Is This A New U2-Spiderman Song?
If you visit the official web site for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, you’ll immediately get hit with about 5-6 seconds of a pretty loud song that is presumably one of the new tunes that Bono & Edge composed for the production. Go ahead, click here and listen, then come on back.
That little clip sounds exactly like this full song (below) on YouTube that we know almost nothing about. It sounds, especially at the end, as if someone was recording from outside Bono’s or Edge’s homes in the south of France. But it’s good enough quality that you can listen all the way through:
You’ll remember that, last fall, Bono explained to Rolling Stone that the Spider-Man material is the most “rock”-sounding of all the new material.
Let us know what you think of this song in the comments.
(Thx to @Matkin22 for the tip.)
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What if they just release the songs without tying them to this albatross of a project? I would buy that. I certainly could care less about the musical. I shudder to think at what the title to this album might be.
Dang, I kind of like this more than pretty much anything on “No Line.” How about they use this stuff to release a more “rock-sounding” album next time? I shudder at the statements that “Songs of Ascent” is going to be even more mellow/laid back.
The YouTube audio is one of the 2006 beach clips:
It’s clip 2 here:
http://www.u2exit.com/2006/07/u2exitcom_new_songs_from_franc.php
‘All my life’ sounds amazing. All these beach clips sound more interesting to me than No Line. But I guess its easy to comment from a distance. I do hope though something more captivating will come out soon!
I have loved Spiderman since I was a kid. I have loved U2 since the beginning, but I am not very happy about this merge of Spiderman into a Broadway musical with Bono and The Edge as the song writers. Just put out an album and forget the musical.
Let us keep in mind that the song they wrote for “Batman Forever” was excellent, but they did not feel the need to create an entire musical.
I love it and the fact that these guys are still always getting involved new things. I’m not a connoisseur of Broadway musicals but I enjoy a good one and I couldn’t think of anything better or more fun. I don’t think it diminishes their other work and I’m glad they attempt to remain artistically autonomous. I look forward to the music and the show!
this song sounds greeeeat
This is “Boy Falls From the Sky”
“Rashas, you’ll take your easy listening Celto-mystical Ascent and like it! We’re artists, okay?”
I second ethiou2fan. This is definitely “Boy Falls From The Sky”- you can hear the phrase at the end of the chorus.
i agree that the thought of them scoring a musical seems odd at first, but: they’re artists and are entitled to take their music in whatever direction they like; the musicals thing worked okay for elton john; AND the last time i rolled my eyes at a musical, it was the lord of the rings production (singing hobbits? really?!?) but then i went to toronto and saw it - it was really amazing! so, all that said, and out of respect for bono & edge, i’m withholding judgement…
Writing songs for a musical about Spiderman is not the weirdest thing U2 has ever done.
I don’t care where this song is from, I just hope they release it…I LOVE the melody!
Peter Parker is one of my idols, along with Bono and the rest of U2. Spider-man is my most favorite superhero. I have 18 years of Spidey comics (since I was 5) in storage and I’m still collecting. I have everything U2 has made and have seen every tour since I was 6 years old. I couldn’t be more excited about a rock musical from my favorite band about my man Spidey. And they said there’s absolutely no singing in tights. Peter Pan, if I remember correctly, was a lot of fun to me as a kid. It’s gonna be a similar sense of wide-eyed wonder that I’m gonna be looking for, and if U2’s good at one thing, it’s wide-eyed wonder, not to mention grandeur and simplicity. The RollingStone article from last year was all I needed to year (from the musical aspect) to have me prepared to buy preview tickets. This song clinches it for me.
And who knows? The project can only either sink or swing. There’s NO middle ground, hah hah.
It’s called “Boy Falls From the Sky.”
I’m not excited about them doing Broadway…The tunes from the Beach Clips are good- especially # 4 (All My Life)…hate to see good music get overshadowed by an ill-advised project if that’s what the music was written for. Damn, clip #4 is gorgeous…please don’t let that be for Spider Man
Wow, it’s weird to finally hear a good quality clip of the song after listening to the beach clip so much.
I too am not thrilled about the broadway show. I hope the music gets out there as U2 versions though. It would be bad if when the music finally did get a release, it was a cast recording or some crap.
it’s gone
it’s still on the website
http://spidermanonbroadway.marvel.com/