Posted December 22, 200816 yr http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/high-f...003924362.story High Five: U2 Unveils Album Configurations U2 December 22, 2008 10:09 AM ET Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. U2's upcoming album, " No Line on the Horizon," will be available in five different incarnations, the glitziest of which carries a $96 list price on Amazon.com. The set is due March 2 internationally and the following day in North America. Beyond the standard CD and double vinyl packages, "Horizon" will be offered in three additional limited editions. The digi-pack version, which lists for $35.98, has the CD in a cardboard folded sleeve with a 36-page booklet, a fold-out poster and "a new film from Anton Corbijn featuring the music of U2," the latter of which is available as a download. The magazine version, for $49.98, finds the CD housed in "a special 60-page soft cover magazine-style book," and also includes the downloadable Corbijn film. Lastly, the box set version comes, naturally, in a box with a 60-page hardcover book, a second poster and the Corbijn film on DVD. Although the track list for "No Line on the Horizon" has yet to be announced, Q Magazine reports it will feature songs such as "Magnificent," "Stand Up," "Winter," "Breathe," "Every Breaking Wave" and "Crazy Tonight," the latter of which sports as-yet-unspecified contributions from the Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am. :o $96 ????? :unsure: :cry:
December 22, 200816 yr Author From Q Magazine (via U2 France.com) http://www.u2france.com/actu/article50869.html Loads of interesting stuff I'm excited! :yahoo: :cheer: :yahoo: :cheer: Edited December 22, 200816 yr by Jupiter9
December 22, 200816 yr Author And here it is! Available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: http://i39.tinypic.com/mvm1qd.jpg http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=amb_link_828...&pf_rd_i=u2
January 10, 200916 yr This is beginning to sound real exciting http://promo.q4music.com/q4music/u2/video.shtml Courtesy Q.com :cheer:
January 16, 200916 yr Sorry if this has already been posted, but here is the album cover, from u2.com: http://www.u2.com/site_highlights/images/517_main1.jpg Get On Your Boots, the first single from U2’s new album No Line On The Horizon, will be released as a digital download on February 15th with a physical format to follow on February 16 through Mercury/Universal. Produced by Brian Eno, Danny Lanois and Steve Lillywhite, sessions for No Line On The Horizon began in Fez, Morocco, and continued at the band’s Dublin studio, New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and London's Olympic Studios. Released on March 2nd (March 3rd in the US), the album will come in a standard format with 24 page booklet and in digipak format. The digipak includes an extended booklet and the album’s companion film “Linear” by Anton Corbijn. A limited edition 64 page magazine will also be available, featuring the band in conversation with artist Catherine Owens, and new Anton Corbijn photographs. No Line On The Horizon will be released on 180gm vinyl. (More on the formats below) The album cover artwork (click left to enlarge) is an image of the sea meeting the sky by Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Here's the full tracklisting: 1. No Line On The Horizon 2. Magnificent 3. Moment of Surrender 4. Unknown Caller 5. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight 6. Get On Your Boots 7. Stand Up Comedy 8. Fez – Being Born 9. White As Snow 10. Breathe 11. Cedars Of Lebanon No Line On The Horizon will be available in five formats; - Standard jewel case - with album CD and 24 page booklet - Digipak format - limited edition with album CD, 32 page colour booklet and fold out poster. Features access to exclusive downloadable Anton Corbijn film. - Magazine format – limited edition with album CD, with 64 page magazine. Features access to exclusive downloadable Anton Corbijn film. - Box format - limited edition bespoke box containing digipak format album CD, DVD of Anton Corbijn’s exclusive film, 64 page hardback book, plus a fold out poster. - LP vinyl – limited edition with 2 black vinyl discs, gatefold sleeve, and a 16 page booklet. The last part is basically what Jupiter posted first. Really can't wait for this album! :dance: Also, Chris Moyles revealed this morning on his show that he'll have the world exclusive (at least I THINK that's what he said) of 'Get On Your Boots' on Monday, at about 08.00. So exciting!
January 16, 200916 yr Author Yip. First single being previewed on Radio 1 on Monday :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: I'll be at work though <_< Interesting album cover :blink:
January 16, 200916 yr Author http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/inde...st-album-cover/ U2 have revealed the album cover and track listing for their upcoming LP No Line on the Horizon, due out March 3rd. The album’s first single, “Get On Your Boots,” will be released February 15th as a digital download with the physical format due out the next day. Looking at the 11-song track list, we see the majority of songs we previewed in our exclusive No Line first listen. As reported in the current issue of Rolling Stone, “Get On Your Boots” is a “blazing, fuzzed-out rocker picks up where ‘Vertigo’ left off.” The song will debut on Irish radio station 2FM at 3am EST Monday morning. Two of the songs in our preview, “Tripoli” and “Every Breaking Wave,” didn’t make the final track list, so they maybe have undergone a name change or they might — along with some of the other 50 to 60 songs the band recorded — reemerge as B-sides for the handful of singles this album likely carries. The entire No Line on the Horizon track list is after the jump. And then there’s the record’s stunning cover. According to the band, the photograph was taken by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto and represents “an image of the sea meeting the sky.” There’s also an equals sign, but it doesn’t actually obscure the horizon, thus No Line on the Horizon. It’s only halfway through January but it’s safe to assume we have an early front-runner for album cover of the year. This is the first time U2 haven’t appeared on their own album cover since 1993’s Zooropa. No Line on the Horizon will be released in five different formats, as we reported here earlier. Three of the formats will be accompanied by a companion film by director-photographer Anton Corbijn entitled Linear. No Line was produced by the dream team of Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite, with Will.i.am helping out on the album’s second song “Magnificent.” Check below for the full track list. No Line on the Horizon 1. “No Line On The Horizon” 2. “Magnificent” 3. “Moment of Surrender” 4. “Unknown Caller” 5. “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” 6. “Get On Your Boots” 7. “Stand Up Comedy” 8. “Fez – Being Born” 9. “White As Snow” 10. “Breathe” 11. “Cedars Of Lebanon”
February 13, 200916 yr Author http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/...2-white-as-snow White As Snow: U2's most intimate song Bono's hymn to a soldier dying in Afghanistan is unadorned, evocative and suggestive. And you don't even have to know what it's about to feel its quiet power or sense its sadness When I interviewed Bono in Dublin back in January, as part of my marathon tracking of the new U2 album, No Line On the Horizon, for Sunday's Observer Music Monthly, he described it as "essentially a big fat rock album". The most dramatic exception is a track called White As Snow, the quietest, most intimate, and arguably most arresting song that U2 have ever made. "There are a couple of songs from the point of view of an active soldier in Afghanistan," Bono told me back in June 2008, at the group's Hanover Quay studio in Dublin, during a break in recording, "and one of them, White As Snow, lasts the length of time it takes him to die". Of all the character songs on the album, White As Snow is the most moving. Much of this is to do with its sense of quietude – not a mood one normally associates with U2. The song is almost ambient in its musical pulse, suggesting the presence of Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and Bono's voice sounds markedly different here, more restrained, more plaintive, the emotion suggested rather than strained for. The song's melody is based on an old hymn, Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel, that, according to The Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal, was composed by "an unknown author, circa 1100". (Surprisingly, the original has been faithfully covered by both Sufjan Stevens and Belle & Sebastian and, less surprisingly, by Enya and 2006's BBC Young Chorister of the Year, William Dutton). The idea of a song based on the dying thoughts of a soldier initially came to Bono after he read William Golding's ambitious novel, Pincher Martin, which is told from the point of view of a British sailor who appears to have survived the torpedoing of his ship. As he approaches death, his thoughts roam back over his life, and the moral choices he made or avoided. (The novel's denouement, though, suggests that the soldier died at the moment his ship went down and that the preceding narrative recounts his soul's struggle to stay in the material world.) After watching Sam Mendes's film, Jarhead, Bono decided the song should evoke the thoughts of a soldier dying from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Intriguingly, you don't really need to know the context for the song to work. It stands alone. Initially, I had assumed it was sung in the voice of a young Middle Eastern man who had been driven into exile, but there you go. I am not typically taken with songs that require prior knowledge or context to be fully appreciated. I remember interviewing Elvis Costello on the release of his dense and difficult album, Spike, and being baffled even more by his explanations of the songs than the songs themselves. Springsteen, on the other hand – and, in particular, Springsteen the quiet balladeer – is a master of setting and context: "My name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state, I'm a sergeant out in Perrineville, Barracks number 8" . There is something about writing in character – putting yourself in someone else's place and seeing the world though someone else's eyes – that requires a certain craft and economy for that shift in perspective to be credible. "We were going to start White As Snow with an explosion," recalled Bono. "An early version had this industrial noise that sounded like the aftermath of a bomb." Now, that would have been one way of getting around the problem of context. It may have worked, too, but the song is fine the way it is, unadorned, evocative, suggestive. You don't have to know what it's about to feel its quiet power or sense its sadness. "It's kind of pastoral," said Bono. It bodes well for the album that will follow No Line On the Horizon, which has, he says, "the idea of pilgrimage at its centre", and is made up of the "quieter, more meditative songs" that did not make it on to this one. "Intimacy is the new punk rock," Bono added, laughing. But is it the new stadium rock?
February 14, 200916 yr Author I've pre-ordered my copy. Just the standard cd. I swithered over the £45 luxury version but decided on a new pair of shoes instead. :P
February 15, 200916 yr Author We have to be mindful of the Credit Crunch, Sparkx. I'm tightening my belt. Or I would be if I wasn't so fat.... :lol: :lol:
February 19, 200916 yr Author http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/a...7Gh4tczf-Q07k_Q U2 album launch's midnight opening U2 fans are expected to begin queueing outside Irish music stores to be the first to get their hands on the band's long-awaited new album. HMV said it was opening two outlets in Dublin and Galway at midnight because of overwhelming interest in the world launch of No Line On The Horizon. It is the first studio release from the rockers in almost five years and goes on sale in their native Ireland three days before it hits UK shelves on March 2.
February 24, 200916 yr Author http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/a...ZFpYjWSRiBGyg-g U2 fans start queue for new album 3 hours ago Two hardcore U2 fans have started queuing for the band's new album - which will not hit the shelves until midnight on Thursday. Vincent Kearns and Martin Shanahan have set up camp outside HMV on Dublin's Grafton Street in anticipation of the long-awaited release of No Line On The Horizon. The two men put their personal lives on hold every time a U2 album or concert ticket goes on sale in the Irish capital. This time Mr Kearns has even got a family member on standby in case his 20-year-old daughter Caroline goes into labour three weeks early. :blink: :wacko:
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