U2 recording album with Danger Mouse

Bono claims forthcoming LP produced by the Gnarls Barkley star will be their 'best ever or ... irrelevant'

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One of U2's forthcoming three albums will be produced by Danger Mouse, Bono has revealed. With a trio of records in production, the band have already recorded 12 songs with one half of Gnarls Barkley, with a new single due in December.

 

"We may be about to do our best-ever album or we may be about to be irrelevant," Bono told the Age. "The biggest challenge now will be getting a song on the radio." Less than two years since U2 released the commercially disappointing No Line On the Horizon, the follow-up is already late – Bono first promised a "companion" album for late 2009. More recently, a planned disc of "meditative psalms" has taken a backseat to two other LP projects: a "club" album, made with Will.I.Am and David Guetta, and a "rock" album, revealed now as a team-up with Danger Mouse.

 

"At the moment [it] looks like ... we will put out [the rock album] next because it's just happening so easily," Bono explained. He said U2 made a deliberate choice to step away from their usual "dysfunctional family" of producers – Eno, Lillywhite and Lanois – and head straight from the stage to the studio. "[When] you enter the studio with the roar of the crowd in your ears, you know what works," he said. "If you take musicians away from the stage too much, they become quite abstract in their heads. They start to use words like 'interesting' ... 'Interesting' is the moment musicians scratch their chin. It ruins great and dramatic music. You listen to the Sex Pistols or Nirvana or the first MGMT album and you don't scratch your chin. You say, 'Wow, that's extraordinary'." Our main takeaway from this: not even Bono likes MGMT's second album.

 

Once the "rock" album is out, the "clubs" record may follow. "We have a pile of songs," Bono said. And the singer even wants to record full-band versions of the songs he and the Edge wrote for the Spider-Man musical, Turn Off the Dark. "We haven't convinced the rest of the band to do that yet," Bono admitted. "[Drummer] Larry [Mullen Jr] definitely has a raised eyebrow."

 

For now, Bono sounds happy to be leading an active lifestyle. Manager Paul McGuinness revealed that before Bono underwent back surgery earlier this summer, the singer was partially paralysed in his right leg. "I was walking around saying I could handle it but it turns out I was in grave danger," Bono admitted. "I was losing the ability to walk." Now – he's running.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/2...um-danger-mouse

WTF?

 

Meditative psalms? :wacko:

 

 

Still, at least it looks like the rock album is first in the queue

Is this their new producer? :huh:

 

 

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Not that they need the help, but with such a big name producing the album it will definately create an added wave of interest for them.

They need another 'Beautiful Day' - a huge radio hit that will be seen as a classic in 20 years time. Get On Your Boots was not a radio hit, or a hit by any means - we they also need a change of direction - not a drastic change but something fresh and new - so this producer could very well be what is needed. Still I'd like to hear some of that Rick Rubin material too. :D

You don't think the album of meditative psalms will be radio friendly enough? :unsure:

You don't think the album of meditative psalms will be radio friendly enough? :unsure:

 

No. :)

Oh :nocheer:

 

 

Not even in Ireland? :unsure:

On Lyric FM perhaps? :smoke:

 

Hardly U2's target audience though :drink:

Edited November 5, 201014 yr by De Niro

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