Errr, yeah, just what we need, more Spiderman … Ill be seeing the boys in Vegas this October, and Ill be anticipating “Songs of Ascent” (and hoping that a more appropriate title for it wont be “Songs of Descent”). As for Spidey, just like with the three films, Ill pass. I outgrew the comic book phase of life decades ago, but thanks anyway, fellas.

Fuck this shit

This will be goody good. Boo to all ye haters. Go Spidey Go!

This makes me hate pop culture.

Let me see if I got this straight…okay for Sir Elton and Duncan Sheik to make musicals but if the two songwriters from the biggest band in the world do it it’s crap. What B.S. This will be another feather in the cap of the greatest musicians of the past 30 years.

pop culture makes me hate this

Didn’t they release an album a few months ago? Does anybody remember it? Did anybody buy it?Was it really released? Did I imagine it?

Wow a guy with screen name like, “Saint Subversive” outgrew the comic book phase of life decades ago.
Apparently he/she hasn’t outgrown
listening to rock music. Isn’t it time to go strictly classical, and stop reading magazines like Rolling Stone?

Spiderman? This doesn’t even rise to the level of dorkiness. Dorks are outsiders and can be very rock and roll. This is idiotic corporatism. I don’t give a crap if Bono likes Spiderman. Raise some money for Africa, or just mow the lawn, but not this. U2 is the new Elton John. P.S. Eat a carrot, Bono.

U2 is just another bloated and greedy corporate rock band

Why couldn’t they have retired and kept their dignity?

Ha ha, ‘Go web go!’ made me think of the ‘Signal Fire’ video, if it’s half as good as the Snow Patrol track/video, then it’ll be brilliant, even if Bono is the antiantichrist!

As for out-growing comics, whatever, as if there is any such thing!;-)

Maybe U2 should work on making a great album. No Line on the Horizon, despite getting the automatic 5 stars from Rolling Stone, is a piece of shit. Write real songs please and put some soul into them like you used to. They’re a lot more “Pop/Zooropa” now than they are “Joshua Tree” that’s for sure.

I think the whole rock band that matters image that U2 once had just got too big and out of control in the 90’s. I applaud all and any attempts by them as individuals to change the world, but their core musical concerns have taken a back seat to that from a fan’s persepective for some time. No band can stay inventive for their entire career, even fewer stay relative – there are too many examples to list. Fact is, if you want to ignore U2 and their musical offerings now you can. There is always some new, fresh talent with something to say out there looking for an audience. So let aging rockers, good or bad, do what they have the ability or need to do. Rock and roll never dies, it just gets old.

How about Adam Lambert as Spiderman? That would be awesome.

Please oh please U2 just make music, or quit, i get tired of their so called good ideas, saving the world, and in the end charging 160 euro’s (around 220 dollar) for seeing their concert. Yeah, i get so tired.

Edge: I was reading that we are the best band of the modern rock era. That’s cool. What should we do next?

Bono: Show tunes – we’ll be bigger than that Lloyd Webber!
[Bad Idea Jeans]

I’m blown away by the creative energy and devotion that this band has. They obviously love their fans, but they’re more concerned with staying true to their artistic talents and experimenting. Must be quite a feeling to be on top of the music community and get to try your hand at just about anything – and to actually succeed at it must be breathtaking.

I suspect that the haters either haven’t put any serious thought to the sheer focus it takes to produce a top-40 album, prepare for a worldwide tour and write the music for a musical all in this short period of time, or the haters are really just the same bunch of a-holes who would’ve made fun of these four guys while they were in high school.

Who knows it might just be good!?!?
Everybody knows that if your gonna make money its probably not going to be in musical theatre and if you are an “established musician” those musicals usually dont make big money. Yeah they win awards but maybe they are doing this for some brave new step in another direction??? We’ll see……

I´ve always liked U2´s side projects like “Passengers” and “The Milloion Dollar Hotel”. Through such projects bands get a possibility to find new musical approaches and ideas that can have a positive effect on their regular records. I think that musical is a suitable genre for Bono and The Edge, because their music has something theatrical and on stage Bono has acted different characters over the years. Musical is a dangerous genre, because it can turn into kitsch very easily. But I believe that band like U2 and Green Day can create somthing different.

Bono´s comparison between comics and rock´n´roll is an interesting point. It´s true that people usually get into rock´n´roll as kids, but many people don´t outgrow rock music, because it can mean so much more than just some kind of short-term passion. After 20 years I still listen to U2 and in the concerts I see many older “kids” like me.
(And Bono is the kid at the age of 50…oh, I´m sorry, I mean…49 of course)

I´ve always liked U2´s side projects like “Passengers” and “The Million Dollar Hotel”. Through such projects bands get the possibility to find new approaches and ideas that can be very inspiring for their regular records. I think that musical is a suitable genre for Bono and The Edge, because their music has something theatrical and on stage Bono has acted different characters over the years. Musicals can turn into kitsch very easily, but I believe that bands like U2 and Green Day have the talent to create something different.

Bono´s comparison between comic books and rock´n´roll is an interesting point. It´s true that people usually get into rock´n´roll as kids, but many people don´t outgrow rock music, because it can mean so much more than just some kind of short-term passion. After 20 years I still listen to U2 and in the concerts I see many older “kids” like me.
(And Bono is the kid at the age of 50…oh, I´m sorry, I mean…49 of course)

I´m sorry that my posts appear twice, but after the first one I clicked “submit” accidentally before I wanted to correct the mistakes(which you can see…).

u2 should stick to what makes them great their music.Not a play.Did anyoone buy their new album?? it seemed to fade to black.Only one good song is magnificent the rest sucks.Way to go u2 please dont put out another crappy album

No I understand why Radiohead are been called the new U2, arrogant bastards!

1/2 U2 = $$$