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No Line On The Horizon (3 Mar, 2009)
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Produced By: Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite, Danny Lanois
Engineer: Richard Rainey
Description
No Line On The Horizon, released on Saturday Feb 27th In Ireland and in the rest of the world two days later, is the group's 12th studio album and their first release since the How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, in late 2004.
Sessions for the album began in 2007 in Fez, Morocco, where longtime producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois joined U2 as songwriting partners. Sessions continued in the band's own studio in Dublin, moved to New York's Platinum Sound Recording Studios before production was completed in December 2008 at Olympic Studios in London. As well as the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, additional production was by Steve Lillywhite.
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Get On Your Boots video
'We'd invited Eno and Lanois to come in as writers. It was a big step up for us to say, 'We wanna open the thing up and that will determine the direction.' From the first session Larry was performing on an electronic drum kit. Normally Larry drums so hard, it's very hard to spend hours working stuff up when you've got all this bang and clatter. But the electronic kit made him play in a certain way. So the music came from a different place.'
Adam
'Initially, the idea was to do this esoteric thing and have a few hits there as well. It's kind of morphed into something else. I think there is experimentation in there... it's just a different animal. It's not quite what people would expect a U2 experimental thing would be. I mean, if you think of Zooropa, or Passengers, this is not that. This has got a lot of weight... I think it's some of the best music we've ever written.'
Larry on recording in Morocco
'I want people to listen to it as opposed to just buying it. I want this to be an album people go back to, and really get into, in-depth. Like all the records I love... I think we've learnt a few things over the years... I think it could be a bringing to bear of all those eureka moments from the past. And I think it could be our best album.'
Edge
'...I allowed myself to wear the clothes of characters that wandered into my imagination. So the guy in (new song) 'Cedars of Lebanon' is a war correspondent. I meet a lot of them in my other life. And I have a lot of empathy because I'd probably be one (laughs). And then there's this song that is called 'Tripoli' at the moment, which is this guy on a motorcycle, a Moroccan French cop, who's going awol. He drives through France and Spain down to this village outside of Cadiz where you can actually see the fires of Africa burning...'
Bono On Writing in the Third Person
Buy digital album (FLAC) exclusively from U2.com (US)
Buy from iTunes (UK)
Buy from Amazon UK
Buy from Amazon US
Buy from Ireland
Get On Your Boots video
'We'd invited Eno and Lanois to come in as writers. It was a big step up for us to say, 'We wanna open the thing up and that will determine the direction.' From the first session Larry was performing on an electronic drum kit. Normally Larry drums so hard, it's very hard to spend hours working stuff up when you've got all this bang and clatter. But the electronic kit made him play in a certain way. So the music came from a different place.'
Adam
'Initially, the idea was to do this esoteric thing and have a few hits there as well. It's kind of morphed into something else. I think there is experimentation in there... it's just a different animal. It's not quite what people would expect a U2 experimental thing would be. I mean, if you think of Zooropa, or Passengers, this is not that. This has got a lot of weight... I think it's some of the best music we've ever written.'
Larry on recording in Morocco
'I want people to listen to it as opposed to just buying it. I want this to be an album people go back to, and really get into, in-depth. Like all the records I love... I think we've learnt a few things over the years... I think it could be a bringing to bear of all those eureka moments from the past. And I think it could be our best album.'
Edge
'...I allowed myself to wear the clothes of characters that wandered into my imagination. So the guy in (new song) 'Cedars of Lebanon' is a war correspondent. I meet a lot of them in my other life. And I have a lot of empathy because I'd probably be one (laughs). And then there's this song that is called 'Tripoli' at the moment, which is this guy on a motorcycle, a Moroccan French cop, who's going awol. He drives through France and Spain down to this village outside of Cadiz where you can actually see the fires of Africa burning...'
Bono On Writing in the Third Person
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bryanmoroney - 28 September, 2012
bryan
I still think that No Line is not what it should be. Doesn't have the spirit of a great U2 album. For example, the lyrics of Unknown Caller let down a great piece of music. Lyrics are pretty juvenile. But then Ceders is genius I bought three copies over the first weekend of release and I've given them all away. First time the band has let me down. Please release something soon..
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meela62 - 29 August, 2012
No line on the horizon, to me.
'No line on the horizon', the title could sound intimidatory, a sort of warning and implicit the invitation
to revisit the world of inner.
Each song is like a slide. Real facts narrated in an accurate outlook.
Sounds and rithmes extend to new destinations, melodies are finely structured.
It may be an hyperbolic rock electronic album,surely an original and innovative one.
It feels the spirit to make a point of the situation, to cultivate love for great values,
to react positevely . ' I was punching in the numbers at the ATM machine
I could see in the reflection
A face staring back at me .At the moment of surrender
Of vision over visibility
I did not notice the passers-by
And they did not notice me.( Moment of surrender lyrics). What we meet is not unique, but we are unique in our being. it's not a hill, it's a mountain
As you start out the climb. ( No line on the horizon lyrics).The album counts
eleven tracks :_ No line on the horizon, Magnificent, Moment of Surrender, I ll go crazy
if i don't go crazy tonight, ' Get on your boots' , ' Stand up Comedy' , ' Fez Being born',
' White as snow', ' Breathe', ' Cedars of Libanon', they trace a path.
' These days are better than that'. ( Breathe Lyrics).
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U2fan327 - 08 August, 2011
Great album!
Great album for short! Expecting more goodness in the future!
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timo - 03 May, 2011
Love it
Very cool album! Creeper, for sure.
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anna10 - 09 November, 2010
"Rest of..."
Excellent suggestion. I love the songs you mentioned, as well.
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filmfanatic - 02 September, 2010
new version of "Breathe"
Apparently it aired today on 2DayFM... surprised there was no mention of it anywhere! It really is an underrated track, joining "Like a Song...," "Wire," "Acrobat," and "Gone" as forgotten U2 rockers.
Maybe you guys should come out with a "Rest Of..."
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