U2's new album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"

[achtungbaby]

Doing What They Know How To Do Best
by Josh Tyrangiel
Time Magazine

[From the August 30, 2004, issue of Time magazine]

They are now men of a certain age, and it no longer becomes them to aspire to be things they are not. So there's no crunk-style rapping on the new U2 album, no gospel choirs or techno experiments, nothing that could possibly be misinterpreted as a sign of midlife crisis. Instead, this as-yet-untitled album is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks -— the Edge's echoing guitar notes, Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare -— still work, although Bono has lost a touch of the high clarity he had in his mullet-sporting days. He still has enormous assuredness, and the occasional cracks in his voice make the bad-relationship songs (and, as always, there are quite a few) darker and more dramatic. Custom would seem to demand that U2 start embarrassing itself one of these days. But not today.

*frothing*

Check out their iTunes video for the new single, "Vertigo": http://www.apple.com/itunes/u2/. I finally heard "Vertigo" for the first time on the radio yesterday -- only I didn't know it was U2. I was at a 7-Eleven getting smokes when I hear this song and at the back of my mind I was thinking, "They sound U2-esque, only with more energy..."

[bluemonq]

btw, there's a promotion going on with apple and u2; they are going to be selling black ipods with u2 songs preloaded

[kimpossible]

Originally Posted by bluemonq

btw, there's a promotion going on with apple and u2; they are going to be selling black ipods with u2 songs preloaded

with great reluctance i admit that this ad campaign very much works on me and i absolutely love the song used in the commercial. is it called vertigo?

edit: nm because i'm an idiot that didn't make it to bottom of ab's post.

[achtungbaby]

Originally Posted by bluemonq

btw, there's a promotion going on with apple and u2; they are going to be selling black ipods with u2 songs preloaded

Niiiiice...guess I know have to an excuse to finally buy one of those things...

Originally Posted by kimpossible

with great reluctance i admit that this ad campaign very much works on me and i absolutely love the song used in the commercial. is it called vertigo.

Why "with great reluctance"?

Be warned -- LOTR might as well be Dungeons & Dragons when compared to U2...:P

[applehead]

i'm happy for you AB.
it's good to have new material to listen to
from your favorite band.