New U2 album released for free on iTunes

Henry Sidney

Desperate, cynical or just all round good eggs? Free new album out today on iTunes. Doesn't sound that bad off a quick listen. Will you be downloading it?

Sh1tbag OToole

I'll wait till it comes out on Bittorrent

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Henry Sidney wrote: »

Desperate, cynical or just all round good eggs? Free new album out today on iTunes. Doesn't sound that bad of a quick listen. Will you be downloading it?

If they post the taxes on the income from it...

highgiant1985

Henry Sidney wrote: »

Desperate, cynical or just all round good eggs? Free new album out today on iTunes. Doesn't sound that bad of a quick listen. Will you be downloading it?

downloaded it and had a listen. Being honest I didn't like the album but hey it was free so no loss.

Lapin

Dave Fanning will be pissed off.

PropJoe10

On first listen, its quite acceptable.

wandatowell

U2 should stop trying to be hipster and modern. Their earlier (now much earlier) stuff was unreal. Great melodies but a lot of the newer releases just smack of trying to hard to be something they are not.

KeithM89

I'm no U2 fan but it's alright, some good tracks.
Plus I love free shit.

Henry Sidney

wandatowell wrote: »

U2 should stop trying to be hipster and modern. Their earlier (now much earlier) stuff was unreal. Great melodies but a lot of the newer releases just smack of trying to hard to be something they are not.

This new album sounds closer to War and Boy than to recent stuff

I think I'll wait for the movie.

dr.bollocko

The struggle to remain relevant. They lost it a while ago.

Magenta

I ****ing hate Bono.

Banjo String

I'm getting to be on the wrong side of thirty.

The whole u2 thing passed me by though.

Bang_Bang

wandatowell wrote: »

U2 should stop trying to be hipster and modern. Their earlier (now much earlier) stuff was unreal. Great melodies but a lot of the newer releases just smack of trying to hard to be something they are not.

Fúcking same boat as metallica so.

My name is URL

wandatowell wrote: »

U2 should stop trying to be hipster and modern. Their earlier (now much earlier) stuff was unreal. Great melodies but a lot of the newer releases just smack of trying to hard to be something they are not.

Every one of their albums to date has had 2 or 3 undeniably great songs and the rest have been U2 trying too hard. It's nothing new.

And it only took three posts before someone mentioned taxes. :rolleyes: I think Bono can be a bit sanctimonious at times but overall he and U2 have done a hell of a lot more for Ireland and the world than any of the moaners who take any opportunity at all to bitch about them.

Will probably listen to the album at some point. Most U2 albums are pretty hit-and-miss but if you took the best bits off of all of them you'd have a great collection.

KungPao

[YOUTUBETTAG]Was about to post a "yeah yeah yeah" clip of Bono in South Park, but YouTube is fecked[/YOUTUBETAG]

Is YT dead for anyone else?

EDIT: YouTube has been acting the mickey with me recently

cloud493

Who?

dodderangler

Bang_Bang wrote: »

Fúcking same boat as metallica so.

No no no no!!!!!! Sir hang your head in shame!
Metallica have some of the best music I've ever heard. Yeah they may be changin it up but they'll always be remembered for greatest music.
U2 and that bono w4nker have always seen Shiite.
They could be giving they're cd in me letterbox and I still wouldn't listen to them.

mosstin

cloud493 wrote: »

Who?

You know - the plane?

Cienciano

Wow, free music on the internet! This is amazing!

Call Me Jimmy

Hello Hello. Ola. Something something vertigo

i can feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel


They've gone to the dogs since then ^^

harney

wandatowell wrote: »

U2 should stop trying to be hipster and modern. Their earlier (now much earlier) stuff was unreal. Great melodies but a lot of the newer releases just smack of trying to hard to be something they are not.

Hipster post bemoaning hipster band. Intriguing.

Lenin Skynard

Is this also free for people that don't use iDevices or don't want to install that heap of **** iTunes software? Actually nvm, U2 have been ****e since 1981.

The Th!ng

cloud493 wrote: »

Who?

No, U2.

Micky Dolenz

I liked them before they were popular.

C.K Dexter Haven

Lapin wrote: »

Dave Fanning will be pissed off.

Ah, those were the days;)

C.K Dexter Haven

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I liked them before they were popular.

They were never popular:p

Lapin

cloud493 wrote: »

Who?

The Hype.

The Th!ng

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Is this also free for people that don't use iDevices or don't want to install that heap of **** iTunes software? Actually nvm, U2 have been ****e since 1981.

Give it a few days, it'll be all over the net.

Awful_Bliss

It's absolute garbage. They should quit while they still can. Maybe take a leaf out of REM's book and go out on a high.....oh wait, that'd be too late.

Links234

Still too expensive

paulthom8

There was a time when U2 were relevant and leading the way amidst unchartered soundscapes with guitars.

Tail Docker

They played "The Academic" on 2fm today. I know the academics - hark at them all fancy on the radio. I nearly crashed the van with the excitement. Uwho?

all their money is made from the huge world tours so they're not losing anything and hoping to sell more tickets by giving it away free.

Frank Lee Midere

Tail Docker wrote: »

They played "The Academic" on 2fm today. I know the academics - hark at them all fancy on the radio. I nearly crashed the van with the excitement. Uwho?

I am sure that made sense to you.

ThisRegard

Lapin wrote: »

Dave Fanning will be pissed off.

He played it at 8 this evening.

The Backwards Man

What are iTunes like for refunds?

The_Valeyard

Screw it,

Its free, downloaded it,

Not bad actually, liking it better than the previous 2009 album.

FloatingVoter

Can't download it from iTunes. Steve Jobs:rolleyes: ...the worlds greatest gift to piracy. I'll get the torrent tomorrow. The previews don't sound too bad though.

Bang_Bang

dodderangler wrote: »

No no no no!!!!!! Sir hang your head in shame!
Metallica have some of the best music I've ever heard. Yeah they may be changin it up but they'll always be remembered for greatest music.
U2 and that bono w4nker have always seen Shiite.
They could be giving they're cd in me letterbox and I still wouldn't listen to them.

Sorry, head hung in shame whilst listening to puppets

Tail Docker

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

I am sure that made sense to you.

It did - google "The Academic", young band from Mullingar. Verr good. On the radio today, how flash is that.

In Lonesome Dove

I'm not a u2 fan but I got a lift from someone the other day who was playing a u2 cd in his car and it didn't sound too bad and I liked it. I wonder would this offer be still be running tomorrow. I need to go to the pub to use their wifi for downloading some music so I might go for this too.

Wibbs

dr.bollocko wrote: »

The struggle to remain relevant. They lost it a while ago.

True, but I do admire the fact that they have tried to stay relevant and have had a longer run at it than most bands. Most of the "big" name touring bands going for more than a decade have done so by locking into a groove of their own and milking it for all it's worth. QV the Rolling Stones, who pretty much died as artists by 1975. U2 have reinvented themselves a few times and kept pretty contemporarily viable for much of their history. So much so that a band like Coldplay took over for the younger beige set who lied their stuff, the Monkees to U2's Beatles. Though I am insulting the simian and the coleoptera there.

glasso wrote: »

all their money is made from the huge world tours so they're not losing anything and hoping to sell more tickets by giving it away free.

More than that, by giving it away they're getting themselves into the record books with little effort. If they had followed the usual release these days they would have made some moola, but the majority would have been gone the way of torrents. This way they tick the "biggest album release eveah!" while losing little. No way would they have competed with somethings like Jacksons Thriller or The Beatles White album stats/records by normal means. This way they can.

Sonics2k

Just for the sake if it, I think I'm going to torrent this album.

smurgen

their music is so middle of the road it hurts.not one bit ****ing edgy or innovative.what is the point?

worded

Amazing band live, they can sing and play their instruments.

I'd give anything to have a 15% of their talent and my Xs heart (if she had one) to have 1% of their money.

Fair ducks to them. I'd like to have that drive at their age.

Roll on the begrudges .... Sure they are only xyz while you are sitting on your ass behind a keyboard getting fat

miss no stars

*sigh*

The only thing more passe than U2 themselves is the hate-them-at-all-costs herd mentality of a lot of Irish people.

jam_mac_jam

oh god, why can't you critisise anything in this country without it being begrudging, maybe you just don't like their music.

Sh1tbag OToole

miss no stars wrote: »

*sigh*

The only thing more passe than U2 themselves is the hate-them-at-all-costs herd mentality of a lot of Irish people.

Bono is a pox

rabble rabble something about tax

jam_mac_jam

Get ready for the constant playing on the radio also. You will not hear anything else for the next six months. Every where