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And on my birthday too, how thoughtful.

Nov. 23 is going to be a beautiful day for U2 fans.

Bono and the boys have announced plans to release their still untitled album in the U.S. then, a day after it drops in the U.K. The first single, "Vertigo," will hit radio on Sept. 24, while a video for the song will debut in October.

U2's 11th studio album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, is the follow-up to their multiple Grammy-winning 2000 disc, All That You Can't Leave Behind. Besides "Vertigo," other song titles rumored to be on the Irish rockers' set include "Tough" and "Full Metal Jacket."

The band has been previewing tracks to select music industry types, and the buzz has been tremendous. Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel says the new CD "is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes,Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work...[Bono] has enormous assuredness, and the occasional cracks in his voice make the bad-relationship songs (and, as always, there are quite a few) darker and more dramatic."

U2 fan site @U2 quotes VH1 Senior Vice President Bill Flanagan saying, "It's the best album they have ever done. It's going to knock [listeners] out." And British rock writer Neil McCormick tells Hot Press magazine that "Vertigo" "is like the early U2 pumped up in the 21st century, a really exciting record."

The album's release will apparently not be impacted by the disappearance of early version of the album. A compact disc containing unmixed versions of the tracks went missing from a recording studio in Nice, France, in July, prompting worries that the songs could be leaked to the Internet, potentially costing the quartet, arguably the most popular rock band in the world, and its label, Interscope, millions in lost revenue.

With French investigators still not finding what they're looking for, Bono told London's Daily Telegraph that the group may try and head off such a disastrous leak by making the album available early as a legal download on Apple's iTunes should file-swappers get their hands on it.

"If it is on the Internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month," the singer said. "It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention f--king up our holidays. But once it's out. It's out."

A cursory scan of the major music-swapping sites haven't turned up any of the MIA tracks.

For now, the album will be on shelves--and iTunes--in November, with a U.S. tour slated for the spring.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes,Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work...

...the wild shirtless lyrics of mark farner...the bone rattling bass of mel schacher... the competent drumwork of don brewer....

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to beat these people savagely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

How come guys like Bono are never the ones who OD on heroin or put a shotgun in their mouth by age 27?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it certainly is a ploying, preachy press release and I would take joy in beating the person(s) who wrote it with a baseball bat.

I don't dislike U2 but the attitude in this piece of press is not endearing, what a shockah, etc.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I love U2 =/

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The quotes are sort of irritating, but they do make me want to hear it. So ... I guess it did its job..

Doesn't seem like 4 years since the last one. Is this the longest they've taken in between records?

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post
Don't cry Gear! I'm sure I love something you hate.
(U2 ZooTV was the first big concert I ever went to FWIW)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It was four years between Zooropa and Pop as well.

Bono once prevented my mom from getting crushed in front of a stage!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

well G.G. Allin once rubbed his shit in my mom's hair and then smacked her in the face with the microphone. So what?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no comeback for that.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

zing!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron's comment could probably be used to kill all sorts of threads, not just this one.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll paste it into a text file for future application.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to go use that on a random thread right now and see what happens.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

link plz!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Songs where male singers sympathize (or identify) with a woman's pain

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha you have no no idea how close I came to not even posting that. It's almost too OTT even for me.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Twelve minutes, no posts ... nice job Gear!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

excellent

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ah Miccio just ignored it. Gear you should post that in the Le Tigre thread but replace "G.G. Allin" with "Kathleen Hannah"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, that was set up *perfectly* on TEEH CANON thread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it just me or does the publicity around this album remind you of that around the Cure's latest. Iconic 80's post-punk band releases new album that sounds like their best 80's stuff which just happens to be the musical fashion at the moment. So bloody obvious a strategy really.

― piers (piers), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the publicity strategy for the last U2 album as well.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, I didn't ignore the post, I just didn't notice it (eyes glazed over when I saw the words "GG Allin," assumed - correctly - it was a lil' tee hee).

I had ignored this thread until now, though. I seem to discover the threads I'm mentioned on a bit after the fact (like that one about "corny indie fuck" on the Noise board, which I learned about like yesterday).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right actually. All That You Can't Leave Behind as the "return to form" album. There goes my theory then.

xpost.

― piers (piers), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

well Alannah Myles once rubbed her shit in my mom's hair and then smacked her in the face with the microphone.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

dude I finally invented a meme

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

But if the thread calls for it, this exchange must go down:

i.e., the mother's day thread:

Making others happy is such a part of you
You’re always kind and thoughtful in everything you do
That’s why this special message comes with love to say
Thanks for being you, Mom, and happy Mother’s Day

-- Ian Johnson (johni72...), May 4th, 2004 1:39 PM.

That's a nice sentiment, Ian. You know, my mom's been a big Clash fan ever since she heard London Calling, she'd like that one I think.

-- Gear! (drink_to_remembe...), May 4th, 2004 1:47 PM.

well G.G. Allin once rubbed his shit in my mom's hair and then smacked her in the face with the microphone. So what?

-- AaronHz (aaronh...), May 4th, 2004 2:06 PM.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

its called how to dismantle an atomic bomb now, according to teletext.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It should be called "How to be a Pompous, Self-righteous Cunt Now"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

its inspired by damien hirst, apparently.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate when they say that this album is their best ever. they always say its their best ever. it's like metallica saying that THIS TIME they're really going to rock. it makes me not want to hear that album ever.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

most people wouldnt buy it if they just admitted that 'well this is our latest, pretty okay album thats not that bad in actuality' either though.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Bono rub shit on his own hair to make it look that bad? The Edge has no hair to shit-rub.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Will Bono ever die?

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

With French investigators still not finding what they're looking for,

AAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHGGHHHHHH

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Looking forward to the new album, but...

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/cms/2004/other/U2_-_news_image_2.6355641.jpg

Bono NO!

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

??? I don't see anything remarkably different in this pic from any he's posed for in the last ten years.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't you see it? Something about the angle of that lean makes me want to scream.

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

There was picture of him recently in...i think it was People magazine...sitting with Jay-Z and Beyonce, and he looked like an extra on Hee-Haw.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Something about the angle of that lean makes me want to scream.

More than the hands locked over the head, guitar slung over the back pose which occurred more than once in Rattle & Hum?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

he's talking about the wang i think

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/cms/2004/other/U2_-_news_image_2.6355641.jpg

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb:
1. Pull head out of ass momentarily, thus assuring really crappy hair and brown-tinted sunglasses.
2. Sling jacket down over shoulders as if you're about to start working on the dismantling.
3. Realize that The Edge is already kneeling down, so keep jacket half-slung and make him dismantle the bomb instead. This will also help keep your hands pretty for shaking with politicians.
4. If you're Adam Clayton, avert your gaze from the inevitable blast.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono is clearly doing the rockaway in that picture.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://u2log.com/archive/u2-how_to_dismantle.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Eww, really?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ew. i cant believe that douchebag was the commencement speaker here at penn.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edge looks dead in that picture.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ahh. Anton Corbijn Gets Paid. Again.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

this cover is much better if you pretend it's a movie poster for u2's remake of weekend at bernies

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edge doesn't look dead as much as he looks like Silk Tha Shocker.

― edgar frog, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

izzat a barbie doll in adam's hand?

― phallus mcgee, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

that is a great photograph!

― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I LEIK IT

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/u2-asleep.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/images/quotes/greenglow.gif
http://images.ireland.com/newspaper/front/0701/bono.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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