Too many to count :P

Too many to count :P

 

 

 

exactly... it's infinite.. ;)

U2 - Get On Your Boots (live from this year's Echo Awards [berlin, Germany])

 

I love the German anthem and John F. Kennedy's famous speech at the beginning. :D

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5840RQJAetM]YouTube - U2 - "Get On Your Boots" - Echo Awards - U2MIRACLE.COM[/ame]

Ya i liked that too....

How many fans do you think they have worldwide??

Methinks it would be easier and less time-consuming to count the people who are not fans and then subtract from the world's overall population. :lol:

Great performance of GOYB.

Methinks it would be easier and less time-consuming to count the people who are not fans and then subtract from the world's overall population. :lol:

:laugh3:Amusing, but it's an interesting concept - just how far has their popularity spread? I suppose the net has estimates..:thinking:

I think it's pretty funny how on most U2 albums you can tell exactly what's going to be a single and what's not. It's not like Radiohead or Coldplay where it's very hard to guess. This in someway speaks to Radiohead not having songs that are generally radio-friendly and Coldplay having many. I see it though, that U2 is always thinking about the radio.

 

true

So it's 2009 and the decade is almost over. It's possible the guys might release something else before the year is out, but assuming they don't...what song's do you guy's predict we'll see on the "U2: The best of 2000-2010"?

 

The two other 'best of's" had 15 and 17 tracks (ignoring the b-side discs) So without paying attention to order I'd say they'll probably include:

 

Elevation

Walk On

Kite?

New York

Vertigo

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

City of blinding lights

All Because of you

Original of the species

Window in the skies

Get on your Boots

Magnificent

Moment of Surrender

I'll go crazy, if I don't go crazy tonight

White as Snow

One (w/mary J. Blige)

The saint's are coming (w/green day)

 

Electrical storm was technically released on 2002, but it's already on the last comp.

I know it's basically a list of singles, but I can't imagine them doing anything differently in the case of 'How to dismantle an atomic bomb'.

Thoughts?

I'm just shooting from the hip here.

You know I've thought about this album being the sum of three records for some time, but I have to admit completely forgetting that ATYCLB's songs were used on the 90s one. I suppose that speaks to that decades lack of hits.

 

With this in mind I might understand why Bono has said that U2 are releasing another album this year...THE GREATEST HITS CD!

 

By that I mean, we'll get a new album that will justify the making of 00's album. Cause honestly if you rule out ATYCLB, which I think you really have to do, than we're left with two albums. HTDAAB had maybe five useable songs and No Line on the Horizon will likely be the same. Thats not justification. You know what is...!?!?!?!?!?! Five more singles from a new album!!!!!!!!!

 

:dozey:

 

That's U2 for you. I love em (actually im wondering if NLOTH is gonna be a "meh" for me after at least twenty listens) but they really are ridiculous sometimes.

Do they even have enough B-sides this decade to make it a two-disc release like the 1980's and 1990's compilations? If we're not counting 2000, then pickings are slim for this decade, which means they may have to improvise by using filler. "One" feat. Mary J. Blige is certainly a possibility, and they'll probably throw a couple entirely new songs on there as bait for people to buy it. Or probably less likely given the time between HTDAAB and NLOTH, they could release another new album in 2010 and include its hits in the "decade".

Well I don't think you can throw out the whole of "ATYCLB" in the comp. The last comp. was 1990-2000, and "Beautiful day" was released as a single in 2000. They cheated a little bit with "Stuck in a moment..." which came out January of 2001. But that leaves two singles and quite a few otherworthy songs off of ATYCLB. And I should think they'll have some new b-sides from the NLOTH sessions to stitch to the comp.

U2 interview on Absolute Radio's Breakfast show on Thursday Feb 26th and some

exclusive new tracks will be played on Tuesday and Wednesday.

I don't know, does exclusive mean from the new not yet released album? :P

http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/artists/u2/article/3611.html

Great performance of GOYB.

 

After watching that video I'm finally starting to really like this song.

Seeing that opening video would be awesome live.

WATCH THIS ... AND BREATHEEEEEEEEEEE....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpR2GJa13s]YouTube - U2 Breathe (extrait du nouvel album)[/ame]

 

 

THIS IS SO FULL OF AWESOMENESS .. FIRST TIME PLAYED LIVE!

Where is it from?

Wow! I thought that song would be trouble for bono, but his singing, seems no less sharp than it was ten years ago. Now that I think about it, Breathe wouldn't work bad as a fourth single (as long as Magnificent and I'll go crazy... are the other two).

 

Shame I can't find any more vids from that show. They rarely play just one song.

just finished listening to the new album for the first time. i REALLYY like it. on first listen my favorites were 'i'll go crazy...' and 'white as snow'. i'm excited to listen to it more...

i think the new album is pretty good, not sure how much different it is from their two previous ones because i know they said they were looking for a different sound.... it's still good though. Magnificent is my fav! Def gonna be a fan fav anthem soon!

It's definitely got a distinctive sound throughout. The only real deviants are GOYB's and Stand Up Comedy (I've been skipping those two lately). They say the lead single is supposed to be represent the whole album, and even after hearing it a dozen more times within the context of the album, I still say they couldn't have chosen a worse song. Except for cedars and Fez/being born, I think ANY other song on the album would've been a better choice than Get on your boots.

just finished listening to the new album for the first time. i REALLYY like it. on first listen my favorites were 'i'll go crazy...' and 'white as snow'. i'm excited to listen to it more...

 

I caved. And I love it.

Im going to come out and say this now. I liked Viva La Vida better, still do.

Im going to come out and say this now. I liked Viva La Vida better, still do.

 

I guess I always had thought U2 had the upperhand in my mind as my favorite current band.

 

I can say quite honestly that I'm with you here. I'm pretty disappointed by this album.

 

There are sparks of genius, but when I think about the album as a WHOLE...I just get depressed. There are SO many songs that I can barely stand. U2's old albums could grow on me - Achtung was originally hell to me, but now its one of my favorites.

 

This album doesn't seem that way though. I know what I like and what I don't rather clearly. Nothing can be worse than that on an album. Viva la Vida it took months for me to come to a pretty solid determinate of what were my favorites.

 

There has to be that battle. There is NO battle on this album. And even though I'm into mainstream music, I'm not that kind of only-like-the-singles/only-like-catchy-songs fan. I like so many of U2's songs that no one gives a shit about. It's so depressing that this album didn't get it done for me. I like some of the ideas in Bono's lyrics, but a lot of the music is boring.

As a follow-up:

 

I suppose the reasons I had high expectations were because all the reviews by people who had previously thought highly of U2 were speaking highly of it. As a fan, I'd expect to agree more with fans than with people who usually dislike U2's albums.

 

I don't know...there is something tired about this album. It's almost manufactured energy. U2 is all about the energy and passion. When it doesn't seem real I suppose it doesn't work as well for me.

 

It's also that when the music is really working for me the singing doesn't get it done and vice versa.

 

Moment of Surrender is one of the only songs where one triumphs over the other so that you almost forget. Magnificent almost does it in the opposite spectrum, but Bono's lyrics aren't so poor that they really hurt the great tune. Unknown Caller...damn those robot voices.

 

 

 

Does no one think that we aren't so much seeing Get On Your Boots grow on us, as we are adjusting how good we think this album is and hence...liking a song we may have thought poorly of before because the rest of the album really isn't that great.

Im going to come out and say this now. I liked Viva La Vida better, still do.

 

After a first listen I like NLOTH much better.