Posted October 3, 201014 yr From http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/irelan...4280191478.html The Irish Times - Saturday, October 2, 2010 Producer admits last U2 album was failure RONAN McGREEVY LEGENDARY U2 producer Steve Lillywhite has said the band’s latest album No Line on the Horizon did not achieve what it set out to achieve and its relative failure had affected them. The album, released last year, sold a fraction of its predecessors and received mostly lukewarm reviews though it did get a five-star rating in Rolling Stone magazine. Lillywhite, who was its co-producer along with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, said No Line on the Horizon lacked a big song and the North African ambience that it tried to recreate did not work. “At the end of the day, the public are always right especially when you have a platform as big as U2,” he said. “Of course it affects them . They are only human. They put their heart and soul into everything they do, but the sales were not what they expected because they did not have the one song that ignited peoples imaginations. “It’s a pity because the whole idea of Morocco as a big idea was great. When the big idea for U2 is good, that is when they succeed the most, but I don’t think the spirit of what they set out to achieve was translated. Something happened that meant it did not come across on the record.” Full article here
October 5, 201014 yr Steve has angrily denied this on Twitter and said the media twisted him comments. He said he never said flop or failure. U2 misjudged things by releasing GOYB as the lead - Magnificent is an amazing song that should have been lead single and would have done much better. NLOTH is a bit like Pop in terms of dividing fans and critics and lesser sales etc - I still love both albums though. But I do hope the next album has a big huge lead single - Mercy better be on it :wub:
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