Originally posted by germcevoy:Yet Scarlet and Your Blue Room got turns. Scarlet was played more times than Breathe lol
Originally posted by germcevoy:Yet Scarlet and Your Blue Room got turns. Scarlet was played more times than Breathe lol
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
Fully agree.
Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
Sure a lot of casual U2 fans wouldn't know anything past Achtung baby same goes for a lot of bands of their vintage, AC⚡DC ,Depeche Mode,Def Leppard, The Cure etc they have their golden era where they released their big albums which a lot of fans know but try asking a casual fan what they released post 2000 and you will be met with silence.
Originally posted by iTim:Having a tour that isn’t named after anything remotely linked the the album helps. You weren’t going to see the promotion of NLOTH you were going to see the spectacle of 360.
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Yeah sure but I didn't speak to many casuals, I'm talking about actual fans. I organized part of the queue and put numbers on the wrists of around 500 fans (between numbers 400 and 850 of the queue iirc). You'd guess if someone is willing to sleep outside a stadium and stand in the extreme July heat for 12 hours, they would at least know the name of the album the band were promoting, right?
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Yeah sure but I didn't speak to many casuals, I'm talking about actual fans. I organized part of the queue and put numbers on the wrists of around 500 fans (between numbers 400 and 850 of the queue iirc). You'd guess if someone is willing to sleep outside a stadium and stand in the extreme July heat for 12 hours, they would at least know the name of the album the band were promoting, right?
Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
So you went around asking hundreds of them did they know about the new album????You must have been exhausted again the point still stands most bands from U2's era suffer the same fate some of them don't even bother recording new music as they know fans wanna hear the old classics and aren't bothered about hearing anything new.
Originally posted by iTim:[..]
If you’re organising the queue and writing numbers on people’s hands it’s perfectly reasonable to ask them what they think of the new album while making conversation, no? I don’t think he went down to Camp Nou and conducted a survey with a clipboard.
Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
So you went around asking hundreds of them did they know about the new album????You must have been exhausted again the point still stands most bands from U2's era suffer the same fate some of them don't even bother recording new music as they know fans wanna hear the old classics and aren't bothered about hearing anything new.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:People have bashed them a bit in this thread but Cedars of Lebanon and Fez are up there with the stuff on JT, AB, and Pop for me.
Fez is Zooropa 2 (not in a reductive way, in a bombastic, full of wonder, fantastic opener (it shouldve been) way), and Cedars is Bono writing from a completely different planet, and that song musically is just straight haunting to me. It succeeds at that thing U2 were dabbling in with JT, trying to make “cinematic music” - it really brings you somewhere. It’s a - as the kids say - BIG mood.