No Line On The Horizon (Alternate Tracklist)

[mikal]

i know...i know....this album is so good, it almost seems sac religious to put it in an alternate tracklist. but i have always found it fun to make alternate tracklists.....kind of change history.

this is something i tried last night, and it worked very well. i based it on a rumored tracklist i saw in early January. obviously, White As Snow wasn't listed, but Every Breaking Wave was, so i just swapped those songs. i also swapped Fez - Being Born for Tripoli, since U2.com confirmed that they are the same song. the only thing that frustrated me is that i just couldn't find a home for Stand Up Comedy in this tracklist. personally, that's fine because it's my least favorite song on the album. but if you're a huge fan of Stand Up Comedy, then this may not be for you.

here's what i came up with:

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


a couple of notes:

- Fez - Being Born is such a great opener. it really reminds me of Zooropa in this spot.

- i couldn't split up the Magnificent-MOS-UC trio. it's just too strong.

- NLOTH and GOYB flow especially well, and IGCIIDGCT works very well in the 7th slot

- tracks 8-11 are gold



now please don't diss it until you try it.

 

[zoocarolina]

i know...i know....this album is so good, it almost seems sac religious to put it in an alternate tracklist. but i have always found it fun to make alternate tracklists.....kind of change history.

this is something i tried last night, and it worked very well. i based it on a rumored tracklist i saw in early January. obviously, White As Snow wasn't listed, but Every Breaking Wave was, so i just swapped those songs. i also swapped Fez - Being Born for Tripoli, since U2.com confirmed that they are the same song. the only thing that frustrated me is that i just couldn't find a home for Stand Up Comedy in this tracklist. personally, that's fine because it's my least favorite song on the album. but if you're a huge fan of Stand Up Comedy, then this may not be for you.

here's what i came up with:

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


a couple of notes:

- Fez - Being Born is such a great opener. it really reminds me of Zooropa in this spot.

- i couldn't split up the Magnificent-MOS-UC trio. it's just too strong.

- NLOTH and GOYB flow especially well, and IGCIIDGCT works very well in the 7th slot

- tracks 8-11 are gold



now please don't diss it until you try it.

This is why I love the ITUNES Playlist function, I like your mix and here's mine with Winter, I think it should have been on the album:

1. No Line On the Horizon (wish this was the 1st single)
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. Winter
9. Fez - Being Born
10. White As Snow
11. Breathe
12. Cedars Of Lebanon
13. NLOTH 2

Minor changes and just over 1 hour!

 

[mikal]

^^^^^^^^

good call. that's exactly where i placed Winter on my normal playlist. it works really well there.

 

[U2girl]

Breathe on 5th spot. It gets a strong song at no.5, it works with the up-tempo middle section and it leaves the closing with FEZ/White as snow/Cedars of Lebanon.

 

[mikal]

Breathe on 5th spot. It gets a strong song at no.5, it works with the up-tempo middle section and it leaves the closing with FEZ/White as snow/Cedars of Lebanon.

that's not a bad idea, though i really love having Breathe next to last.

 

[rymyx]

1. Fez
2. Magnificent
3. Moment of Surrender
4. Unknown Caller
5. No Line on the Horizon
6. Breathe
7. Get on Your Boots
8.Stand Up Comedy
9. Crazy Tonight
10.White as Snow
11. Mercy
12. Cedars of Lebanon

 

[chocky]

My favourite album endings are: Exit/MoTD, Acrobat/Blindness, Please/WUDM, Electric Co/Shadows.

For this album I'd prefer Fez-Being Born/Cedars which has a similar feel. So I've shifted Fez-BB to 2nd last track, added Winter at 8 and moved Breathe to 9.

 

[lazarus]

Fez isn't catchy or inviting enough to open the album. Even Zooropa's title track has a hook once it kicks in.

 

[MMP]

I don't make alternate tracklists, I've always heard the albums in the order they were intended to.
But a few days ago, I thought about this for fun:

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

 

[CDFallon]

1 Breathe
2 No Line On The Horizon
3 Crazy Tonight
4 Unknown Caller
5 Get On Your Boots
6 Stand Up Comedy
7 White As Snow
8 Moment of Surrender
9 Fez-Being Born
10 Magnificent
11 Cedars of Lebanon

 

[Acrobat51829]

1. Fez-Being Born
2. Magnificent
3. Unknown Caller
4. No Line on the Horizon
5. Breathe
6. Get On Your Boots
7. Stand Up Comedy
8. IGCIIDGCT
9. White As Snow
10. Moment of Surrender
11. Cedars of Lebanon

 

[cdirani]

I'm happy with the current official tracklisting, and wouldn't include Winter, neither Mercy. Mercy is cool, but would be a re-hash of Bomb.

 

[dan_smee]

1. Unknown Caller
2. Fez-Being Born
3. IGCIIDGCT
4. Magnificent
5. Moment of Surrender
6. Get On Your Boots
7. White As Snow
8. No Line on the Horizon
9. Stand Up Comedy
10. Winter
11. Breathe
12. Cedars of Lebanon

 

[Gonna Run 2 U]

1) Breathe
2) No Line On The Horizon
3) Winter
4) Magnificent
5) Get On Your Boots
6) Moment Of Surrender
7) Crazy Tonight
8) Unknown Caller
9) Fez-Being Born
10) White As Snow
11) Stand Up Comedy
12) Cedars Of Lebanon

 

[mikal]

here's a new one i'm listening to. now that we have the studio version GOYB with the extended live intro, i think it works very well as the opener:

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

 

[Laugend]

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

That's how I listen the album !

 

[adypole]

fez-being born
stand up comedy
get on your boots
magnificent
breathe
moment of surrender
unknown caller
white as snow
no line on the horizon
cedars of lebanon.


I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight

 

[mikal]

Sea/Sky try it.

Sea:

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Breathe
4. Stand Up Comedy
5. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
6. Get On Your Boots (Extended Intro mp3)

Sky:

1. Fez Being Born
2. Unknown Caller
3. Moment Of Surrender
4. White As Snow
5. Winter
6. Cedars Of Lebanon

 

[dan_smee]

See, as much as people hate the idea, with the extended intro, GOYB would also be a good opener...

I still don't think it'd be the best opener, but it is interesting to make a playlist with it opening.

Also is very intersting to listen through with Unknown Caller ending the album on the solo

01. GOYB (extended intro)
02. Magnificent
03. Winter
04. Fez-Being Born
05. Moment of Surrender
06. Crazy Tonight
07. Stand up
08. No Line on the Horizon
09. White as Snow
10. Breathe
11. Cedars of Lebanon
12. Unknown Caller

I'll just qualify: at the end, there needs to be a solid 20 seconds of silence between COL and UC, as well as a much longer bird sequence at the start of UC

 

[RademR]

1. Breathe
2. Magnificent
3. Moment of Surrender
4. Unknown Caller
5. White as Snow
6. Get on Your Boots
7. I'll go Crazy if I don't go Crazy tonight
8. Fez - Being Born
9. Winter (reworked a little bit)
10. No Line on the Horizon
11. Cedars of Lebanon

leave off SUC

 

[theoriginal]

I'm happy with most of the running order, but I ALWAYS skip GOYB, and though I like Stand Up Comedy, I don't think it fits anywhere, so:

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. Winter
7. Fez -Being Born
8. White As Snow
9. Breathe
10. Cedars of Lebanon

 

[dafish1234]

NLOTH is the best album opener I could think of. I think you can't split up Crazy Tonight and Get on Your Boots- I think they are companion pieces. I think if I could I'd split up Magnifcent, Moment of Surrender and Unknown caller- or at least the latter two- they are quite long and epic and maybe a bit of a break would work. But not with any of the other songs on this album really....

 

[mikal]

Sea/Sky try it.

Sea:

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Breathe
4. Stand Up Comedy
5. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
6. Get On Your Boots (Extended Intro mp3)

Sky:

1. Fez Being Born
2. Unknown Caller
3. Moment Of Surrender
4. White As Snow
5. Winter
6. Cedars Of Lebanon

i'm tweaking this a little:

Sea:

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Get On Your Boots (Extended Intro mp3)
4. Stand Up Comedy
5. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
6. Breathe

Sky:

1. Fez Being Born
2. Unknown Caller
3. Moment Of Surrender
4. White As Snow
5. Winter
6. Cedars Of Lebanon

 

[Rafiennes]

i'm tweaking this a little:

Sea:

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Get On Your Boots (Extended Intro mp3)
4. Stand Up Comedy
5. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
6. Breathe

Sky:

1. Fez Being Born
2. Unknown Caller
3. Moment Of Surrender
4. White As Snow
5. Winter
6. Cedars Of Lebanon

Digging this version.
very much.

 

[mikal]

Digging this version.
very much.

awesome! it's really a fun way to listen to the album.

 

[Rafiennes]

awesome! it's really a fun way to listen to the album.

I'm afraid that this album will go the way the last two did for me -- alternate tracklistings.

 

[mikal]

I'm afraid that this album will go the way the last two did for me -- alternate tracklistings.

i absolutely love the tracklisting the band chose for this album. for me, alternate tracklists are just a lot of fun. i have a running playlist for alternate tracklists for each album on ITunes.

 

[Rafiennes]

i absolutely love the tracklisting the band chose for this album. for me, alternate tracklists are just a lot of fun. i have a running playlist for alternate tracklists for each album on ITunes.

I think I remember seeing yours for the last two albums.

I did the two albums and made an EP in between. Too much free time.

 

[U2opra]

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

 

[CoachMcQuade]

Would someone fill me in on "Winter" and the "Extended Intro version" of GOYB? Wondering where to find these...