Why do they switch places for 40?

 

It's just something they have always done for that song.

I'm trying to get the uber. but it looks like I'm getting the Super Deluxe

It's just something they have always done for that song.

 

Yeah, I know I just don't understand why.

 

btw, i found some high quality videos for all the news songs: Ps- North Star almost sounds recorded!

 

Return Of The Stingray Guitar (Bono apparently likes to flip people off for no reason and then apologize immediately afterwards. :laugh3:)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8HJAfkc5_0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8HJAfkc5_0[/ame]

 

North Star (sorta sounds like Moving To Mars, I dunno)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVgafAy_4o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVgafAy_4o[/ame]

 

Glastonbury (Doesn't quite sound finished to me)

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Every Breaking Wave (Likely the next single)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4bxb0d_uM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4bxb0d_uM[/ame]

I'm trying to get the uber. but it looks like I'm getting the Super Deluxe

 

Join the club!

For viewers in the UK the chance to see U2: From The Sky Down a 90 minute film on the creation of Achtung Baby is to be screened on BBC 1 on Sunday night at 10.25pm.

 

 

 

"Imagine presents a feature-length documentary about the making of U2's seminal album Achtung Baby.

 

Early in 2011, U2 returned to Hansa Studio in Berlin to discuss the making of Achtung Baby in this film directed by Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim (It Might Get Loud, Waiting for Superman, An Inconvenient Truth). From The Sky Down was then selected to open the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September, the first ever documentary to open the festival in its 36-year history.

 

Twenty years after the 1991 release of Achtung Baby, Davis Guggenheim traces the album's genesis using animation and previously unseen footage from Berlin and Dublin alongside interviews with the band as they reflect on what was a key chapter in their career.

'In the terrain of rock bands - implosion or explosion is seemingly inevitable. U2 has defied the gravitational pull towards destruction... this band has endured and thrived. From The Sky Down asks the question why.' Davis Guggenheim."

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01606rx

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lc_taZ0GbU&feature=related]U2.COM : Trailer "From The Sky Down" - YouTube[/ame]

Fully recommend that documentary From The Sky Down. Just watched it and it was fascinating.

quite an interesting watch. & i like the programming schedule that was done such that the highlights of U2's Glasto debut was shown right after the docu. nice continuity.

 

any idea if this will/is available on DVD? or do i need to resort to alternative means to get a copy?

I did not like From the Sky Down that much. I felt it to be...too pretentious. All they talked about was how hard they had it, that they weren't gelling with very little focus on the music. I wanted to hear the stories behind the songs and the only one we really got was 'One' and 'Mysterious Ways' the latter simply because it and One were combined.

 

I wanted to hear about Edge's divorce more and how they wrote Wild Horses and So Cruel from that. I wanted to see more about the tour and how they took the world by storm. To me this was a continuation of Rattle and Hum, all the pretentious carried over.

 

I thought for sure this would have been better than PJ20, but it doesn't even come close...Pearl Jam tell the stories behind their early stuff, show old tour footage and talk about their feeling. U2 do not. They really need to never make a documentary again, this is their second fail at it.

I did not like From the Sky Down that much. I felt it to be...too pretentious. All they talked about was how hard they had it, that they weren't gelling with very little focus on the music. I wanted to hear the stories behind the songs and the only one we really got was 'One' and 'Mysterious Ways' the latter simply because it and One were combined.

 

I wanted to hear about Edge's divorce more and how they wrote Wild Horses and So Cruel from that. I wanted to see more about the tour and how they took the world by storm. To me this was a continuation of Rattle and Hum, all the pretentious carried over.

 

I thought for sure this would have been better than PJ20, but it doesn't even come close...Pearl Jam tell the stories behind their early stuff, show old tour footage and talk about their feeling. U2 do not. They really need to never make a documentary again, this is their second fail at it.

 

Didn't get an ounce of pretentiousness from the documentary. I can't say I was too interested about Edge's break up so I'm glad that wasn't pressed on much. Don't think the coming about of Who's Gonna Ride and So Cruel would interest many either. Thought it was a very good documentary. Would have liked them to have concentrated more on the creation of Zoo TV though.

From the Sky Down should have been called Rattle and Hum Pt. 2. I mean come on, Edge singing a ballad solo? Wonder where I saw that before...

 

U2 were very impersonal once again with this one and I don't believe they are capable of that...Bono at least. He leads this film obviously, but I found myself getting angry at how much crap he was spewing. The film starts off slow, picks up a bit but filters off into mediocrity.

 

I would have loved it if I had not seen PJ20. First off they got Crowe to do it, a film for the fans by the fans. In no way was it all Eddie talking either. In fact he wasn't in the film for the first 20 minutes! They actually had good interviews, good archival footage and used it right. They set out to tell a story and they did it right. U2 failed at it. After seeing PJ20 I feel in love with songs that "wouldn't interest many", they knew the songs and stories behind them would hook the audience, not just hardcore fans.

 

U2 beat One over the head with an Iron pole till I wanted to smash my tv. Pearl Jam barely talked about the writing of Jeremy or Alive, there was little mention of Black aside from a brief powerful interview from Vedder coupled with a performance.

 

If U2 had actually gone into the stories behind the songs, mixed them with footage of the songs. Showed the tour and the affected it had on them. Adam's drinking problem and how it really nearly ended them. Once again Edge's divorce is what fulled the album, so the fact they didn't touch on it was the worst thing they could do.

 

It should not have been Bono leading the film, had it been a Joshua Tree Doc then yes. This album is all Edge start to finish. The film drowned the band in Bono. Pearl Jam really made them look bad.

Favorite U2 song? Hmmm...

Well I have Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree, and I have heard some stuff from earlier/later albums...

I really like Pride, and Where The Streets Have No Name, and Until The End of The World.

As well as Vertigo. I'm sorry but I have to. :D

I am astonished and very appreciative for U2's homage to Vaclav Havel, a tribute to a great man and great thinker for our modern times:

With Or Without You, One, Where The Streets Have No Name, Elevation, Vertigo, Discotheque, Mofo, Beautiful Day, etc, etc...

Yep, U2 has made many epic songs. My favourites are ONE and Pride (in the Name of Love) and With or Without you. But the other ones mentioned above are great as well.

 

And I am glad that they appreciate great people like the late Vaclav Havel and the opposition leader in Burma / Myanmar.

Since I am a big enough fan to know every studio release, my favorite tunes are; The Fly, Zooropa, Miracle Drug, Last Night On Earth, Running To Stand Still, Gloria....there's just so many! :D

Heartland, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Original of the Species, City Of Blinding Lights, Gloria, Sweetest Thing, Bad, etc.

From the Sky Down should have been called Rattle and Hum Pt. 2. I mean come on, Edge singing a ballad solo? Wonder where I saw that before...

 

U2 were very impersonal once again with this one and I don't believe they are capable of that...Bono at least. He leads this film obviously, but I found myself getting angry at how much crap he was spewing. The film starts off slow, picks up a bit but filters off into mediocrity.

 

I would have loved it if I had not seen PJ20. First off they got Crowe to do it, a film for the fans by the fans. In no way was it all Eddie talking either. In fact he wasn't in the film for the first 20 minutes! They actually had good interviews, good archival footage and used it right. They set out to tell a story and they did it right. U2 failed at it. After seeing PJ20 I feel in love with songs that "wouldn't interest many", they knew the songs and stories behind them would hook the audience, not just hardcore fans.

 

U2 beat One over the head with an Iron pole till I wanted to smash my tv. Pearl Jam barely talked about the writing of Jeremy or Alive, there was little mention of Black aside from a brief powerful interview from Vedder coupled with a performance.

 

If U2 had actually gone into the stories behind the songs, mixed them with footage of the songs. Showed the tour and the affected it had on them. Adam's drinking problem and how it really nearly ended them. Once again Edge's divorce is what fulled the album, so the fact they didn't touch on it was the worst thing they could do.

 

It should not have been Bono leading the film, had it been a Joshua Tree Doc then yes. This album is all Edge start to finish. The film drowned the band in Bono. Pearl Jam really made them look bad.

 

I don't know how big a U2 fan you are or how much you have read about them, but if you would like to know more "behind the scenes" then you're going to have to read about it. Their history has already been hashed and re-hashed out many times over the years in several books.

 

I recommend reading "U2: At The End of the World" by Bill Flanagan. That was the U2 Bible about the band and behind the scenes during the Zoo TV tour until the book "U2 by U2" (by U2) came out. Also there is a book called "U2 Into The Heart - The stories behind every song" by Niall Stokes.

 

Maybe that's why they didn't go through the whole story...it would take too long. From The Sky Down was more about the death of the Joshua Tree, and then transitioning into and finding their new sound for their next album. Basically how was Achtung Baby conceived...not what you were hoping it was. And that if the band had never created One and had not discovered their new sound, it was going to be U2's death nail. That one song was a huge pivot point in their history...that's why there was such a huge focus on it in the movie.

 

Happy Reading! ;)

With or Without You

I love U2

Got the Achtung Baby super deluxe package for Christmas! Love it! 6 CDs and 4 DVDS and a lovely hardback book along with 16 art prints of the 16 images that comprise that front cover of the album! Justified presentation of one of the best albums of all time.

Ahh, sounds swweeet!

Caution! Achtung! Attention! :biker:

Got the Achtung Baby super deluxe package for Christmas! Love it! 6 CDs and 4 DVDS and a lovely hardback book along with 16 art prints of the 16 images that comprise that front cover of the album! Justified presentation of one of the best albums of all time.

 

Same here!

 

Of course I would have loved to have gotten the uber set, but after what Paul McGuinness said this past June in Rolling Stone and after how much they charged for it, I said Paul can stick it where the sun don't shine!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502Box-QwNs]U2 Auld Lang Syne / Where The Streets Have No Name 1990 - YouTube[/ame]

I saw U2 live in concert last summer, it was a great experience. My favorite song by them is Walk on.

for the netherlands: on ned 3 1th januari from the sky down at 10 pm