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Post by chipotle on Sept 9, 2014 20:47:22 GMT
From the booklet: "Thanks to... Chris Martin..."
He's not credited on any of the songs tho.
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Sept 9, 2014 20:50:49 GMT
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Post by coolplay on Sept 9, 2014 20:50:49 GMT
I would have downloaded it but you have to register and get an apple id just to download the songs for free. No way.
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Sept 9, 2014 20:53:35 GMT
Post by chipotle on Sept 9, 2014 20:53:35 GMT
Songs of Innocence, #NewU2Album, in your @itunesmusic library. It’s a gift. #U2SongsOfInnocence U2's 'Songs of Innocence': A Track-by-Track GuideHere's what you need to know about the band’s most personal album ever Bono of U2 performs during the U2 360 Tour at New Meadowlands Stadium on July 20th, 2011 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. By Rolling Stone | September 9, 2014 U2 took the stage at Apple's product-launch press conference in Cupertino today and surprise-released their new album Songs of Innocence with a mere five seconds of warning. The album, which was delivered free to all of Apple's iTunes users (a half billion of them), is "very personal," Bono tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview. Read his full interview here. 1. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) Produced by: Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder More than any U2 album before it, Songs of Innocence goes deep into Bono and the rest of bandmembers' teenage years in Dublin in the Seventies. The first song captures the big bang of Bono's musical awakening: the first time he heard the Ramones. "Everything I've ever lost now has been returned," Bono sings. "The most beautiful sound I ever heard…We were pilgrims on our way." It sounds like the band are very purposefully not trying to sound like the Ramones here, though – instead, the track starts with powerful, almost "Mysterious Ways"-like burst of guitar from the Edge, and is driven by a lilting Bono melody and an overdubbed vocal refrain. 2. "Every Breaking Wave" Produced by: Danger Mouse and Ryan Tedder The biggest classic-U2 ballad on Songs of Innocence. "Wave" was originally slated for Songs of Ascent (the abandoned follow-up to No Line on the Horizon); the band played a radically different, stripped-down version a few times in 2010. They've since fleshed it out dramatically, completely re-written the chorus and tinkered with some of the verses. Songs of Innocence isn't a full-on concept record about the band's youth – the lyrics to "Wave" appear to deal more adult concerns: a long-term relationship, distractions, and the struggles that come from both: "Are we ready to be swept off our feet?/And stop chasing/Every breaking wave" 3. California (There Is No End to Love) Produced by: Declan Gaffney, Paul Epworth and Danger Mouse A bright, mid tempo anthem that begins with layered backing vocals that sound like a homage to the Beach Boys. It's about the group's first trip to California in the early 1980s. "California, blood orange sunset brings you to your knees," Bono sings. "I've seen for myself/There's no end to grief." 4. "Song for Someone" Produced by: Ryan Tedder and Flood A tender song of awkward first love that sounds like it's about Bono's wife Ali; the couple first met when Bono was 13 and Ali was 12. If there is a kiss I stole from your mouth," he sings. "And if there is a light, don't let it go out." "Song For Someone" begins with gentle acoustic guitars before gradually building into a "Walk On"-style crescendo. 5. "Iris (Hold Me Close)" Produced by: Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder The most emotionally raw song on the album, "Iris" confronts Bono's loss of his mother, who passed away after collapsing at his grandfather's funeral when he was only 14. Bono sings about "the ache in my heart" that "is so much part of who I am." U2's first hit "I Will Follow," from 1980's Boy, and "Tomorrow," from 1981's October, are also about Bono's mother, Iris Hewson, but "Iris" is from the perspective of a man in his fifties looking back at a mother who has been gone for four decades, and how her loss has shaped his life. "Hold me close," he sings. "I've got your life inside me." 6. "Volcano" Produced by: Declan Gaffney The driving, bass-heavy "Volcano" could be about a young, angry Paul Hewson, wrestling with the death of his mother. "Something in you wants to blow," Bono yelps. "You're on a piece of ground above a volcano." 7. "Raised by Wolves" Produced by: Declan Gaffney and Danger Mouse The only overtly political song on the record, this one tells the true story of a car-bombing in Dublin that hit close to home. "On any other Friday I would have been at this record shop, but I cycled to school that day," says Bono. "The bomb tore apart the street. I escaped but one of my mates was around the corner with his father, and it was a very hard thing for him to witness and I'm not sure he really got over it." 8. "Cedarwood Road" Produced by: Danger Mouse and Paul Epworth Bono grew up on 10 Cedarwood Road in Dublin alongside his friends Guggi Rowan and Gavin Friday, with whom he remains close to this day ("Road" is dedicated to Rowan). "You can't return to where you never left," Bono sings on this song about friendship and bittersweet memories, "It was a warzone in my teens/I'm still standing on that street." 9. "Sleep Like a Baby Tonight" Produced by: Danger Mouse Bono briefly brings out his "Lemon"-era falsetto on this haunting song about an unhappy man whose eyes are "as red as Christmas" and who reads "about the politician's lover" over his morning "toast, tea and sugar" – possibly the singer's late father, Bob Hewson. 10. "This Is Where You Can Reach Me" Produced by: Danger Mouse First mentioned by Bono as a contender for the album in a February interview with the L.A. Times, "This Is Where You Can Reach Me" is inspired by a Clash concert that U2 attended in 1977. "We signed our lives away," Bono sings. "Complete surrender/The only weapon we know." 11. "The Troubles" Produced by: Danger Mouse Another tune name-checked by Bono earlier this year, "The Troubles" was presumed to be another U2 song about the political situation in Northern Ireland, but it's more about Bono learning to move on from his own problems. Guest singer Lykke Li repeats the refrain "somebody stepped inside your soul", and Bono reflects on his own redemption: "I have a will for survival/So you can hurt me then hurt me some more/I can live with denial/But you're not my troubles anymore" link Rolling StoneExclusive: Bono Reveals Secrets of U2's Surprise Album 'Songs of Innocence'Apple's Tim Cook and U2 announced the surprise release of the band's new album 'Songs of Innocence' in Cupertino, California on September 9th, 2014. By Rolling Stone | September 9, 2014 U2 surprised the world today by releasing Songs of Innocence, their first album in five years, as a gift from Apple, available for free immediately to anyone with iTunes. The band made the announcement with Apple CEO Tim Cook at a Cupertino press conference for the new iPhone 6, capping the event with a performance of the album's first single, "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)." After a standing ovation, Cook said, "Wasn't that the most incredible single you ever heard? We would love a whole album of that." "The question is now, how do we get it to as many people as possible, because that's what our band is all about," Bono said. "I do believe you have over half a billion subscribers to iTunes, so — could you get this to them?" "If we gave it away for free," Cook replied. And five seconds later, the album was unleashed in the largest album release of all time. "We wanted to make a very personal album," Bono told Rolling Stone's Gus Wenner the day before the press conference in an exclusive interview. "Let's try to figure out why we wanted to be in a band, the relationships around the band, our friendships, our lovers, our family. The whole album is first journeys — first journeys geographically, spiritually, sexually. And that's hard. But we went there." The band worked on Innocence for two years with producer Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton), then brought in additional help: Flood, their collaborator since 1987's The Joshua Tree, plus Adele producers Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder. "I think having them around really helped," says Bono, "Some of the music out there now that people call pop, it's not pop – it's just truly great. And we wanted to have the discipline of the Beatles or the Stones in the Sixties, when you had real songs. There's nowhere to hide in them: clear thoughts, clear melodies." To begin, the band went back to its roots: Bono says the group listened to the music they loved in the Seventies, from punk rock to Bowie, glam rock, early electronica and Joy Division. The album kicks off with "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)," a loping pop song laced with distinctly punk-ish power chords. "I found my voice through Joey Ramone," says Bono, "because I wasn't the obvious punk-rock singer, or even rock singer. I sang like a girl — which I'm into now, but when I was 17 or 18, I wasn't sure. And I heard Joey Ramone, who sang like a girl, and that was my way in." The driving, reggae-tinged "This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now," is a tribute to the Clash, with slinky guitars from the Edge that nod to Sandinista!. "After we saw the Clash, it was a sort of blueprint for U2," says Bono. "We knew we couldn't possibly hope to be as cool, and that's proven to be true, but we did think we could get behind a sort of social justice agenda." There is also an intensely personal song about Bono's mother, Iris Hewson, who died when he was 14. "Forty years ago, my mother fell at her own father's funeral, and I never spoke with her again," he says. "Rage always follows grief, and I had a lot of it, and I still have, but I channeled it into music and I still do. I have very few memories of my mother, and I put a few of them in a song called 'Iris.'" The most joyous track on Songs of Innocence is "California (There Is No End to Love)," which unexpectedly nods to the Beach Boys in its intro. "It's like the sun itself," says Bono. "It's about our first trip to Los Angeles." The darkest track, meanwhile, is "Raised by Wolves," which tells of a deadly car bombing in Dublin. "It was a real incident that happened in our country where three car bombs were set to go off at the same time in Dublin on a Friday night, 5:30," says Bono, "On any other Friday I would have been at this record shop, just down the corner, but I cycled to school that day." At times Songs of Innocence feels almost like a concept album about Bono's early years – there's even a track named after the street where the singer grew up, "Cedarwood Road." "It has a lyrical cohesion that I think is unique amongst U2 albums," says Bono, "I don't want it to be a concept album, but the songs come from a place. Edge laughed and said this is our Quadrophenia. We could be so lucky." link Rolling Stone
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Post by prissieb on Sept 9, 2014 20:56:22 GMT
From the booklet: "Thanks to... Chris Martin..." He's not credited on any of the songs tho. Maybe he didn't work for a particular song, but he helped Bono to get some inspiration?
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U2
Sept 9, 2014 20:59:07 GMT
Post by chipotle on Sept 9, 2014 20:59:07 GMT
^ Yes, probably something like that. Lots of people are thanked that aren't credited on a song.
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Post by chipotle on Sept 9, 2014 22:06:54 GMT
09 September 2014 'Remember Us?' A letter from Bono, on the arrival 'of our new baby' - Songs of Innocence. 'Hello, bonjour, ciao, hola, hallo, zdravo, dobar dan, Dia duit, hæ, hej,hei, cześć, olá, ćao, namaste, sawatdee, jambo, pozdravi, Γεια σου, привіт, שלום, مرحبا, こんにちは, , سلام, 你好, Привет….
Remember us? Pleased to announce myself, Edge, Adam and Larry have finally given birth to our new baby… Songs of Innocence. It’s been a while. We wanted to get it right for you/us. We just finished it last week and thanks to Apple and iTunes it’s with you today. That’s already amazing to me as it normally takes a few months to turn this stuff around.
Part of the DNA of this band has always been the desire to get our music to as many people as possible. In the next 24 hours, over a half a billion people are going to have Songs of Innocence… should they choose to check it out. That is so exciting. People who haven’t heard our music, or weren’t remotely interested, might play us for the first time because we’re in their library. Country fans, hip hop afficionados from east LA, electro poppers from Seoul, Bhangra fans from New Delhi, Highlifers in Accra… might JUST be tempted to check us out, even for a moment. What a mind blowing, head scratching, 21st century situation. Over 500 million people… that’s a billion ears. And for the people out there who have no interest in checking us out, look at it this way… the blood, sweat and tears of some Irish guys are in your junk mail.
You’ll have noticed the album is free to U2.com’ers from the band. It’s also free to everyone on iTunes thanks to Apple. To celebrate the ten year anniversary of our iPod commercial, they bought it as a gift to give to all their music customers. Free, but paid for. Because if no-one's paying anything for it, we’re not sure “free” music is really that free. It usually comes at a cost to the art form and the artist… which has big implications, not for us in U2, but for future musicians and their music... all the songs that have yet to be written by the talents of the future… who need to make a living to write them.
We’re collaborating with Apple on some cool stuff over the next couple of years, innovations that will transform the way music is listened to and viewed. We’ll keep you posted. If you like Songs of Innocence, stay with us for Songs of Experience. It should be ready soon enough… although I know I’ve said that before…
I hope after listening to our new long player a few times, you’ll understand why it took so long. We really went there… it’s a very, very personal album. Apologies if that gets excruciating… actually, I take that back. No apologies if it gets excruciating. What’s the point in being in U2 if you can’t go there? There is no end to LOVE.' BONO
link U2.com"We’re collaborating with Apple on some cool stuff over the next couple of years, innovations that will transform the way music is listened to and viewed. We’ll keep you posted. If you like Songs of Innocence, stay with us for Songs of Experience. It should be ready soon enough… although I know I’ve said that before… " Another album coming soon-ish? Oh wow this is a good day I'm ignoring the last bit about him saying that before.
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Sept 9, 2014 22:09:41 GMT
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Post by spiderman on Sept 9, 2014 22:09:41 GMT
Awesome can't wait! I'm listening to the album now. Every Breaking Wave, Song For Someone, and Iris are my favorites so far. But the whole album is amazing. Volcano sounds like the song Glastonbury.
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Post by chipotle on Sept 9, 2014 22:21:20 GMT
The Miracle, Iris and The Troubles are my favourites after two listenings. Indeed an amazing album. I had to take a break, it was almost overwhelming, been waiting for this for so long.
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U2
Sept 9, 2014 22:47:38 GMT
Post by chipotle on Sept 9, 2014 22:47:38 GMT
I would have downloaded it but you have to register and get an apple id just to download the songs for free. No way. Not a fan of Apple? I gave up earlier this year for the Coldplay visual album. My soul had a price tag (I don't even regret it)
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Post by spiderman on Sept 9, 2014 23:33:18 GMT
"On October 13th the physical release of Songs of Innocence comes with a 24-page booklet. A deluxe, gatefold double album, contains an acoustic session of songs from the album and four additional tracks: Lucifer's Hands, The Crystal Ballroom, The Troubles (Alternative version) and Sleep Like a Baby Tonight (Alternative Perspective Mix by Tchad Blake)" U2.com
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Post by Sam on Sept 10, 2014 7:19:56 GMT
Bit of disappointment here. They took sooo long for this album. Invisible and ordinary love sounded promising when we heard that new material earlier this year but now after one listen I only like every breaking wave. I still have hopes for the sister album "songs of experience" though.
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Post by Captain Crieff on Sept 10, 2014 8:35:31 GMT
I couldn't stop listening to this album last night! Every Breaking Wave and The Troubles are my favourites
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Post by Captain Crieff on Sept 10, 2014 8:53:48 GMT
Also...... Attachments:
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Post by prissieb on Sept 13, 2014 9:46:26 GMT
I've read all mind of tweets that Chris' vocals are in the song Iris...
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Sept 13, 2014 16:12:33 GMT
Post by chipotle on Sept 13, 2014 16:12:33 GMT
Yes there's a lot of talk about that, on U2 forum too. Some are absolutely sure. No one is credited for "choir" on Iris. I can't tell, can definitely be Chris.
What do you all think?
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