After show comments with Rolling Stone’s David Fricke gives us a chance to peek into the dressing room of U2 for an interview with the boys, The Edge followed up his comments that they album has been delayed due working on Ordinary Love.
Edge stated, "We really want the songs to be right. That's the only reason why we're not on tour – because we're so good at starting, not so good at finishing. That's always the way it's been."
We noticed the comments about having 30 or so songs in various states and really, that seems to be able right for the boys. They seem to start very strong and work to scale down to the finished product.
The process takes time. Its not as easy as one word think. Edge did give way to the fact that they do have six or seven mixed and ready to go. We should expect something like 9 or 12 songs total in this new digital world. Edge also provided some insights to the creative process.
When asked about the title of the next project simply stated "Not yet. We have a few."
The band left New York headed back to Dublin to keep working on finishing the album.
– the album where they traded in earnest uplift for funk, noise, sex, irony and self-doubt. So how does this lavish look back square with the band’s old lyric “You glorify the past when the future dries up”?
,” he says, before acknowledging the unlikelihood of that scenario: “I doubt that.”
punched themselves out of a tight corner – after 1988’s 
and album helped convince some music fans they were hopelessly solemn and pompous – suggested a way forward. “Ironically, being forced to look back at this period reminds me of how we might re-emerge for the next phase,” says Bono. “And that doesn’t mean that you have to wear some mad welder’s goggles or dress up in women’s clothing. Reinvention is much deeper than that.”
director Davis Guggenheim. The movie, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival, makes it clear that trying to find a new sound led to what the Edge calls “a potentially career-ending series of difficulties.” In tracing the creation of “One,” the film also reveals that lyrics such as “We’re one, but we’re not the same” are as much about the band’s fraught brotherhood as anything else. “I thought [Achtung Baby] was a really supercool moment in a not always supercool life,” Bono says with a laugh, “and [Guggenheim] goes and makes an uncool film about us!”
and Einstürzende Neubauten, while also noting the fusion of rock and dance coming out of Manchester, with groups like the Stone Roses. “I always remember the intense embarrassment when I happened to be in a club and a generous-spirited DJ would put on one of our tunes from the War album,” the Edge says. “It was so evident we had never been thinking about how it would go down in clubs. So we just wanted to stretch ourselves in the area of rhythm and backbeat and groove.”
, just as Germany was reunifying – and as co-producer Brian Eno wrote, aesthetic guidelines soon emerged: “Buzzwords on this record were trashy, throwaway, dark, sexy and industrial.” “We found it was more interesting to start from an extreme place,” says the Edge.
,” followed by a blast of Larry Mullen Jr.’s drums distorted almost beyond recognition. “Some of the extreme sounds weren’t achieved with sophisticated, outboard equipment, dialed in carefully,” says the Edge. Instead, they simply overloaded their vintage recording console. “It was literally, ‘What happens if you try to go to 11?’” says the guitarist.
and some books and an acoustic guitar.”
