1. Originally posted by LostSailor:The rearranging of old songs could also be required because Bono can't sing them in their original form anymore....kind of like the JT17 version of Red Hill Mining Town....damn we are all getting old - or older....
    Just as a note: in 2017 and 2019 they played RHMT in the key of F instead of the original key of G - that's "only" two semitones lower. They've played many songs 2 and even 3 semitones lower: Pride, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Still Haven't Found, most notably. That can be done while keeping the original arrangements no problem.
  2. someone in Eire told me Adam just had another baby.....he would prob want to stay home
  3. Seems the brazilian is working a lot…
  4. was this ever confirmed? I've seen nothing
  5. He was able to keep the births of his previous 2 children quiet for awhile, in 2010 and 2017. His wife is in her mid 40’s now. So while it’s not unheard of for a woman that age to have a child, it is rather unlikely. But if it’s true, congrats to them!!
  6. From what i have heard: apart from a few other producers, Howie B was with them in the studio for SOS.
  7. Originally posted by LostSailor:This is by far my saddest day as a U2 fan of 37 plus years....A new version of Where The Streets Have No Name? What in the bloody hell? I think I am officially renouncing my U2 mega Fandom. I can now empathize with how Matt McGee felt when he shuttered atu2 a few years ago. I'll see U2 play live if they are near me but my days of spending my hard earned cash to travel around North America are over. This is a disgusting cash grab for the record label and a banal attempt to be relevant today. I am so disappointed and disgusted. The future doesn't need a big kiss from this band anymore...their future has dried up
    ..at least for me.


    Cash Grab for the record label? Ha! For a large percentage of legacy artists, the LOWEST selling album of their career is the remake/rehash/symphony album, keeping in mind that sometimes the remake/rehash album is so bad, subsequent albums further suffer in low sales. Now around 2015, sales for music in general got so bad, that every new album by an artist will sell less than the previous one regardless of it is a remake album or Songs Of Ignorance, Songs Of Songs Of, or Songs Of Declining Relevance, etc.

    Bon Jovi--This Left Feels Right In 2003 this reinterpretation of Bon Jovi songs became the lowest selling album of their career, and the albums that followed this turkey, even in the years of declining music sales still outsold this terrible reworking album.

    Sting-- In 2006 Songs from the Labyrinth became his lowest selling album of his career, as it was re-arranging of ancient songs played on the Lute. Yes, the Lute, I didn't make that one up

    Sting--Symphonicities In 2010 this became the second lowest selling album in his career. And it was the dreaded trendy Symphony thing everybody from Metallica to Weird Al Yankovic to Anthrax all did. I may have made up a bit there about Yankovic and Anthrax.

    Sting--My Songs, in 2019, this remaking of his own songs became the lowest charting album of his career in the US, peaking at #145. Granted, sales figures were not available, but it probably sold less than the Lute album, as sales at this point are going to be low.
  8. Originally posted by Cgmorgan1986:You know, instead of posting all this hate on it (it’s not gonna stop it from being released) here’s an easy solution, DON’T BUY OR LISTEN TO IT. There. Easy to do.


    The focal point of society is to spend most of your life looking for someone who is complaining about something. Then you go on a rant, or better yet, a complaint about their complaining. This is true for 75% of the population. There is nothing more important than finding a complainer to complain about. So who is worse? The complainer? Or the one who complains about the complainer?

    I personally have a very very rare and scorned practice of saying how I feel, and letting it be known. Some opinions are positive, some are negative, some are neither, but all are my truth. And I won't stop until a few years after I am dead. Nobody is immune to my thoughts. U2, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, etc. They all have had a profound effect on my life, and I will give my honest opinion of them all. That goes for Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, Nirvana, and Terence Trent D'Arby too.

    There is a huge segment of the population who act like everything is wonderful, all their opinions are positive, and never say anything bad about anyone. That is simply not me.
  9. Originally posted by pleasegone:[..]


    Bon Jovi--This Left Feels Right In 2003 this reinterpretation of Bon Jovi songs became the lowest selling album of their career, and the albums that followed this turkey, even in the years of declining music sales still outsold this terrible reworking album.



    Says it all really , Bon Jovi and U2 being mentioned in the same argument. I agree with Lostsailor!
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Just as a note: in 2017 and 2019 they played RHMT in the key of F instead of the original key of G - that's "only" two semitones lower. They've played many songs 2 and even 3 semitones lower: Pride, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Still Haven't Found, most notably. That can be done while keeping the original arrangements no problem.
    True, but some songs suffer a bit from lowering the key (too much) and loose what they had, SBS for example