No Line on the Horizon

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

U2's new album's first single went on sale yesterday. Why am I the last to know? I've only listened to the single once and the jury is still out. It's like nothing I've heard from them before.

[Drunk Monk]

so i am the last to know. not you. stop stealing my street cred.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

How sad for you. The Album comes out on Mar 3, 2009.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Am I the only one who still digs videos? Probably.

This video looked much better on U2's website. Mucho sexier. But this will do for now for the haters.

[youtube]MZ7zKeYhU_8[/youtube]

Well never mind. Stupid pirates. Look for it here U2's website

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

It's my job, that's why. Plus, it's the only way I can get on this thread without being snarky.

U2 have all the songs on the new album on Myspace so you can listen to them.

U2's Myspace Page

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I just finished reading the Rolling Stone article about the band after watching tuesday night's edition of the David Letterman. U2 played "Magnificent". For some reason, Monday night's recording stopped recording before U2 appeared. Stupid DVR.

The article was good. But what kind of insight can you really get about the band at this stage? Well, you can get this.

Mullen and the silver-haired Clayton- who has a gentlemanly air, as if he's permanently carrying a nice cup of tea- have pushed for a larger role in the band's songwriting and often end up on the same side of disagreements within the group. But the harder-edged Mullen is the one most likely to say, "No." "I don't give it up easy on any level, " Mullen says. "People think we've all got beepers on, and it's like, 'Bono's had a thought! Oh, fuck! Get out your beeper!" Mullen laughs. "I think if Bono had his way, we'd probably be recording and playing for Africa, and that's how he thinks. Just take everything and give it all . It doesn't work like that. We spend a lot of time trying to hold Bono back from doing the maddest things possible, I just don't understand where he gets the energy."
After this discussion, I develop a new theory about Bono's activism: He does it because convincing George W. Bush to give $15 billion to Africa is easier than getting Larry Mullen Jr. to do anything. Presented with this ides, Bono explodes with laughter. "I love him so, but that's an understatement," he says.