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GasLightStreet
What does this LP release with Apple have to do with their next tour? I can't see that having any impact. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON flopped and they had the biggest tour ever in the history of rock tours. U2 fans will go see them.
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GasLightStreet
What does this LP release with Apple have to do with their next tour? I can't see that having any impact. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON flopped and they had the biggest tour ever in the history of rock tours. U2 fans will go see them.
You may be right, they may just be in that rarified air where it doesn't matter what they put out for new material, the crowds will show.
Having said that, I actually like the new album...but the article shows that U2 isn't cool anymore, which I don't think you can say about the Stones. They are still very cool.
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Rockman
U2 .... have heard 'em from a distance but have never let 'em on the stereo
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OzHeavyThrobber
"The Bono-led band’s Songs of Innocence, which U2 has hinted may be its last record"
It was stated upon free release that this is the first of three albums set for release over the coming 18 months. And the reason no-one can name a Nickleback song they hate is because as soon as they hear the lead singer start trying to sh*t razor blades they turn the channel - I can't hack "R and B" music or rubbish from "Pitbull" either but even though I'm subjected to it all at the gym I switch off to it cos it's crap - and I don't know any titles of these songs.
Many ppl may have been pissed about the new U2 lp being in their iTunes but mainly those that only have such trivial things to be concerned with would fleetingly give a toss. If someone is so incensed at something like this they have either series anger/psychological issues or are lucky enough to have this be the worst thing in the world for them.
Rag Bono and U2 all they want but the album will still sell in the millions and will be followed by I'm sure (yet another) the biggest tour ever.
I'm basically indifferent to all of this so take no side. This article no matter how well written will be soon be forgotten by all that read it - including any of the pending 10 odd million people that will go see them in the coming year or two.
Yeah they really need to go into damage control.
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GasLightStreet
What does this LP release with Apple have to do with their next tour? I can't see that having any impact. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON flopped and they had the biggest tour ever in the history of rock tours. U2 fans will go see them.
You may be right, they may just be in that rarified air where it doesn't matter what they put out for new material, the crowds will show.
Having said that, I actually like the new album...but the article shows that U2 isn't cool anymore, which I don't think you can say about the Stones. They are still very cool.
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OzHeavyThrobber
"The Bono-led band’s Songs of Innocence, which U2 has hinted may be its last record"
It was stated upon free release that this is the first of three albums set for release over the coming 18 months. And the reason no-one can name a Nickleback song they hate is because as soon as they hear the lead singer start trying to sh*t razor blades they turn the channel - I can't hack "R and B" music or rubbish from "Pitbull" either but even though I'm subjected to it all at the gym I switch off to it cos it's crap - and I don't know any titles of these songs.
Many ppl may have been pissed about the new U2 lp being in their iTunes but mainly those that only have such trivial things to be concerned with would fleetingly give a toss. If someone is so incensed at something like this they have either series anger/psychological issues or are lucky enough to have this be the worst thing in the world for them.
Rag Bono and U2 all they want but the album will still sell in the millions and will be followed by I'm sure (yet another) the biggest tour ever.
I'm basically indifferent to all of this so take no side. This article no matter how well written will be soon be forgotten by all that read it - including any of the pending 10 odd million people that will go see them in the coming year or two.
Yeah they really need to go into damage control.
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GasLightStreet
ACHTUNG was not out of left field but from out of space. Then they played a majority of it for the ZOO TV/Zooropa tours. Like the Stones with SOME GIRLS they clearly believed in their new record and let the audience know it.
Neither band has done that since.
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GasLightStreet
ACHTUNG was not out of left field but from out of space. Then they played a majority of it for the ZOO TV/Zooropa tours. Like the Stones with SOME GIRLS they clearly believed in their new record and let the audience know it.
Neither band has done that since.
Not true. When I saw U2 in Berlin in 2009 they opened with 4! songs from NLOTH and they played 7 songs from that album that night - pretty much what they did during the whole 2009. They dropped some of the new songs from the setlist in 2010 - they played 4 songs from NLOTH when I saw them in Vienna in 2010 + they played 2 new songs, one of them being an early version Every Breaking Weave from The Songs Of Innocence.
I checked random shows from previous tours:
in Miami in 1998 they played 9 songs from POP
in Chicago in 2001 they played 7 songs from ATYCLB
in Berlin in 2005 they played 7 songs from HTDAAB
in Berlin in 2009 they played 7 songs from NLOTH
Whatever you think of U2, they ALWAYS play a lot of the new album on their tour, at least on the early legs.