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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    I doubt it will be. Of all the songs they tried on 360 that'd probably be the last one I'd expect. Like Ordinary Love it was written for another purpose and it was already released on the Spider-Man soundtrack anyway.

    I think you're more likely to see something like North Star, but even that was finished and in Transformers...

    So I think Return of the Stingray Guitar could be on it?
  2. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    I doubt it will be. Of all the songs they tried on 360 that'd probably be the last one I'd expect. Like Ordinary Love it was written for another purpose and it was already released on the Spider-Man soundtrack anyway.

    I think you're more likely to see something like North Star, but even that was finished and in Transformers...


    Agreed but we never did get the whole song and it wasn't released?
  3. Of North Star? No we didn't. It appeared in the digital booklet though ("To Jack Heaslip, our North Star"). Hopefully they release it as a B-side.
  4. Originally posted by iTim:Of North Star? No we didn't. It appeared in the digital booklet though ("To Jack Heaslip, our North Star&quot. Hopefully they release it as a B-side.

    Good catch. I'm really hoping for a North Star release. If the theme of that song is still "a love song to the universe", it fits well with Songs Of Experience, maybe that's why they're waiting for the next album.
  7. U2 are planning to release TWO more albums before 2016 - after shock free record
    Closest pal Dave Fanning knows they have more material in the bag
    Sep 11, 2014 | 16:17 / Updated: Sep 11, 2014 | 16:17



    U2 are set to release another TWO albums over the next 18 months, their best friend has revealed.
    Close confidant Dave Fanning said he believes Songs Of Innocence is the first in a three-part series of albums in which they explore the 70s, 80s and 90s.
    It comes after the Dublin rockers released their last record – their first in five years – for free to half a billion iTunes users with Apple paying the bill.
    And Dave, who got the first play of the record on 2FM, said: “I think this is the first of three U2 albums.

    More to come: Dave knows U2 aren’t finished | VIPIRELAND.COM
    “I’m guessing that, because every single track on Songs Of Innocence is about the 1970s.
    “I think there will be more ‘Songs of…’ dealing with later decades, and the life experience of U2, right up to the present day.”
    Last year Bono said they were “working on three albums”, adding: “We haven’t decided what order to put them out.”
    And Dave, 58, said that given the length of time between albums there is no reason they won’t have the material.

    More material: Dave knows this won’t be the end for U2 | VIPIRELAND.COM
    “I think U2 have loads of songs. There will be more albums. I’d say U2 will drop a few albums in the next eighteen months,” he told the Irish Sun.
    “The theme is almost a mid-life crisis for Bono but he hasn’t tried anything ground breaking. What he has done is gone back to the start which is brilliant. The songs are very personal to Bono.”
  8. based on the news of releasing a 3rd album in conjunction with these two, you'd have to bet on the 3rd being called Songs of Accent...
  9. Does anyone else read this article and feel like it is pure speculation on Fanning's part? That's all it seems to me.

  10. I don't know about you, but when I woke up on Tuesday I wasn't expecting to have their new album sitting in my itunes library free of charge by the end of the day, so I think just about anything is fair game.
  11. All I can think of that we heard the very same thing around No Line. How they had 60 songs ready to be put on CDs. In the end we got one new album in 10 years time.

    That said I of course would love two new albums in the next two years, maybe I'm just a pessimist here!
  12. That's very true.

    I guess at the end of the day we can't really say with certainty that we know anything about what the band is planning.