Douchecothèque: U2 Work With Danger Mouse On New Record

U2 from left to right: The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., the cop from The Village People, Adam Clayton

U2 have announced that they are currently working on three different albums—a “rock” record, a “club” record and an album of ”meditative psalms”. For those of you in the market for meditative psalms, you’ll have to continue, at least for a while, to get your fix from 100 Huntley Street as the band intends to release their rock record first.

Rather than work with their usual producers Steve Lillywhite, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, U2 have decided to shake things up and are working on their new rock record with Danger Mouse producing.

If you’ve read this blog at all before then you may have noticed that I know very little about current popular music and do what I can to avoid incidental exposure to it. I didn’t even know who that Bieber character was until it was in the news last week that he popped a cap in some motherfucker’s ass at a game centre in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond.

Bieber: Like Anton Chigurh from "No Country For Old Men" but tiny and with a funnier haircut

Like I didn’t know who Bieber was until he took out six generations of inner-city rage and cultural appropriation on some poor sap, I also didn’t know who this Danger Mouse was either. So I did what I always do when confronted with my own ignorance—I checked out Wikipedia.

It appears that Danger Mouse is some kind of crime-fighting cartoon mouse. You can see him at work in this episode called Beware Of Mexicans Delivering Milk, which is every bit as ethnically enlightened as the WWII-era Bugs Bunny propaganda cartoon Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips.

Obviously, the cartoon gives us a much better idea of El Loco’s vault cracking skills than it does Danger Mouse’s producing skills, but I do think that if the band are determined to go with a cartoon character then, for a couple of reasons, they should go with Scooby Doo. First is that he’s always got access to top quality weed through his association with Shaggy. Secondly, if The Rolling Stones were to offer more money to use the same recording studio, then there’s a pretty good chance that the owners and employees of the studio would dress up as ghosts and try to scare U2 off. Scooby has extensive experience dealing with just such situations.

Zoinks!: Bono shakes his money maker while Scooby quizzically produces