let's release the U2 album before U2 releases the U2 album

inspired by the frankly awesome tracklisting of the new U2 album, "there is no line on the horizon":

01 No Line on the Horizon
02 Magnificent
03 Moment of Surrender
04 Unknown Caller
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
06 Get on Your Boots
07 Stand Up Comedy
08 Fez - Being Born
09 White as Snow
10 Breathe
11 Cedars of Lebanon

it would be awesome if various music people on this board would each claim one of these song titles, then write and record a song with that title, then put a link to it on this board. the songs don't have to sound like U2 or have anything to do with U2 at all. the u2 album comes out march 3, if we could get this all done before then, it would be awesome. anyone interested?

I couldn't care less about u2 but this might be fun.
hum...which one to pick... I'll go with "crazy".
can there be several versions of each track or does it have to be one and only one of each ?

ideally the later, unless more than 11 people want to contribute, in which case we'll figure something out

fucking great idea

i would like to use "stand up comedy" as i have a lot to say on the subject but will give it up if it encourages more people to contribute

you should have a breakdown in the middle of the song where you do actual stand up comedy

fine. I already have some ideas rolling... if I don't go for some drinks after work or get too lazy once at home, I'll start it tonight !

I'll go crazy if i don't go crazy tonight practically writes itself

ahah, well you could always keep an option on it until someone else REALLY wants to do it.

basically all of these titles conjure up country songs in my head

yeah, "crazy" is pretty evocative... but I'll try to add some... craziness !

I'll take "Fez - Being Born"

I would like to take "Get On Your Boots", if that's alright with everyone?

well, I think it's first come first served so go ahead !

dibs on "magnificent" which i will write in the first person (as bono's psyche)

get on your boots and die (with your boots on)

ok, I've made the basic demo for "crazy" last night. now I just have to re-record everything properly (I was a bit too drunk to make decent takes...).
It should be ready far before the dead line.
now i'm pretty curious to hear what U2's track is like... it was a trick to make us listen to their new album !

(xpost) Jordan, are you claiming "Get On Your Boots", because I thought I already called dibs on that?

BTW I've already written the lyrics and have a rough arrangement for my version

so, so far we have 5 out of 10 tracks. we need more people to work on this great project !

huh, 11, sorry...

i'll go for 'unknown caller'

nope, i was just making joeks. go for it.

Great, thanks. Wouldn't want to have to switch horses mid stream!
BTW is anyone keeping a list of who's doing which track?

cedars of lebanon has to be on the slower end of mid-tempo and has to reference palestine, israel, and the 1972 olympiad.

01 No Line on the Horizon
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT
09 White as Snow
10 Breathe
11 Cedars of Lebanon

i think that's it so far

aw I wanted to do "Fez - Being Born"

white as snow should be about white people

i'll write the lyrics to cedars of lebanon if someone else wants to do the music

i have a feeling all these songs are going to be about white people

ie bono

not cedars of lebanon!

xp good point

If "Cedars of Lebanon" isn't about trees, I will be very sad.

stand up comedy should be a requiem for bernie mac

"Breathe" should be a remix of the Cure b-side.

stand up comedy should be a requiem for bernie mac

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:19 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

i found a rolling stone article with 'previews' of these songs, but i wouldn't want to influence anyone.

except some of them are pretty funny:

"No Line on the Horizon"
The title track's relentless groove began as a group improvisation. "It's very raw and very to the point," says the Edge. "It's like rock & roll 2009."

"Magnificent"
"Only love can leave such a mark," Bono roars on what sounds like an instant U2 anthem. Will.i.am has already done what Bono calls "the most extraordinary" remix of the tune.

"The Most Extraordinary Remix" would be a good name for a song

i listened to "get on your boots"; it actually wasn't that bad, though i don't know what i was expecting given that i haven't actively listened to a u2 album since zooropa

jaysus the edge

ok i have cedars of lebanon lyrics if anyone wants them

I'll take "White As Snow"

01 No Line on the Horizon
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom
10 Breathe
11 Cedars of Lebanon

'unknown caller' preview, jordan ? xp

pretty hard to top:

"Unknown Caller"
This midtempo track could have fit on All That You Can't Leave Behind. "The idea is that the narrator is in an altered state, and his phone starts talking to him," says the Edge.

ugh apparently this album was recorded using v-drums

whoa, i might have to go w/ that

ok these are my lyrics i wrote in 3 minutes inna u2 stylee, if anyone wants em go ahead

This wood
Burn it for the new year
Look at the trees
From where this wood came
Name of a hospital
The place where Marley died
A grove holding such significance
For people unlike us
People just like you and I (do you see?)

The cedars
cedars of Lebanon
The trees which live
On and on and on

Battles are fought
Over this sacred land
Shattering the the innocents
With weapons from a misled hand
The distant past
cries over the sad present
This war we fight
Is not at all pleasant
For all who win will lose (do you seeeee?)

The cedars
cedars of Lebanon
The trees which live
On and on and on
and on and ONNNNNN, edge GO

SINGLE STRING GUITAR SOLO

Black and white
brown and yellowwwww
red and blue
we are all one
under the sun
under the CEDARS
CEDARS OF LEBANON
and yes they go
ON AND ON
(forever)

I'm waiting for the sun
to RISE
I'm waiting for the ONE
to re-rise
I see the trees bend
over for you and me
I see the world end
if we are not all FREE

LISTEN TO THE CEDARS
oh yes
listen to them CRY
watch as they TRY
to make themselves heard
to us the human herd.

This war we fight
Is not at all pleasant

haha

the place where marley died LOL

ugh apparently this album was recorded using v-drums

really? i hope they used steven slate samples

hey dan if you want to do fez I can switch to "moment of surrender"

no I won't lay claim because I will get lazy and not finish

(I am composing this on a nintendo DS)

woot I made the correct decision

ha i was thinking of playing a solo on the DS

Uh if that list properly reflects what's available, I will happily take "Breathe"

At least 50% of mine is being composed on an iPhone.

or "ON IPHONE" if you insist.

LOL @ omar

"edge GO man, man GO!"

At least 50% of mine is being composed on an iPhone.

or "ON IPHONE" if you insist.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, January 21, 2009

eagerly awaits ocarina solo

01 No Line on the Horizon
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom
10 Breathe - nabisco
11 Cedars of Lebanon

"cedars" should just be spoken word using omars lyrics

spoken by ned?

Nedge

Hello.

Just tell me who to send it to.

you could just link it here, i hadn't really thought about hosting this online or anything like that, but if you don't have somewhere to upload it to you can email it to me at naamme at gmail dot com and i'll find some way to make it accessible

V. good. I might just do YSI or something.

And should we release all the tracks at the same time with a dead line etc or just send them as they're ready ? (I guess the former would be more fun)

Maybe we need to think of a name for this album?

"No U2 on the Horizon"?
"ILX on the Horizon"?
"Suggest Ban on the Horizon"?

I'll do "No Line on the Horizon"

i'll do "Moment of Surrender"

can i collaborate with gear

or "omar"

will have to get singer of my band to sing, but i will make the music

^^cedars of lebanon then?? that means all traxx have been spoken for right?

also i vote for all the racks at the same time w/ a deadline

01 No Line on the Horizon - Curt1s
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender - gr8080
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom
10 Breathe - nabisco
11 Cedars of Lebanon - roxy/omar

this is gonna pwn so bad

hey wait! I had seriously volunteered to do "Cedars of Lebanon." :-(

Know a gr8080 for a decade and then get thrown over I SEE HOW IT IS.

However, to spur the rest of you into full action:

https://download.yousendit.com/bVlCWWVnTXZqY3AzZUE9PQ

My source of inspiration was of course Shatner. Perhaps this can serve as the bonus first track with Roxy's version as the bookend.

the more versions the merrier imo

well done btw ned~!

Too kind of yer!

oh shit i can't wait to hear this

Deadline please, so I know I'll get it done.

i had suggested the release date of the actual u2 album, which is march 3 - is that too far away?

I'm doing RPM this February, so I'm looking to get this track wrapped up by the end of January. I wonder if any other people on this thread are in the same situation? But of course I can hold on until the beginning of March before I post a download link.

yeah mine's done

can we just email them to n/a and then he can post when he has all of them?

ahah, great spoken words Ned !
Maybe someone could make an instrumental track to play in the back as a closing/bonus track ?
I have also finished my track.
So the idea is to send them to n/a then ?
concerning the title, "No ILX on the horizon" sounds good to me.
Should we keep the same cover as u2's or "Ilx" it ?
March 3 seems so far... (who will start the "No line on the horizon Vs No Ilx on the horizon" thread ?)

I think we definitely need an "ILX"ed version of the cover. Anyone here with the necessary skills?

By which I mean, I know there are people on ILX with the skills, can someone please some forward?

Yeah, we know there are great visual artists here...
Album covers redrawn from memory in MS Paint

let's make this project an "Ilx art total extravaganza" !

lol excellent - although the U2 cover is so bland I can't even remember what it looks like!

Also, I've just noticed, March 3rd is the release date in North America. It's released on March 2nd in Europe and Feb 27th in Ireland, so maybe we should bring our official release date forward?

haw i guess i can collect the tunes; again my email address is naamme at gmail dot com. if your actual name is significantly different from your ILX name, please include your ILX name in the email so i know who i've gotten tunes from so far

i think the cover should remain the same, just with a "/=" instead of an "="

release it asap cuz you know this record's gonna leak pretty soon and you got to beat that shit to market.

it'd be awesome if this got seeded to the p2p and torrent sites as the actual u2 album

well, if any of you ever wondered what the hell a fez has to do with being born, nick's got the sonic logic in his inbox

^^STOKED 4 THE MADNESS

tom i didn't get it, don't see it in spam either ... did you use naamme at gmail? i got snoball's tune though, good stuff.

i think i will whip this up dis weequend i think it will be mad-dash 1-minute song

this is an excellent exercise; if by chance a bit of motivation hits, i hope to have something to link up- Ned, that was grander than grand...

Thanks!

right, so they are all taken?

Hmmm...

What happens if you run Ned's vocals upthread through MS Songsmith? It's be funny if the result sounded exactly like U2...

Ned's spoken words definitely have to be the closing of the album with some background music or something (eheh, I've just imagined it with a funky synth track a la "thriller"'s vincent price's rap !)

mark you can have the one i signed up for, or you and ned can fight for it, i don't think im gnona have time :(

can we get the ilx pitchforkers to build some internet frenzy over this?

eheh, ilx global domination !

havin' this weird vision of fez - being born chorus w/ chuck D voice saying 'fezzzzzzz' like he says 'BASSSSS' on 'bring the noise' and then 'bein born, bein born' sung 'stayin alive' style

sorry don't let me cloud your vision with my visions

mark you can have the one i signed up for, or you and ned can fight for it, i don't think im gnona have time :(

― roxymuzak, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:11 (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No worries, me neither.

just saw this thread and thought I was too late to the party... but maybe not?

I will do cedars of lebanon if roxy is dropping out

don't want to leave omar hanging out there

just know that I will be singing the line "SINGLE STRING GUITAR SOLO" and there will be no guitars

oh i got AleXTC's song the other day. so now i have his, tom's, and snoball's, i think. the music for mine has been done for a couple of weeks but i haven't figured out the lyrics

so far there's a surprising aural cohesion across the songs, the whole album has kind of a creepy synthpop thing going on

the whole album has kind of a creepy synthpop thing going on

ahah, can't wait for the release (or leaks) !
so, shouldn't we start to build the hype ? (actually, I have a friend who might be able to pass the album to... u2 !)

o wait ned did cedars of lebanon? help me I'm confused at the internets

yup, he did a brilliant spoken words take on it (we're still looking for someone to do the background music though).

n/a did you let the poem2song crew know about this??? great idea, btw

I can take a crack at background music if ned is into it

that yousendit link is expired though so I need a reup

ah, I don't have it at the office. If no one can send it to you in the meantime, I'll try to do it once I'm at home.

I can take a crack at background music if ned is into it

Go for it -- here's a new upload link:

https://www.yousendit.com/download/U0d6TkFwMHdkMnZIRGc9PQ

this is like my *~~dream~~*, i feel like desmond child

hotly anticipating this

Worked on it some over the weekend and expect to finish this week. Somewhat annoyingly, I think I've written a song about U2.

got it, ned, thanks

hey have you guys ever heard of this band called negativland? nah, didn't think so...

hey have you guys ever heard of this band called negativland? nah, didn't think so...

I got a big laugh out of this:
http://www.quartzcity.net/2009/01/23/these-guys-are-from-england-and-who-gives-a-shit/

Preview tracks of 'the real thing' are coming out:

http://u2.thefanpage.net/2009/02/preview-u2s-no-line-on-the-horizon-download-or-%20stream/

Hop to!

I won't listen to u2's album until I've listened to ours !
So when are we releasing it, already ?

well since we only have three tracks at the moment it's kind of a moot point

yeah but that will set the deadline for the rest of the tracks !

leak already!

01 No Line on the Horizon - Curt1s
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender - gr8080
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC ***
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball ***
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a ***
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT ***
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom
10 Breathe - nabisco
11 Cedars of Lebanon - ned/? *

mine is done so the *** are the ones that are done and i have in my email. i don't know what's going with ned's vocals, is someone adding music?

any ideas for to how present these, where to upload them etc? i hate organizing stuff

Mixing again tonight.

i don't know what's going with ned's vocals, is someone adding music?

I think Edward III is.

so for the release, will someone work on the cover or do we leave that out ? n/a, if you don't know/want to deal with the upload/leaking of the album and if no one here wants to, I'll ask a friend.
It would be good if we could release this before the end of Feb : would everybody be ok with that ?

I might be screwed on this due to houseguests, but I have something written and can hopefully throw it together before they arrive

u2 album has leaked btw :/

lol

we can at least confuse ppl anyway

get on it

i don't know what's going with ned's vocals, is someone adding music?

I think Edward III is.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:56 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

"music" might be a stretch but yeah I'm planning to work on this tomorrow

okay, mine's done. just got a little mixing to do...

ned, there is a thing in yr inbox

can we set a deadline for tracks? everybody in by this friday?

Am listening to this now. Heheheh.

sinister!

hey n/a, hit me up if you need help amassing/zipping/uploading tracks.

omar is yr email hooked up the board webmail? I'll send you this terrible thing.

after you hear it you might feel less like desmond child and more like victor frankenstein tho

i am hooked up, send it on over! ^_^

Your email has been successfully sent.

鬼の手 u are a traet!

yo ive got most of a song going, will record vox this week

sounds fun; I wish I could make music

here's the record itself:
http://www.spotify.com/go/20090223-u2-excl-preview-guardian

thanks omar

glad you dug it

xp

cool, it's moving !
hey n/a, I will resend you my track. after listening to it I had some minor changes in the mix so I will send you the latest version.
I will be on holidays next week so I won't have the pleasure to attend the release of "no ilx"... I'll check it out when I come back !

I will have mine in by Friday.

recording tomorrow, will hopefully get most of it finished. i should probably write the song before going into record, but that sorta seems against the spirit of this thing

ahah, yeah, it seems everybody went with improvisation... the titles are so inspiring !

n/a seems to have gone AWOL... driven mad by the pre-release leak?

so, status updates

01 No Line on the Horizon - Curt1s ("I will have mine in by Friday.")
02 Magnificent - m bison ("yo ive got most of a song going, will record vox this week")
03 Moment of Surrender - gr8080 ("yeah mine's done" - submitted?)
04 Unknown Caller - 6335 ("recording tomorrow (feb 25), will hopefully get most of it finished.")
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC ***
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball ***
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a ***
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT ***
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom ("Mixing again tonight." feb 16)
10 Breathe - nabisco ("I might be screwed on this due to houseguests, but I have something written and can hopefully throw it together before they arrive" feb 18)
11 Cedars of Lebanon - ned/edward iii ("song's done, just doing some EQing, will be in by friday deadline")

*** are the ones that are done and n/a received

nabisco should just submit 2:30 of heavy breathing

I nominate ZS to drunkenly animate a cover for this album

all in favor say eye

don't let this awesome idea die

I haz dreamz

n/a, I've sent you my final mix.
So, it seems everybody will be ready for the deadline. good !

i'm around, just don't really have anything new to say at this point ... still waiting on songs. i'd be happy to forward the songs on to edward III if you have an idea for how to get them up online in the same place

I nominate ZS to drunkenly animate a cover for this album

I think this would be a great idea - question is, what do we ask him to drunkenly animate?

the original cover, duh

just use this:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/NIGHTMAREDOG.gif

^^^admittedly funnier in context, but still probably the best thing posted to the internet in latter 00's

the original cover, duh

You've seen the original cover? There's nothing there to animate!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/NoLineU2Promo.jpg

An artist must start with a blank canvas. The less there is already, the more that can be added. And you forgot the big equal sign in the middle

You've seen the original cover? There's nothing there to animate!

you are severely underestimating the abilities of ZS

^^^this

I'd be happy to forward the songs on to edward III if you have an idea for how to get them up online in the same place

what I'd do is make a zip file containing all the songs and upload 'em to sendspace so everybody could download it. if that would be a hassle for you I don't mind taking care of it.

So, it seems everybody will be ready for the deadline.

hopefully...

nabisco sounds like he might have run into some challenges, and it's been a week since his last update. no recent word from elvis telecom either but he's just mixing so maybe not a problem.

oh i can do that yeah

please let me know how you want to be credited on this as well

superhuman troglodyte vs. the spanish nun

featuring ned ragget

t

ned racket

let's pray, brothers (dunno if there are some ladeez involved in this project, actually).
what do we do if there's one or more tracks missing ? the whole project would be ruined !

t

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 15:26 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

you could have been classier about this post

T

I leave the classy to you lj

what do we do if there's one or more tracks missing ? the whole project would be ruined !

we'll improvise. lightning round virtual supergroup.

Speaking of which, I'm yet to read that novel... xp

lightning round virtual supergroup.

ahah. "rock band" online session !

ZS is onboard for the cover

nabisco, elvis, any updates? are you avoiding us?

I will be done today.

yay !
u2's album will be released on the 28th, right ?

march 3 in the US

ok. so it would be great to release it right before them.
maybe we should keep the same album title as theirs to confuse the fans who will try to dl it.

Did you guys ever come up with a title? It's fine if there isn't one, but if a specific title must appear on the cover, now is the time.

same title as the U2 album! has to be!

we thought about "no ilx on the horizon" but I was wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea to stick to the original title (since we kept the original song titles !).

from wikipedia
U2.com later confirmed the album will be released on 27 February 2009 in Ireland, 2 March in the UK and 3 March in North America

no lol on the horizon

did some recording last night, doing some more tonight

last time gr8080 posted on the thread was a month ago. he said he finished his track, did you ever get it n/a?

did I read somewhere gr8080 has gone off the internets because of us?

where did u read that?

I thought I saw somebody post some "gr8080 RIP" message in passing, but I have been known to be and could now be wrong

dude ilxes in spurts, he'll be back eventually

hopefully before friday

i never got anything from grady, this list is still current in terms of songs i actually have:

01 No Line on the Horizon - Curt1s ("I will have mine in by Friday.")
02 Magnificent - m bison ("yo ive got most of a song going, will record vox this week")
03 Moment of Surrender - gr8080 ("yeah mine's done" - submitted?)
04 Unknown Caller - 6335 ("recording tomorrow (feb 25), will hopefully get most of it finished.")
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC ***
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball ***
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a ***
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT ***
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom ("Mixing again tonight." feb 16)
10 Breathe - nabisco ("I might be screwed on this due to houseguests, but I have something written and can hopefully throw it together before they arrive" feb 18)
11 Cedars of Lebanon - ned/edward iii ("song's done, just doing some EQing, will be in by friday deadline")

fyi cedars is a 3 way (n/h) collaboration between ned, ed, and myself

don't let this die

btw, if you want I can retitle one of the tracks I did in Rebirth back in 1997 and mail it to you to substitute for gr8080's track if it doesn't come through

Almost done...

http://www.barrylutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ilxalbumcover.gif

If this doesn't work I can always make an alternate version.

Wait, use this one instead: I cleaned up a few stray pixels at the top border:

http://www.barrylutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ilxalbumcover1.gif

A++++++++++++++++++++++

I knew we could count on you

if ilx was monty python you'd be terry gilliam

lol excellent!

ahah.
only 1 day left... the pressure is on : will we make it ?

Z S, wow!!!

finishing my track tonight no matter what - scrapped what i had before and started over yesterday

hoping everyone makes it in, i'm probably going to be pulling a late nighter tonight for this and i'm already running low on sleep. for you, IMM!

sent

have the whole instrumental, will have tomorrow night in the midnight hour

99% finished, needs a few minor mixing tweaks and i'll send it in around lunchtime

got curtis' tune, sounds nice ... hopefully this afternoon i'll figure out a way to present this to the public. i can just upload the album to sendspace as suggested above and start a new thread for the album release once it's ready; what would be the awesomest is if people could stream the songs too, but i don't really know how to do that unless i upload each song individually to zshare as well

Oh, guys, sorry for sucking on this -- I've been working on it, but like I said upthread, there have been houseguest issues all week, including a toddler sleeping in the room where I'd normally record stuff ...

We said end of the month, right? Cuz my plan was to finish it up tomorrow now that people are gone...

everybody's trying to get theirs in today but I will rep for a nabisco extension due to extenuating houseguests

I'm in final mix mode so will have something to u today n/a

are we taking up dan on his offer to cover gr8080's spot or is anybody in the mood for a lightning round virtual supergroup?

just let me know, it will involve some digging through my hard drive but I have 4 -6 tracks complete enough to fill gaps.

do any of them have the words "moment", "of", and/or "surrender" y/n

Note: if I can't get anything finished pretty early tomorrow morning, I will at least send a recording of me breathing into a microphone and saying "bbbbrrreeeaaaatttthhhheeee" through heavy reverb in a fake Irish accent

that actually would be a good lead-in to the steaming pile of doom skronk omar, ned, & I are dropping.

just sent my track to you, n/a. use the 2nd (shorter) vers if you will

do any of them have the words "moment", "of", and/or "surrender" y/n

n, they are instrumentals

o wait so any random ilxor could intone "moment of surrender" over them that's perfect

if I had a microphone, I would do it myself

maybe we use the instrumental for the initial release than provide a "remix" with vocals?

or maybe ned could read gabbnebb's last post or better yet lj's infamous orgy story

(I'm only half-joking)

loooooooooooooooooooooool that would be mean

moment of suggbander

Just uploaded my track and notified n/a!

nabisco could you send a reverbed-out wav of yourself saying "raspberries" in a carol channing voice

n/a if you want to stream individual songs, use http://www.fairtilizer.com

01 No Line on the Horizon - Curt1s ***
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender - gr8080
04 Unknown Caller - 6335 ***
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC ***
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball ***
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a ***
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT ***
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom ***
10 Breathe - nabisco
11 Cedars of Lebanon - ned/? *

*** are the ones i have now

expecting nabisco and m. bison's contributions in the next 24 hours or so

i don't actually have cedars of lebanon, if someone could actually email an mp3 of it to me it would make my life a lot easier

oh and i'm fine with dan taking gr8080's place

okay so next question: should I submit the spacey 10-minute ambient drone track, the mid-tempo vanilla Rebirth demo track, or the zippy happy house track?

generally the "sound" so far is kind of creepy synth-pop, so whatever you think will fit best with those

is there anything like muxtape left that we could use for streaming purposes? it looks like fairtilizer could be ok for track by track, but it would be nice to be able to have them stream as an "album"

even if i get all the tracks tonight or tomorrow, it's fairly unlikely i'll get this whole thing up and running before sunday at the earliest, because saturday is looking a little crazy for me at this point. if anyone is upset about this i can forward all the tracks on to someone else

Is it seriously still not clear that the final track is Edward III remixing my vocal of Gear's lyric? I mean, just checking and all!

or maybe ned could read gabbnebb's last post or better yet lj's infamous orgy story

No.

could you just make a myspace account? might be too much work

xpost

i understand that, but i'm just saying if someone could email the track to me, so i can tag it with the other tracks, i would appreciate it

sorry, i got confused and thought that this track was done but hadn't been sent to me. i guess i was just thinking of ned's original, unremixed track

n/a, I'm gonna send you the ridiculous dubby track and the Rebirth demo track; I'll leave it up to you as to which one you think fits the vibe of the album better

seederz of lebanon is done, I just have to take the final mix for a ride in the car + I'll shoot it over to you 2nite

lol stay classy ned (sincerely)

I have a RapidShare account, so I could just put the whole works up there for people who want to download.

I think n/a's cool with setting up a fileshare but he's looking for someplace that will stream it online

I could make one giant mp3 once I get all the individual tracks but most free streaming places have a limit on file sizes

nick i think f0ng could stream it somehow?? isn't that how C______ R_______ works?

Co-incidentally, U2 are on BBC1 on the Jonathan Ross Show in a bit. Also for extra lols, JR is demonstrating that awful infra-red "Beamz" gadget...

the thing with fairtilizer is it streams mp3s at their true bitrate. maybe you could make one giant mp3 with spaces? man, wish i had got involved in this!

kk I'm heading home now; n/a, I should be sending you an email in the next 2-3 hrs

ha okay, apparently I deleted some of my old mp3s

fuck I hope Rebirth runs on Vista (I still have the one I'm calling "the Rebirth demo")

kk email sent, so made I don't have the droney nonsense track in mp3 format anymore

maybe you could make one giant mp3 with spaces?

yeah this would not be a problem for me once n/a uploads the mp3s

ok we have a fairtilizer profile now

http://fairtilizer.com/users/ilxor

n/a I just sent you a link to the track

superhuman troglodyte vs. the spanish nun (omar little-ned raggett-edward iii) - seederz of lebanon.mp3

omar/ned, after doing about 16 mixes I ended up sending in the original version, same one you already have

I recorded it quickly so I didn't pay attention to EQ like I should have, and now whatever I do to clean it up seems to make it worse, so I just went with the devil we know

this is the second ilx comp in a row where I get to provide final track space jamz, hootie hoo

uhhhh this song, playing up for lulz is acceptable rite?

we r serius catz

this r serius compilation

you better be taking this dead serious, this is our golden ticket out of this one horse town herr bison

THERE'S A HORSE?

well there was the one I rode in on

well in that case i have submitted my resume and cover letter and lulzy mp3 to n/a for review and approval

so the only track we're waiting on is nabisco's? nice work guyz!

Hi, everyone -- sorry to be the last one getting done, but I have thrown something together and am mixing right now.

Everyone, enjoy the calm before the storm. You're all about to be INTERNET FAMOUS

i will leak this on my blog for 5 US dollars

I don't know if this organization can afford $5

will you work for points y/n

y

awes

hey guys we have secured distribution with the foremost rickroller in the USA, possibly the world

also, go nabisco go

I couldn't give less of a fuck about the real U2 album but I'm dying to hear this.

^^^

lol

Oh -- I emailed mine to n/a like twenty minutes after I posted that about mixing, so it's all done.

yeah i've got links to all the tunes now, i have to download them all, tag them correctly, and then upload them to sendspace or something similar ... look for a link late this afternoon

Excellent, really looking forward to hearing this!

bloggers get ready to start blogging

i'm working on this now actually

for people who didn't provide a "band name" i'm just using their ILX moniker. if you would prefer a different name, please let me know

grimly otm

n/a, once you post the link I'll work on compiling tracks into one file and uploading to fairilizer

did everybody submit their mp3 at 320kbs? cuz this thing deserves the highest audio fidelity possible.

Surely the "band name" for all of these is "U2?"

If you need a different "band name" for mine, for legal reasons, please credit it to "YouToo."

I didn't, oops. I think I can re-encode if I still have the source .WAV as soon as I get out of church.

honestly i'm not going to worry about the bit rate of my tune

fucking itunes, why can't i get these tracks in the right order?

oh i think i fixed it

i'm going to upload a version of this to sendspace now and post the link here when it's done; maybe people could download it and make sure it works and everything looks ok and i'll make the needed changes before we "officially" release this ... don't want anyone to be mad that something wasn't credited correctly

anybody who wants to upgrade theirs to 320kbs for the streaming version can send me a link

aw c'mon n/a I wanna hear you in cee dee qualitay

i am presently converting it to a 320 mp3, just realized i put it in pretty shit quality, will send in like 3 minutes

and now sent to e3

here is draft 1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/krjbh4

haha this is awessss

yessssss

Downloading now!

Just listened to this all the way through - it's really good! Great job everyone!

I'm trying to work at the moment and don't know if this would be the most conducive soundtrack. I'll listen ASAP :)

have listened thru to track 6 so far

all contribs A+

there is a frightening level of mindmeld consistency in fact I suspect these tracks are all the product of crutis sock puppets

... not that I'm on SLSK or similar much these days anyway, but the truly lolsome thing would be if some chump downloads it from me :)

Actually, fuck it, it's worth blasting on to every sharing network I can find just to achieve that. (Which was, in some ways, the whole point of the exercise.) Ha!

hahaha this is dope as fukk guys

"it would be awesome if various music people on this board would each claim one of these song titles, then write and record a song with that title, then put a link to it on this board. the songs don't have to sound like U2 or have anything to do with U2 at all. the u2 album comes out march 3, if we could get this all done before then, it would be awesome. anyone interested?"

^^ this goes in the liner notes obv

This is FUCKING GREAT. You are awesome.

Is the above link for public dissemination yet? Really, this should be being heard by a tonne of folk.

I think n/a wanted ppl to check it out to make there weren't any probs before distributing so maybe we keep it to ourselves + have big launch tomorrow?

also, anyone who didn't submit a 320kbs version has until tomorrow afternoon EST to get it to me, if you want one in the streaming version which will be ready tomorrow night (I have yrs m bison, thx)

Mine is 320kbs, but it's VBR, is that OK?

close enough for rock n roll but I wouldn't turn my nose up at a CBR version if you wanna send one

No problem, I've just mixed the track to 320CBR, but ILX webmail doesn't allow attachments. Do you have an e-mail address I can send it to?

I love y'alls so much for this

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk73/betweenwantsandneeds/innocent_wft.gif

Sorry for dragging down the quality, but per the houseguests excuse, I spent about 30 minutes tossing mine together with crappy direct-in guitars, and I get the feeling the 192 bitrate actually leaves it sounding slightly better than it otherwise might, so ... I'll stick with that, I guess?

(P.S. I am more curious than ever about Tombot's very cool and distinctive approach to reverb.)

I think n/a wanted ppl to check it out to make there weren't any probs before distributing so maybe we keep it to ourselves + have big launch tomorrow?

No worries.

Genuinely, dudes, you all fucking rule.

posted to blog

lol rox did u just leak the fake leak of the u2 album or

hahaha

I kinda feel bad about the cover now. I mean, if the goal is to trick megaU2 fans into downloading it, as soon as they see some lady Bono rising up from the bottom of the ocean and chasing some blue lady wearing sunglasses up a ladder they're going to realize it's not legit.

Z S, you would be amazed how retarded people are

xpost :)

Hmm. "U2 fans" is a large population. So even if the proportion of really fucking stupid ones is the same as it is in any normal population (and you might, if you were being all zingy and ILX about it, say it'd be higher), that's still a shitload of people who might just fall for it, no matter what ;)

should i put the real cover with the post then?

the Z S cover is included in the download right

i dont think the goal is to trick u2 fans is it

i thought the goal was just to be rad

This is not a fake U2 album, it's just a not-U2-covers album inspired by U2 song titles, with varying degrees of whimsy.

just another themed ILX comp basically

i think it's somwhere in between!

it is for our enjoyment!

if a few tards download it all the better

and yeah this is great!!! <3 u all, listening at work

I think you guys should call this comp Us2 - No Line on the Horizon Preinterpreted.

Ok, I'm quoting both you and crut if that's ok and reupping.

People will probably still download it thinking it's U2, though. for real.

if a few tards download it all the better

I think we can all agree on that!

one song in and this is love

I'm gonna leak this thing so hard

Just emailed you a link to the 320kbps version

'breathe' is KILLING me right now

snoball I sent you my email addy

elvis t I got yr file thx

Crutis the crooton told me about this thread. I can't believe it's buried away on the "I Make Music" board. You didn't tell me you'd done a track for this Crutis!

This is ILM creativity at its finest! I am so happy that people have come forth and expressed themselves and made this thing. This is fantastic. Why don't you guys post about this on ILM?

Sorry for dragging down the quality

― nabisco, Sunday, March 1, 2009 4:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nabisco not OTM

okay I am two tracks in and this is fucking grreat

I CAN'T BELIEVE/WHAT A SWELL DUDE I AM

this comp it brings the lulz

srsly you guys, I think this should be sold and we should be making $$$ off of it

btw since I don't know if he's still reading or not, I sent n/a's link to Tombot

NOOOO DAN DON'T PLAY THEIR GAME

I kinda feel bad about the cover now. I mean, if the goal is to trick megaU2 fans into downloading it, as soon as they see some lady Bono rising up from the bottom of the ocean and chasing some blue lady wearing sunglasses up a ladder they're going to realize it's not legit.

― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:47 (Yesterday) Permalink

Z S, you would be amazed how retarded people are

― if you don't stan for something, you will fall for anything (roxymuzak), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:50 (Yesterday) Permalink

xpost :)

Hmm. "U2 fans" is a large population. So even if the proportion of really fucking stupid ones is the same as it is in any normal population (and you might, if you were being all zingy and ILX about it, say it'd be higher), that's still a shitload of people who might just fall for it, no matter what ;)

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:50 (Yesterday) Permalink

should i put the real cover with the post then?

the Z S cover is included in the download right

― if you don't stan for something, you will fall for anything (roxymuzak), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:51 (Yesterday) Permalink

i dont think the goal is to trick u2 fans is it

― max, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:51 (Yesterday) Permalink

i thought the goal was just to be rad

― max, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:52 (Yesterday) Permalink

This is not a fake U2 album, it's just a not-U2-covers album inspired by U2 song titles, with varying degrees of whimsy.

― Curt1s SʨʧhɍȧǜʞƋʭƪƟƢƴťƦǂƽưʚʛƿɩens (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:52 (Yesterday) Permalink

just another themed ILX comp basically

― Curt1s SʨʧhɍȧǜʞƋʭƪƟƢƴťƦǂƽưʚʛƿɩens (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:53 (Yesterday)

is this something to engage in a lot of handwringing over? it's in the wild now. if you want to download it, change the artist title on the files to U2, swap out ZS's artwork for the real stuff, and upload it to yr blog, how are we gonna stop you? this is a lark and anything that brings more lulz is welcome afaic.

I'm glad to have the version w/ everybody's names, I don't think I could upload this to fairtilizer as teh new U2 album. prolly would get yanked off the site with a quickness.

Can't we at least have an I Make Music Myspace page?

i think this should def be use to dupe rubes

there is no handwringing occuring edward

I don't really care about tricking anyone, I think pretty much everything everyone did on here is awesome and shd be heard

Kind of downbeat for a U2 record, ennit?

this basically knocks U2 outta the park tbqfh

we should do more and more of these, albeit with wisely-chosen targets

lol it is probably for the best that my droney 10-minute song isn't on here because Tombot did it way better anyway

when does Relapse come out

I'm still tripping off fucked up shark and dilapidated crocodile

got irl lols from that line, as well as basically all of nabsico's song

dude your song was pretty much straight up genius

holy shit "Cedars of Lebanon" is epic

320kbs update for audiophile dillweeds:

dan - were you able to gen a 320kbs version of "moment of surrender"?

alextc - are you interested in submitting a 320kbs version?

snoball - assume you are sending me one shortly

tom's is 270 VBR - dan, can you ask him if he wants to send a link to a 320kbs version?

nabisco - plz reconsider yr stance, that satire's deep like plush velvet seats and 192kbs makes baby jesus cry

aw thanks dan, I was about to apologize for not delivering on this concept:

Ned's spoken words definitely have to be the closing of the album with some background music or something (eheh, I've just imagined it with a funky synth track a la "thriller"'s vincent price's rap !)

― AleXTC, Friday, January 30, 2009 7:58 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

though it's surprising how much ned sounds like the prince of darkness if you drop his voice a half-step

good stuff dudes

Let joy be unconfined. I am tickled I get to be part of the sendoff track.

E3: how do you want me to get the track to you? (too lazy to scan back thru the thread)

if you can upload the track to sendspace and send me the link thru ILX

I'll also send you my email address if you just wanna straight up send the file as an attachment

This is ILM creativity at its finest! I am so happy that people have come forth and expressed themselves and made this thing. This is fantastic. Why don't you guys post about this on ILM?

― Still More Goth Than Your Cat's Asshole (Bimble), Sunday, March 1, 2009 8:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I guess everybody assumes the site new answers era has debalkanized ILX

this assumption appears faulty

uploading to sendspace now

got it

hey roxy where's yr blog at?

I could go reading through the animal collection thread for it but that would mean reading through the animal collection thread

http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/

helping u

thanking u

maybe this got lost in the sauce but will you ask tom if he can send a 320kbs version, dan?

I asked, haven't heard anything back yet.

I hope that when U2 hears this they all get on a messageboard and debate for 300 posts about whether it is any good

Great melodies, but you're all wankers. And dysfunctional cretins.

nice pants retard

"Magnificient" is just that.

I would like to take this moment to thank n/a

if it were not for him we would all be posting to wdyll, suggban, and rolling ringtone threads right now instead of enjoying sweet ilx jamz

Okay I'm working my way through this comp again and Snoball's "Get On Your Boots" is heavily, heavily classic.

yeah, I like its quasi-foetus everything and the kitchen sink approach, plus it rocks

so I've been messing around with fairtilizer, looks like I can upload the individual tracks and create a streaming playlist out of them

one weird thing is it asks for a country for each track (wtf?)

I've been putting US for everybody, if this offends you please let me know what country you would like to be affiliated with

or maybe I should just make them all ireland lol

I just finished listening to the Snoball track and I was in tears. Sides aching, paralytic laughter -- I was trying to imagine U2 actually doing that at the Grammys.

can someone re-paste the tracklist w/ contributor names

01 No Line on the Horizon - Curt1s
02 Magnificent - m bison
03 Moment of Surrender - HI DERE
04 Unknown Caller - 6335
05 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - AleXTC
06 Get on Your Boots - snoball
07 Stand Up Comedy - n/a
08 Fez - Being Born- TOMBOT ***
09 White as Snow - Elvis Telecom
10 Breathe - nabisco
11 Cedars of Lebanon - omar little/ned raggett/edward iii

320kbs update for audiophile dillweeds:

alextc - are you interested in submitting a 320kbs version?

snoball - assume you are sending me one shortly

tombot - our people have contacted his people

nabisco - plz reconsider yr stance, that satire's deep like plush velvet seats and srsly 192kbs makes baby jesus cry

was a joy to be part of this. lots of great tunes and LOLS on this, crutis track is a fave :)

Tombot said he may contact you later this week; if you want me to pester him, lemme know.

lol @ "stunner shades on social justice"

this is dope so far

I am liking Elvis Telecom's

is there anyway to unzip a file without winzip? the fuckers want me to pay for it.

I would like to take this moment to thank n/a

if it were not for him we would all be posting to wdyll, suggban, and rolling ringtone threads right now instead of enjoying sweet ilx jamz

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Sunday, March 1, 2009 10:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haw i did very little work for this thing and am indebted to you and others for staying on my ass and making sure it actually got done because otherwise it would have just dwindled into the ether

i saw dan linked to this from the U2 thread but maybe we should start a new thread to officially release the album today, since the U2 album comes out tomorrow

I like that idea; we should also link it all over the place.

Tombot said he may contact you later this week; if you want me to pester him, lemme know.

― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Monday, March 2, 2009 12:47 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

does this man not understand the urgency of release dates lol

I have snoball's 320kbs version now.

I've uploaded all of the tracks to fairtilizer except tom's, aleXTC's, and nabisco's. if I don't get anything in the next 5 hours or so I'll just upload the ones I have and put the link to the streaming version here.

is there anyway to unzip a file without winzip? the fuckers want me to pay for it.

― bay bay (a hoy hoy), Monday, March 2, 2009 3:12 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

that's weird, I thought uncompressing zip files was native to PCs & Macs now?

you could probably just download a trial version of some other software like winrar and unzip it.

also, streaming version will be up later today.

7zip 4 life

is there anyway to unzip a file without winzip? the fuckers want me to pay for it.

― bay bay (a hoy hoy), Monday, March 2, 2009 3:12 AM (8 hours ago)

dude just right click and "extract here" instead of actually opening up the winrar software. i had the same problem but that trick lets you bypass paying for it until god knows when

thanking u, will listen in a bit, quite excited actually.

Just listened to this. I'm in awe, it's absolutely brilliant.

ilm thread - this is not "No Line on the Horizon" by U2

facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72605385968

Ha, I only learned about this via Facebook. Looking forward to listening!

Any objections to torrenting the hell out of this?

Not from me!

I can't believe I missed this up until now. Will have to get the mister to download it as I can't play anything on this computer.

Also posted on my blog (w/Rapidshare link) here:
http://www.quartzcity.net/2009/03/02/no-line-on-the-horizon-preinterpreted/

Any objections to torrenting the hell out of this?

I can only speak for myself, but I have no objections. The more people that hear this the better!

i have no problem with anybody doing anything with this

Currently seeding on D3m0noid

Also:

http://digg.com/music/No_Line_On_The_Horizon_preinterpreted

streaming version here:

http://fairtilizer.com/playlists/12270

not sure if this embed code will show up... if you want to add the player to yr lolblog

<iframe name="fairplayer" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="220" height="380" src="http://fairtilizer.com/playlist/12270?fairplayer=large";></iframe>

I just had a friend send me this:

without knowing you were on this i just clicked to download on Demonoid.

It's a sign!

hahaha

In further news, Tom basically said "my DSL is crappy so fuck a 320 kbps". Want me to try twisting his arm?

This is awesome!

tell tom to stop whining and just send the goddamn file, the response should be lulzy

I'm not trying to be the bitrate nazi here, it would just be cool if we had 320kbs from everyone. you, elvis t, snoball + m bison all resubmitted 320kbs versions, I haven't heard anything from AleXTC or nabisco.

if I get any additional 320kbs versions I'll upload 'em to fairtilizer, and if by a miracle I get all the tracks at 320kbs I'll reup a new version to sendspace.

Guys, shall I host this on my helpful webspace?

Is your site the one where the ILX comps are archived? Speaking for myself I think it would be a good idea.

That's the one.

Personally I say go for it. Although you might have a lot of enraged U2 fans e-mailing you when they download it and it's not U2!

I'll get it sorted.

mark, it's cool if you want to do this, the more places this is out there the better, but before you spend a bunch of time on it be aware that ppl can already download selective tracks from the fairtilizer stream.

Ah, it'll just be one page, with pic and track links, format similar to pages already there.

Be about a week...

I've had 'i'll go crazy...' going round in my head almost solidly for a whole day now. in a good way.

Yeah, some seriously catchy songs on here.

My new thing has been looking for No Line on the Horizon reviews and reading them as if the were done against this compilation.

http://www.go-quick.com/NoLine.html

Yeah, some seriously catchy songs on here.

My new thing has been looking for No Line on the Horizon reviews and reading them as if the were done against this compilation.

― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), vendredi 6 mars 2009 15:48 (1 week ago) Bookmark

Haha awesome

This was a glorious moment, yes.

proud 2 have served

http://hibachibaby.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/salute.jpg

^^^^^

we are veterans, now, aren't we ?

http://www.dublinireland.name/images/bono_salute.jpg

the funny thing is I don't think I have heard the U2 version of "my" track entirely yet (I've heard a snippet in a commercial for ipods or something) and right now, I don't remember at all how it goes !

I've heard about half the chorus of "mine". It goes "get on your boots your sexy boots" or something. Haven't heard any of the other U2 tracks.

proud 2 have served

Also, yes, honoured to have been part of this.

we should do a reunion tour sometime !

ILX should do 1 of these a year.

But U2 only release an album every four years! We should e-mail Bono and get him to send us all U2's unused song titles so we can write piss take parodies.

Maybe whenever ILX Vol. 4 comes out, U2 can take our song titles and mock us instead with their own U2notILX project.

I'm listening to "our" album right now (some friends made me a vinyl edition... might sell well on ebay !).
still great !
is there a major artist/band album expected in the coming months ?

Yeah I didn't mean just U2, like I dunno, the new album by a big act that sucks and deserves the ilx treatment. Red Hot Chili Peppers for ilx2010?

That's a good call. RHCP are probably the only other band/artist that ILX cares about enough to want to do this. In an interview Chad said it would be coming out October 2010. It's a bit far off but OTOH we'll have more time to prepare. And if they release another double album (the previous one had 28 tracks) then more people can get involved.

hum. it's a bit to far to be fun.
aren't there other big releases coming ?

Big list here:
http://www.metacritic.com/music/upcomingreleases.shtml

The only one that sort-of catches my eye that is going to be released soon is Goldfrapp (release scheduled for 23rd March). But there's no track listing yet. And they're not really in the same league as Bono in the "desperately needing a kick in the pants" department. But if people still want to have at U2, then "Songs of Ascent" is due for mid 2010 release. Recorded at the same time as "No Line..." just the title says that it's going to be full of ripe Bono-isms.

aah, too bad white stripes is only a live... interpol maybe ?
there will certainly be great titles to work with !

interpol would be fun, everyone should just do their best ian crutis impression over a variety of backing tracks (ian crutis does super fruity swag rap; ian crutis reads poetry over steve reich's "clapping music"; ian crutis does broadway!)

ahah. sounds good ! but that would make it just a comedy project, wouldn't it ? (which somehow we managed to avoid with "no ilx").
I've just looked at their titles... there's some gold to expect !

2 votes in favor of interpolling this bitch

Poll a shortlist of Interpol, Goldfrapp, and U2?

Goldfrapp and Interpol are both waaaaaaaay to small-time to qualify for this, aren't they?

we should have done this with stadium arcadium, and dan should have done 'hump de bump'

lol

we should do something like Missy Elliott's Block Party IMO

* "Act a Fool" (produced by Soul Diggaz)[5]
* "All 4 U" (featuring Lil Wayne)[6]
* "Best, Best" (produced by Danjahandz)[5]
* "Fire" (featuring T-Pain, produced by T-Pain)[5]
* "Hip-Hop Don't Die" (produced by T. Gooch)[5]
* "Like When You Play the Music" (featuring Jazmine Sullivan, produced by Timbaland)[5]
* "Let's Do It Again" (featuring Amy Winehouse, produced by Timbaland)
* "Love" (produced by Timbaland)[5]
* "Milk & Cookies" (featuring Melanie B., produced by Joshua "Pointguard" Moore)[5]
* "Put It on Ya" (featuring Teyana Taylor & Pharrell, produced by The Neptunes)
* "Shake Your Pom Pom" (produced by Timbaland)[5]
* "Talk That Shit" (featuring T-Pain & Timbaland produced by Timbaland)[5]

definitely not goldfrapp

are there any big hip hop albums coming out this year?

There'll be a sudden Radiohead one, I reckons.

i would say interpol is big enough but only for the fact that many h-words will be looking 4 leakz and we can give them hi quality counterfeit goods

Interpol!

interpol is ok but it's only going to have like 10-12 tracks, right? whereas a hip hop album would have INSPIRATIONAL song titles and like twice as many tracks

^^^ we really need something with more than a dozen tracks so that more people can get involved.

lets do both then

If you want an album with a bazillion tracks, Busta Rhymes is releasing an album next year...

ilx double album bone-anza

ahah. interpoilx Vs Missy Ellilx : FITE !

i would also enjoy - Jamie Foxx 'Body'

Does anyone have links to tracklists for "Body" and Interpol?

yeah, jamie foxx has potential for great titles...
that said, the idea of having two ilx teams "competing" is kinda fun...

can we call it "Sharks vs Jets"?

creeps vs bloods ?

"(Jump The) Sharks vs (Struck By) Jets"

depending on the tracklists, of course, but interpol vs jamie foxx seems like good fun !

it shd be a double album called "there are no atheists in a FOXXPOL"

http://pitchfork.com/news/37630-u2-and-jay-z-record-haiti-benefit-song/

wow, a whole album of this would have been like a dream for us !

http://pitchfork.com/news/37984-interpol-to-tour-with-u2

that seals the deal for an ilx treatment of the coming interpol, right ?

n/a may have had some fun at my expense yesterday, but coincidentally, what's just turned out to be his No Line On The Horizon track came on my iPod Shuffle recently and I'd forgotten what it was...thought I maybe had some A+ rad Brian Eno thing, and was completely taken with it...so, dude, in the spirit of reconciliation, you made some good music

thanks brah

my track for the Wire comp is kind of in the same style, though I don't think I'm quite as excited about it :/

I was just joshing you yesterday

yeah I know - and even if you weren't it was pretty damn funny - am gonna have to release a song by that name at some point

thing is when listening to it I was all 'wha...who uses the horn presets on keyboards' at first, then I was 'hang on, but this is pretty hypnotic', then I was 'hey the fact that someone has used the horn preset and then offset it with groovy syncopated bass is awesome' and finally by the synth solo I was convinced someone had hit on something really valuable

so yeah, if the Wire track manages a build-up half as epic as this it'll have been worth it tbh

n/a your Lowdown cover is so fucking good

hey thanks! I was pretty happy with the music; it's a little more "boring" (ie longer and fewer parts) than the songs I normally do but I feel like it's kind of a grower. I'm still not crazy about the vocals; I did the singing first and it didn't sound how I wanted it (my voice isn't low or weighty enough) so then I tried the robot vocals but it seemed kind of cheap so then I "compromised" and left both in when I probably should have just committed to one or the other.

I've probably linked this somewhere before but all the home recording stuff I do is at http://scarequotes.net.

it shd be a double album called "there are no atheists in a FOXXPOL"

― thank u 4 being a fiend (m bison), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:16 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

this can still happen y'all

have listened to most of it and n/a's music is straight fire

Thanks!

have heard it all now. awesome. it can be done!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10154682.stm

Glastonbury had been attempting to book U2 for many years and their appearance was expected to be a highlight of the event's 40th anniversary.
The band said they had written a new song for the occasion.
"I'm heartbroken," he said. "We really wanted to be there to do something really special."

ILX: let's all write a song about U2 playing/not playing at Glastonbury?

ILX: let's be the last minute stand-in for U2!

written a new song

"Fields of Gold Excrement" by Sting Paul Hewson

"Holy Shit, We Are At Glastonbury" by U2

"Scrape Off Your Boots"

"No Line On for toilet paper extends to The Horizon"

"Ciders of Lebanon"

so is this on the internet anywhere? i was lookin' and whatnot.