http://torrentfreak.com/new-u2-album-tracks-leaked-after-bono-plays-stereo-too-loudly-080816/ U2 Tracks Leak After Bono Plays Stereo Too Loudly Written by enigmax on August 16, 2008 U2 manager Paul McGuinness, who wants file-sharers to be disconnected from the Internet, has something else to complain about today. Four songs from U2’s upcoming album ‘No Line On The Horizon’ have been leaked online after Bono played them too loudly on his stereo - and a fan recorded them. There’s little file-sharers like more than news of a little payback. Ever since U2 manager Paul McGuiness suggested that people using P2P should have their connection to the Internet severed, he has elevated himself into the ranks of ‘fair game’ in file-sharing circles - and therefore ripe to be pwned. After today, he’s going to want file-sharers executed - or worse. Proving that if media can be seen, heard or touched it can be copied, songs from U2’s forthcoming album have been leaked online. Four tracks from the album, provisionally entitled ‘No Line On The Horizon’, have appeared on the Internet. The mechanism of the release is pretty comical - Bono blasted the tracks from a stereo in his villa in the South of France so loudly, that a passer-by recognized his voice and recorded them. Four songs have been put online including the title track, the first single from the album ‘Sexy Boots’, ‘Moment of Surrender’ and ‘For Your Love’. There’s no doubt that these cam-quality recordings will be particularly poor, but a large section of the file-sharing U2 fans won’t care about that. They have something that they’re not supposed to have and Mr McGuiness has had a bit of egg rubbed in his face - which probably holds more value to file-sharers than a pre-release FLAC rip of the entire album…. …which will appear online too of course, probably before the scheduled November release date.
I bet people are flocking to hear complete **** quality versions of 4 complete **** songs by a complete **** band.
I figured Bono would be living somewhere that his neighbors couldn't hear the music so easily from his home.
U2 and the Rolling Stones are the only two bands who I will gladly spend hundreds of dollars to see live. I saw U2 during the Elevation tour, and they were absolutely amazing. While I haven't loved one of their albums since Achtung Baby (1991! holy crap, I feel old), they're still worth following. I just wish Bono would stay out of world politics and focus on his music. To me, he's become like a Irish version of Prince. I can't stand him as a person, but he is still one of the best performers on the planet.
how on earth do you record something through the walls of a home or skyrise? Maybe he was in a convertible and guy drove alongside him recording it?
Who rocks out to, at the loudest possible volume, songs that they themselves wrote? Self-Indulgent b*stard.
You have got to be kidding. How could a **** band record arguably one of the greatest albums ever. The album I am referring to is "The Joshua Tree." Great album. I still love listening to it 21 (gulp) years later.
It's not like 'taking work home' at all. He is bathing in his own brand. The songs are, from what I gathered, complete. What work is left to be done? It doesn't sound to me like he was listening to it to revise it, or gain some other perspective. I write music all day. In fact, it's about all I do. Maybe it is just me, maybe other writers are different, but I couldn't voluntarily listen to my own creations outside of a recording studio without my skin crawling. I feel self-conscious if I'm not taking a hands on approach, constantly tweaking and changing things. Once the song is done, I'm done with it. I'm over it. I have generally spent so much time hearing the damn thing that its impossible to enjoy it for what it is. IMO It's like being the giver and the receiver, except you already know whats coming. Granted, I am sure that Bono and I are very different in how we create our music...
Also...given that a tour is sure to follow...he may be thinking of small tweak that can be done for a live audience. That's a guess though.
When did Bono leave world politics out of his music? Jesus, the *name* of the band refers to world politics fer Christ's sake! It's like saying "I like Prince, but I wish he wouldn't sing so many songs about sex."
Yeah, you could be right. I don't know for sure that he wasn't revising, or 'taking work home'. I just don't think he would be blasting, at max volume, the songs without stopping them and re-listening to parts unless he was just basking in his own glory. Just one man's take though. Bono is known to be pretty self indulgent, and him playing his newest album at 1000 watts through his top of the line speakers in his french penthouse (so loud that it could be recorded from a distance) while masturbating doesn't seem like a stretch to me. Although, I'll concede that I have listened to Joshua Tree several times in the last month. Great album.
Yes, for someone who's listened to maybe 6-8 songs from a band who has 10 1/2 studio albums with over 120 original songs. For the rest of us who know more than Pride In the Name of Love and With or Without You, with songs like An Cat Dubh, The Electric Co., Bad, The Fly, Love is Blindness, Seconds, So Cruel, October, and dozens of others, you would have to be tone-deaf to say that their songs ALL sound the same. Pretentious and self-righteous? You may have a point. But the same? An emphatic en-oh.
A band whose songs all sound the same? Riiighhht. Listen to "Boy" and tell me that it sounds like the same band that recorded "Achtung Baby." U2 is a band that has constantly reinvented themselves to keep them relevant. Personally, I stopped caring a whole lot for their music after Achtung Baby. The U2 music from 1983-1994 or so was heartfelt. A lot of it was about the war between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland. Really, really deep and emotion driven stuff. That led to the Joshua Tree and then they got a little more mainstream with Rattle & Hum, which was a reinvention. It was in the mid 1990s that they became so engrossed in reinventing themselves that, IMO, they lost their musical soul (so to speak). The stuff from their first several albums was absolutely great.
