1. Still a big fan of this performance

  2. I like every single song on this album still. Bought it on release day. Even the three middle tunes I find myself liking - Boots is one of the best 'heavy' songs they've done so far.

    Not having Winter on it was smart. It showed the materiel was strong enough to not even include it. Though I would have loved them to start with Soon and make it part of Fez/Being Born.

    2008 to 2011 was really the last truly 'great' U2 era. We got this album, some quality B-sides, lesser-played live songs and debuts of some unreleased/later-released prototype songs ...
  3. On the contrary I’ll offer up what could’ve been

    1. Soon
    2. Breathe
    3. Magnificent
    4. No Line on the Horizon
    5. Get on Your Boots
    6. FEZ - Being Born
    7. Moment of Surrender
    8. Unknown Caller
    9. Cedars of Lebanon
    10. Winter

    Silly as it seems to keep Boots, I actually like how Fez calls back the “let me in the sound” part and I like that Soon and Fez would hypothetically kick off two different themes / sides of the album

    Stand Up Comedy is one of the 5 worst songs they ever put on a record
  4. Originally posted by MattG:On the contrary I’ll offer up what could’ve been

    1. Soon
    2. Breathe
    3. Magnificent
    4. No Line on the Horizon
    5. Get on Your Boots
    6. FEZ - Being Born
    7. Moment of Surrender
    8. Unknown Caller
    9. Cedars of Lebanon
    10. Winter

    Silly as it seems to keep Boots, I actually like how Fez calls back the “let me in the sound” part and I like that Soon and Fez would hypothetically kick off two different themes / sides of the album

    Stand Up Comedy is one of the 5 worst songs they ever put on a record
    No line on the horizon and Boots are the weakest songs on the album IMO always skip them the rest are good ,Soon is only a filler song it's more of an interlude it doesn't deserve to be included on an alternative track listing,Winter totally agree with it should have made the cut ✂️.
  5. I can do whatever I want with my fake dream NLOTH lol.

    Because I have nothing else to do, here are the "problem-points" my suggestion addresses:

    -There are two very conflicting styles trying to jive on the record. We have songs that skew more toward traditional U2 rock, and songs that are clearly more brooding and insightful. Crazy Tonight sticks out like a sore thumb and for that reason its been removed. Would have been a fine one-off like Window in the Skies but doesn't belong on this album.

    -No Line on the Horizon is a fine song in my opinion, but its not strong enough to open and set the tone for the album. Soon does a much better job of building anticipation and intriguing the listener, like the first half of the Zooropa title track. The payoff comes in the form of Breathe. In the first 6 minutes of the album, you'd have an indication that this would sound different than U2 ever had before, but would still rock.

    -FEZ is such a wonderful product of experimentation that without any natural context whatsoever, as it exists on the album as we know it, it loses so much of its potential. With its literal reference to Boots, I positioned it to thematically tie the glammy rock thing they're (albeit poorly) experimenting with to the maturity of the second half. This gives the album a more natural-feeling evolution as the more traditional U2 sounds are washed away in FEZ's tide. Moment of Surrender immediately following gives it impact as well - finally, there is consonance.

    -Unknown Caller is probably the weakest song on the album as a whole but it anchors the second half and provides some pulse amidst bleakness. Ending with Cedars of Lebanon works as well as it does on NLOTH because the entire record sounds like its in despair. With a tweak of how its delivered, the message of its spoken-word lyric are still driven home when followed by the uplifting and hopeful Winter.
  6. I tend to like albums to be 10 songs or more but there’s some great albums out there that have less and NLOTH featured some quite long songs on it. I think if they’d released this it would have been solid throughout and still offers 5 of the songs they played live on tour. Looking at they 8 songs in fact it would be right up there. They could have released an EP before the album of Boots, I’ll go crazy, Stand up comedy and I’ll go crazy remix if they were wanting to play a couple of them live still but without changing the feel of the album. In fact they could have just released that EP digitally then as part of the boxset version of the album included it as a separate disc.

    Breathe
    No Line On The Horizon
    Magnificent
    Unknown caller
    Fez/Being Born
    White As Snow
    Winter
    Moment Of Surrender
  7. If you put the NLOTH cd in you pc CDROM drive (...) you get LINEAR the Anton Corbijn film with the right track order (with Winter). I always liked that track order instead of the cd version. Plus NLOTH is overproduced of course. But there are some great tracks on it, could be better If U2 stops with years and years of polishing
  8. 1. "Unknown Caller" 6:19
    2. "Breathe" 4:37
    3. "Winter" 6:18
    4. "White as Snow" 4:47
    5. "No Line on the Horizon" 4:11
    6. "Fez – Being Born" 5:15
    7. "Magnificent" 5:24
    8. "Stand Up Comedy" 3:50
    9. "Get on Your Boots" 3:28
    10. "Moment of Surrender"

    U2 Linear
  9. Cedars of Lebanon was on linear as well, closing track.