New U2 album released for free on iTunes

Links234 · 09-09-2014 10:40PM

Still too expensive

paulthom8 · 09-09-2014 10:41PM

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

Tail Docker · 09-09-2014 10:42PM

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?

09-09-2014 10:43PM

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 · 09-09-2014 10:44PM

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 · 09-09-2014 10:46PM

Lapin wrote: »

Dave Fanning will be pissed off.

He played it at 8 this evening.

The Backwards Man · 09-09-2014 10:47PM

What are iTunes like for refunds?

The_Valeyard · 09-09-2014 10:53PM

Screw it,

Its free, downloaded it,

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

FloatingVoter · 09-09-2014 11:04PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:13PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:13PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:13PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:15PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:22PM

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

smurgen · 09-09-2014 11:23PM

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

worded · 09-09-2014 11:24PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:25PM

*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 · 09-09-2014 11:30PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:31PM

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 · 09-09-2014 11:34PM

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

Eileen Down · 09-09-2014 11:36PM

Dublin would be a very different city today if they never existed.

MadYaker · 09-09-2014 11:38PM

Listening now, sounds alright. Can't wait for the gig in Croker, they always put on a good show.

porsche959 · 09-09-2014 11:40PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

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

McGuinness retirement was the end for me. They always claimed he was fifth member so far as I am concerned that was the retirement of U2.

porsche959 · 09-09-2014 11:43PM

worded wrote: »

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

Drive? First album since 2009. Springsteen averaged one every 20 months since 2009 and he is older.

U2 used to have drive, but they are really now pursuing the route they always said they wouldn't, i.e. the Rolling Stones route of being basically a touring band.

Micky Dolenz · 09-09-2014 11:44PM

I saw them in Berlin in '07 and they were deadly.

porsche959 · 09-09-2014 11:44PM

smurgen wrote: »

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

These days yes, but it was not always such:

Nunu · 09-09-2014 11:48PM

Apple paid U2. They haven't given it away for free. Apple are giving it to iTunes users as a gift. U2 are bleedin geniuses!

It's an excellent album.

MadYaker · 09-09-2014 11:48PM

Kind of clever when you think about it. There are half a billion iTunes users on the planet and now this album is just sitting in all their music libraries waiting to be downloaded. People who have never even considered U2's music, or people who don't even know U2 exist, might be tempted to give it a listen. It's the biggest and one of the most unique album launches ever and could only be done this way by iTunes. I reckon the band have just increased their audience exponentially.

jimgoose · 09-09-2014 11:51PM

I paid a fiver for 100 Eddie Cochran songs the other day on iTunes. I wouldn't bother my hole with U2 if they paid me wages.

ShaneU · 09-09-2014 11:53PM

A huge improvement on their last album, still not a patch on "how to dismantle an atomic bomb"

New U2 album released for free on iTunes

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