| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602517960374 | | Release Date: 3/3/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210607812 | | Item#: M4K59Q | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27033 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. No Line On The Horizon ~ U2 |  | | 2. Magnificent ~ U2 | | | 3. Moment of Surrender ~ U2 | | | 4. Unknown Caller ~ U2 | | | 5. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight ~ U2 | | | 6. Get On Your Boots ~ U2 | | | 7. Stand Up Comedy ~ U2 | | | 8. Fez--Being Born ~ U2 | | | 9. White As Snow ~ U2 | | | 10. Breathe ~ U2 | | | 11. Cedars Of Lebanon - (featuring Harold Budd) ~ U2 | |
| | 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. 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.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Includes 24 page booklet. | | U2: The Edge (vocals, guitar, piano); Bono (vocals, guitar); Adam Clayton (bass guitar); Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums, percussion). | | Personnel: Danny Lanois (vocals, guitar); Brian Eno (vocals, synthesizer, programming, loops); Louis Watkins (soprano); Cathy Thompson (violin); Caroline Dale (cello); Richard Watkins (French horn); will.i.am (keyboards); Sam O'Sullivan (percussion); Tony Mangurian (programming). | | Additional personnel: Terry Lawless (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards). | | Audio Mixers: Declan Gaffney; Danny Lanois; Richard Rainey; Steve Lillywhite; CJ Eiriksson; Carl Glanville; Cenzo Townshend. | | Audio Remasterer: John Davis . | | Recording information: HQ, Riad El Yacout, Fez; Olympic Studios, London, England; Platinum Sound Recording Studios, NY. | | Photographer: Anton Corbijn. | | Arrangers: U2; Brian Eno. | | There's no shortage of legendary producers in line to work with music world titans U2; when work with Rick Rubin broke off, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois stepped in. The resulting NO LINE ON THE HORIZON, 2009's offering from the Irish rockers, continues in the grand U2 tradition, as soaring pop anthems like opening single "Get on Your Boots" pair with experimental melanges like "Tripoli," on a striking album featuring touches of all the albums come before, yet hinting at new worlds for Bono to conquer. | | After spending the 1990s experimenting with electronic music and returning to arena-ready rock during the first few years of the 21st century, U2 stakes out territory somewhere between those two points on 2009's NO LINE ON THE HORIZON. Enlisting its go-to production trio of Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite, the Irish quartet seems intent on crafting a quirkier companion piece to HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB, and they succeed with restless tracks such as "Get on Your Boots," which sounds like "Vertigo" hijacked by T. Rex, and "Stand Up Comedy," a wiry number that lets the Edge cut loose with barbed guitar lines. Some of most striking songs on HORIZON are the ones that venture farthest from U2's comfort zone, as on the surprisingly weighty title track, a tune that counterbalances its nearly industrial heft with a high-pitched keyboard melody, and, of course, Bono's soaring vocals. Although HORIZON is willfully less accessible than BOMB or ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND, it's no return to ZOOROPA-level obtuseness either, meaning that U2 fans will find plenty to admire here even if it doesn't hit them with the immediacy of the group's signature anthems. |
Producer: Steve Lillywhite; Will.I.Am; Brian Eno; Danny Lanois; Steve Lillywhite; Brian Eno |
Engineer: Declan Gaffney; Dave Emery; Florian Ammon; Richard Rainey; Tony Mangurian; C.J Eiriksson; Carl Glanville; Cenzo Townshend; Dave Clauss; Tom Hough; Declan Gaffney; Dave Emery; Cheryl Engels; Florian Ammon; Kevin Wilson; Richard Rainey; Steve Lillywhite; To |
Musical Guests | | Harold Budd |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | U2 - No Line On The Horizon - CD Review By: Glen Boyd - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 3/7/2009 3:36 AM | | No Line On The Horizon is a damn good album -- though not necessarily the truly great entry in the U2 canon that some have been making it out to be. I'll give U2 credit for one thing, and that is the fact that they continue to make really great rock music in the old-fashioned sense that it used to be made -- especially at this late point in their career. Unlike so many of their contemporaries, they continue to be relevant, and you simply can't dismiss that....read the full review |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/03/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 001263002 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602517960374 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.72)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "The Edge takes one of his few extended guitar solos at the end of 'Unknown Caller,' a straightforward, elegiac break with a worn, notched edge to his treble tone....'Cedars of Lebanon' ends the album much as 'The Wanderer' did on ZOOROPA, a triumph of bare minimums..."Spin (p.73)
- "U2 still inspire flashes of elation, awe, and yes, hope like no other rock band....The title-track opener masses the Edge's guitar and synth tracks into a dense whir and swirl amid gurning polyrhythms..." Entertainment Weekly (pp.70-71)
- "NO LINE ON THE HORIZOON is an eclectic and electrifying winner, one that speaks to the zeitgeist the way only U2 can and dare do....The record's instant classic is its penultimate track, 'Breathe,' a stomping, snarling rumination..." -- Grade: A- Down Beat (p.58)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Purveyors of anthemic rock at its finest, arguably the world's greatest pop band offers more passion under the guidance of producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois..." Q (Magazine)
(pp.94-95)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "The first part of NO LINE ON THE HORIZON contains the U2 of wide-open spaces, of sweeping mountain valleys, and of Edge's signature chiming guitar lines....The best U2 album since ACHTUNG BABY. With time, it may prove to be better still." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.96)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The result is a collage of several kinds of classic U2 albums, one that has the beauty of their panoramic '80s Eno/Lanois recordings plus the synthetic experimentation and dalliance with pop merriment which revolutionized the band's modus operandi from ACHTUNG BABY onwards." Blender (Magazine)
(p.58)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "'Moment of Surrender' is the high point -- seven minutes of Bono in gospel mode, lost in the late-night city, questing for salvation and finding it in Adam Clayton's bass. The Edge fleshes out the yearning with some piercing crazy-diamond guitar." Clash (magazine)
(p.106)
- "Drenched in The Edge's sky-scraping guitar solos, Bono's operatic vocals, and Eno and Lanois' ambient, textured production effects....A record that is trademark U2 -- playful, soulful, stadium-slaying and decidedly heavy at times." Record Collector (magazine)
(p.102)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Smart one-liners pepper the album....Musically eclectic at every turn, the title track is swathed in the staccato guitar figures Franz Ferdinand have recently monopolised..." |
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