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U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
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No Line On The Horizon (2009)
  1. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Some I can remember, which are all here.


    Winter
    Tripoli
    One Bird
    Diorama
    Dance
    French Disco
    Velvet Heart
    House of Abraham
    Four-Letter Word
    For Your Love
    If I Could Live My Life Again
    Chromium Chords
    Thank You For The Day
    Grunge Beatstorm Gate
    Kingdom of Your Love
    Every Breaking Wave
    Anybody Is A Star
    The Pilgrim and His Lack of Progress


    Right, now that I read them I remember some of the titles (One Bird, For Your Love, If I Could Live My Life Again) even tho I think that some of them are (still) just fragments they didn't continue to develop. Just a feeling tho.
    Anyhow, didn't French Disco become Magnificent ?
  2. Some I can remember, which are all here.

    Winter = on Linear
    French Disco = Magnificent
    Four-Letter Word = Get On Your Boots
    For Your Love = Stand Up
    Chromium Chords = Fez / Being Born
    Grunge Beatstorm Gate = something from Eno's computer
    The Pilgrim and His Lack of Progress = originally from HTDAAB sessions


    I think there's a lot of samples by those names. Though you wouldn't call a sample something like Dance or Velvet Heart.

    French Disco is Magnificent, I believe, just the beat and the intro before vocals.


  3. lol...too true
  4. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Some I can remember, which are all here.


    Winter
    Tripoli
    One Bird
    Diorama
    Dance
    French Disco
    Velvet Heart
    House of Abraham
    Four-Letter Word
    For Your Love
    If I Could Live My Life Again
    Chromium Chords
    Thank You For The Day
    Grunge Beatstorm Gate
    Kingdom of Your Love
    Every Breaking Wave
    Anybody Is A Star
    The Pilgrim and His Lack of Progress


    For Your Love and French Disco have become SUC and Magnificent, as I once read. But, that doesn't say these working titles could be nice B-sides like Native Son.
  5. Tripoli became Fez-Being Born they're both the 'six o clock' song that was reported ages ago.
    Chromium Chords was also a working title for BB.
  6. and lets keep it on the song in the topic title. Working titles of songs can be opened in another topic if youwant it
  7. i long for a cd-single with beauties like :
    your blue room --- north and south of the river .....

    this dirty south -- I am a toyboy and look at me ... remix sucks ......

    I'd prefer a smelly old bastard that knows how to make music and looks like dirt ....
    I like dirt .....

    really .. in short clips on u2.com you can hear other versions of certain songs in the background ...
    I would pay to hear those, and see how things progress and evolve ....
    I'd rather have a i'll go crazy --- eno redo and lanois - edit and then an over the top edg(uitar)e version
    but hey ....
  8. I wonder what the single mix is going to sound like? Also I noticed in the threads discussing rehearsals, the performance of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" is a remix... interesting.
  9. Originally posted by kris_smith87:I wonder what the single mix is going to sound like? Also I noticed in the threads discussing rehearsals, the performance of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" is a remix... interesting.


    Please..keep possible spoilers in the spoiler thread


  10. shockingly poor effort from the lads.

    they don't put any decent B sides on their singles anymore, then they wonder why they don't sell very well.
  11. Originally posted by wangmaster:[..]

    shockingly poor effort from the lads.

    they don't put any decent B sides on their singles anymore, then they wonder why they don't sell very well.



    I don't think the lads have much to say these days or they just don't care...


  12. I tell you what...Brian Johnson from AC/DC says major record labels choose the singles, the artist has no say in the choice - that was for Stiff Upper Lip back in 2000 is when he said it. So I wonder if that depends on the artist owning the masters and rights to their music. If that is the case Universal have a terrible idea of what the public likes and what sells - on the other hand, if it's U2 themselves (the four guys and maybe Paul McGuinness), then they've got their priorities dead wrong.

    The public does not want nor need remixes. - they want new music. Is it that fucking hard to include ONE new song, rather than five or ten remixes and calling it an EP? Even a cover would be better...guaranteed it won't be on CD as well, because everyone wants vinyl or a digital download now. Vinyl is awesome but for a single??? Maybe a full album or proper EP...

    Look at the older bands and artists and how long it's taking them to release ONE album with entirely new music...AC/DC with Black Ice (8 years), Guns N' Roses with Chinese Democracy (15 years), Michael Jackson with Invincible (10 years)...so if it's your first album in a long time, and five years is a long time, you want the after-products to make an impact. So far, only the Get On Your Boots single was worth much chop. Magnificent was utterly crap with a half-arsed remix and even more remixes, plus two terribly-edited live tracks and this, doesn't seem to look much better. By the time the How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb singles were released, there were a few new songs and a few covers.

    Could it be that most songs in those sessions are more than up-to-scratch (some the longest and most epic U2 have ever recorded), but they just don't feel comfortable with the possible reaction by the public? The single release campaigns are fucked anyway, you might as well take a chance and really fuck up the mainstream. No Line is way too safe, about the most experimental track there is Fez - Being Born, so why not release more songs in that style? I know you might groan and whinge (why the C-word??? Why???), but Coldplay released EIGHT new songs in a short timeframe straight after Viva La Vida - of which none were worthy of an actual proper album (honestly), and did a tour, and promoted it on radio, television and everywhere. I see ads for Viva La Vida, still even a year after release - while how many do I see for the new U2 stuff? A smiley for whoever guesses the answer to that.

    Gah...I could go on for hours about the lack of promotion on both sides, but there's only so much time in the day. The worrying thing is, there were more new NEW songs from 2006 - 2008 released on singles and as B-sides, yet this is a full album that's had three years of being recorded and there's less output???
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