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Friday, March 6, 2009

Album I Wish I Could Say I Feel Bad About This

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:43 PM

The Vulture has a look at why nobody's buying U2's new album.

It seems to us there could be a million reasons Horizon might not be catching fire: Is the dull cover not standing out enough on CD racks? Did everybody see its perfect review in Rolling Stone and assume that only their dads would like it? Were fans annoyed with the decision to release five different versions? And could the different editions be cannibalizing sales? Is the band's five-night stand on Letterman backfiring by allowing potential buyers to actually hear how dull the record's deep cuts are? Has America finally fallen out of love with the Edge's delay pedal? Or is it the way Bono seems increasingly detached from band affairs and weirdly prickly in all recent interviews?

I bolded my choice. Although I should point out, in all fairness, that it is number one with a bullet on a major torrent site's top 100 downloaded albums, with 4305 seeders and 868 leechers, way ahead of number two (Lady GaGa, if you're interested.) So prepare for a hundred more "Is the internet killing music?" headlines if the new U2 album qualifies as a bomb.

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It could be that the lead-off single "Get on Your Boots" is a straight-up rip-off mash-up of Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" and Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire."

Speaking of which, Anna Pickard of the UK Guardian hilariously picks apart the video of "Get On Your Boots" - good stuff:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar…

Posted by joshuuuua on March 6, 2009 at 6:09 PM

I thought HOME TAPING had already killed music!?

Posted by nipper on March 9, 2009 at 1:05 PM