let's release the U2 album before U2 releases the U2 album

Surely the "band name" for all of these is "U2?"

If you need a different "band name" for mine, for legal reasons, please credit it to "YouToo."

I didn't, oops. I think I can re-encode if I still have the source .WAV as soon as I get out of church.

honestly i'm not going to worry about the bit rate of my tune

fucking itunes, why can't i get these tracks in the right order?

oh i think i fixed it

i'm going to upload a version of this to sendspace now and post the link here when it's done; maybe people could download it and make sure it works and everything looks ok and i'll make the needed changes before we "officially" release this ... don't want anyone to be mad that something wasn't credited correctly

anybody who wants to upgrade theirs to 320kbs for the streaming version can send me a link

aw c'mon n/a I wanna hear you in cee dee qualitay

i am presently converting it to a 320 mp3, just realized i put it in pretty shit quality, will send in like 3 minutes

and now sent to e3

here is draft 1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/krjbh4

haha this is awessss

yessssss

Downloading now!

Just listened to this all the way through - it's really good! Great job everyone!

I'm trying to work at the moment and don't know if this would be the most conducive soundtrack. I'll listen ASAP :)

have listened thru to track 6 so far

all contribs A+

there is a frightening level of mindmeld consistency in fact I suspect these tracks are all the product of crutis sock puppets

... not that I'm on SLSK or similar much these days anyway, but the truly lolsome thing would be if some chump downloads it from me :)

Actually, fuck it, it's worth blasting on to every sharing network I can find just to achieve that. (Which was, in some ways, the whole point of the exercise.) Ha!

hahaha this is dope as fukk guys

"it would be awesome if various music people on this board would each claim one of these song titles, then write and record a song with that title, then put a link to it on this board. the songs don't have to sound like U2 or have anything to do with U2 at all. the u2 album comes out march 3, if we could get this all done before then, it would be awesome. anyone interested?"

^^ this goes in the liner notes obv

This is FUCKING GREAT. You are awesome.

Is the above link for public dissemination yet? Really, this should be being heard by a tonne of folk.

I think n/a wanted ppl to check it out to make there weren't any probs before distributing so maybe we keep it to ourselves + have big launch tomorrow?

also, anyone who didn't submit a 320kbs version has until tomorrow afternoon EST to get it to me, if you want one in the streaming version which will be ready tomorrow night (I have yrs m bison, thx)

Mine is 320kbs, but it's VBR, is that OK?

close enough for rock n roll but I wouldn't turn my nose up at a CBR version if you wanna send one

No problem, I've just mixed the track to 320CBR, but ILX webmail doesn't allow attachments. Do you have an e-mail address I can send it to?

I love y'alls so much for this

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk73/betweenwantsandneeds/innocent_wft.gif

Sorry for dragging down the quality, but per the houseguests excuse, I spent about 30 minutes tossing mine together with crappy direct-in guitars, and I get the feeling the 192 bitrate actually leaves it sounding slightly better than it otherwise might, so ... I'll stick with that, I guess?

(P.S. I am more curious than ever about Tombot's very cool and distinctive approach to reverb.)

I think n/a wanted ppl to check it out to make there weren't any probs before distributing so maybe we keep it to ourselves + have big launch tomorrow?

No worries.

Genuinely, dudes, you all fucking rule.

posted to blog

lol rox did u just leak the fake leak of the u2 album or

hahaha

I kinda feel bad about the cover now. I mean, if the goal is to trick megaU2 fans into downloading it, as soon as they see some lady Bono rising up from the bottom of the ocean and chasing some blue lady wearing sunglasses up a ladder they're going to realize it's not legit.

Z S, you would be amazed how retarded people are

xpost :)

Hmm. "U2 fans" is a large population. So even if the proportion of really fucking stupid ones is the same as it is in any normal population (and you might, if you were being all zingy and ILX about it, say it'd be higher), that's still a shitload of people who might just fall for it, no matter what ;)

should i put the real cover with the post then?

the Z S cover is included in the download right

i dont think the goal is to trick u2 fans is it

i thought the goal was just to be rad

This is not a fake U2 album, it's just a not-U2-covers album inspired by U2 song titles, with varying degrees of whimsy.

just another themed ILX comp basically

i think it's somwhere in between!

it is for our enjoyment!

if a few tards download it all the better

and yeah this is great!!! <3 u all, listening at work

I think you guys should call this comp Us2 - No Line on the Horizon Preinterpreted.

Ok, I'm quoting both you and crut if that's ok and reupping.

People will probably still download it thinking it's U2, though. for real.

if a few tards download it all the better

I think we can all agree on that!

one song in and this is love

I'm gonna leak this thing so hard

Just emailed you a link to the 320kbps version

'breathe' is KILLING me right now

snoball I sent you my email addy

elvis t I got yr file thx

Crutis the crooton told me about this thread. I can't believe it's buried away on the "I Make Music" board. You didn't tell me you'd done a track for this Crutis!

This is ILM creativity at its finest! I am so happy that people have come forth and expressed themselves and made this thing. This is fantastic. Why don't you guys post about this on ILM?