I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - All discussions

2009-07-30: News / Releases > A number of retailers are now reporting details for the Crazy Tonight commercial singles. This is a change from the initial report of a single CD release. The release date has also been moved to September 7.
7" Vinyl (Catalogue No : #######)
1. Crazy Tonight (Single Version)
2. Crazy Tonight (Dirty South Radio Mix)

CD1 (Catalogue No : 2716226)
1. Crazy Tonight (Single Version)
2. Magnificent (Live from Somerville Theatre, Boston)

CD2 [Enhanced] (Catalogue No : 2716225)
1. Crazy Tonight (Single Version)
2. Crazy Tonight (Fish Out Of Water Mix)
3. Crazy Tonight (Dirty South Full Mix)
4. Crazy Tonight (Redanka's Kick The Darkness Vocal Version)
5. Crazy Tonight (Redanka's Sparks Of Light Dub Version)
6. Crazy Tonight (Redanka's Kick The Darkness Instrumental Version)

Originally posted by drewhiggins:I wonder if we'll see it in Australia or just another vinyl. Seriously though, they need to give up on the remixes and the live stuff.

Originally posted by mookymookins:U2 wanderer is reporting this tracklisting for the singles on their website:
[..]
Yet again we just get a Live In Boston B-side
But on CD2 at least we get that Redanka remix they are playing live

Originally posted by mookymookins:
But on CD2 at least we get that Redanka remix they are playing live

Originally posted by yeah:[..]

What they're "playing" live is a mix, though. Red's remix + Dirty South mixed in for the last minute.

Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]

It would actually be cool if we got a live version of the remix!

AND WHERE is the will.i.am. remix of Magnificent?!

Originally posted by kris_smith87:[..]

It would actually be cool if we got a live version of the remix!

AND WHERE is the will.i.am. remix of Magnificent?!

Originally posted by drewhiggins:You reckon the fourth single? There's a thought. Disappoint with three singles and come back fighting fit with the last one. Hard to believe the singles are going out this quick...maybe that's a hint to how close the next lot of songs are coming. To be fair, Boots was out in March, Magnificent in July, Crazy Tonight in September - chances are the last one is gonna be out November.

What would have been really cool would have been Breathe as the second single on July 16, digitally of course, released at the same time worldwide. Winter as a B-side would have been an interesting possibility - but I guess the trick is you can only get it on the film, so you would buy it and U2 gets more money that way. They call it business, I call it a failure.

It just seems that even though the amount of songs they recorded since 2007 and there's possibly a stash from 2005 and 2006 that were done for a new album then (not the Rubin sessions) aren't getting any attention. With a little mastering - not by Brendan O'Brien, god forbid if U2 ever hire him - and a little initiative, people are very interested. I remember how excited I was when Levitate was released and it was better than the black, red and white coloured album I had in my hands that day. That's how I should feel with a new single and a new album - not uninterested because U2 are lazy sods and can't be arsed picking out a new song.

Surely they're not gonna do a Coldplay and put out a little EP with eight (shit) songs and leave the other 40+ to linger and gather dust - then when I think about it, some unreleased songs by other artists have had the producer or engineer saying it might only be an instrumental and never actually had lyrics even thought of to put on it. I say that's cool - some songs are better with no vocals.

I mean, it's not like demo songs and unreleased tracks are exactly leaking like public toilets, are they? What was the last decent leak of a decent running time that we got - Mercy? I didn't particuarly like it but, hey, you get what you get, and a new U2 song (like with new lyrics, instrumentation) is something worthwhile. But more could be done on the two parties - U2 (the band, Lanois, Eno, Paul McG) and Universal - rather than giving us just remixes.

But you can't expect the fans to be thrilled with remix after remix - I'd consider myself a fan as the rest of you and I'm bored. Eventually, enough is enough.

Why do certain psalms begin with the words, "A song of ascents"? What sort of ascent is this referring to?

Answer:

Fifteen psalms, chapters 120-134 of the Book of Psalms, begin with the words, "A song of ascents."

Many interpretations have been given for these ambiguous words. Here are a few of them:

a) In the Holy Temple courtyard, there was an ultra wide stairway that consisted of fifteen large, semi-circular steps that "ascended" into the inner section of the courtyard. The Levites, whose job it was to accompany the Temple service with song and instrumental music, would stand on these steps and sing these fifteen psalms.

b) These psalms were sung on a high "ascendant" musical note.

c) These psalms were sung starting in a low tone of voice and steadily ascending to a higher one.

d) These psalms were sung by the Jews who ascended from Babylon to Israel in the times of Ezra the Scribe.

e) These psalms were sung by the Jews when they would "ascend" to visit the Holy Temple three times annually for the festivals.

f) These psalms praise, exult and "elevate" G‑d.

g) The Talmud gives an aggadaic explanation:
"When King David was digging the Shitin [a stream that ran beneath the Holy Temple, into which the wine libations were poured], the water of the depths arose and threatened to flood the world. David said, 'Is there someone who knows whether it is permitted to write [G‑d's] name on an earthenware shard and we will throw it into the depths and it will subside?' . . . Ahitophel responded, 'It is permitted.' [David] wrote the name on earthenware and threw it into the depths. The depths receded 16,000 cubits. When he saw that it receded greatly, he said, 'The higher the depths, the moister is the ground [which benefits agriculture].' He said the fifteen [songs of] ascents, and the depths rose 15,000 cubits."