U2’s The Edge is one of only a handful of guitarists who’s as recognizable as his band’s wildly successful frontman. U2 has been playing together since 1976, when they were all teenagers in Dublin. Nearing their 50-year anniversary as a band, U2 just released their latest album, Songs of Surrender—a 40-track collection of reimagined and stripped down songs that span the entirety of their catalog.
On today’s episode Rick Rubin talks to The Edge about his theory behind the band’s longevity. The Edge also shares stories about writing U2 classics like “New Year’s Day” and “Where The Streets Have No Name.” And he explains why Bono singing at the top of his range can be a bit much.
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For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world.
Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers.
Broken Record is hosted by Justin Richmond with interviews by producer Rick Rubin, writer Malcolm Gladwell, and former New York Times editor Bruce Headlam.
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Imagine you're famed producer Rick Rubin and you make a podcast that sounds like shit. Your average dumb streamer has better audio than this.
Yo Rick, where's The Link to the SOS tracks?
As a person who discovered U2 in 1982 and thought they were the only band that mattered throughout the 80s and 90s, I am just bored with most things they have come out with since the turn of century. And the energy of their amazing early work as men in their 20s doesn't need to to be "reimagined" by guys in their 60s. Its the most disappointing, un-rock thing ever.
The Edge has mangled all the songs. The problem is when the Edge thinks he's found out who he is and what he does. Starting to believe the hype. It's an appalling collection where the purpose of the songs has aside from about 3 or 4 been vampirically drawn away from them. It's been creeping up for a long time, but somebody needs to seriously take back control of the situation. The new versions are in danger of revealing that U2 are a production deal.
He really seems to have tried to do a Sufijan Stevens, it's really not the point of their back catalog !!! Sure you can do Some days are better than others, but this is just terrible…!!!!!
U2 need to do a humdrum album about like furniture catalogs, dirt on a windscreen, coffee filters, and stuff like that. Miami, laid back precise reflections.
It's terrible to the point of making me into a critic. Probably that one where he was on with Jimmy Page and the nation army dude, was the beginning of the end !!!
From the outside it does appear that Russia is a bully but when you really look you’ll find that just aren’t and this is way deeper than imaginable. The tyranny may not be coming from the side they assume it is coming from.
Rick produced my favorite U2 song Window In The Skies, I hope the band comes back to it one day. Bummed it wasn’t on Songs of Surrender
I have no real issue with the Edge, Larry or Adam. They have been largely in the background whilst Bono preaches leftist propaganda at the £150 a ticket gigs he profits from. But U2 have become more stale by the year. Their is the odd 'Vertigo' here and there in the last 20 years. But largely albums that have become uninteresting. The whole arrogance of the free album really pissed people off. Even those who welcomed it, soon found it was probably the worst album they had made to date. Time to call it a day.
U2 needs to go back in the studio with Rick or Danger Mouse. They need to stop making songs for the charts.
Even if U2 never creates or plays any new songs ever again, you can’t take away the brilliance of their expansive song catalog and illustrious career, though they seem to be doing just that on this new album retrospective.
Radical ??
He said edges there is only one 😂
So disappointing to hear Edge paint the US proxy war in Ukraine as a monochromatic good vs evil. No one cares that Zelensky’s government supported ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russian Ukrainians in the Donbas by Azov neo-Nazis.
Bono sucks. Shame on The Edge for following Bono on this project. Bono is a narcissist.
Songs of Surrender is a mixed bag for me. Half of it works imo. I think It would have worked better as a 18 track album, keep all the stuff from Boy though, I thought that worked really well.
Radical? It's plain awful, like a sad friend's party.
I don’t know.
To me it’s like letting the air out of a planes’ tyres or something.
The songs just can’t take off the way they need to.
I’ve bought a copy of every record they’ve put out since ‘84.
I just can’t buy this.
Get John Frusciante back on again soon pls ✨
They should retire now .
What is the point of "reimagining" stuff already recorded? It is not "radical," it is boring and uninspired.
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Most of you, except a very tiny percentage of the population, have forgotten who you REALLY are. Where you’re actually from and that we are spiritual beings, who come from ONE (I AM) collective source of energy in the cosmos. Some believers will call this Heaven or just simply, the other side. It’s all the same, as far as I’m concerned, but some people find comfort with labels and there’s nothing wrong with that. Whatever makes you feel the most comfortable.
Your consciousnesses and your soul are one in the same. Earth is NOT your real and true home. The place your consciousnesses goes when you die, pass away, or cross over, again whatever makes you feel comfortable, is all the same thing and it’s where our spiritual home really is. When you pass, It’s simply a matter of closing your eyes here and immediately reopening your eyes there, It happens instantaneously.
Actually it happens so fast that most people that have NDE’s say that at first they didn’t even realize they were dead for a good while. Even the ones that died on the operating table in the hospital, for example, have said that they were wondering who was on the table in the room because they just felt that there wasn’t anyway that person could be them. Only when they don’t get a response from someone or suddenly walk through a wall is when they realize something happened to them.
I know many people think I’m just making this up for fun, or I’m some kind of religious fanatic but I promise, you will eventually see what I’m saying is absolutely and undeniably 100% true, I have never played silly games with people about fantastical stories and I’m not about to start now.
All I’m hoping to do is give someone hope that needs it or if someone has lost a family member or friend. Plus, with this ridiculous war Putin started would be a good time to give some comfort to those in need, maybe a soldier in the field perhaps.
Everyone on this planet comes from the same realm of existence and has been around since the beginning of time. You have lived many, many lifetimes through reincarnation, hundreds or possibly thousands of times. More than likely, you have been every race, gender and lived from every time period. Again, you are immortal and have died many times throughout history. Every time your soul comes back to earth you pick your life’s blueprint of what you’re going to do and accomplish. Your not meant to just know this or remember this.
You’re meant to discover this throughout life and on your own, learn lessons from it. If everyone was just told what they had to do, or easily remembered, you wouldn’t be able to properly get what you needed out of life. The core learning for each soul, is the ability to love one another and show compassion for each other. Until this is learned by each and every one of us, we will keep having to come back over and over again until it is learned. So please, please start now. For each of us, once you have accomplished this, you will only need to come back if you want to, and if you feel like you lack in some other area of your life.
Please, 🙏 Stop the wars and fighting amongst each other and start to LOVE one another, as it should be. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience, not physical beings having a spiritual experience.
Jesus spoke on the cross: ‘Father, forgive them…. Maybe we will be able to do the same one day. Forgive our enemies. I will get some comments saying some don’t deserve it, but that will be up to and between, you and God.
If you want any other perspective/evidence or guidance on this information, and I suspect you most certainly will, watch the programs/episodes called: (The Ghost inside my Child), and NDE’s, (Near Death Experience) testimonials. Most of these are on Youtube, but you can also find some on the premium’s as well. I watched all three seasons of complete episodes of ‘Ghost’, on my Prime subscription. All the NDE episodes, I watched on Youtube.
There are many different channels on Youtube with different hosts, so try if you can to eventually watch them all. No two experiences are ever the same and all have different information that others won’t have. The more you watch and learn, the better of an understanding you will have of everything I have mentioned in here.
Again, please watch as many of these videos/episodes as you can, because you will get a broader, more detailed understanding of what it’s all about and what’s to come.
I PROMISE YOU, this will completely change your life for the better and you will NEVER fear death again.
Some of you have said it’s the fear of pain you associate with death, you fear mostly and I get that as well.
It will also give you a complete sense of peace and perspective for all things in your life. You will become exponentially more compassionate towards people and animals. You will learn to love yourself first and foremost and that in return, will help you learn to love others better as well.
I completely understand if you can’t and/or won’t initially except some of what I’m telling you. But I do hope and pray that you will try to expand your mind from what you’ve been taught. Trying to get rid of what you were taught since birth and accept something completely new and what some have called, ‘fantastical’ isn’t the easiest thing to do, especially if you like the way things are in your life and don’t except change that easy. I myself have been accused by my family and friends for being what they have called ‘Pig Headed’. I’m not that way anymore, I have completely changed since learning the truth.
I’ve had some ask me about the situation with babies or young children and cancer or illness, disease and ‘why god takes them at such a young age’. Saying, ‘how’s that fair, they didn’t do anything to deserve that’ or ‘why would they pick a life just to turn around and die’.
I initially had issues with all that as well, but over time and learning, it became clear that sometimes the life blueprint that’s picked, is not always about you, but those you choose to be born unto. A mother or father may need to experience/learn humility or sacrifice and yes, sadly the suffering for the loss of a child, just to name a few. I know it sounds cruel but for whatever reason, it was ultimately necessary and Gods plan. We’re not meant to know or understand everything, that’s essentially in Gods hands.
I was a devout nonbeliever and hardcore sceptic, (as most people are these days) when I first heard about this, but the more knowledge you learn and acquire, the more you will realize it all to be true and not just a ‘nice story’, as one guy responded back to me recently.
Please don’t ignore this, it has everything to do with why you’re here. Some things are true whether you believe them or not. I would like to say though, that I’m not in any way an expert on the subject or claim to know everything, not even close. I encourage you to do your own research and come to your own conclusions.
May God Bless YOU, the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and the world.
I'm really enjoying some of the new versions of the old songs!
Dont go back to radio please