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Well, school is back in session, the air is cooling down a bit(not enough for me), and fall is a month away. What else could make this day better?

How about news that U2 releasing a new album Noveber 23! For those of you who don't know me, I am a big U2 fan, been one since they were sporting mullets.

Achtung, Baby! New U2 Release Set
August 23, 2004
E! Online
By Josh Grossberg

Bono and the boys have announced plans to release their still untitled album in the U.S. then, a day after it drops in the U.K. The first single, "Vertigo," will hit radio on Sept. 24, while a video for the song will debut in October.

U2's 11th studio album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, is the follow-up to their multiple Grammy-winning 2000 disc, All That You Can Leave Behind. Besides "Vertigo," other song titles rumored to be on the Irish rockers' set include "Tough" and "Full Metal Jacket.

The band has been previewing tracks to select music industry types, and the buzz has been tremendous. Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel says the new CD "is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes,Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work...[Bono] has enormous assuredness, and the occasional cracks in his voice make the bad-relationship songs (and, as always, there are quite a few) darker and more dramatic."

In July, a cd containing an early version of new album was stolen from a recording studio in France. Seems like U2 is ahead of the game if a leak occurs:

Bono told London's Daily Telegraph that the group may try and head off such a disastrous leak by making the album available early as a legal download on Apple's iTunes should file-swappers get their hands on it.

"If it is on the Internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month," the singer said. "It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention ----ing up our holidays. But once it's out. It's out."

CJ at 8/23/2004

Comments:

By CJ, at: 11:47 AM

Hey, maybe this time you can actually go to the concert with us, and not get mad everytime I mention how much better U2 songs sounded live. :P

I can't wait for the next tour either, last time remember we were going to go? Except the concert was took place like a week or 2 after the attacks of Sept. 11, and I was scared of being in places with large crowds of people. Curses, to the terrorists, I let them win. And I missed out on a really good concert.

Not this time though! Wild horses (hehe, U2 reference) couldn't drag me away.