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Was Sun City ever released on CD? I wore that tape out back in the day - can't wait to hear that version of Silver & Gold again.

Also: agreed - Walk To The Water is the best. jcroach, have you heard the formerly unreleased stuff yet?

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Was Sun City ever released on CD? I wore that tape out back in the day - can't wait to hear that version of Silver & Gold again.

Also: agreed - Walk To The Water is the best. jcroach, have you heard the formerly unreleased stuff yet?

 

No, I haven't. I'm going to have to wait until Santa Claus (aka my wife) puts it under the Christmas tree. :upset

 

 

I will be picking this up in a few hours -

 

Sun City cd - $249.95

 

I picked up a copy on eBay about 6 years ago for around $20. holy cr*p that price has gone up! Here's one on eBay for $117!

 

Drop me a PM if there is a specific track you'd like to hear.

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For those of you that consider "Unforgettable Fire" the greatest and are itching for a remaster...Paul McGuinness was just quoted in the new Rolling Stone as saying that U2 are planning to re-release all their other albums in a similar fashion (to this new JT rerelease) - Commercialism maybe, but if they come with unreleased songs and outtakes I'm not complaining.

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For those of you that consider "Unforgettable Fire" the greatest and are itching for a remaster...Paul McGuinness was just quoted in the new Rolling Stone as saying that U2 are planning to re-release all their other albums in a similar fashion (to this new JT rerelease) - Commercialism maybe, but if they come with unreleased songs and outtakes I'm not complaining.

 

Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen need to do this also.

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For those of you that consider "Unforgettable Fire" the greatest and are itching for a remaster...Paul McGuinness was just quoted in the new Rolling Stone as saying that U2 are planning to re-release all their other albums in a similar fashion (to this new JT rerelease) - Commercialism maybe, but if they come with unreleased songs and outtakes I'm not complaining.

 

Hum. interesting. i hope that they space these out enough so that there is enough time to really see the albums in historical perspective. I wouldn't want a re-release of say "Pop" until say, at least 2017. I could see this effectively being done for Boy (with U2/3 and the early singles and demos), October, War (with "Under a Blood Red Sky" and the "Live at Red Rocks" film), and Unforgettable Fire (with "Wide Awake in America" and the videos from "The Unforgettable Fire Collection"). Not enough time has passed for the others, including Rattle and Hum and Achtung Baby.

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Hum. interesting. i hope that they space these out enough so that there is enough time to really see the albums in historical perspective. I wouldn't want a re-release of say "Pop" until say, at least 2017. I could see this effectively being done for Boy (with U2/3 and the early singles and demos), October, War (with "Under a Blood Red Sky" and the "Live at Red Rocks" film), and Unforgettable Fire (with "Wide Awake in America" and the videos from "The Unforgettable Fire Collection"). Not enough time has passed for the others, including Rattle and Hum and Achtung Baby.

 

I like this idea, if I can keep from feeling greedy and wanting it all now now now.

 

There's a wall poster promoting the Joshua Tree re-release in my neighborhood. I've gotta get a pic of it before someone tears it down or draws sunglasses on Bono.

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True enough. I wouldn't mind Warner Brothers doing it with out him.

 

When the album name the Joshua Tree was announced, I was in 7th grade, and had never seen a joshua tree. So for home ec class, our assignment was to design something to be printed as a header on a pad of paper. I drew the words 'U2 - The Joshua Tree' along with a tree that looked sorta like:

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True enough. I wouldn't mind Warner Brothers doing it with out him.

 

When the album name the Joshua Tree was announced, I was in 7th grade, and had never seen a joshua tree. So for home ec class, our assignment was to design something to be printed as a header on a pad of paper. I drew the words 'U2 - The Joshua Tree' along with a tree that looked sorta like:

josh.gif

 

Wow. That's scary similar to a memory I have. :blink

 

I was in 7th grade also, I think. (Did you graduate High School in 1993?) Joshua Tree was all over the radio and this new thing called cable TV that my family just got. My parents were all worried about the sexually suggestive videos on MTV (When MTV still played videos), but that didn't keep me from watching. U2, The Police, Robert Palmer, Peter Gabriel, Guns 'n Roses. anyway, I didn't even own the Joshua Tree yet and in my music classes were were supposed to listen to your favorite Cassette Tape(!) and design a new cover for it. Mine ended up looking like a huge Oak tree planted in a Tron like grid.

 

Yeah, I had a "mini-mullet" for a while too.

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Here's the tracklisting for the upcoming Boy reissue (lots of b-sides and rarities!!!). Does anyone know the tracklistings for the upcoming October and War reissues?

 

I Will Follow

Twilight

An Cat Dubh

Into The Heart

Out Of Control

Stories For Boys

Ocean

Day Without Me

Another Time Another Place

Electric Co.

Shadows And Tall Trees

I Will Follow

11 O'clock Tick Tock

Touch

Speed Of Life

Saturday Night

Things To Make And Do

Out Of Control

Boy/Girl

Stories For Boys

Another Day

Twilight

Boy/Girl

11 O'clock Tick Tock

Cartoon World

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I wish more artists would do what the Cure did (and Springsteen) simply throw all the b sides, rareties, etc on a box set and be done with it. Making us buy albums over and over is simply unfair.

 

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I've never heard a Cure cd, but the early U2, Springsteen, and early Tom Petty (minus the first two, which were re-mastered a few years ago) sound terrible. But - as you say, it is drag if you already own all of this stuff. At least they have not did an Elvis Costello/David Bowie and re-release their back catalog three or four times - so far anyhow. We've had this talk before, of course.

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I've never heard a Cure cd, but the early U2, Springsteen, and early Tom Petty (minus the first two, which were re-mastered a few years ago) sound terrible. But - as you say, it is drag if you already own all of this stuff. At least they have not did an Elvis Costello/David Bowie and re-release their back catalog three or four times - so far anyhow. We've had this talk before, of course.

I suppose this is simply the nature of the beast. As long as artists can continue to sell the same product over and over in slightly different forms they will.

 

LouieB

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I suppose this is simply the nature of the beast. As long as artists can continue to sell the same product over and over in slightly different forms they will.

 

LouieB

With all due respect, I wouldn't call a remastered 11-song album with 14 bonus tracks (some previously unreleased in any format) a "slightly different form." I'm happy about what U2 is doing, but maybe that's just cuz I'm a long-time fan who hasn't yet heard a bunch, if not all, of those bonus tracks.

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Yeah, I'm a long time fan and I've only bought this album once, used in like 1998, so I'm not too upset. I have several of these Boy tracks already as MP3s or from the THE COMPLETE U2 (DIGITAL BOX SET). I'm rather disappointed in this track list. There's really only 2 unreleased tracks, 1 unreleased mix and 2 unreleased live tracks. I would Ihave liked to have seen more from their pre-boy demos.

 

CD2

  1. I Will Follow (previously unreleased mix)
  2. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (single, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  3. Touch (B-side of "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" single, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  4. Speed Of Life (previously unreleased track)
  5. Saturday Night (Previously Unreleased track)
  6. Things To Make And Do (single, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  7. Out Of Control (U2:3 version, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  8. Boy/Girl (U2:3 track, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  9. Stories For Boys (U2:3 version, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  10. Another Day (single, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  11. Twilight (B-side of "Twilight" single, also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  12. Boy/Girl Live at The Marquee, London (Also released on The Complete U2 digital box set)
  13. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Live at The Marquee, London) (Unreleased)
  14. Cartoon World (Live at The National Stadium, Dublin) (Unreleased)

 

These are some tracks that they didn't include that would be great to finally hear!

 

 

April 1978 "Harp Lager Talent Contest" demos

  • Tonight
  • Inside Out
  • Trevor
  • Jack In A Box

 

November 1978 demos (released on The Complete U2 digital box set)

  • Street Mission
  • The Fool
  • Shadows and Tall Trees

 

February 1979 demos

  • Life On A Distant Planet (The Magic Carpet)
  • Twilight
  • Another Time, Another Place
  • Alone In The Light
  • False Prophet

 

Other early demos/songs played live

  • Father Is An Elephant
  • The Dream Is Over
  • Concentration Cramp
  • Night Fright
  • Inside Out
  • Hang Up
  • Pete the Chop
  • What's Going On
  • The silver lining
  • The King's New Cloths

 

It's also missing the 0:30 instrumental that was once included on the vinyl copies of Boy. This is an early version of "Fire" from October.

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