Track Listing

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Moment of Surrender
4. Unknown Caller
5. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
6. Get On Your Boots
7. Stand Up Comedy
8. Fez Being Born
9. White As Snow
10. Breathe
11. Cedars Of Lebanon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #701 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 53 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
If you don’t already know what to expect from U2’s twelfth studio album then you’re either a goldfish with Alzheimer’s or newborn, and if that’s the case then there are probably much better places for you to start than No Line On The Horizon. However, for the rest of us this is everything it should be, even if it’s nothing you wouldn’t expect. The lead in single "Get On Your Boots" might have forgotten to pack a chorus and instead crammed in a bewildering mash of Nancy Sinatra, Cameo’s "Word Up" and Led Zeppelin in an effort to reignite the pop art dervishes in them that time washed down the creek, but it does actually get more singularly feisty with every listen. "Stand Up Comedy" is equally absurd ("Stand" by REM/"Love Spreads" by The Stone Roses/generic Red Hot Chilli Peppers in a light funk sandwich), but the album’s not all about them trying to prove their creative audacity. The title track vibrates with the mild threat of modernity and a chest-beating, loud-hailer bravado, "Moment Of Surrender" allows Bono to shed some passion over the measured, subdued backdrop and the triple of "Unknown Caller", "I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight" and "Magnificent" make no bones about being classic U2, ringing chimes reverberating from The Edge’s guitar like endlessly reproducing embryos under the microscope; the kind of stuff that professional obsessives The Killers would, you know, kill for.--James Berry

CD Description
No Line On The Horizon is U2's twelfth studio album, and follows the massive success of 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The first single from the album, "Get On Your Boots", may be an all-out rocker akin to previous successes like "Vertigo", but the remainder of the album sees the band diversifying in ways similar to their Zooropa days. It is inescapably a U2 album, though, so Bono's vocals still speak of injustices personal and global, and The Edge's guitar work continues to be both feathery and metallic in equal dose. As far as continuing the band's lengthy career goes, No Line On The Horizon is simultaneously a crowd-pleaser and musical step forward.

This standard CD version includes No Line On The Horizon in a jewel case, along with a 24 page booklet.

Customer Reviews

U2 can still knock out a magnificent track or two
U2 are still creating some great music.

Although it is a little hard to get the idea out of your mind that Bono is singing about himself in the song 'Magnificent', once you do, you'll find it's a strong song in the U2 'Elevation/Vertigo' sort of vein. '...Crazy Tonight' is my stand-out track though - pity they decided to mess with it (too much, in my opinion) during the live performances. Speaking of which, the first 6 songs of the album are performed regularly during the 360 Tour along with Breathe - the common opener - possibly showing how much the band want to hawk the new album, but i prefer to think that it shows how they are proud of their new stuff just as much as the older (better :-) ) stuff.

In sum,this album is a solid representation of their continued relevance and carries the burden of the epithet 'Biggest Band In The World' without falter.

FANBLOODYTASTIC
I have loved U2 since they were a realitively new band and I have lots of their albums but this one is absolutely amazing. I find it almost impossible to believe but they seem to be able to change usually for the better,(though not always) with each album and even within each album. I have loved them since I was a kid and I love 'em even more as we have grown up almost together! I even have their name in my nickname 'BlarneyU2'

No Line on the Horizon
U2 are one of those bands that have such a fan base so as to merit my review irrelevant, for no matter what I or anyone else says it will not make any difference to the fact that YOU ARE GOING TO BUY THIS. I wouldn't worry too much if I were you because, in short, this album is superb. More of a "complete" album I would say than some of their recent albums, and certainly ticking all the boxes that make U2 what they are - one of the world's greatest bands. No, no, deny it all you want, but U2 are monumental for what they do, and only a fool would discriminate them for their success.

Moving away from the format of single after single of tap-your-feet-along-to-the-beat-please kind of music, U2 have produced a wonderfully vibrant collection of songs that create a whole - rather then the odd stand out track surrounded by misplaced jargon. It's not that U2's recent releases have been poor; it's just that they weren't quite up to the standard of previous classics Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree to name but a couple. The songs here fade from one to the next with graceful precedence, and the album as a whole is a joy to listen to. By no means perfect, however, I did find the production a little heavy at times - probably just my own personal opinion (I have a thing for raw production), but not surprising given Brian Eno's presence at the helm of production, as well as others.

This is an album that will not disappoint, whether you like U2's heavier stuff or their more fragile pensive stuff, it's all here together in one perfectly arranged slice of delight that flows from the disc to your brain with delirious brilliance. I can't recommend it enough - but I doubt I really have to: you will buy this.