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  1. i called this title a year ago as soon as i read that sundance interview

    the name no line on the horizon is right up u2's alley

    i hope they end up releasing it soon (as in november) with no announcement or promotion. that would be the ultimate statement, especially if it was a double album. and that would be the only realistic way to release the cd before everyone just downloads the leaked version weeks prior, you cant leak something if youre not expecting and searching for it. i think u2 is the only band that could possibly get away with a surprise like this and still sell heaps of copies.

    aside from that, i dont think u2 is really going for copies sold and metal records. i get the feeling they want critical respect from the music scene which they dont seem to have. i expect a lot of technical guitar work and thought provoking music with complex beats and a unique style, bono's part will be icing on the cake. i think this time it will be truly about the music and nothing else. i just dont see them making this record a commercial beast though it will be regardless because it will be quality.
  2. A snap release would be awesome.

    Bono also mentioned the songs revolve around numbers. Maybe No Line On The Horizon refers to different times of the day. About the beach clips, they could be giving us an insight into what the sessions sound like. The final songs could be something completely unusual - and the title sounds like a melody, and with Eno in the sessions, it could be anything.
  3. Originally posted by drewhiggins:A snap release would be awesome.

    Bono also mentioned the songs revolve around numbers. Maybe No Line On The Horizon refers to different times of the day.


    Interesting. And cohesively, they could possibly make a whole (day)--the whole could give us the concept album.
    Maybe.

    Also, back in that interview that mentioned the song with "It's six o'clock," wasn't the first song played for the interviewer called No Line on the Horizon? So we do know that that's the name of a song--but we still don't know if it's a single or the album title, right?
  4. Originally posted by AllBecauseOfU2:[..]
    Also, back in that interview that mentioned the song with "It's six o'clock," wasn't the first song played for the interviewer called No Line on the Horizon? So we do know that that's the name of a song--but we still don't know if it's a single or the album title, right?


    We're not sure what it will end up actually being. One song did come out of that interview, the one with ''Here's to you, Ronnie Drew'', so technically we did get a new single this year.
  5. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    We're not sure what it will end up actually being. One song did come out of that interview, the one with ''Here's to you, Ronnie Drew'', so technically we did get a new single this year.


    technically, it's not a U2 song


  6. Not completely, but then you could say The Wanderer doesn't belong on Zooropa, When Love Comes To Town wasn't a true U2 song, North Star doesn't belong on any forthcoming album, The Saints Are Coming, Don't Give Up, Rockin' In The Free World and Tower of Song weren't proper U2 songs, either.

    They all had the same concept of other singers taking parts or taking over almost completely.


    Sure it is connected with NLOTH... That Bono shot looks like a cover shot for the album to me...


    Now, I don't think it is for a cover shot. Listen to the first few seconds where someone says "playback". Playback is for a video shoot of some kind. Looking at the video, it looked like the Please video, right towards the end.
  7. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Not completely, but then you could say The Wanderer doesn't belong on Zooropa, When Love Comes To Town wasn't a true U2 song, North Star doesn't belong on any forthcoming album, The Saints Are Coming, Don't Give Up, Rockin' In The Free World and Tower of Song weren't proper U2 songs, either.

    They all had the same concept of other singers taking parts or taking over almost completely.





    wellllll those songs were written by U2, as a band and happen to have been collaborations as well, Ballad of Ronnie Drew, was a collaborative effort that U2 was involved with but it's just as much a Sinead O'Connor song as it is a U2 song for that matter, or a Corrs song, so many people were involved with it, i'm just saying it's not a "formal" U2 song
  8. Originally posted by thefly07:[..]

    don't think we can make serious assumptions on the new album based on the beach clips, they surely offer something, but for one the audio is more or less crap and you can't really hear everything going on, they definitely wet the appetite, but I don't feel like i have heard the new album just because I have heard some shoddy fan recordings on the beach, my interest is just more than peaked


    If you listen closely to the clips, in bed in the dark like I did. You can tune out most of the noises and focus on the songs being played. While its very hard to make out the lyrics, you can clearly hear the structure and overall sound of the song.

    Make no mistake, I think the album will be great, better than HTDAAB but hoping for an AB style soundscape shift (and encouraged by such comments from the band) is mindless optimism, which will just lead to disappointment when the final product doesn't meet such lofty expectations.
  9. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    If you listen closely to the clips, in bed in the dark like I did. You can tune out most of the noises and focus on the songs being played. While its very hard to make out the lyrics, you can clearly hear the structure and overall sound of the song.

    Make no mistake, I think the album will be great, better than HTDAAB but a hoping for an AB style reinvention (and encouraged by such comments from the band) is mindless optimism, which will just lead to disappointment when the final product doesn't meet such lofty expectations.


    As George Michael once said....Gotta have Faith!
  10. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    If you listen closely to the clips, in bed in the dark like I did. You can tune out most of the noises and focus on the songs being played. While its very hard to make out the lyrics, you can clearly hear the structure and overall sound of the song.

    Make no mistake, I think the album will be great, better than HTDAAB but hoping for an AB style soundscape shift (and encouraged by such comments from the band) is mindless optimism, which will just lead to disappointment when the final product doesn't meet such lofty expectations.


    did you hear the beach clips for HTDAAB? I was listening to those as if to get a sense of the album and the songs sounded totally and completely different and shattered my assumptions for the album, and I do think they are capable of doing something ABish again, in regards to changing the sonic landscape again
  11. I hope the best...Would love a surprise release, that would make my christmas the best ever.
  12. I find the new clip very clever and for once, it does look like a considerable info they're giving us there
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