So if you were up early. Or late. Or just… up, you may have been awake for the brief window of time during which getmusic.com.au, which is Universal Australia’s official download platform (!), accidentally sold mp3 downloads of all of the songs on U2’s No Line on the Horizon, more than a week before its official release. Not just for Australian customers… this international cat used Paypal to legally get her paws on the album.
Brief review? Lovin’ it.
According to atu2.com it wasn’t even the first leak. It’s just that nobody noticed the first one. For a few days, the songs were available individually on Napster Mobile. Apparently, not a whole lot of people use that – legal – service.
We hope you got lucky too. Let us know what you think of the album.
Nice: U2 fans are pleading with the web shop not to fire the guy that caused the leak. (Update: fans’ comments have been removed from the site!)
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Wow! This album is tremendous, and I really think that it was made to play live! Great mix and will be an amazing show! Well done lads…
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Hey, I was really wondering about “Moments of Surrender”, but then I replaced the official version of the 1st track (No Line) with the 2nd version. The 2nd version is so energetic and high powered, that the flow to Magnificent really continues into Moments of Surrender in a different way. Moments suddenly soars, despite it’s slowness. (The 2nd version of No Line is really frenetic in a great way). And then Unknown Caller. WOW.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:48 am
Freaking amazing album. Diverse as never before.
I wrote a detailed review: http://markfreedman.com/index.php/2009/02/21/u2-no-line-on-the-horizon-review/
That rumble, rumble, rumble in “Magnificent” is very reminiscent of “Streets”.
Caroline, the most AB song for me is the title track. Just the mood of the guitar on that one brings me back to it.
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 am
I’m ready to say this: NLOTH is approaching the airspace currently occupied only by Achtung Baby for me. This album keeps getting better and better and better.
I can’t stop listening to Magnificent and Unknown Caller.