U2 No POLL On the Horizon

after the morocco sessions they were like "oh this stuff is too experimental, there's no hits here" & brought in lillywhite to help them rework what they'd done to be more accessible, discarding the most adventurous & moroccan-influenced material. eno later said that the material they discarded wasn't very convincing in its integration of the moroccan influences, which is very believable.

I guess the days of "well, let's put it out as a side project under a different name (e.g. Passengers)" are long gone.