let's release the U2 album before U2 releases the U2 album

inspired by the frankly awesome tracklisting of the new U2 album, "there is no line on the horizon":

01 No Line on the Horizon
02 Magnificent
03 Moment of Surrender
04 Unknown Caller
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
06 Get on Your Boots
07 Stand Up Comedy
08 Fez - Being Born
09 White as Snow
10 Breathe
11 Cedars of Lebanon

it would be awesome if various music people on this board would each claim one of these song titles, then write and record a song with that title, then put a link to it on this board. the songs don't have to sound like U2 or have anything to do with U2 at all. the u2 album comes out march 3, if we could get this all done before then, it would be awesome. anyone interested?

I couldn't care less about u2 but this might be fun.
hum...which one to pick... I'll go with "crazy".
can there be several versions of each track or does it have to be one and only one of each ?

ideally the later, unless more than 11 people want to contribute, in which case we'll figure something out

fucking great idea

i would like to use "stand up comedy" as i have a lot to say on the subject but will give it up if it encourages more people to contribute

you should have a breakdown in the middle of the song where you do actual stand up comedy

fine. I already have some ideas rolling... if I don't go for some drinks after work or get too lazy once at home, I'll start it tonight !

I'll go crazy if i don't go crazy tonight practically writes itself

ahah, well you could always keep an option on it until someone else REALLY wants to do it.

basically all of these titles conjure up country songs in my head

yeah, "crazy" is pretty evocative... but I'll try to add some... craziness !

I'll take "Fez - Being Born"

I would like to take "Get On Your Boots", if that's alright with everyone?

well, I think it's first come first served so go ahead !

dibs on "magnificent" which i will write in the first person (as bono's psyche)

get on your boots and die (with your boots on)

ok, I've made the basic demo for "crazy" last night. now I just have to re-record everything properly (I was a bit too drunk to make decent takes...).
It should be ready far before the dead line.
now i'm pretty curious to hear what U2's track is like... it was a trick to make us listen to their new album !

(xpost) Jordan, are you claiming "Get On Your Boots", because I thought I already called dibs on that?

BTW I've already written the lyrics and have a rough arrangement for my version

so, so far we have 5 out of 10 tracks. we need more people to work on this great project !

huh, 11, sorry...

i'll go for 'unknown caller'

nope, i was just making joeks. go for it.

Great, thanks. Wouldn't want to have to switch horses mid stream!
BTW is anyone keeping a list of who's doing which track?

cedars of lebanon has to be on the slower end of mid-tempo and has to reference palestine, israel, and the 1972 olympiad.

01 No Line on the Horizon
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT
09 White as Snow
10 Breathe
11 Cedars of Lebanon

i think that's it so far

aw I wanted to do "Fez - Being Born"

white as snow should be about white people

i'll write the lyrics to cedars of lebanon if someone else wants to do the music

i have a feeling all these songs are going to be about white people

ie bono

not cedars of lebanon!

xp good point

If "Cedars of Lebanon" isn't about trees, I will be very sad.

stand up comedy should be a requiem for bernie mac

"Breathe" should be a remix of the Cure b-side.

stand up comedy should be a requiem for bernie mac

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:19 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

i found a rolling stone article with 'previews' of these songs, but i wouldn't want to influence anyone.

except some of them are pretty funny:

"No Line on the Horizon"
The title track's relentless groove began as a group improvisation. "It's very raw and very to the point," says the Edge. "It's like rock & roll 2009."

"Magnificent"
"Only love can leave such a mark," Bono roars on what sounds like an instant U2 anthem. Will.i.am has already done what Bono calls "the most extraordinary" remix of the tune.

"The Most Extraordinary Remix" would be a good name for a song

i listened to "get on your boots"; it actually wasn't that bad, though i don't know what i was expecting given that i haven't actively listened to a u2 album since zooropa

jaysus the edge

ok i have cedars of lebanon lyrics if anyone wants them

I'll take "White As Snow"

01 No Line on the Horizon
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom
10 Breathe
11 Cedars of Lebanon

'unknown caller' preview, jordan ? xp

pretty hard to top:

"Unknown Caller"
This midtempo track could have fit on All That You Can't Leave Behind. "The idea is that the narrator is in an altered state, and his phone starts talking to him," says the Edge.

ugh apparently this album was recorded using v-drums

whoa, i might have to go w/ that

ok these are my lyrics i wrote in 3 minutes inna u2 stylee, if anyone wants em go ahead

This wood
Burn it for the new year
Look at the trees
From where this wood came
Name of a hospital
The place where Marley died
A grove holding such significance
For people unlike us
People just like you and I (do you see?)

The cedars
cedars of Lebanon
The trees which live
On and on and on

Battles are fought
Over this sacred land
Shattering the the innocents
With weapons from a misled hand
The distant past
cries over the sad present
This war we fight
Is not at all pleasant
For all who win will lose (do you seeeee?)

The cedars
cedars of Lebanon
The trees which live
On and on and on
and on and ONNNNNN, edge GO

SINGLE STRING GUITAR SOLO

Black and white
brown and yellowwwww
red and blue
we are all one
under the sun
under the CEDARS
CEDARS OF LEBANON
and yes they go
ON AND ON
(forever)

I'm waiting for the sun
to RISE
I'm waiting for the ONE
to re-rise
I see the trees bend
over for you and me
I see the world end
if we are not all FREE

LISTEN TO THE CEDARS
oh yes
listen to them CRY
watch as they TRY
to make themselves heard
to us the human herd.

This war we fight
Is not at all pleasant

haha

Yeah I didn't mean just U2, like I dunno, the new album by a big act that sucks and deserves the ilx treatment. Red Hot Chili Peppers for ilx2010?

That's a good call. RHCP are probably the only other band/artist that ILX cares about enough to want to do this. In an interview Chad said it would be coming out October 2010. It's a bit far off but OTOH we'll have more time to prepare. And if they release another double album (the previous one had 28 tracks) then more people can get involved.

hum. it's a bit to far to be fun.
aren't there other big releases coming ?

Big list here:
http://www.metacritic.com/music/upcomingreleases.shtml

The only one that sort-of catches my eye that is going to be released soon is Goldfrapp (release scheduled for 23rd March). But there's no track listing yet. And they're not really in the same league as Bono in the "desperately needing a kick in the pants" department. But if people still want to have at U2, then "Songs of Ascent" is due for mid 2010 release. Recorded at the same time as "No Line..." just the title says that it's going to be full of ripe Bono-isms.

aah, too bad white stripes is only a live... interpol maybe ?
there will certainly be great titles to work with !

interpol would be fun, everyone should just do their best ian crutis impression over a variety of backing tracks (ian crutis does super fruity swag rap; ian crutis reads poetry over steve reich's "clapping music"; ian crutis does broadway!)

ahah. sounds good ! but that would make it just a comedy project, wouldn't it ? (which somehow we managed to avoid with "no ilx").
I've just looked at their titles... there's some gold to expect !

2 votes in favor of interpolling this bitch

Poll a shortlist of Interpol, Goldfrapp, and U2?

Goldfrapp and Interpol are both waaaaaaaay to small-time to qualify for this, aren't they?

we should have done this with stadium arcadium, and dan should have done 'hump de bump'

lol

we should do something like Missy Elliott's Block Party IMO

* "Act a Fool" (produced by Soul Diggaz)[5]
* "All 4 U" (featuring Lil Wayne)[6]
* "Best, Best" (produced by Danjahandz)[5]
* "Fire" (featuring T-Pain, produced by T-Pain)[5]
* "Hip-Hop Don't Die" (produced by T. Gooch)[5]
* "Like When You Play the Music" (featuring Jazmine Sullivan, produced by Timbaland)[5]
* "Let's Do It Again" (featuring Amy Winehouse, produced by Timbaland)
* "Love" (produced by Timbaland)[5]
* "Milk & Cookies" (featuring Melanie B., produced by Joshua "Pointguard" Moore)[5]
* "Put It on Ya" (featuring Teyana Taylor & Pharrell, produced by The Neptunes)
* "Shake Your Pom Pom" (produced by Timbaland)[5]
* "Talk That Shit" (featuring T-Pain & Timbaland produced by Timbaland)[5]

definitely not goldfrapp

are there any big hip hop albums coming out this year?

There'll be a sudden Radiohead one, I reckons.

i would say interpol is big enough but only for the fact that many h-words will be looking 4 leakz and we can give them hi quality counterfeit goods

Interpol!

interpol is ok but it's only going to have like 10-12 tracks, right? whereas a hip hop album would have INSPIRATIONAL song titles and like twice as many tracks

^^^ we really need something with more than a dozen tracks so that more people can get involved.

lets do both then

If you want an album with a bazillion tracks, Busta Rhymes is releasing an album next year...

ilx double album bone-anza

ahah. interpoilx Vs Missy Ellilx : FITE !

i would also enjoy - Jamie Foxx 'Body'

Does anyone have links to tracklists for "Body" and Interpol?

yeah, jamie foxx has potential for great titles...
that said, the idea of having two ilx teams "competing" is kinda fun...

can we call it "Sharks vs Jets"?

creeps vs bloods ?

"(Jump The) Sharks vs (Struck By) Jets"

depending on the tracklists, of course, but interpol vs jamie foxx seems like good fun !

it shd be a double album called "there are no atheists in a FOXXPOL"

http://pitchfork.com/news/37630-u2-and-jay-z-record-haiti-benefit-song/

wow, a whole album of this would have been like a dream for us !

http://pitchfork.com/news/37984-interpol-to-tour-with-u2

that seals the deal for an ilx treatment of the coming interpol, right ?

n/a may have had some fun at my expense yesterday, but coincidentally, what's just turned out to be his No Line On The Horizon track came on my iPod Shuffle recently and I'd forgotten what it was...thought I maybe had some A+ rad Brian Eno thing, and was completely taken with it...so, dude, in the spirit of reconciliation, you made some good music

thanks brah

my track for the Wire comp is kind of in the same style, though I don't think I'm quite as excited about it :/

I was just joshing you yesterday

yeah I know - and even if you weren't it was pretty damn funny - am gonna have to release a song by that name at some point

thing is when listening to it I was all 'wha...who uses the horn presets on keyboards' at first, then I was 'hang on, but this is pretty hypnotic', then I was 'hey the fact that someone has used the horn preset and then offset it with groovy syncopated bass is awesome' and finally by the synth solo I was convinced someone had hit on something really valuable

so yeah, if the Wire track manages a build-up half as epic as this it'll have been worth it tbh

n/a your Lowdown cover is so fucking good

hey thanks! I was pretty happy with the music; it's a little more "boring" (ie longer and fewer parts) than the songs I normally do but I feel like it's kind of a grower. I'm still not crazy about the vocals; I did the singing first and it didn't sound how I wanted it (my voice isn't low or weighty enough) so then I tried the robot vocals but it seemed kind of cheap so then I "compromised" and left both in when I probably should have just committed to one or the other.

I've probably linked this somewhere before but all the home recording stuff I do is at http://scarequotes.net.

it shd be a double album called "there are no atheists in a FOXXPOL"

― thank u 4 being a fiend (m bison), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:16 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

this can still happen y'all

have listened to most of it and n/a's music is straight fire

Thanks!

have heard it all now. awesome. it can be done!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10154682.stm

Glastonbury had been attempting to book U2 for many years and their appearance was expected to be a highlight of the event's 40th anniversary.
The band said they had written a new song for the occasion.
"I'm heartbroken," he said. "We really wanted to be there to do something really special."

ILX: let's all write a song about U2 playing/not playing at Glastonbury?

ILX: let's be the last minute stand-in for U2!

written a new song

"Fields of Gold Excrement" by Sting Paul Hewson

"Holy Shit, We Are At Glastonbury" by U2

"Scrape Off Your Boots"

"No Line On for toilet paper extends to The Horizon"

"Ciders of Lebanon"

so is this on the internet anywhere? i was lookin' and whatnot.