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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Matt on August 24, 2004, 03:57 PM
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Achtung, Baby! New U2 Release Set (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=795&ncid=799&e=1&u=/eo/20040823/en_music_eo/14777)
Nov. 23 is going to be a beautiful day for U2 fans.
Bono and the boys have announced plans to release their still untitled album in the U.S. then, a day after it drops in the U.K. The first single, "Vertigo," will hit radio on Sept. 24, while a video for the song will debut in October.
U2's 11th studio album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, is the follow-up to their multiple Grammy-winning 2000 disc, All That You Can Leave Behind. Besides "Vertigo," other song titles rumored to be on the Irish rockers' set include "Tough" and "Full Metal Jacket."
The band has been previewing tracks to select music industry types, and the buzz has been tremendous. Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel says the new CD "is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes,Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work...[Bono] has enormous assuredness, and the occasional cracks in his voice make the bad-relationship songs (and, as always, there are quite a few) darker and more dramatic."
U2 fan site @U2 quotes VH1 Senior Vice President Bill Flanagan saying, "It's the best album they have ever done. It's going to knock [listeners] out." And British rock writer Neil McCormick tells Hot Press magazine that "Vertigo" "is like the early U2 pumped up in the 21st century, a really exciting record."
The album's release will apparently not be impacted by the disappearance of early version of the album. A compact disc containing unmixed versions of the tracks went missing from a recording studio in Nice, France, in July, prompting worries that the songs could be leaked to the Internet, potentially costing the quartet, arguably the most popular rock band in the world, and its label, Interscope, millions in lost revenue.
With French investigators still not finding what they're looking for, Bono told London's Daily Telegraph that the group may try and head off such a disastrous leak by making the album available early as a legal download on Apple's iTunes should file-swappers get their hands on it.
"If it is on the Internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month," the singer said. "It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention f--king up our holidays. But once it's out. It's out."
A cursory scan of the major music-swapping sites haven't turned up any of the MIA tracks.
For now, the album will be on shelves--and iTunes--in November, with a U.S. tour slated for the spring.
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(And yes, although I'm a casual fan of U2, this thread is little more than an opportunity to mock this thread from our buddy Durge (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4615.0) from just a couple months ago. . .
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Love U2, probably in my top 5 bands of all time. I kick myself for not seeing them in concert every time they come around. Definitely planning on changing that when they tour to support the new album.
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Yay! May favourite band ever; I can’t wait!
OK, I’ve got that in now…thanks…sorry for helping to take this thread off course :-[
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Yeah, they're on my short list of "bands to see before I/they die."
I'll definitely be doing what I can to see them next year. They're getting up there, and can't possibly have too many tours left in them. . .
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What is the name of that song that they play at sporting events...it goes "It's a Beautiful Day"
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What is the name of that song that they play at sporting events...it goes "It's a Beautiful Day"
It’s called “Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of”. I know because in the video Bono and the lads are at one of those strange games you guys play (the one with weirdly shaped ball). So I’m guessing some sort of sport association right there ;)
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Thought I'd bump up this guy up as I'm getting pretty excited... I've got tickets to see tBwOGS* this Friday.
The tix were my wife's B-Day present (she's a bigger tBwOGS fan than I am) and are on the main floor. tBwOGS always put on a great show, and having seen the set list on-line (23 songs!), I'm pretty sure that this outing will be no different!
:)
* = the Band with One Good Song
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Seems like the topics in here are thinner on music than most. Huge U2 fan and am excited to see the U23D film and have high hopes for the new album.
Any other Jders with U2 as one of their top bands?
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I've seen U2 twice. I like them, but don't actively purchase every album.
A bit of trivia: Did you know that U2 are huge Monkees fans? They include one riff from a Monkees song in every set.
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I live for U2. Good to see a thread for them finally. Excited for the movie and the new record (this year?).
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Believe it or not, we've actually had a couple of U2 threads here before:
Need help identifying a song... (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4615.0)
and
The Return of the Band with One Good Song (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=5160.0)
Enjoy.
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I do enjoy their music, especially their earlier stuff. However, I don't go out and buy/download all of their music. Great thing about digital music is you can pick and choose what you want. I've never seen them in concert, but do think it would be a pretty good one.
Glad to see that some of you guys I spar with in other sections enjoy the same music that I do.;)
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Like Star Wars, I've been a lifelong U2 fan, discovering their music in the summer of 1982. I've seen them a dozen or so times, and follow them pretty closely. I met Bono with a small group of fanss on the Joshua Tree tour. He was very cool, and very freindly and spent a godd 15 minutes or so talking to us. I love their music dearly, but for some odd reason, I 'm usually kind of queit about my fandom. It's probably because they've become so huge, that it just sounds unoriginal to be a fan. Who knows. I'm excited for U2 3D, but don't know if I'll find the time to see it.
I'm more excited about the next album due in the Fall. It seems that the band, Eno and Lanois are all going for something "different" and U2 has always been their best when experimenting!
My other coolest U2 memeory is sitting in on the sound check on the Elevation tour in Philly. My brother worked at the Spectrum, and I was able to gte inside. I could't watch, but I listened for a good hour or so. It was cool to hear them jamming and making mistakes and practicing the intro to Kite over and over and over...
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It seems that the band, Eno and Lanois are all going for something "different" and U2 has always been their best when experimenting!
While I still like Zooropa and Pop a fair amount, it might have been a bit too much experimenting for most.
But they have earned the right to do whatever they want and I will give it a fair shake. I usually come around.
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But you must remember how diffferent and how experimental Unforgettable Fire was at the time. Joshua Tree was very diffferent than anything they'd done before. Actung Baby was totally out in left field when it came out. All of those "classic" U2 albums were very experimental. That's what I'm getting at. The last two albums were fantastic, beautiful albums, but they covered no new ground sound-wise.
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:) U2 has been one of my favorite bands since the early 80's with Sunday,bloody,Sunday.Seen them in Concert twice.Did a drawing of them that hangs on my wall
(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/jedineeson/77860004.jpg)
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When did Clive Owen join U2?
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Saw U2 3D while I was in nashville. Wow, it was very cool. The effects are quite good and the concert was a nice collection of oldies and new songs from Atomic Bomb. I've never been a big fan of Bullet the Blue Sky, but it was quite the production in the film.
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The Band With One Good Song Returns on March 3, 2009 (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/u2-looks-toward-new-horizon-1003923902.story)
Link 2 (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/high-five-u2-unveils-album-configurations-1003924362.story)
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Does anybody care about U2 anymore?
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The last U2 album that I bought new was "Rattle & Hum". And since then I traded off all of my U2 albums to buy other CD's. I toyed with buying "Achtung Baby" over the weekend but passed.
I think they've done some amazing things as a band. And somehow they still manage to be relavent. But my musical interest lies elsewhere.
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Heard about this on the radio today... the first single from the upcoming album:
http://goyb.u2.com/
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U2 Release New Album "Songs of Innocence" for Free on iTunes (http://pitchfork.com/news/53827-u2-release-new-album-songs-of-innocence-for-free-on-itunes/)
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Millions Upset Over Free U2 Download (http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/apple-u2-songs-of-innocence)
Apple Allows For U2 Album Removal (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-15/apple-lets-customers-delete-free-u2-album-after-backlash.html)
I haven't had a chance to listen to the CD yet but I don't understand how a free CD being put on a device is a violation of your rights, as some people online have claimed.
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What if it was something truly offensive? Propaganda or something? I think that's the source of the outrage. If iTunes can push one album onto your iPhone without your permission, they can push ANY album onto your iPhone without your permission.
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They can't. I have an iPad, iPod and iPhone. The only way to get this album is to go to the iTunes market place and download it.
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It isn't that they actually put it on devices, it was put in everyone's cloud. Considering some people pay for icloud storage, having something in their that you don't want is annoying. If you don't pay for extra cloud storage, it is still taking up space in your free storage. You have to pay for iTunes match, which is the only way you can delete songs/albums in the cloud that you no longer want. Without that, you would have been stuck with the U2 album in the cloud until they put out the "patch" to get rid of it.
Personally, since I am not a U2 fan, I view this essentially as junk mail. I have been sent something I didn't want and now it is my problem to dispose of it. Not that big of a deal, but it is annoying. If I had wanted this album, it isn't that difficult to go to iTunes store and download it. That would have made it more like a guy handing out flyers. If you want one, you take it. Otherwise, you just move on without being inconvenienced.
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What if it was something truly offensive? Propaganda or something? I think that's the source of the outrage. If iTunes can push one album onto your iPhone without your permission, they can push ANY album onto your iPhone without your permission.
As a long time fan of U2, believe me when I say this WAS something truly offensive - the album is the worst collection of songs they have ever released. After listening to the album all the way through twice, I prompty deleted the songs from my iPhone.
You know what they say about "you get what you pay for"? Well clearly there's a reason why this album is being given out for free.
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It's really the worst collection of songs they've ever released? Not trying to start anything but as a longtime fan myself, I find that hard to believe. Everyone has their own tastes, but there's a couple songs on here, Iris for one, that are as good as it gets.
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It's really the worst collection of songs they've ever released? Not trying to start anything but as a longtime fan myself, I find that hard to believe. Everyone has their own tastes, but there's a couple songs on here, Iris for one, that are as good as it gets.
Fair enough - I will grab Iris off my cloud storage and give it another chance.
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Yeah give Iris another spin. And Volcano. The whole album really takes off about half way in. The first couple songs don't really reflect the rest of it in my opinion.