Unknown song rehearsed in Gothenburg 31st of July

[stesson]

I was standing in queue outside the stadium in Gothenburg and listened to the soundcheck. They played Until the end of the world, No line on the horizon (x2) and Breathe. But they also played another song which I have never heard before. Does anyone know what song that was?

 

[mikal]

no, i've been trying to find some info on it, but it's very hush hush, no one really knows what they played.

 

[Gilead12]

Every Breaking Wave

OMGZ!!

 

[mikal]

one thing i mentioned the other day is that the band could be trying to work on or finish SOA while on the road. once the 1st leg of the tour is done with, the band could easily go in the studio for a week and lay down some stuff they rehearsed.

 

[gareth brown]

they did Zooropa on the road. Some of the title track [if not others, i dunno] was actually recorded during a soundcheck so I wouldn't put it past them.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

I heard it was a song called "crazy boots (the show is better from your PC)"

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

It would be awesome if they started recording some new songs during soundchecks. It would be very New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

Hopefully we will soon find out more about this mystery song.

 

[djerdap]

I heard it was a song called "crazy boots (the show is better from your PC)"

And no, I am not laughing at that goofy title, but the fact that - what does this have to do with anything?

Back to the topic, an album like New Adventures in Hi-Fi (recording songs at soundchecks for those who haven't heard it - one of my favourite R.E.M. records) would bring a fresh approach to U2. Maybe they wouldn't overthink things too much this time and release the album quick.

 

[digitize]

Wouldn't it be more difficult to record an album in stadium soundchecks than arena soundchecks, though?

 

[mikal]

And no, I am not laughing at that goofy title, but the fact that - what does this have to do with anything?

Back to the topic, an album like New Adventures in Hi-Fi (recording songs at soundchecks for those who haven't heard it - one of my favourite R.E.M. records) would bring a fresh approach to U2. Maybe they wouldn't overthink things too much this time and release the album quick.

yep. New Adventures is actually one of my favorite albums of all time, and i'm not a very big REM fan.

 

[smileymbcastard]

With todays technology and digital consoles and AD/DA converters and HD recording systems you could record on the fly so why not

 

[subnet]

hmmm, any sight of eno or lanois at these soundchecks?

 

[Galeongirl]

So anyone recorded it?

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

if you call the police make sure they know their name

Back to the topic, an album like New Adventures in Hi-Fi (recording songs at soundchecks for those who haven't heard it - one of my favourite R.E.M. records) would bring a fresh approach to U2. Maybe they wouldn't overthink things too much this time and release the album quick.

i would love for them to do something like this, im also a fan of New Adventures.

Of course it probably wouldn't be a big mainstream chart topping success ...but who gives a fuck? We shouldn't...as long as the music is good. And the band really shouldn't either.

 

[Zooropean103]

Does anyone who heard it can at least describe how it sounds like?

 

[The_Edge89]

What!?!
When the hell did they play this?
Damn GA lady for shouting at us through a megaphone!

 

[No spoken words]

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is criminally underrated.

Would be cool if U2 went down that path.

 

[BVS]

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is criminally underrated.

Would be cool if U2 went down that path.

It has a little fat that could have been trimmed and it's a little disjointed but still a great album.

But I have to wonder if this "unknown song" is the new intro to BD? Hopefully we'll find out...

 

[dan_smee]

After listening a few times, I have my doubts that the new intro to BD is actually a new song. I think it was purpose-built for BD and that is all

 

[bram]

After listening a few times, I have my doubts that the new intro to BD is actually a new song. I think it was purpose-built for BD and that is all

Agreed, it morphs too perfectly with the strings and background BD synths.

 

[LyricalDrug]

Does anyone who heard it can at least describe how it sounds like?

Sort of like, dunt dunt DUNT dunnnnn dee dooo, "whoah ohhh OHHHH eeeeie, oohh OH!"

 

[digitize]

Agreed, it morphs too perfectly with the strings and background BD synths.

YouTube - U2 - Running To Stand Still & Where The Streets Have No Name (Zoo TV Live From Sydney)

 

[Galeongirl]

After listening a few times, I have my doubts that the new intro to BD is actually a new song. I think it was purpose-built for BD and that is all

It's not a new song at all. The melody comes from a song U2 played in Antwerp in 2001, called We Love You. We still don't know if it was made up on the spot or not, but the melody is really similar to the new BD intro, which 'coincidentally' also has the lyric 'We love you' in it.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

YouTube - U2 - Running To Stand Still & Where The Streets Have No Name (Zoo TV Live From Sydney)

HEY YOU!

that entire video sends chills up my spine....even to this very day. I remember the first time i watched that on VHS, back in the day, i was completely blown away. "You have got to be fucking kidding me" was probably my response to it all. I knew this band was good, but damn. ZOOTV live f/ Sydney is the mother of all concert video/DVDs. One of the few regrest i have in this lifetime is that i never got to see them on the ZOO tour.

if someone ever invents a time machine, yeah.....

 

[U2Girl1978]

YouTube - U2 - Running To Stand Still & Where The Streets Have No Name (Zoo TV Live From Sydney)

 

[U2Girl1978]

if someone ever invents a time machine, yeah.....

this

 

[dal975]

It's not a new song at all. The melody comes from a song U2 played in Antwerp in 2001, called We Love You. We still don't know if it was made up on the spot or not, but the melody is really similar to the new BD intro, which 'coincidentally' also has the lyric 'We love you' in it.

I knew it rang a bell from somewhere! Thanks for pointing this out. I place We Love You into the same kind of Bono-category as the elevation intro to The Fly ("you go out into the sportshall"). A question I still have though is, on the current We Love You BD intro, what/who is the female soprano voice backing Bono? Along with the obvious backing synth sound, that shows some form of premeditation and production, as opposed to some form of spontaneous Bonovisation on the spot.

ETA: just saw the other thread in audio/video along with video of antwerp. I understand the similarities, but I'm not personally convinced that the 2001 song serves as the musical foundation for the current BD intro. The 2001 version is much more mellow, in the vein of velvet dress. The current We Love You is drenched with more intense passion and purposely builds to a crescendo.

 

[catlhere]

I agree. I don't think the 2001 We Love You and this intro song have anything to do with eachother. Besides just sharing the words "we love you." This intro is purposely built for BD, and probably was supposed to just be some time for Bono to do a little speech about the fans or the band or something, as he did in the first few shows. But he uses it now to play with that little melody in his head of "we looooove you." He has grown quite fond of it obviously, so now they decided to add a voice for him to sing along with. It's just an example of the tour mutating as it rolls along, imo. When a good idea works, they expand upon it.

 

[Niceman]

The 2001 song is "I love you" not "we love you."

"Heard a whole lot of songs when I was growin' up
Whole lot of songs that something something stuck (going from memory)
But I never heard a song, called I love you...
I love you!"

 

[The_Edge89]

Is it ok to openly share some audio of this song that I ripped from bonus material of the multicam DVD bootleg from this show or do we have to do it via PM/E-mail?
Here's some info for starters:

U2 360° Tour - July 31st 2009 - Soundcheck in Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg


Info:
Prior to playing the first of two sold out nights in Gothenburg on its U2 360° Tour in 2009, U2 soundchecked a couple of songs in the stadium; Until The End of The World, Breathe and No Line On The Horizon. Additionally, they went into was seemed to be a spontaneous jam session or perhaps a brief snippet of currently unreleased material? Either way, the following audio was ripped from bonus material of the You_Too multicam video bootleg of this show being shared on U2Torrents using Audacity 1.2.4b.

Length: 02:07 minutes.
Bitrate: 192 kbps (CBR)
Download link: Allowed?

To describe what it sounds like...Edge uses his Epiphone Casino (The guitar for Breathe among others) and plays around with the opening verse chords of Breathe, when he suddenly starts playing another rhythm reminiscent of 11 O' Clock Tick Tock, maintaining the same sound, later blending in what sounds like the Funk Wah-effect from Mysterious Ways. "Do you like it?" Edge asks and Bono replies that he does before going off singing in Bongolease. Larry and Adam joins in for a while near the end providing a beat similar to Salomé. Keep in mind that it was very windy that day and the recording is not as clear as I suppose it could be so some details may have been lost.

Thanks to whoever recorded this!