U2's New Single: 'Blow Your House Down'

[sue4u2]

From @U2:

U2's New Single: 'Blow Your House Down'
Posted: November 04, 2011
By: Matt McGee / @mattmcgee

U2 has released a single to help support this week's 20th anniversary release of Achtung Baby. "Blow Your House Down," a track that appears on the 2CD, Super Deluxe and Uber Deluxe versions of Achtung Baby, was sent to North American radio stations as a digital download last week. We don't know the exact date, but a source in radio tells us it was before Halloween. The song is already getting some airplay on Classic Rock and Triple-A (Adult Album Alternative) stations, too.

Releasing a single isn't a huge surprise, but the choice of "Blow Your House Down" is. Bono had previously mentioned that he was pushing to get "Even Better Than The Real Thing (Fish Out Of Water Remix)" released as the single supporting Achtung Baby.

Matt McGee, @U2 Founder/Editor
U2 Home Page: @U2 - U2 News, U2 Lyrics, U2 Photos and more!

This was emailed to me at 4pm???

 

[brooklynmike]

Yeah, I just saw this. Was this announced anywhere at all?

 

[sue4u2]

Can't access U2.com.
Page is frozen and won't load.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

Can't access U2.com.
Page is frozen and won't load.

typical

 

[Galeongirl]

I checked U2.com a few minutes ago, nothing there. Strange way to promote a single, completely not hyping it. Very non Bono.

 

[sue4u2]

typical

yeah.
It won't be confirmed by them untill everyone has it.
(one way or another)

 

[sue4u2]

How convenient. Just saw a commercial for Acthung Baby at Best Buy.
Almost got whiplash.

Something's happening.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

How convenient. Just saw a commercial for Acthung Baby at Best Buy.
Almost got whiplash.

Something's happening.

you were @ BB and saw the commercial, OR you saw a BB / AB commercial on tv?

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Early version of EBTTRT? Reminds me of Where Did It All Go Wrong...

 

[sue4u2]

you were @ BB and saw the commercial, OR you saw a BB / AB commercial on tv?

Sorry, worded that wrong.
Commercial for BB for Achtung Baby re-release. on tv.
(MSNBC)

 

[gvox]

"Bono had previously mentioned that he was pushing to get "Even Better Than The Real Thing (Fish Out Of Water Remix)" released as the single supporting Achtung Baby."

Thank god saner heads prevailed.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

She's goe-na-blow-ya house down.

 

[digitize]

I've actually had the chorus to that song stuck in my head all day.

I just checked the local AAA station (they're fairly friendly to U2), but they haven't played it. One, Mysterious Ways, and EBTTRT have a few plays a piece, but that's normal for this station.

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

EveRy BoDy hearts a weiner

 

[Zooropa man]

Not even in the "Top 200" on iTunes yet...

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Not even in the "Top 200" on iTunes yet...

From my understanding it was released a few hours ago. Breathe!

 

[Zooropa man]

From my understanding it was released a few hours ago. Breathe!

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

so is it in the bottom 200 yet?

 

[nathan1977]

Don't see it in the store...

 

[brkngrrl]

I found in itunes store and purchased for $1.29

 

[Danny Boy]

I found in itunes store and purchased for $1.29

It's only in the store as an album cut, no?

 

[Steved1998]

Bono:

 

[theedgeu2]

Bono:

 

[Niceman]

It's only in the store as an album cut, no?

Looks like it.

 

[cseggleton]

Looks like it.

again how does the best band ever still have the toughest time ever releasing asingle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Danny Boy]

again how does the best band ever still have the toughest time ever releasing asingle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, their label recently said they weren't releasing singles anymore for one.

 

[U2girl]

"Bono had previously mentioned that he was pushing to get "Even Better Than The Real Thing (Fish Out Of Water Remix)" released as the single supporting Achtung Baby."

Thank god saner heads prevailed.

Or not.

 

[U2girl]

Well, their label recently said they weren't releasing singles anymore for one.

Not releasing singles in the CD format.

 

[PookaMacP]

Sounds to me like a good old 'radio single'. That concept's been around for years to promote something without necessarily releasing it as a proper, purchasable single. To give one example from U2's past, 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' was also released as a radio single, but never as a physical single, when the MDH Soundtrack came out back in spring 2000. I can remember hearing it on radio a few times around that time but nothing that made a big dent in the public consciousness. And there have been numerous other radio promo singles - 'Lemon' too got a radio edit without a CD single release, as far as I can remember.

So nothing to get too excited about, and nothing to get too disappointed about when nothing much happens and people here begin to say 'why don't they promote this properly', etc, etc, etc. (Not that that will stop Interference's usual hyper reaction...)

 

[bonocomet]

Sounds to me like a good old 'radio single'. That concept's been around for years to promote something without necessarily releasing it as a proper, purchasable single. To give one example from U2's past, 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' was also released as a radio single, but never as a physical single, when the MDH Soundtrack came out back in spring 2000. I can remember hearing it on radio a few times around that time but nothing that made a big dent in the public consciousness. And there have been numerous other radio promo singles - 'Lemon' too got a radio edit without a CD single release, as far as I can remember.

So nothing to get too excited about, and nothing to get too disappointed about when nothing much happens and people here begin to say 'why don't they promote this properly', etc, etc, etc. (Not that that will stop Interference's usual hyper reaction...)

Breathe got one too from NLOTH. It was a slightly different version than the album version. I heard it once, and that was it, never to be heard again!