Scattered Thoughts: Dream a Little Dream
“I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. I just bought this record the other day, I don’t even know the name of the artist, because I can’t read Arabic. I heard it in a newsagent around the corner and thought, wow, this is the most sophisticated production. It’s completely commercial, totally Arabic and totally viable for this world, just like the blues completely suffused the music of the early 1960s, woke it up and got it out of Cliff Richard and all this sort of thing and made it kind of dirtier and rougher and more lively and sexy. I think Arabic music is a similar prospect.”
“I’d love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. Wouldn’t that piss their parents off?”
Those are the words of one Mr. Brian Eno. (The interview is from 2005.) Click here for the full text.
(Thanx for the tip Cameron).
It may be a (ginormous) stretch to infer that those tantalizing words from the mouth of Eno are in any way related to U2 setting up shop in the “Arabic world” of Morocco with Lanois and Eno. But one can always dream, no?
U2.com posted another new photo (below) and an update from Morocco today in which Larry says: “It’s the first time we’ve worked with Brian and Dan in a purely songwriting capacity. So it’s very different, quite experimental and kind of liberating because of that…”
Sounds good great to me.
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So, Larry said this of Eno (and Lanois): “It’s the first time we’ve worked with Brian and Dan in a purely songwriting capacity. So it’s very different, quite experimental and kind of liberating because of that…”
Um…the last time the words Brian and experimental were used in the same sentence by Larry, it was to say how crap Passengers was if memory serves me correctly. Do you think he’s forgiven Eno and his experimentalness?
Isn’t it also odd that he says they have never worked in a songwriting capacity with them? What about The Unforgettable Fire? Weren’t those songs? Or maybe he just means that they aren’t working on an album, per se, just making music for the sake of making it (for now) … which is an experiment in and of itself perhaps (?)
Sounds like Passengers to me! Make it stop!
Caravox, I think he means that he’s aiding in writing only the songs, not mixing them. Maybe. I don’t really know, lol.
Re Muslim music, as long as it doesn’t come out sounding like Sting or Justin Timberlake, I’m for it. But the last thing U2 needs to be seen as doing is following a trend.
Re Arab-sounding music, as long as it doesn’t come out sounding like Sting or Justin Timberlake, I’m for it. But the last thing U2 needs to be seen as doing is following a trend.
Is Larry wearing Bono’s sunglasses?
It’s sickening to see Bono playing nicey-nice with George W. who is murdering the people of Iraq for Big Oil. It makes me ashamed I ever listened to a U2 song.
Hmmm … well Bono has no shame. (At least that’s what the song says).
He wouldn’t be doing his “cause” justice if he ignored the U.S. government. Last time I checked, Bono wasn’t responsible for putting Bush in charge, U.S. citizens were.
Back to the music, please …
You Are A Global Idiot!
am i the only one who cringed seeing bono playing the guitar?
My guess is, he was not really playing, just holding it like he always does. (see With or Without You Video) Either that or it is just turned all the way down so that you can’t hear him at all. (See every show they play, haha).
um…is that larry playing an electric drum kit?!?!?
i’d never thought i’d see the day…