Found a longer version of North Star from Transformers

[Registered Dude]

About 2:30 seconds of it.

Kinda crappy quality, But most we've heard to this point I think..

 

[DaveC]

this song sucks.

 

[Hollow Island]

I like the music quite a bit but Bono's melody isn't very good and the lyrics are awful. The chorus is jarring but with a bit of tightening this could be a pretty good song. I'd love it if they had a mellotron based album

 

[mikal]

Man. This place sometimes. Like occasionally it’s cool to hear something new.

 

[DaveC]

it might be cool to hear something new but that doesn't necessarily mean that the song is any good.

 

[Hewson]

a bit of tightening

 

[ChargedVT]

Yeah that's direct from the movie with the talking and background noiss edited out. It sounds like bits of the song stuck together out of order and with vocals missing.
I'm still amazed this didn't least appear on the movie soundtrack.

 

[lazarus]

with a bit of tightening

something something Lance's Mom

 

[LuckyNumber7]

this song sucks.

Disagree. Just turn off the microphone and it’s a good song.

 

[zoocarolina]

About 2:30 seconds of it.



Kinda crappy quality, But most we've heard to this point I think..

Thx for sharing, interesting and definitely a WIP, would be shocked if we ever see a full completed version, perhaps on a box set eventually

 

[Sickly Vulpine]

Thanks for posting the clip, I recall seeing a video with all the background noise included(characters talking?)around the time the flick was released.

This may not be a popular opinion, but the song does absolutely zero for me(live versions included) and I would genuinely detest it being on a future studio album. I find it funny for a song titled North Star that the song really has little direction and seems to go almost nowhere. That they decided to toss it away on some bloated, trashy, cgi michael bay brain dead epic piece of shit seems totally apt to me. It would seem to indicate they never truly bought into the song. It just sounds so generic and bland. Again, just my two cents. If it floats your boat, more power to you.

What I would actually be cool with is the track showing up on some sort of odds and ends type release so that we can have a proper listen. That, or perhaps they may try to tackle the song again by re-recording it for a bonus track, B-side or something. I just don't really don't want it to take up space on a studio album....at least not in the states it was presented in.

 

[HansaTonImbiss]

On the spectrum of cringe-worthy Bono lyrics, and let's face it, there are endless candidates, "Here I am, a space cowboy" is up there with "Candy floss, Ice cream!" as one of the very worst. Just a disaster. This song was never any better than a B-side, which is shocking to me since I feel it (or at least the title) was bouncing around for years. Wasn't this what they worked on with Michael W. Smith?

 

[gweeps]

I always liked the acoustic version.

 

[Hollow Island]

"Here I am, a space cowboy"


oh my god


he's still a child. no-one tells him "no"

 

[The John Tree]

I'm in the minority here in that I actually love the song and the lyric. To me, it's one of the better vocal melodies they've written in recent years and the "I can't wait, I can't wait..." part does it for me. I'd love to hear a form of this recorded in the future.

That said, this version seems overwrought, musically, and they didn't get a very good vocal take from Bono.

An acoustic re-recording, a la "Flower Child," would sound lovely.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

"Here I am, a space cowboy"


oh my god


he's still a child. no-one tells him "no"

Should have gone with Maurice instead

 

[The_acrobat]

Should have gone with Maurice instead

That literally made me LOL

 

[The Disciple]

Thanks for sharing this!