Predicting U2's New Direction

J ([email protected])
Sat, 5 Dec 1998 04:53:01 -0800 (PST)

Joshua Tree and Achtung had totally different sounds, and yet they had
the same producers. So I'd try to expect something new and different
although we wont be seeing Bono's soaring screams and high notes
anymore, unless he settles for the falsetto which in my opinion won't
fit in a four-man, back-to-basics set up.

In Popmart, the band eventually tried exploring the acoustic
arrangements and in a chat interview with one of the members, they
seemed to like that idea (as seen in Desire, SATS, and perhaps SBS)
and hoped to explore it more in the future. The Omagh late show
(AIWIY only) and the YES Belfast concert showed the band playing just
as a four piece team without sequencers and other high-tech gadgets,
ditto for their ST 98 version which was instrumentally faithful to the
original's simplicity. It seems that with the direction U2 is taking,
we can expect them to make new music whose sounds can all be
reproduced by a band member live on stage. And the joy theme would
only make it better. This is all a big if though, as U2 always seem
to pick up new things in midstream in the production of their album.
But I just hope they go back to making simple music.

Cheers,

J

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