U2 and Bono fans

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Comment by Jimbo on March 2, 2009 at 7:59pm

more pictures from New York and other places this week!

Comment by Jimbo on March 2, 2009 at 7:56pm

U2 will be on Letterman tonight and all week (I think)

Comment by Jimbo on March 2, 2009 at 7:55pm

here is a review on the U2 CD from the Sunday Telegraph in London:

As fresh as a debut; is this U2's best studio album yet?

Sunday Telegraph (London), March 02, 2009

By Paul Morley


On their latest album, U2 sound so much like a contemporary version of themselves, and a contemporary pop group full stop, it is fairly breathtaking. No Line on the Horizon is their twelfth, and possibly best, studio album. At least, it's intoxicating enough for fans, if not those irked by U2's inconvenient continuing presence, to consider it their best. It sounds as fresh and vivid as a debut, yet is infused with their very specific, self-conscious experience.

Since their attractively ragged and raging 1980 debut album Boy -- and their last five or six albums could justifiably have been called Man -- they've nimbly resisted becoming a nostalgia act. They've smartly survived numerous shifts in musical fashion, commercial structures and cultural circumstances. They've stayed dreamers and kept faith with the astringent guitar sound of the Clash, Public Image and the Banshees, even as they've become tangled in their own resonating history, success, reputation, power and Bono's unyielding international presence as meddling buddy of the high and mighty.

Unlike the post-punk groups that originally inspired them, they're still around to make themselves up, and negotiate their image, their music and their business, as a group that can play at MTV glamour, reinvent themselves (whatever turbulent technological and cultural changes are happening around them), mix in the bracing, legendary company of Dylan and Springsteen, and make a record that sounds like the group they always were without it seeming like they're just repeating tricks and embarrassingly hanging around long after they've outstayed their welcome.

Cynics annoyed by the unwieldy, do-gooding civic concerns of a pontificating Bono, aggravated by his impertinent, presumptive desire to correct various forces of corruption and ignorance, suspicious of the forensic methods U2 use to remodel themselves, will resent the five-star reviews the record deserves for being a great sounding piece of spectacularly organised, defiantly intimate, sensitively designed and emotionally presented, post-modern showbusiness.

U2 have always been aggressively committed to slicing through cynicism, even as their implacable attention-seeking has given ammunition to those cynics that profoundly doubt something so plush
and propertied can be sincere. What you think of No Line on the Horizon, and the group's sustained act of self-preservation, will reflect whether you consider them a lucid celebration of sincerity or a contrived, swanky forgery. It's down to whether you believe or not -- in the group, and in belief itself.


© Sunday Telegraph, 2009

Comment by Jimbo on February 25, 2009 at 5:59pm

you can now listen to the whole new CD for free for a while at least..go to:

http://www.myspace.com/u2

it's great stuff!

Comment by Jimbo on January 11, 2009 at 7:13pm

U2 finally has the new CD coming out..here is the statement from the website!

No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Monday 2nd March 2009.

Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the 9 million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004.

Sessions for No Line On The Horizon began last year in Fez, Morocco, continued in the band’s own studio in Dublin, before moving to New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and finally being completed at Olympic Studios in London.

The album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite.

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I read some more about it in Rolling Stone magazine and it sounds like they will have some spiritual stuff as usual. The Edge really rocks on some of the songs but they said they also mess around with some electronic stuff like the 90's, (unfortunatly for my taste!)

Comment by Addie on December 2, 2008 at 7:41pm

I love u2. Vertigo drives me nuts!

Comment by RockitD on November 24, 2008 at 4:02pm

Bono has definitely advanced the cause of the poor and afflicted in Africa. I joined One because of him. Who could bring folk like Jars of Clay and Brad Pitt on the same ticket?!?

Comment by Jimbo on November 20, 2008 at 10:24pm

Thanks for the link Mike..I think it's great if he wants to write a column, no matter what that snobby writer thinks.

Dion, their last 2 CD's are just as good if not better than their early stuff. Songs like Yahweh and All Because of You show a love of Jesus, and you can sense something in every song if you look hard enough.

I recomend two books for everybody.

"Walk On...the Spirtual Journey of U2" by Steve Stockman and

"One Step Closer..why U2 matters to those seeking God" by Christian Scharen.

These will challenge your faith. If you look down on Bono because he cusses and stuff, some of the stuff he does will make you look in the mirror and realize we don't do nearly enough as we could to advance the cause of Christ.

Comment by MJK (Mike) on November 20, 2008 at 11:56am

Politics? Environmental supporter? Columnist?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/27/business/marketwatch/main4546674.shtml

Comment by RockitD on November 20, 2008 at 11:44am

I loved their early stuff...showed a love for Jesus. I don't know where they are nowadays...

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