I had no idea the guys from Chicago were into that kinda thing.

Even if they are playing, there's nothing to see.

NightOwl2255: Even if they are playing, there's nothing to see.

They were live on KLOS 95.5 FM yesterday, debuting their album and being interested by what sounded like Shirley Manson.

They didn't perform any of their songs, just played album cuts.

This new album sounds like it sucks.

Bigger question : Where are they going to be afterward?

Also, Bon Jovi will be in Electric Light Orchestra. (Get it? Because Chicago is also a band, see? Fark it.)

I hope they "incite a riot" and get "deported." Freaking aliens and their "work visas."

Wrong_Intentions: Also, Bon Jovi will be in Electric Light Orchestra. (Get it? Because Chicago is also a band, see? Fark it.)

...and Alabama will be in Asia?

NorCalLos: Wrong_Intentions: Also, Bon Jovi will be in Electric Light Orchestra. (Get it? Because Chicago is also a band, see? Fark it.)

...and Alabama will be in Asia?

Sarah Palin probably already thinks that's so.

yetti: Bigger question : Where are they going to be afterward?

Bono will be at Sunglass Hut.

And the rest of the band will be avoiding Bono.

I heard they were going to deliver a two hour apology for the new album, complete with track-by-track explanations of what went wrong, and how.

At the end they will present a cheque to Bob Dylan for ripping off Subterranean Homesick Blues on Get On Your Boots, and a check to David Gilmour for ripping off Lost For Words on Moment Of Surrender.

Then Bono will feed himself tay da starvin' chalrean.

I have a rule for new albums: the more it is promoted, the more likely it will suck.

Therefore, this album probably sucks.

/and I'm a U2 fan saying this.

desertgeek: I have a rule for new albums: the more it is promoted, the more likely it will suck.

Therefore, this album probably sucks.

/and I'm a U2 fan saying this.

I'm also a U2 fan and after the performances I saw on Letterman I'd have to agree. Nothing really jumped out at me.

One ticket winner who asked to remain anonymous listed his guest ticket on Craigslist for $500.

He said the instructions he received were to meet at a downtown hotel near Water Tower - he declined to give the exact location - at 5:30 p.m. He said a bus will then take the ticket winners to an undisclosed location at 5:45 p.m.

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I can't believe these ego gobs will be only 4 blocks from me.

Thank God the Beatles weren't Irish:

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jj325

desertgeek: I have a rule for new albums: the more it is promoted, the more likely it will suck.

Therefore, this album probably sucks.

/and I'm a U2 fan saying this.

I'm also a U2 fan and after the performances I saw on Letterman I'd have to agree. Nothing really jumped out at me.

I listened to the album at work today while working on a Power Point presentation. It was listenable, but not as good as all the hype. I bought it last Tuesday, put it into my car's CD player, and when the opening track came on, I got through a minute, pulled out the CD, and verified it was, in fact, U2. It's got the experimental touches Achtung Baby and Zooropa have, and I'm hoping it will grown on me...but for now, I'm shelving it for a bit.

Their new album is a grower whose real impact comes with several months of listening. Their last one (came out in 2004) on the other hand gets worse and worse with repeated exploration. Don't tell me you naysayers here heard the new one only once in its entirety.

U2 is way too affected by their own status. I know, I know, Captain Obvious reporting.

But what I mean is, yesterday Bono said that this is Adam Clayton's album. What he meant is that Adam really shines on this record. He said that on the track "Magnificent," Adam plays not only great bass on that track, but indeed plays one of the greatest bass lines of ALL TIME.

Then they played the song.

Um...what? Having played bass myself for over 20 years, I have never thought of Adam Clayton as anything more than average and unremarkable. This was an example of his greatest basswork ever AND an example of some of the greatest basswork of all time?

I got the feeling that the members of U2 (and their fans who were applauding in agreement) don't listen to anything except U2 records.

paulseta: I heard they were going to deliver a two hour apology for the new album, complete with track-by-track explanations of what went wrong, and how.

At the end they will present a cheque to Bob Dylan for ripping off Subterranean Homesick Blues on Get On Your Boots, and a check to David Gilmour for ripping off Lost For Words on Moment Of Surrender.

Then Bono will feed himself tay da starvin' chalrean.

Just listened to that Boots song for the first time. If I was Bob Dylan I'd sue their asses. Brutal.

jj325: desertgeek: I have a rule for new albums: the more it is promoted, the more likely it will suck.

Therefore, this album probably sucks.

/and I'm a U2 fan saying this.

I'm also a U2 fan and after the performances I saw on Letterman I'd have to agree. Nothing really jumped out at me.

No Line on the Horizon is good, catchy.

AdolfOliverPanties: Having played bass myself for over 20 years, I have never thought of Adam Clayton as anything more than average and unremarkable.

DEFINITELY this, at least pre-Zooropa. There are a few parts on that record that stick out, at least as very good bass lines. "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" isn't "WOW!" but it's a nice groove. Lemon is good, too.

But, no, nothing about Clayton's bass playing on this new album stuck out for me either. It's a very compositional album, and so the parts don't stick out as much as the overall vibe.

Dear Mods:
I like them, but for the love of Christ, stop greenlighting every stupid scrap that comes down the outhouse pipe.

AdolfOliverPanties: U2 is way too affected by their own status. I know, I know, Captain Obvious reporting.

But what I mean is, yesterday Bono said that this is Adam Clayton's album. What he meant is that Adam really shines on this record. He said that on the track "Magnificent," Adam plays not only great bass on that track, but indeed plays one of the greatest bass lines of ALL TIME.

Then they played the song.

Um...what? Having played bass myself for over 20 years, I have never thought of Adam Clayton as anything more than average and unremarkable. This was an example of his greatest basswork ever AND an example of some of the greatest basswork of all time?

I got the feeling that the members of U2 (and their fans who were applauding in agreement) don't listen to anything except U2 records.

Jaco can play rings around him. And he's been dead for 23 years.

Local radio shows have been promoting the Boston show quite a bit the past week saying U2 would be doing an acoustic show and some Q&A. I've been listening to this Chicago "show" and it's just them talking for 25 seconds and then playing some music I've never heard of that supposedly inspired them at some point in their career(s). I almost won tickets to see them tomorrow but if this crap is what they're doing I'm glad I didn't.

THERE BETTER BE NO CONCERT!

AdolfOliverPanties: ...but indeed plays one of the greatest bass lines of ALL TIME.

I don't think Bono was comparing him to anyone else. I think he was just trying to say it was one of Adam Clayton's personal best of all time.

CheddarPants: AdolfOliverPanties: ...but indeed plays one of the greatest bass lines of ALL TIME.

I don't think Bono was comparing him to anyone else. I think he was just trying to say it was one of Adam Clayton's personal best of all time.

Ah, the dismal threshold for "greatness" in the pop music world.

Is sting good friends with bono or something? headline doesn't make sense

Jaco can play rings around him. And he's been dead for 23 years.

No shiat. Have these people even HEARD of weather report?

Once, on a fine September day in the grand city of New York, I was presented with a unique opportunity-- the once in a lifetime chance to step on Bono.

Much to my infinite chagrin, I was too distracted by the sights and sounds of the City to take advantage of the situation in which Providence had placed me. I was too busy looking at people and buildings at my own eye level, and did not think to look down and check what activities were progressing below me. Only subsequent to the condensation of a small crowd beside my person and upon hearing the exclamations of his Brobdingnagian body guard did I realize that I had walked right past him, close enough to reach out and noogie his little over-inflated Irish noggin. The smugness hung heavy in the air, mixing with the ever-present sewer steam and a hint of garbage stench, forming a cloying fog that I will forever remember.

That was a year and a half ago. To this day, I sometimes look at the boots I was wearing and dream . . . Dream of chances not taken, opportunities not grasped, and a trod-upon Bono that was not to be.

/Quite a fan of U2, actually
//I just ignore everything past Achtung Baby, and indeed that one half the time.
///God, that man annoys me

The English Major: jj325

desertgeek: I have a rule for new albums: the more it is promoted, the more likely it will suck.

Therefore, this album probably sucks.

/and I'm a U2 fan saying this.

I'm also a U2 fan and after the performances I saw on Letterman I'd have to agree. Nothing really jumped out at me.

I listened to the album at work today while working on a Power Point presentation. It was listenable, but not as good as all the hype. I bought it last Tuesday, put it into my car's CD player, and when the opening track came on, I got through a minute, pulled out the CD, and verified it was, in fact, U2. It's got the experimental touches Achtung Baby and Zooropa have, and I'm hoping it will grown on me...but for now, I'm shelving it for a bit.

you are a U2 fan and you dont know that it takes several listens to see if the music is good or not?

/Great Album

It's a good album, in my opinion, and it's growing on me. I bought it the day it came out and have been listening to it since. For me, it takes awhile to decide if it's good or not. This one's good, I say.

I know now which songs to listen hard to, which ones to just listen to, and which ones to skip altogether. This one has songs for the radio, songs for U2 fans, and songs for U2 themselves.

Some of those songs are gonna RAWK when played live.

entertaining review of Get On Your Boots
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Yup, some of those songs absolutely destroy live. Google the Letterman performances of 'Breathe' and 'Magnificent'.

guyinjeep16

you are a U2 fan and you dont know that it takes several listens to see if the music is good or not?

/Great Album

I loved Zooropa from the beginning, I thought How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was excellent; both on the first listen. I have it in the CD player at the moment, forgoing ITunes, and I'm still feeling it's a bit...off. I don't know. You're probably right and I'm just being too snap judgmental.

Got al call from the city last night --- usually this is in advance of snow emergencies, so it was weird since there was no forecast for snow.

Instead, it appears that U2 is playing at the end of my street - tonight. (We had no idea.) This is going to - apparently - mess up the traffic in the city for 8 hours, enough so that there will be road closures, residents will have to find parking outside of the business district, and so on.

There's more preparation going on here than when the Sox won the series.

That reminds me - I should work from home later on so I won't get caught in the updraft.

The English Major: guyinjeep16

you are a U2 fan and you dont know that it takes several listens to see if the music is good or not?

/Great Album

I loved Zooropa from the beginning, I thought How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was excellent; both on the first listen. I have it in the CD player at the moment, forgoing ITunes, and I'm still feeling it's a bit...off. I don't know. You're probably right and I'm just being too snap judgmental.

I almost threw Achtung baby out the window when I first listened to it. I was done with it , then about 2 weeks later I heard mysterious ways again on MTV and I thought to myself, "hey thats not too bad actually". I stuck it in my cd player and have not stop listening to the album literally since...
I always have zoo station and the fly rocking when Im getting ready for a game.
Its funny to think back at the change they made from joshua tree to Zoo station! , and the shock it brought to fans at first.

No line on the Horizon has a few great songs.

Something about song 4 unknown caller, I think it might end up being an all-time favorite.

guyinjeep16

I almost threw Achtung baby out the window when I first listened to it. I was done with it , then about 2 weeks later I heard mysterious ways again on MTV and I thought to myself, "hey thats not too bad actually". I stuck it in my cd player and have not stop listening to the album literally since...
I always have zoo station and the fly rocking when Im getting ready for a game.
Its funny to think back at the change they made from joshua tree to Zoo station! , and the shock it brought to fans at first.

No line on the Horizon has a few great songs.

Something about song 4 unknown caller, I think it might end up being an all-time favorite.

I'm listening to it at the moment--I'm on track 3, Moment of Surrender--and I'm getting more comfortable with it, I guess you could say. I guess new U2 albums are like brand new shoes--you've gotta break them in a bit before fully enjoying them.

My U2 album-throwing moment was their Passengers side project. But I like it.

Snuggles.