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  1. Still loving the album as a whole and cannot wait for the lossless. Those fucking 'ohh ohhhs' though. . .testing my patience.

    I feel like a new man. Even finding myself defending the band again at times
  2. Originally posted by germcevoy:Still loving the album as a whole and cannot wait for the lossless. Those fucking 'ohh ohhhs' though. . .testing my patience


    Mainly on first few songs aren't they? Fit in well in NLOTH and Magnificent. I can see 80000 people wailing along far more effectively than I've been doing this weekend in my car
  3. Originally posted by djrlewis:[..]

    Mainly on first few songs aren't they? Fit in well in NLOTH and Magnificent. I can see 80000 people wailing along far more effectively than I've been doing this weekend in my car


    here here but on the album though. The 'oh oohs' will be used against me in the pub when the inevitable 'new U2 album' chat/debate/fight/oasis are shite thing comes up and i'll have no reply. Crap
  4. Originally posted by djrlewis:[..]

    Mainly on first few songs aren't they? Fit in well in NLOTH and Magnificent. I can see 80000 people wailing along far more effectively than I've been doing this weekend in my car


    They're pretty prevalent on Moment of Surrender and Unknown Caller to. I like them personally
  5. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    here here but on the album though. The 'oh oohs' will be used against me in the pub when the inevitable 'new U2 album' chat/debate/fight/oasis are shite thing comes up and i'll have no reply. Crap


    good luck. you'll need it.


  7. choked on whatever you were eating I bet. Seriously though, this album has turned me around. I've been saying for a year that this was make or break for me and it's perfect. Possibility an invite into the holy grail of U2 albums for me with the possibility of splitting AB and JT. Just have to stop playing it for a while so I don't wear it out. I'm still burnt out on U2 though (everything but this and Zooropa still)
  8. I think the album is more cohesive than it appears at first. It will become clearer when we see the Linear film. At the moment, there seem to me to be three sections, which are related:

    (1) NLOTH, Magnificent, Moment of Surrender, Unknown Caller -- these songs all deal with moments of personal epiphany, turning points in the lives of individuals that give them an expanded view of the world, a view of the world beyond their own limited experience. The theme is "vision over visibility," and the moral imperative to "escape yourself and gravity," as Bono says in MOS and UC. In NLOTH, the cop wants to flee (the scene of an accident?), Magnificent deals with the experience of grace, MOS with some kind of personal breakdown that leads to surrender, and Unknown Caller is some sort of weird epiphany that occurs "between the midnight and the dawning." All these songs deal with the theme of liminality, of transition and personal transformation.

    (2) Crazy Tonight, GOYB, Stand Up -- these songs are all calls to action, the consequences of the epiphanies/conversions in the first section of the album. The "change of heart" mentioned in Crazy Tonight leads to the urge to "get on your boots," "stand up" and try to change the world.

    (3) FEZ--Being Born, White As Snow, Breathe, Cedars of Lebanon -- these songs all deal with the aftermath of action, the danger and exhilaration of leaving behind one's old horizon and discovering new ones. Hence, the setting appears to be places outside the Western world, Morocco, Afghanistan, China (?) and Lebanon.

    The concept that runs through the album is, as the album title suggest, that "there is no line on the horizon." And so we need, as people living in the Western world, to expand our vision to include the rest of the planet. No coincidence that the album starts in Paris and ends in Lebanon.

    It does sort of feel like the story that is being told through the songs is unfinished. What happens after "Lebanon?" Where does the pilgrimage go from here. I think it would be great if U2 released a "No Line On The Horizon Vol. II" later in the year, maybe with the alternate version of NLOTH, Tripoli, Every Breaking Wave, a reworked Mercy, Winter, and more...


  9. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    choked on whatever you were eating I bet. Seriously though, this album has turned me around. I've been saying for a year that this was make or break for me and it's perfect. Possibility an invite into the holy grail of U2 albums for me with the possibility of splitting AB and JT. Just have to stop playing it for a while so I don't wear it out. I'm still burnt out on U2 though (everything but this and Zooropa still)


    Same here. Not quite as burnt out, but the effect's similar. It's way better than I dared hope. I was knackered driving home tonight but didn't get sleepy once with 2 more listens.
  10. Originally posted by BonoIsTheMessiah: I think it would be great if U2 released a "No Line On The Horizon Vol. II" later in the year, maybe with the alternate version of NLOTH, Tripoli, Every Breaking Wave, a reworked Mercy, Winter, and more...





    Cue vanquish telling us that these songs are already on the album, just renamed from the dreaded beach clips....


  11. cue me telling him to f**k off
  12. The album is now getting airplay here in Melbourne, commercial station Triple M is playing Cedars right now!

    They are playing the entire album, next up, No Line On The Horizon 2. [they did the same a few days before release with HTDAAB.
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