U2.com reveals the new album won’t see the light of day until next year. The band has decided to continue working on the 50 to 60 new songs they’ve written.
Bono: ‘I’m always the one who underestimates how easy it is to simply ‘put out the songs now’, if it was just up to me they’d be out already! But early next year people will be able to start hearing what we’ve been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we’re going to start making an impression very early on …’
Up till now many fans had assumed a 2008 release in time for Christmas. Says Bono: “It has to be our most innovative, our most challenging … or what’s the point?”
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:08 am
yes let them wait. there last album was the worst they have ever put out. i would rather wait until 2010 than have a horrible record. im glad that they are going back to eno and lanois, all their best albums were with their help (joshua tree etc.) Steve Lillywhite is probably the worst guy on earth for their band.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Genius takes time.
November 16th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Don’t worry, there’s always a slight delay with their album releases……..I can’t wait for the tour!!!!!!! Yay!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Guys, 50 to 60 songs they’ve written, from those songs they’ll pick the ones that will end up on the album. Is not a 50 song album, come on! lol!
November 9th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
When I heard they were postponing it till next year I thought ‘lazy bast*rds’ too and was genuinely gutted because they’ve been working on it for a year or two, when Muse put out classic albums after 6 months, I know when you get to your 12th album it might be difficult and gets more so. As long as its not as bland as the last two then I’ll wait, if it is then I’ll hait them for it, but DL says its ‘fantastically innovative’, lets hope so for his sake!
October 16th, 2008 at 4:04 am
good things come to those who wait. let them work on their masterpiece, because im sure thats what it will be. they havent proven me wrong yet. i cannot wait!!
October 12th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
the way things are going this might be the cheapest tour yet for tickets as we will all be broke
October 7th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Come on folks it’s U2 so we’ll wait and we’ll like it. Or we’ll wait and whine but we’ll still buy it whenever it comes like manna from heaven.
And what’s this talk of last album. The boys can’t quit while Mick and Keith are still rocking.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:53 am
I really wouldn’t mind if they toured less and made albums more often. Touring *does* take a lot of their time and probably wears them out quite a bit; they might need longer and longer gaps between a tour and the following album as they get older (I don’t really consider them “old”). However, I actually think that Bono’s voice has gotten better between Elevation and Vertigo, but that’s another discussion.