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"['Mofo'] . . . became the heaviest song maybe we've ever written. I feel like my whole life is in that one tune." -- Bono |
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"['Mofo'] . . . became the heaviest song maybe we've ever written. I feel like my whole life is in that one tune." -- Bono |
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Vintage U2
@U2,
November 23, 2009
With over 5,700 items in our news database, it's a safe bet you haven't read all of them! Here are three circa early '90s articles about Achtung Baby, one of which was done before recording had begun. "Songwriting By Accident," Propaganda, 1990 As preparations for the recording of a new U2 record gather momentum, Bono takes time out to talk to Propaganda about the Irish in the World Cup, Edge as "a maniac" on their "abstract" latest recordings, songwriting by accident and the importance of Air India sick bags in the creation of new material. Oh, and, er, a new number presently called "Sick Puppy." "Soul-searching for a '90s Sound," Newsday, 1992 "We have been shouting at each other for 10 years and we do kill each other over the music," Bono said. "We fistfight over the music. We don't speak over the music. Remember, we were 14, 15, 16 when we met and we didn't even have any [musical] vocabulary. Now we are learning to communicate to each other without throwing the drum kit into the audience or gagging the singer. There has been improvement, but in Berlin, it got very heavy again." "A Chastened U2 Comes Down to Earth," New York Times, 1992 "You go through the thing where you get the big house and the cars and all that stuff," Bono said. "We had all that when we were 23. So you get to 30, and not much is going to put you off what you're doing. We hit the jackpot, so there is no other reason for us to be together other than the music. We have to make music that interests us if we are to survive, so what we've done is to put people off the scent. We've made a heavy, screwed-up record disguised as trash."
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