Originally posted by u2wanderer1:[..]
Another Time Another Place is not part of this.
Originally posted by u2wanderer1:[..]
Another Time Another Place is not part of this.
Originally posted by u2wanderer1:
More info here: https://www.u2songs.com/discography/u2_songs_of_surrender_album
Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
So is this gonna be a mainly Bono and Edge effort can't imagine the other 2 wanting to be involved in this retro cash grab.
Originally posted by Faceman2000:Shocking that, despite being titled Songs of Surrender, there’s almost zero chance of Surrender being on the album.
It’s also weird how many of the songs are from the last two albums. Yeah, I get thematically it makes sense, but it really looks like they STILL aren’t happy with the versions of the songs they’ve released, after five years developing one album, another two developing the second that was supposedly almost ready to go in 2014, then another year developing them further after Trump won, not to mention a CD of acoustic versions and all the alternate versions of the SoE tracks. It’s time to move on, boys.
Also, while Angel of Harlem was the first track that came to mind for Rattle and Hum for me, after thinking some more I feel AIWIY is a much more likely choice.
Originally posted by u2wanderer1:We’ve updated our discography entry for “Songs of Surrender” with a look at the breakdown of tracks on the album by decade. Can’t really answer questions about specifics though. Sorry.
More info here: https://www.u2songs.com/discography/u2_songs_of_surrender_album
Originally posted by pleasegone:[..]
Retro Cash Grab? I've made this point billions of times on this site. Yet a lot of people on here are still thinking this is some monumental sales cash cow. If you look at sales for major artists, and want to find the lowest selling album of an artist's career, it is almost always going to be an album of cover songs, or re-recordings of their own songs. Labels love it when they get a hit like Natalie Cole, Rod Stewart, or Michael McDonald, but the vast majority of these projects are big time sales stinkers.
Music sales have been dropping for years, so you have to take that into account, but take a look at the sales figures for the 9 billion or so albums Sting made reworking his songs and Police songs: Sales Nightmare.
Bon Jovi? This Left Feels Wrong? Or was it Right? Terrible album, sold next to nothing.
George Michael? Songs From the 95th Century or whatever? Sold less than any of his 5 solo albums or his 3 solo albums with Wham. (Can't seriously call Wham a group, they were GM albums.)
Rolling Stones? Lowest selling album of their career, and by leaps and bounds:
Blue & Lonesome, a covers album.
How about Natalie Merchant? Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings, was a re-recording of her best selling album. How did that work out? It's her worst selling album.
Counting Crows? Their covers album is actually pretty good, but I'm one of like 10 people who bought it.
With the book tour, and a little hype, Bono might make this sell a little better than it would have, but I am willing to bet a spot on an All You Can Eat Pizza Cruise that this thing is the lowest selling official U2 album of their career, and not just by far, but by leaps, bounds, and will make SOI actual physical sales figures look like Michael Jackson's Thriller.