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  1. Around this time...it might come every minute, but rumours say coming weekend. (or not at all)
  2. WHDH Channel 7 news in Boston just had a little blurb advertising the GOYB video and the album at the end of their newscast. Never seen U2 advertised during a news broadcast before (although Channel 7 usually reports entertainment as news anyway).
  3. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    That's what the article is getting at; so Winter was never truly discarded.

    Added to the lovely timeline page - along with some other articles.


    Winter is White As Snow
    It's too much of a concidence to have two acoustic ballads about brothers and snow on the same album. Check Wikipedia as well.

    9. "White As Snow"

    ? - identical with the working title track "Winter" (white snow = winter), so we do know more about it.
    ? - Q-source: "featuring a fine Bono lyric about a soldier in an unspecified war zone, surrounded by a deceptively simple rhythm track and an evocative string arrangement courtesy of Eno"
    ? - Q-magazine: "6 minute ballad. Echoes of Simon & Garfunkel in this poignant, acoustic string laden ballad about a soldier in the snow of Afghanistan. Will appear in the new film Brothers starring Tobey Maguire about the emotional fallout of the war. Edge on backing vocals with Bono for "Winter"."
    ? RS-article: "lovely discarded ballad"
    ? - Independent: "a stark, stripped back and striking tune with imploring vocals"
    ? - u2tour.de: "This quiet and short track leads almost the end of the album"; "starts with an atmospheric electronic noise, through which the sound of a soulful acoustic guitar sets"; "it is expected formally supporting the voice of Johnny Cash, but Bono is using his voice here similarly intense". "The song is about forgiveness and how your own brother can become a stranger to you". "Musically reminiscent in parts of "Springhill Mining Disaster""
    ? Brunocam: "Atmospheric acoustic ballad, about a soldier lost in snow in Afghanistan. "Where I came from there were no hills at all / The land was flat, straight highway and the wider / My brother and i would drive for hours" recalls Bono, travel by the mind of a soldier lost in their memories, in an epic track."
    ? Perfectly Cromulent: "Piano playing a lullaby. Spare, Johnny Cash guitar. This is what "The Wanderer" might have been like had he recorded it. Intro sounds like the Necks. Bono does Nick Cave. A murder ballad: "My brother and I would drive for hours" / "The water was icy, the road refuses strangers"/ "They were hunting in the woods". Hypnotically slow narration. I can see this rapidly becoming one of my favourite ever U2 songs. Like nothing they've ever done. Please make a bare-bones country album one day."
  4. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    Winter is White As Snow
    It's too much of a concidence to have two acoustic ballads about brothers and snow on the same album. Check Wikipedia as well.

    [..]


    Wikipedia isn't exactly gospel....
  5. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    No, on some you get NLOTH2 (what we've heard tonight) along with the 11 songs. Either that, get the more deluxe editions and get Linear with three songs plus 11 instrumentals, or buy the Punk version of Boots from iTunes.

    Maybe wait for the other singles as well, and you'll likely get a b-side or leftover.


    Linear is available to download for everyone who gets the digipack version as well right?

    BTW Drew are you preordering and getting it delivered or picking up from the store (I assum JBHIFI).
    Which will get to you quicker?
  6. did we hear NLOTH2???? wtf


  7. Yup, I think I will like NLOTH1 better though, Bono's singing in this version get's rather breathless towards the end, and the vocals in later verses are hard to hear.

    How's he going to sing this live, if he can't sing GOYB?
  8. Originally posted by yeah:[..]Linear is telling the story of 5 persons that meet during the film. Corbijn picked one of them, an african policeman/agent who wants to get back home, as a starting point. The story of this guy is told with the songs from the album. They are in a different order, though. Winter is in the movie but not on the album.


    Very cool concept, can't wait to see how it plays out.
    Will be cool to compare White as Snow and Winter as well to see if they actually originated together in song/melody or concept.
  9. Originally posted by AllBecauseOfU2:[..]

    Very cool concept, can't wait to see how it plays out.
    Will be cool to compare White as Snow and Winter as well to see if they actually originated together in song/melody or concept.


    Aren't they just the same song with a different name?

    From all the info + reviews they sure sound the same (see the info i posted above).

    Or is it White as Snow a retitled remix of Winter (but they are both the same song)?
  10. They are either companion pieces or the same song is my guess.
  11. Originally posted by vanquish:[..]

    Linear is available to download for everyone who gets the digipack version as well right?

    BTW Drew are you preordering and getting it delivered or picking up from the store (I assum JBHIFI).
    Which will get to you quicker?


    If I order today online, I'll get the box-set March 6 (as is when it starts being shipped). If I get my arse down to JB or Myer, I can have it on February 27.

    Winter, I don't think is the same song. You could say Winter and White As Snow titles sound similar, but they're not the same song.
  12. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    If I order today online, I'll get the box-set March 6 (as is when it starts being shipped). If I get my arse down to JB or Myer, I can have it on February 27.

    Winter, I don't think is the same song. You could say Winter and White As Snow titles sound similar, but they're not the same song.


    But this person is the only person who thinks they aren't similar, all the other info, says otherwise.
    It is possible that they're different edits of the same song, which is much more likely than having two separate acoustic ballads about snow and brothers.

    What is the official length of White as Snow from the NLOTH tracklisting?

    9. "White As Snow"

    ? - identical with the working title track "Winter" (white snow = winter), so we do know more about it.
    ? - Q-source: "featuring a fine Bono lyric about a soldier in an unspecified war zone, surrounded by a deceptively simple rhythm track and an evocative string arrangement courtesy of Eno"
    ? - Q-magazine: "6 minute ballad. Echoes of Simon & Garfunkel in this poignant, acoustic string laden ballad about a soldier in the snow of Afghanistan. Will appear in the new film Brothers starring Tobey Maguire about the emotional fallout of the war. Edge on backing vocals with Bono for "Winter"."
    ? RS-article: "lovely discarded ballad"
    ? - Independent: "a stark, stripped back and striking tune with imploring vocals"
    ? - u2tour.de: "This quiet and short track leads almost the end of the album"; "starts with an atmospheric electronic noise, through which the sound of a soulful acoustic guitar sets"; "it is expected formally supporting the voice of Johnny Cash, but Bono is using his voice here similarly intense". "The song is about forgiveness and how your own brother can become a stranger to you". "Musically reminiscent in parts of "Springhill Mining Disaster""
    ? Brunocam: "Atmospheric acoustic ballad, about a soldier lost in snow in Afghanistan. "Where I came from there were no hills at all / The land was flat, straight highway and the wider / My brother and i would drive for hours" recalls Bono, travel by the mind of a soldier lost in their memories, in an epic track."
    ? Perfectly Cromulent: "Piano playing a lullaby. Spare, Johnny Cash guitar. This is what "The Wanderer" might have been like had he recorded it. Intro sounds like the Necks. Bono does Nick Cave. A murder ballad: "My brother and I would drive for hours" / "The water was icy, the road refuses strangers"/ "They were hunting in the woods". Hypnotically slow narration. I can see this rapidly becoming one of my favourite ever U2 songs. Like nothing they've ever done. Please make a bare-bones country album one day."


    And does the digipack versions of the album also get Linear, through download?
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