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

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

the place where marley died LOL

ugh apparently this album was recorded using v-drums

really? i hope they used steven slate samples

hey dan if you want to do fez I can switch to "moment of surrender"

no I won't lay claim because I will get lazy and not finish

(I am composing this on a nintendo DS)

woot I made the correct decision

ha i was thinking of playing a solo on the DS

Uh if that list properly reflects what's available, I will happily take "Breathe"

At least 50% of mine is being composed on an iPhone.

or "ON IPHONE" if you insist.

LOL @ omar

"edge GO man, man GO!"

At least 50% of mine is being composed on an iPhone.

or "ON IPHONE" if you insist.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, January 21, 2009

eagerly awaits ocarina solo

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 - nabisco
11 Cedars of Lebanon

"cedars" should just be spoken word using omars lyrics

spoken by ned?

Nedge

Hello.

Just tell me who to send it to.

you could just link it here, i hadn't really thought about hosting this online or anything like that, but if you don't have somewhere to upload it to you can email it to me at naamme at gmail dot com and i'll find some way to make it accessible

V. good. I might just do YSI or something.

And should we release all the tracks at the same time with a dead line etc or just send them as they're ready ? (I guess the former would be more fun)

Maybe we need to think of a name for this album?

"No U2 on the Horizon"?
"ILX on the Horizon"?
"Suggest Ban on the Horizon"?

I'll do "No Line on the Horizon"

i'll do "Moment of Surrender"

can i collaborate with gear

or "omar"

will have to get singer of my band to sing, but i will make the music

^^cedars of lebanon then?? that means all traxx have been spoken for right?

also i vote for all the racks at the same time w/ a deadline

01 No Line on the Horizon - Curt1s
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender - gr8080
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 - nabisco
11 Cedars of Lebanon - roxy/omar

this is gonna pwn so bad

hey wait! I had seriously volunteered to do "Cedars of Lebanon." :-(

Know a gr8080 for a decade and then get thrown over I SEE HOW IT IS.

However, to spur the rest of you into full action:

https://download.yousendit.com/bVlCWWVnTXZqY3AzZUE9PQ

My source of inspiration was of course Shatner. Perhaps this can serve as the bonus first track with Roxy's version as the bookend.

the more versions the merrier imo

well done btw ned~!

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.