Thursday, August 14, 2008

News on upcoming U2 releases


The boys from Ireland are in the midst of completing their 12th studio album, the follow-up to 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" which sold 10 million copies worldwide and picked up eight Grammy Awards. According to fansite @U2, the new album title is believed to be "No Line On The Horizon", with the release date on November 14, 2008. Song titles include "Moment of Surrender," "For Your Love," "Love Is All We Have Left" and "One Bird", "If I Could Live My Life Again," "The Cedars of Lebanon" and the title track.

A few of U2's early albums - Boy (1980), October (1981), War (1983), The Joshua Tree (1987) - have been remastered and re-issued over the past few months. Next up is the remastering of U2's first live album "Under a Blood Red Sky" (1983), while their first concert video "Live At Red Rocks" will be released on DVD for the very first time. The DVD will feature five previously unreleased songs, a director’s commentary, digitally re-graded pictures and a 5.1 mix. A deluxe edition will include both CD and DVD in the one package.

"Under a Blood Red Sky" CD track listing:
1. Gloria
2. 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
3. I Will Follow
4. Party Girl
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
6. The Electric Co.
7. New Year’s Day
8. “40”

"Live At Red Rocks" DVD track listing:
1. Out Of Control
2. Twilight
3. An Cat Dubh
4. Into The Heart
5. Surrender
6. Two Hearts Beat As One
7. Seconds
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Cry
10. The Electric Co.
11. October
12. New Year’s Day
13. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
14. A Day Without Me
15. Gloria
16. Party Girl
17. 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
18. I Will Follow
19. “40”

Both DVD and remastered album, will be released on 29th September 2008.

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