Sunday, October 19, 2003
Bono on the new album
U2 are one of my favourite bands. Every now and then, I check the progress on the new album, which has been in the works for about a year and a half now. In a recent interview, Bono characterized (in a way only Bono can) the album this-a-ways.
There's only one reason for U2 to put an album out right now it has to be a monster, a dragon, and this is. It's filled with big tunes and it's driven by a guitar player who is sick of the sight of me shaking hands with dodgy politicians. The anger is unbelievable.
While the humour is obvious, I have long heard rumours that this is an Edge-centric album. The last time a guitarist's rawness (and anger and well, okay, intake of drugs in the case of Mr. Richards) fuelled an album, the result was the brilliant Exile on Main Street. Wicked!
There's only one reason for U2 to put an album out right now it has to be a monster, a dragon, and this is. It's filled with big tunes and it's driven by a guitar player who is sick of the sight of me shaking hands with dodgy politicians. The anger is unbelievable.
While the humour is obvious, I have long heard rumours that this is an Edge-centric album. The last time a guitarist's rawness (and anger and well, okay, intake of drugs in the case of Mr. Richards) fuelled an album, the result was the brilliant Exile on Main Street. Wicked!
