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U2's first new recording in over three years is a welcome return to the band's roots while giving no quarter in its more mature musical endeavors. "Ordinary Love" features in the forthcoming film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , about South African President and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela. Upon first listen it is clear this will become a key song in the band's already legendary oeuvre.

This review was originally published at g4tv.com on March 31, 2008 One of the most striking things about the scuba-diving game Endless Ocean for the Nintendo Wii is the music that accompanies it. The lady behind that haunting voice is New Zealander Hayley Westenra . This 20 year-old soprano has a magical set of pipes that fits so well with Endless Ocean you would have thought these songs were written for the game.

Now this is something you don't hear every day. In fact, this musical instrument has never been heard in the 500 years since Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci invented it. Until now.

For some musicians, a true measure of success is when and how quickly your hit song is parodied. During the 80's and 90's this was the exclusive domain of the genius of Weird Al Yankovic. Here in the second decade of Web 2.0 and the early years of instant memedom, it is individuals powered by the hive mind of the Internet that are spinning off yrical and often full blown recorded parodies of popular songs at ludicrous speed. Such is the case with "Lorde of the Rings".