NLOTH: General discussion thread

Originally posted by Stu:[..]

Good luck with the stream, it keeps cutting off and reloading for me.

Originally posted by Stu:[..]

Good luck with the stream, it keeps cutting off and reloading for me.

Originally posted by gavinfriday:perhaps it is mentioned before, but is it correct that in the song 'Fez' the lyrics are 'Let me in the sound, let me in the sound' similar to Get On Your Boots?

according a canadian dj who also have a website called exploremusic.com,
it could be possible that the album has leaked.

forum member artdirector have also a source who meant that this could be possible and that universal music is looking for a site where the album is on it but not with the official title but with a different probably from the recording sessions.

so over all. there is a chance that the album has leaked. but it could take a bit time before it hits big torrent sites etc and that someone found out HOW it is called.

"Rumours are swirling that recording of the new U2 album has escaped into the wild. One of my sources suggests that someone made a covert recording at a press listening session in Berlin about two weeks ago. Somehow, the story goes, someone managed to plug directly into the audio system that was playing the album for the press.

Originally posted by Peterrrrr:[..]

Maybe this is a sign for that we should search for "Berlin sessions" on the torrent site, WICH MEANS THAT THE NAME ON THE TORRENT MIGHT ME SALOME.

U2: No Line on the Horizon - ready for lift off
Posted By: Neil McCormick at Feb 12, 2009 at 11:44:55

The U2 countdown has begun. This week my copy of the new album, 'No Line On The Horizon', finally arrived. I have heard it in gestation and studio playbacks but now I have it in my hands.

I have to say it is a bit of a holy relic to me. We go back such a long way, when a new U2 album comes in I am almost afraid to play it. I want to savour the moment, to be able to concentrate and extract every last bit of pleasure. It takes me back to my inner teenager, the almost holy veneration in which I held rock and roll, the sense that each new album by one of my personal favourites (whether it was The Jam or Bob Dylan) was like a love letter straight to the heart.

When I really got into The Beatles (five years after they broke up), I bought the albums in chronological order, and made sure I had wrung every bit of musical pleasure from them before I would allow myself to invest in the next on the list. But when I finally had sucked the marrow from 'Abbey Road' and reached 'Let It Be', I couldn't actually allow myself to buy it for years, because I knew when I was done with it, it was all over. That, of course, was before they started digging through the wreckage to produce volume after volume of out-takes and discards, which I have consumed just as avidly.

With U2, the work is ongoing and not finite but it does mean that, like everyone else, I have to wait til they get around to unveiling their new opus (although privileged access means I don't have to wait quite as long as most of their fans). I was talking to Bono about this very subject once, and he said, "Records was always a good name because it is a record (of what we have been doing). Album has connotations of family and in our case perhaps that's not a bad thing. You know what they're like? They're like those letters you write to Santa and then you set fire to them and let the smoke go up the chimney carrying the message. Did you have that? Only in this case, its more like you throw yourself on the fire."

Anyway, before fellow fans get too excited, I can't review the new U2 album yet (there's an embargo until next Monday). But I can tell you that I have been talking to other early recipients of the record on my travels, and the enthusiasm for it is mighty. The Captain, who was U2's original A&R man at Island, thinks it is their best ever (a notion which I know Bono shares). The editor of another music magazine, who has never had a good word to say about U2, confessed that he had been constantly listening to and really enjoying the new album. And on my way through the centre of London yesterday, I bumped into John Wilson, one of the presenters of Radio 4's Front Row programme. He told me he had just interviewed the band for a special to be broadcast in a couple of weeks, and had also sat in on some rehearsals, where he said the new single 'Get On Your Boots' was transforming into something punkier and even more immediate. He speculated that the "into the sound" motif that Bono sings (and that recurs elsewhere on the album) was a reference to the revisiting of classic U2 sonic territory, from the great stretch of 'War', 'Unforgettable Fire', 'Joshua Tree' and 'Achtung Baby'. John had put that to Bono, who a bit put out, protesting that U2 always like to go forward, not backwards. Nevertheless Bono was open minded enough to countenance the notion that this may have been a subconscious acknowledgement of a journey deep into U2's sound. I can tell you there is a song on the album called 'Breathe', which I absolutely love, which Brian Eno thinks may be the "most U2 song" they have ever recorded. That is going to be an absolute anthem at future gigs.

And now I better zip it up before Bono asks for his record back. We shall return to this on Monday.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/neil_mccormick/blog/2009/02/12/u2_no_line_on_the_horizon__ready_for_lift_off

In de Hilversumse Wisseloord Studio’s werd gisteravond voor een man of 100 de nieuwe cd van U2 gedraaid. No Line On The Horizon ligt 27 februari in de winkel en is op een paar 30-secondensnippets na nog niet uitgelekt – een unicum tegenwoordig. Het album werd de afgelopen anderhalf jaar opgenomen onder leiding van Brian Eno en Daniel Lanois, met hulp van Steve Lillywhite. Dat resulteert in een sound tussen ligt tussen die van The Unforgettable Fire en Achtung Baby in. Logisch ook, want beide cd’s werden door diezelfde studiocrew gemaakt.

No Line On The Horizon bevat 11 tracks; allemaal even keihard gemixt waardoor ze echt de boxen uitknallen. De eerste zeven nummers zijn al gelijk ijzersterk. Het album opent met het stevige titelstuk, waarna een elektronisch ritme je het volgende nummer inzuigt. Dat doet zijn titel, Magnificent, alle eer aan. Een geheide single! Dat geldt wat mij betreft ook voor het door een pompende baslijn voortgestuwde Moment Of Surrender. De twee liedjes die daarna komen, Unknown Caller (hoor ik daar een single?) en I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight zijn old-school U2. Niet verrassend dus, maar wel ultraherkenbaar en gewoon degelijk goed. Get On Your Boots is inmiddels bekend natuurlijk, en de cd vervolgt in diezelfde lijn. Stand Up Comedy is funky en heeft zo’n stuwende baspartij die als een rode draad door het album loopt. Fez – Being Born heeft dan weer een intro met oosterse invloeden en zelfs samples. Dan volgen twee tracks (White As Snow en Breathe) die vooral de liefhebbers van Bløf-achtige poëtische teksten zullen bekoren. Ik behoor niet tot die groep. Breathe is overigens muzikaal weer wél erg sterk, maar heeft een zangmelodie die niet lekker meezingt. Daarmee is het als albumtrack overigens een prima nummer. Het afsluitende Cedars Of Lebanon deed me met zijn gesproken tekst denken aan Somewhere Down The Crazy River van Robbie Robertson.

De cd komt in verschillende (vinyl, cd- en box)versies uit, waarvan sommige voorzien zijn van de bij het album gemaakte film Linear van Anton Corbijn. Die was gisteravond aanwezig om zijn bijdrage persoonlijk in te leiden. Hij vertelde dat op het album de verhalen van vijf personen verteld worden, die op een zeker punt bij elkaar komen. Corbijn nam één van die hoofdpersonen, een Afrikaanse politieagent die terug wil naar huis, als uitgangspunt. In de film (door Corbijn omschreven als ‘moving pictures’), wordt het verhaal van deze agent getoond aan de hand van de liedjes van het album. Die staan echter in een andere volgorde dan op de cd, én in de film is een nummer verwerkt dat het uiteindelijke album niet gehaald heeft. En wát voor nummer: het Coldplay-achtige (of draai ik de wereld nu om?) Winter. Ik heb vele cd’s in mijn kast staan waar een dvd bijzit die ik nog nooit bekeken heb, maar dit werk van Corbijn voegt écht iets aan de muziek toe. Het blijft gek om na zo’n luistersessie naar de boxen te klappen als de cd is afgelopen, maar het applaus na afloop van de Anton Corbijn-film was volledig op zijn plaats en meer dan terecht.

Originally posted by vanquish:err, Winter IS White As Snow Drew.

It has the brother line in it, and if you remember Winter was being used in a tobey Maguire movie called brothers or something.

Does Linear have Tripoli? or Every Breaking Wave?