U2's next record....wot you reckon?

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So, Bono's been shooting his mouth off lately at any music rag that'll listen about how "Edge is pissed off seein' me shake hands with crooked world leaders" (or whatever)...hinting that the next record's going to be a big, noisy juggernaut. By this stage of the game, after they renounced their 80's po-faced sincerity and "went ironic" then "went pop," and then morphed back into "Classic Coke" mode and got all earnest and humble again....will anyone (their fans included) really give a squirt of Leperchaun cum about their next record?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 November 2003 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

good tunes good times

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 22 November 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

They spend two years talking up whatever record is going to come next these days, don't they? So we have an angry U2 guitar record to "look forward to" or look forward to.

― Schwingung (Damian), Saturday, 22 November 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I want more disco, meself. I haven't cared about their anger for years.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 22 November 2003 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

*insert all that hype about how R.E.M.'s Monster was going to be the Big Guitar Record here*

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 22 November 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

*shudder*

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 22 November 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(at "leprechaun cum" and Monster)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 22 November 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://toyshow.org/warwick-leprechaun-3.jpg

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 22 November 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

So thats it.
We've finally run out of things to talk about..

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 22 November 2003 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have high hopes but then again I'm a U2 fan.

I liked their Achtungzooropapassengerspop phase best myself, I hope they try something a little less predictable than All That You Can't Leave Behind next time (though that album is quite good).

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 22 November 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope they name it Punk.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ATYCLB was their best album yet, and they shouldn't change much from that one (other than writing 12-13 new great tunes like the ones on that album)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

stupid micks.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ATYCLB is really excellent but I would personally put it a level below the albums preceding it. but I can't really find fault with it and it was quite a comeback of sorts.

Also, why do I think Bono set about writing the tune "Kite" as a jingle for a condom ad and then decided it would be about life/death/etc?

Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

'Cause hardness, it sets in(!)
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ATYCLB was their best album yet..

Oh come now. Do lets regain hold of our senses now. All that You Can't... was one album too late and demonstrated a great deal of earnest bluster to mask a significant paucity in the tune department ("Beautiful Day" being one, gleaming exception).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 November 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, they need to forget this crazy U2 scheme and get the Passengers back together!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 22 November 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The tunes are exactly the reason why ATYCLB was so great. They have never had better tunes before. The earliest stuff was a bit too much built on guitar riffs, while during the 90s they were too "avant garde".

Bono himself claims to have taken a lot of inspiration from Oasis, and you can hear that. His tunes got a lot better after his Oasis phase.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 23 November 2003 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

U2 next album will be called "Man" with cover picture of the now elderly snot nosed runt from "Boy" & "War". Eno gets The Edge a new Echoplex, Bono gets himself a new flag and away we go.

― earlnash, Sunday, 23 November 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd piss my pants if that happened.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 23 November 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

u2 were too "avante garde" in the 90's - HA HA HA HA HA!

― jed (jed_e_3), Sunday, 23 November 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll take their 'avant garde' bluster (Acthung Baby, Zooropa and Pop) over the uninspired tedium of the last album ta

― stevem, Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Pop is a bit underrated, actually. Largely because Discotheque is the worst song they've ever done by a long way, and hating the album seems, at least to me, a perfectly reasonable reaction to experiencing that song.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually thought "Discotheque" was one of the better tracks off of it, but yeah, it is underrated. And my God, is their "avant garde" stuff better than ATYCLB

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't bono have better things to save*

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

THE GORILLAS

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a big shameless U2 fan and even like sappy overplayed U2 songs like With Or Without You, but ATYCLB blows, except for Kite which deserves to be similarly overplayed, and have lots of people punching their fists in the air with lighters to it at big stadium concerts.

― syntaxfree, Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Beautiful Day" from ATYCLB is among the cream in U2's catalog, but the remainder of the album is painfully mediocre. POP seems better in retrospect than it did when it was released, but still not among their best.

I've never understood all the love for Zooropa, though. The album is physically painful for me to hear.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Overuse of the word "painful" in all forms has been noted, thanks.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(at "leprechaun cum" and Monster)
is this the comeback of the old Goat Wank/Spackle meme from last year?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 1 December 2003 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i've always liked Pop (except for a couple of average songs on the b-side). Zooropa had some good songs on it (the first time, the wanderer, etc), but i always saw it as Achtung Baby's little brother that never got any sunshine.

All That You Can't blows. period.
Beautiful Day is the one great (and i do mean *great*) song on there. generic crap rock/pseudo ballads makes up the rest. too bland.

― sam p (lull), Monday, 1 December 2003 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

will anyone (their fans included) really give a squirt of Leperchaun cum about their next record?

i so wanna hear bono sing "ah, me lucky charms!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Where on earth can U2 go now? They went through a phase of incorporating trendy music (ie. the '90s trifecta).

Then they had their return to straightforward songwriting.

Now what?

― Debito (Debito), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

My point exactly!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Where on earth can U2 go now? They went through a phase of incorporating trendy music (ie. the '90s trifecta).
Then they had their return to straightforward songwriting.
Now what?
Now they become a 5% nation-added hip-hop collective that uses C&W samples from Ernest Tubb and Minnie Pearl.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono is Satan incarnate and U2 are the most evil band in the world. And Edge is a wanker.

I'd like it if they admitted Bono's evilness on the next record.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

U2 go goth.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

If Bono's solo record features a cover of "Release the Bats" then both of your wishes will be granted.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently, their new one's being produced by Chris Thomas (who produced Roxy Music and the Sex Pistols). Nice to see them giving Eno and Lanois some time off again.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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