Originally posted by PageU2:When a release date for the R&H Anniversary is set, I would love to get my hands on a deluxe edition:
Disc 1: Remastered original album
Disc 2: B-Sides, remixes and out takes (A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel, God Pt 2 Remixes, etc.)
Liner notes by The Edge
As for the Super Deluxe edition:
All those mentioned above but plus a complete DVD of the entire Point Depot New Years Eve Lovetown show, music videos from this era, various R&H non-tour performances, etc.
Originally posted by LikeASong:This is a very interesting insight into the early stages of Rattle And Hum and about how the band felt during the Joshua Tree Tour:
https://www.atu2.com/news/band-on-the-run.html
As the Edge astutely remarks: "Most average Americans don't really know about the heritage on their own doorstep. The music that's big in America is the Top 40 album, whatever's on radio. Our contemporaries and younger bands, have a very patchy understanding. So what we're finding, and I know it's bizarre, is that what we're now playing with is as new to our audience as it is to ourselves. We're not playing this music to people who know this stuff, although it's on their own doorstep, under their very noses."
He readily confesses he was the band's most reluctant convert. As a teenage guitarist, he'd reacted intensely against the older generation of Dublin players, with their squalling, posturing, hard rock vulgarization of the blues. "All that shit was like dirt. I'd purged myself of all that," he says. "So, coming back to that now was like visiting something laid and buried. It was like opening the coffin and I resisted a little. For instance, we disagreed vehemently about what songs should go on the album. If Bono had his way, The Joshua Tree would have been more American and bluesy and I was trying to pull it back."
That compromise led to the later flood of new B-side tracks. Bono will argue that "the album is almost incomplete. 'With or Without You' doesn't really make sense without 'Walk to the Water' or 'Luminous Times.' And 'Trip Through Your Wires' don't make that much sense without 'Sweetest Thing'."
Live, there hasn't always been such a neat resolution of the band's inner conflicts either. Last night in Baton Rouge, Bono admits, "was a bad show. Not so much the band as myself. I completely lost myself. Being on a stage for me doesn't get any easier. Even in the middle of 'Pride,' the oddest thoughts come across me. I just want to pack up and go home.
"We're a snake who hasn't fully shed its skin," he believes, accepting that the creative U2 of '87 is co-existing uneasily with the U2 the fans want to hear. "That preys on me a lot. I don't know how to sing 'New Year's Day' now."
He looks up and laughs: "Now you're talking. All the other stuff, they aren't problems. This is the problem and what a problem!"
Originally posted by LikeASong:This is a very interesting insight into the early stages of Rattle And Hum and about how the band felt during the Joshua Tree Tour:
https://www.atu2.com/news/band-on-the-run.html
As the Edge astutely remarks: "Most average Americans don't really know about the heritage on their own doorstep. The music that's big in America is the Top 40 album, whatever's on radio. Our contemporaries and younger bands, have a very patchy understanding. So what we're finding, and I know it's bizarre, is that what we're now playing with is as new to our audience as it is to ourselves. We're not playing this music to people who know this stuff, although it's on their own doorstep, under their very noses."
He readily confesses he was the band's most reluctant convert. As a teenage guitarist, he'd reacted intensely against the older generation of Dublin players, with their squalling, posturing, hard rock vulgarization of the blues. "All that shit was like dirt. I'd purged myself of all that," he says. "So, coming back to that now was like visiting something laid and buried. It was like opening the coffin and I resisted a little. For instance, we disagreed vehemently about what songs should go on the album. If Bono had his way, The Joshua Tree would have been more American and bluesy and I was trying to pull it back."
That compromise led to the later flood of new B-side tracks. Bono will argue that "the album is almost incomplete. 'With or Without You' doesn't really make sense without 'Walk to the Water' or 'Luminous Times.' And 'Trip Through Your Wires' don't make that much sense without 'Sweetest Thing'."
Live, there hasn't always been such a neat resolution of the band's inner conflicts either. Last night in Baton Rouge, Bono admits, "was a bad show. Not so much the band as myself. I completely lost myself. Being on a stage for me doesn't get any easier. Even in the middle of 'Pride,' the oddest thoughts come across me. I just want to pack up and go home.
"We're a snake who hasn't fully shed its skin," he believes, accepting that the creative U2 of '87 is co-existing uneasily with the U2 the fans want to hear. "That preys on me a lot. I don't know how to sing 'New Year's Day' now."
He looks up and laughs: "Now you're talking. All the other stuff, they aren't problems. This is the problem and what a problem!"
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
As the Edge astutely remarks: "Most average Americans don't really know about the heritage on their own doorstep. The music that's big in America is the Top 40 album, whatever's on radio. Our contemporaries and younger bands, have a very patchy understanding. So what we're finding, and I know it's bizarre, is that what we're now playing with is as new to our audience as it is to ourselves. We're not playing this music to people who know this stuff, although it's on their own doorstep, under their very noses."
Holy shit. And THIS is why U2 went on to make Achtung Baby lmao.