Later this year...another new ablum from U2
NEW @U2 U2 PLANNING ANOTHER ALBUM IN 2009
February 14, 2009
posted by: m2
The Observer has a terrific article by Sean O'Hagan about the making of No Line On The Horizon, which includes the revelation that U2 is planning to release another album before the end of 2009. Bono describes the next album as "a more meditative album on the theme of pilgrimage."
You can read Sean O'Hagan's article here
Excerpt:
The conversation spirals off into illuminating territory, touching once again on the Christian faith that is the key determinant of both his music and his activism. It is a subject he does not often talk about, he says, because it inevitably gets reduced or trivialised, and "it leaves you open to being accused of being a hypocrite, especially if you are of the hopeless variety, which I am. I haven't broken all the commandments," he adds, laughing, "but I've wanted to."
He says that a lot of people he most admires are non-believers. Bill Gates. Warren Buffett. "People who are prepared to spend their entire life's fortune trying to make the lives of people they don't know a lot better. These people are more Christian than the Christians. Zealotry and certainty are worrying for me. Love keeps religion from zealotry."
SOH So without love, it becomes another kind of fixed ideology?
Bono "Yeah, that's right! Anyway, there's loads of pops in there about zealotry, religious and otherwise, and you're the only person who's picked up on this in the lyrics. I mean, 'Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady.' Come on?"
February 14, 2009
posted by: m2
The Observer has a terrific article by Sean O'Hagan about the making of No Line On The Horizon, which includes the revelation that U2 is planning to release another album before the end of 2009. Bono describes the next album as "a more meditative album on the theme of pilgrimage."
You can read Sean O'Hagan's article here
Excerpt:
The conversation spirals off into illuminating territory, touching once again on the Christian faith that is the key determinant of both his music and his activism. It is a subject he does not often talk about, he says, because it inevitably gets reduced or trivialised, and "it leaves you open to being accused of being a hypocrite, especially if you are of the hopeless variety, which I am. I haven't broken all the commandments," he adds, laughing, "but I've wanted to."
He says that a lot of people he most admires are non-believers. Bill Gates. Warren Buffett. "People who are prepared to spend their entire life's fortune trying to make the lives of people they don't know a lot better. These people are more Christian than the Christians. Zealotry and certainty are worrying for me. Love keeps religion from zealotry."
SOH So without love, it becomes another kind of fixed ideology?
Bono "Yeah, that's right! Anyway, there's loads of pops in there about zealotry, religious and otherwise, and you're the only person who's picked up on this in the lyrics. I mean, 'Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady.' Come on?"
3 comments:
'Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady.'
Haha! Yeah, absolutely. And while you're there, stop making him out to be a dysfunctional creep
"Zealotry and certainty are worrying for me. Love keeps religion from zealotry."
That is a fabulous thought and a theme you have explored here quite a bit. Being at home in the middle of a lack of certainty is a high hurdle but it is sure more comfortable on the other side.
Sue, I am really shocked at the way many of Father's children ( I used to be one of them) want to describe him to be which leads me to believe that is how they see him to be....an unstable dysfunctional being. I want to spend the rest of my days countering that mistaken notion.
And Kirk, it is a wonderful thought isn't it? Paradoxes all around. Wonderful paradoxes.
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