiered on alex zanes xfm show this monday apparently.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 17 January 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Once, when I was with my then girlfriend, U2 came on the radio, and I said
I loathe U2
and she said
You loathe me?
― GamalielRatsey, Saturday, 17 January 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― Local Garda, Saturday, 17 January 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
There are bands I love more, but I don't think there's a band I love more that's hated more by people whose opinions I respect.
That said, it took me seeing them live after the last album (my first U2 concert) for me to become a full-on, high-school-era-level believer again.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
(I.e. back when I wore a "U2 - Boy" t-shirt and my classmates would go "You, too, boy!")
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
So I humbly retract this review:
http://www.citypages.com/2005-01-05/music/sunday-boring-sunday/
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 January 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I like people who are passionate about early U2. Cheers.
― Shoegazey Goth Metal Phone (Bimble), Saturday, 17 January 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The U2 effect
http://www.boredrevolution.com/?p=34
― Michael B, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Coldplay, however, released two beautiful records of everyday heartbreak and insecurities
No.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
and they were both singles...
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.spotify.com/go/20090223-u2-excl-preview-guardian
― the pinefox, Monday, 23 February 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Fixed!
― ilxor, Monday, 23 February 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
recent sets: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/u2/2011/angel-stadium-anaheim-ca-63d31217.htmlsuggest Glastonbury is going to be amazing. they deserve it after so much bile's been aimed at them these last years. people randomly hating on U2's career just because Bono is up his own arse is just the worst criticism of music ever.
DL otm here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/19/u2-headline-glastonbury-debate
"Here's the world's most successful live band moving outside their comfort zone and needing to prove themselves to an audience that could go either way. However it goes down, that should be something to see."
― piscesx, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
i'm with DL as well.
wondering if this will give them a way to cut back on the excess of the recent glass spider tour, and declare a rediscovered love of back to basics gigs ..
[i mean, surely they are not bringing the spider contraption to G ? ]
― mark e, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:31 (twelve years ago) link
i'm american, so glastonbury doesn't mean much to me, but DL OTM. few things more tiresome than knee-jerk U2 hate.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 07:59 (twelve years ago) link
that said, i spent years hating them for the negativland "U2" business, so...
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:00 (twelve years ago) link
cant figure out the thread that the recent Achtung Bay docu has been given some love on, so dropping on this one.tis fascinating to see the band so riddled with doubt during their rattle & hum era.i would have thought by that stage they had their thing locked down.and the fact they believed they believed that they didn't have enough material for a stadium (as opposed to arena) shows despite the fact they were several albums into their career.other than that, its a great watch .. loved the section re the breakdown of bands ("bought out", "snuck out" etc)so many good quotes ..
― mark e, Friday, 14 October 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
of course : bay = baby
― mark e, Friday, 14 October 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
October is by far the best Christian rock record ever made. In all seriousness, it's an incredibly overlooked record, both in their catalog and overall. (This was brought to light in a recent discussion with a self-professed "huge U2 fan" who had never even heard it.) The urgent, devastating, soaring guitar solo in "Tomorrow"? Edge's guitar work overall? Bono is his usual strident self, but there's a lot less chest-beating than on the overrated War, and the whole band is tighter, more singular, and more focused than on Boy. It's a strange and captivating record, and I wonder if any ILMers have visited it lately.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
why do I have this thread bookmarked
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
HE'S WATCHING YOU, DAN.
http://www.john-lee-ministries.org/Bono-Macphisto.jpg
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
anyway OTM re: October
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's a terrific record. But it's their hardest to get a handle on - I think largely down to the flat-yet-echoey production, it's of-its-time in a way that the others aren't, because they all get scooped up into the U2 sound. So while I like it, I'm more likely to consider it in another context, like if I'm thinking about Echo & The Bunnymen rather than U2 (I almost never do this btw).
I don't know if this is why I also find it slightly impenetrable - I know that personally they were wrestling with Christianity, but whether (other than a couple of obvious examples) and how that feeds in lyrically I just don't know. Is it Christian Rock? Is Tomorrow? I'm wary of categorising it as such - for one thing, anything prior to Zooropa seems equally worthy of the term.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
x-post
I don't think I'll ever fully understand the vitriol spewed at Bono by so many... I mean, I get it: he's pretty douchey, he's pretty self-righteous, fine. But the dude has an amazing voice, and he's not any more over-the-top than so, so, so many other famous vocalists, neither in personality nor in vocal style/presence. I guess I should say that, while I can comprehend the vitriol, I can't inhabit it. I just can't. But that's a blind spot I'm happy to have.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
think of it this way; if Jane's Addiction had released a bazillion albums, Bono would have been supplanted by Perry Farrell a long time ago
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Ismael, it somehow feels more Xtian to me than anything else by them, but I would never call it "Christian rock"... I mean, there's "Gloria", there's the chorus that goes "Je-RUUUUU-saaa-lem", there's "Rejoice"... I like the production quite a bit; there's a simplicity and dry-ness to it that you don't really hear on any of their other records. You can really hear the individual parts and hear the players interact. Edge's "gentle cascades of fireworks on the horizon" guitar shadings are more implied than so explicitly framed as on The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree. He sounds more like a very creative, very economical, very distinctive postpunk guitarist; the link between him and Steve Fellows of Comsat Angels is its most explicit on this record.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Best angle I have on the Bonophobia is that it's a mix of envy and embarrassment. Because when you're young Bono is the guy you want to be, then you grow all cynical and failed in various ways, but he's still that guy - so what else are you going to do but hate?
In breaking Bono news, my sister was passing the famous Bono Vox shop last week, and it's closed down. The sign's still up, but the windows have been boarded over. One of the less-heralded sad days for rock & roll.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
I actually always wanted to be Edge when I was younger...
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
He's the first guitarist I remember registering as "a guitarist I really like"--this was at age, like, 10 or so. Discovering postpunk early in college blew my head right open because all of a sudden here were all of these guitarists who did cool economic angular things like Edge!
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
when you're young Bono is the guy you want to be
really?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
lol what
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
I so adore psychoanalytic explanations for why we dislike rock star posturing.
I don't think I'll ever fully understand the vitriol spewed at Bono by so many...
admittedly this is recent, but I still offer it up as exhibit A:
HAHAHA! OH MY GOD BONO NOOOO SOMEONE MAKE HIM STOP OH THE HUMANITY
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Bill Flanagan deserves a Nobel Prize for literature for making Bono a probing intellect in U2 At the End of the World, still one of the most intelligent tour biographies extant.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
Well yeah, he should probably be drawn and quartered for that... I just get the impression that Bonohate among the cognoscenti has been around pretty much as long as the band itself, to the point where it's bascially institutionalized. Why so much hatred in the early days?
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
that was an x-post BTW
The only thing I remember about U2 At the end of the world was this picture and caption:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_u-zEPWVQP0E/S0Nf1g5Cs6I/AAAAAAAAD9I/3iaDjwEIhm8/s800/lm1.jpg
Larry Mullen, toughest guy in the band
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
And a chapter about Bono's nautical kleptomania that was too awesome to be true