REM/Underworld collaboration?

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Originally Posted by joethelion

that's cool (on the UW page)

but I don't think the U2/UW collab had to do with mofo or moaner...

you could download a radio show with R+K and Bono, and bono talks about it at length, and Mofo is playing in the background (of the interview)

but yea - bono talks about walking around outside talking into a microphone, while the band jammed in the studio. Bono heard it, and loved it - but Rick thought it just sounded like a UW remix, and not a true collab

...bono figured that they just 'sat on it' for too long...

but this is all coming from memory (of said interview)

You've a good memory, Joethelion! That's pretty much exactly what that interview entailed! (Also one-off hilarious acoustic versions of Push Upstairs and Born Slippy!) Only difference, i seem to recall Bono saying he was riding around on a truck with a long microphone lead listening to the studio improv. Details, big deal!

Not sure how i feel about the REM/UW collab idea. Michael Stipe has done lots of collabs, and he's surely eclectic, but the bands' music and lyrical styles are very different. Wonder what it wouldv'e sounded like?