Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:whoa whoa whoa now you're making it sounds like they are good people

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:whoa whoa whoa now you're making it sounds like they are good people

It’ll change when bono dies. Then you’ll see him mourned nationally and the disgusting ‘they did so much for our country I always loved them’. That’ll actually happen. And it’s appalling.
They actually did a ton for us against all odds or realistic expectations they put us on the map in many ways in the 80s and 90s. I love them as a band personally and like with pj they frustrate the living shit out of me more often than not but they put on amazing live shows, Bono’s the only one I’ve met and he was gracious and generous and affable and they’re still capable of making good if not great music but what can you expect. Top achtung baby 20 years later? Never gonna happen. They should stop that approach and realise they’re good when they’re doing work that isn’t overthought to death and pasteurised sucking all the life out of the songs

*top Zooropa 20 years later? Never gonna happen.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:dime does that doc have much eno or lanois in it?

tragabigzanda wrote:also, from the wiki page for Achtung Baby:

The band believed that "domesticity [w]as the enemy of rock 'n' roll" and that to work on the album, they needed to remove themselves from their normal family-oriented routines. With a "New Europe" emerging at the end of the Cold War, they chose Berlin, in the centre of the reuniting continent, as a source of inspiration for a more European musical aesthetic.[3][18][25] They chose to record at Hansa Studios in West Berlin, near the recently opened Berlin Wall.

Man, i wish PJ would do something like this.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:also, from the wiki page for Achtung Baby:

The band believed that "domesticity [w]as the enemy of rock 'n' roll" and that to work on the album, they needed to remove themselves from their normal family-oriented routines. With a "New Europe" emerging at the end of the Cold War, they chose Berlin, in the centre of the reuniting continent, as a source of inspiration for a more European musical aesthetic.[3][18][25] They chose to record at Hansa Studios in West Berlin, near the recently opened Berlin Wall.

Man, i wish PJ would do something like this.

They kinda did tho. No code was recorded all over the place wasn’t it?
Or was it vitalogy?

yeah, but i mean today, in getting away from their familial routines with total focus on a record as an artistic statement of our time.

bune wrote:Did you make it all the way through that sentence without laughing? Because imagining them doing that...I couldn't.

I still say they should make a Mirror Ball 2 with Neil, maybe kick both their asses from the doldrums.

dimejinky99 wrote:

bune wrote:Did you make it all the way through that sentence without laughing? Because imagining them doing that...I couldn't.

I still say they should make a Mirror Ball 2 with Neil, maybe kick both their asses from the doldrums.

Heard recently that live film of mirrorball from Dublin in 95 might be coming by out.

RITFW from that show is in the pj20 movie. It was an awesome show

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.