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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 513 reviews)
Sales Rank: 38
Category: Music
Artist: U2
Publisher: Interscope Records
Studio: Interscope Records
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Label: Interscope Records
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 001263002
UPC: 602517960374
EAN: 0602517960374
ASIN: B001O0EQ5U
Release Date: March 3, 2009
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| • | No Line On The Horizon | | • | Magnificent | | • | Moment of Surrender | | • | Unknown Caller | | • | 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 Lebanon |
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Album Description
No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Tues, March 3, 2009. The band?s 12th studio album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite. The album will be available in 5 different packages.
This version is the standard album CD in a plastic jewel case w /24 page color booklet.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 508 more reviews...
 Among the classic U2 albums July 5, 2009
Like most of the folks who take time to review U2 albums on amazon, I've been a fan for about 15 years and take everything they come out with very seriously, follow the band closely, blah blah blah. Honestly, I was underwhelmed when No Line came out. I thought it was some cool songs but nothing spectacular. After getting a new job with a pretty significant commute time, I had a lot of time to devote to it. It really snuck up on me. The songs started making me think in ways ATYCLB and HTDAAB did not. It's a very challenging record, very rewarding and undeniably among their best. No Line has restored U2 as a living band, not one feeding off their greatest hits anymore. This tour is the first time I'll be going to a U2 show hoping they'll do more new songs than old ones. Give it some time, folks.
 Let Me in the Sound June 30, 2009
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pop is universally recognized as the worst album in the U2 catalogue. The album was a little too polished and they thought they would be tongue in check with their Village People homage for the first Discotheque but the whole world just never got the joke. Even the accompanying tour when over like a lemon; literally as the band descended onto the stage in the oversized fruit that was more Vegas than arena rock.
The thing about Pop is that it still better than ninety percent of music ever made. If God Would Send His Angels hits the emotional chord the band is known for., Please is a heart wrenching plea, Staring at the Sun is right up there with anything on Achtung Baby. And if you don't take it too seriously, Discotheque is the most danceable, fun song from a band not known for those traits.
With that said, No Line on the Horizon is not a bad album compared to other music that has been released this decade; it is just not a good U2 album. Part of that is for a band that is constantly reinventing themselves, we have heard some of these songs before. First single Get on Your Boots sounds like the first single from their last album, Vertigo, but with The Edge making his guitar more fuzzy (and a funkier baseline from Adam Clayton) and really sticks out like a sore thumb at number six on the track list. While Magnificent sounds like a couple of songs of off How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
Then when the band tries something new, like on organ, French horn mix of Unknown Caller, it just doesn't work with the weird chanting chorus. But I'll Go Crazy if I Don't go Crazy Tonight is one of those absurd idea the band comes up with that actually works when they actually law it down. Stand Up Comedy will be the early stand out live song on their upcoming tour. And Cedars Of Lebanon continues their streak of quasi-religious songs closing out their albums and ends up being one of the album's best as it is a haunting end to the album especially the last two lines Bono sings. But the rest of the album really misses that emotional investment that every other U2 album has.
Of course this being U2, they do know how to iron out songs on the road with songs like The Fly and Origin of the Species, as well as most of Pop, not the best studio of songs, end up get better in front of live audiences. So hopefully by the end of their upcoming tour, some of these tracks from No Line on the Horizon would make for killer live album additions.
 Not Good. June 27, 2009
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I admit I'm not a huge fan of U2, but after reading all of the glowing reviews of the CD from publications like Rolling Stone, I thought I'd at least give it a chance.
Simply not an enjoyable CD. Couple songs at most are worth a second listen. Their previous effort, "How to dismantle..." wasn't great, but certainly better than this.
"Achtung Baby" remains one of my favorite all time CDs. This isn't even close.
Please don't just listen one time and put on your shelf. June 25, 2009
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
This cd will stand the test of time and it will be a U2 classic, it has a eurpoean sound(which is a good thing) and it has a original sound unlike everything else on radio today. By the way whatever happened to Pete the chop?
No Line On The Horizon [Digi-pack] June 20, 2009
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Very highly recommended, 5 of 5 stars. U2 doesn't need any more money but get this for yourself, it is soul food.
I've listened to this album numerous times since it was released, March 3, 2009. NO LINE replaced Coldplay's VIVA LA VIDA and The Fray's THE FRAY as my standard commuting soundtrack, though those are good albums. It has quickly become one of my favorite rock albums, as are most of U2's albums. I've been a U2 fan since 1993 and after a dozen albums it's increasingly clear that U2 is the best rock band ever. They owe a great deal to the artists that established the genre and have honored them by enhancing rock music and rock stardom.
This is the most God, love, life, and community, affirming rock album I've heard; it wakes me up and helps me feel alive. The first half/side of the the disk is stronger than the last half but only slightly. There are not one, but two, rarities of popular music here: fantastic songs that are over six minutes long: "Moment of Surrender" and "Unknown Caller". Every song on the first half is a rocking good time that always makes me want to turn it up. I think the second half is still growing on me, though. "Cedars of Lebanon" is a beautiful and convicting ending.
I appreciate what the great artists/engineers, Brian Eno, Danny Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite, have contributed to this music, but I enjoy hearing every word that Bono sings and there are a few I can't. This is partly his own lack of annunciation, perhaps intended, and the condition of his vocal cords, but also results from the soundscape which they've created together. To echo others: there were too many versions of this album. I'm fine with a couple but this seemed overly capitalist. I appreciate the packaging and booklet design of the "digi-pack," being a designer myself, but it wasn't worth $22. Perhaps when I get around to watching the Corbin film I will change my mind. The poster is a nostalgic throwback to those included in records but I won't be removing it from the package. The basic disk is $10, though - I will be giving it to some loved ones soon.
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