Fans your votes are in for the 22 live track double CD album to be released to celebrate the 360 tour. Fans had 46 songs to choose from and of course the main stays like “Where The Streest Have No Name, One and some lesser known Ultravoulet and The Unforgettable Fire have been chosen. Take a look at the list. What do you think ? Did they get it right ? Or is something missing ?
U22 tracklist:
1. Bad 2. Where The Streets Have No Name 3. Magnificent 4. One 5. Ultraviolet 6. Even Better than The Real Thing 7. With or Without You 8. Beautiful Day 9. City of Blinding Lights 10. The Unforgettable Fire 11. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For 12. All I Want is You/Love Rescue Me 13. Moment of Surrender 14. Until The End of the World 15. The Fly 16. One Tree Hill 17. Stay (Faraway, So Close) 18. Walk On 19. Zooropa 20. Elevation 21. Out of Control 22. Mysterious Ways
From the Sky Down is a 2011 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about rock band U2 and the production of their 1991 album Achtung Baby. The film documents the album’s difficult recording period, the band members’ relationships, and the group’s creative process.
Guggenheim, who was commissioned by U2 to create the film to commemorate Achtung Baby’s 20th anniversary, spent several months in 2011 developing the documentary.
Archival footage and stills from the recording sessions appear in From the Sky Down, along with unreleased scenes from the group’s 1988 motion picture Rattle and Hum.
For the documentary, the band were filmed during a return visit to Hansa Studios in Berlin where the album was partly recorded, and during rehearsals in Winnipeg for the Glastonbury Festival 2011.
The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2011, the first time in the festival’s history that a documentary was screened as the opening film.
The following month, it was broadcast on television and commercially released in the 20th anniversary reissue of Achtung Baby. Standalone copies of the film were released on December 12, 2011 on Blu-ray and DVD.
Critics’ reviews of From the Sky Down have been mixed. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an enthusiastic review, describing it as “one of the most transcendent close-up looks at the process of creating rock & roll I’ve ever seen.” In his opinion, the film was a “stirring testament to what it really means when four people in this world can create magical things because they band together.”
Hank Steuver of The Washington Post called it an “intriguing” documentary that “becomes a revealing and even enlightening meditation on the mystery of why some bands stay together and some don’t.” The review said the film is “refreshingly blunt and beautifully assembled”, and it praised Guggenheim for asking the band tough questions about that period in their history.
U2 front man, Bono, takes to the stage in Timbuktu as Mali raises security for it’s desert music festival.
Many reports are comiong that Bono appeared in the music festival.The festival used to be a major world music event but al Qaeda threats have kept crowds away.
Roughly 300 paying tourists attended, about half the number in 2011 and well down on the thousand-plus of past years. Around three thousand non-paying Malians also turned up for the three-day event, including nomadic Tuaregs.
Bono, put in an appearance on the opening night on Thursday in what organisers said was a show of support for the event.
Mali and the nieghbbouring Niger have ended years of uprising which began in 2009. The area faced a new security threat bandits teamed up with al Qada’s Saharan wing. ( who knew that even was a real group)to suppply a lucrative trade in ransoms of Western hostages.
Aside from the impact on tourism, the kidnappings have made it harder for international aid workers to operate in the semi-arid Sahel region which faces regular food crises and has some of the worst health statistics in the world.
“Pride (In the Name of Love)” The second track on the band’s 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire, it was released as the album’s lead single in September 1984. Written about Martin Luther King, Jr., the song received mixed critical reviews at the time, but it was a major commercial success for the band and has since become one of the band’s most popular songs. It was named the 378th greatest song by Rolling Stone on their list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. “Pride” appeared on the compilation The Best of 1980-1990 as the opening track, and on the 2006 compilation U218 Singles.
The song had been intended to be about Ronald Reagan’s pride in America’s military power but after the lyricist Bono had been influenced by Stephen B. Oates’s book Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a biography of Malcolm X. these caused him to ponder the different sides of the civil rights campaigns, the violent and the non-violent. In subsequent years, Bono has expressed his dissatisfaction with the lyrics, which he describes, along with another Unforgettable Fire song “Bad”, as being “left as simple sketches”. He says he was swayed by The Edge and producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who played down the need to develop the lyrics as they thought their impressionistic nature would give added forcefulness to the song’s feeling, particularly when heard by non-English speakers.
“I looked at how glorious that song was and thought: ‘What the fuck is that all about?’ It’s just a load of vowel sounds ganging up on a great man. It is emotionally very articulate - if you didn’t speak English.”
—Bono , U2 by U2
The song contains the erroneous reference to King’s shooting as “Early morning, April 4”, when it was actually after 6 p.m. Bono acknowledges the error and in live performances he occasionally changes the lyric to “Early evening…”.
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders sang backing vocals on the recording. She was married to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds at the time and she is credited as “Christine Kerr”
Three music videos were made. The first was shot in August by director Donald Cammell and features opening and closing shots of the Dublin Docklands area. Two versions of this video exist; black and white and colour (sepia). The band was not satisfied with Cammell’s video, and they agreed to their principal photographer, Anton Corbijn, shooting an alternative. A “one-take” video filmed in a basement near London’s Heathrow Airport, it features U2 standing sternly in front of a wall under poor lighting conditions.
The U2 camp was also unimpressed with this video and a third video is produced by compiling footage shot during The Unforgettable Fire recording sessions at Slane Castle. The original (black and white) Cammell video was primarily used in promotion
In a chat online,Bono said the band was working on three albums with different musical directions.
“Something really exciting is that finally the rock band is melting into clubland and experimenting with sounds that are not normally deemed authentic for the rock band - synthesizers, experimental sounds - which you can hear in an album by the Temper Trap,” Bono said. “That’s exciting, a new hybrid.”
The Temper Trap, whose hit Sweet Disposition was compared with the sounds of U2, has been recording its second album, due for release mid-year, in LA and London.
‘It’s not just something that happens when you’re at church’ – Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow and Bono have faith in common, faith in a higher power (God). Both men use their platforms to express their views of faith in that higher power. U2 songs have expressed faith, religion, love, sex, lost and hop for many years. Bono has taken the hit many times about whether the band is a Christian band and if they are pretending to be faithful. This makes them veterans in the category of bring religion to work. How many times have you seen Bono take a knee for the big man up stairs? Bono and Tebow share passion that which drives results. Tim has had this passion for sometime which has extended beyond football. As a Florida Gator he made the promise.
“I promise you one thing. A lot of good will come out of this. You will never see any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of the season. You will never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the season. You will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season.” Tim Tebow
Tim has leadership qualities and because of his faith, he is able to understand how to motivate his team. Bono in the same token has leadership qualities to use his passion to make a difference in the world.
The passion is the attraction to the Denver team today. U2 fans have passion for Bono, Larry, Adam and The Edge. Why do we mock those with passion; it’s fear, fear that you could be doing better than me, fear that if I drive my passion that I will be held accountable for doing something with that passion. Lets turn 2012 into passion believing in something greater than yourself is not a bad idea, heck if you had all the answers you would still need passion to share your vision. Cheer on Tim Tebow’s passion for life and lets wish him a “Beautiful Day” next Saturday night.
Thinking about the article in Rolling Stone referencing U2 and Bono’s comments of irrelevance. The boys have been working on 3 album projects. Bono made reference to having a need to having U2 music played on radio. RS threw some cold water on that idea.
RS:” We hope they realize that radio is unlikely to put any song they ever write into heavy rotation: instead, they should just focus on making another great record, and then hit the road on an arena tour that drops some of the old warhorse in favor of great songs from the past. We fear their primary focus is competing with Lady Gaga on radio. Its a fight they’re going to lose.”
U2 music will be played on radio and other sources. Commercial radio may not be the right venue for U2; however consider SIRUSXM as a perfect new home for the boys. Bruce Springsteen has made a go for it and it has worked out well for both. The Police had a channel and the list goes on. Online music venues have worked well for bands that have a strong fan base and look to continue to supporting good music. U2 has a strong marketing machine and management team unlike other bands. Record labels have lost some of their power as band gain back the control of the direction of their music, so expect to see U2 take hold of the reins as they guide their fans thru the next 20 years.
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The boys have been pretty busy in 2011 and with some reports coming that they have recorded some new tunes the question remains; when can we expect to see some fresh U2 tunes ? U2 has reinvent its self a come of times already. Fans flocked to the 360 tour in hopes to retain those youthful times of bliss. We start this year with a bit of directional news. U2TOURFANS will be working on a couple of big projects this year. Our goal is to be able to provide a home for all of our images, videos and continue to provide a source for U2 news and conversation. As we begin the process we will be testing out some new features and creating some opportunities for authors to share their U2 expereience. As alway we thank you for all your support and we hope that the changes we make improve your U2 experience.
