Bono Makes Effort To Forget Rattle & Hum & 90s

Some things don't really need much of a punchline, eg:

Bono reveals U2's deal with fans

"There's a real deal. A real deal, between us and our audience.

"Which is we don't have to worry about where our kids are going to school, paying a hospital bill, paying the mortgage, in return we don't make a crap album.

"Two crap albums and you're out. That's our deal with our audience."

I mean, there's shooting fish in a barrel and then there's having the fish has jump out of the barrel suck on the end of the revolver.

Apparently, the grovelling apology that was "All That You Can't Leave Behind"¹ wasn't actually for spending the 90's noodling about and being all ironic (or postmodern or a bunch of wankers whatever that was -- though I must admit it was probably my favourite U2 phase). And that best of 1990-2000 where all the songs were remixed to sound more like the U2 that the fans actually wanted to hear, that was probably forced on them by their label, or something.

Of course, the cruel might say that this deal would have their career stopping somewhere just after October was released.

¹ Alternative title: "sorry about all that electronic stuff, we can still sound like we did before, please come back, please"