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U2 - Mercy
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  1. Originally posted by justinpushplay:[..]
    Only Beautiful Day and Stuck were included. Elevation and Walk On were released as singles in 2001, so I guess they didn’t quality for the 2000 cutoff
    They included electrical storm and hands that built America though that were both released after 2000. A 2000-2010 best of makes no sense to me.
  2. Originally posted by colbourne25:[..]
    Yer, Okay cool 👍

    Btw I'm having dinner with Taylor Swift tonight - I'll be sure to let you know her plans for the rest of the year.
    U2songs have got it wrong before but they have also managed to tell us things that only an insider could. That’s who u2wanderer1 on this site is, the guy who runs u2songs. Like I say doesn’t mean he can’t get wrong information but if you’re suggesting he doesn’t generally know more than the rest of us about future plans then you’re mistaken.
  3. Originally posted by tuf392664:[..]
    They included electrical storm and hands that built America though that were both released after 2000. A 2000-2010 best of makes no sense to me.
    Well electrical storm was recorded for it, hands was included as one of the “new songs” ala window in the skies on u218. A new song or two is pretty typical for a greatest hits package
  4. Originally posted by justinpushplay:[..]
    Well electrical storm was recorded for it, hands was included as one of the “new songs” ala window in the skies on u218. A new song or two is pretty typical for a greatest hits package
    Yes but it nullify’s the ‘elevation and walk on hadn’t been released as singles’ argument. They had still been released before the new songs and it wasn’t a hits compilation but a best of so elevation and walk on could and probably should still have been included. Also this wasn’t a typical hits package it was supposed to be a best of a specific time. They are best just to ditch the whole best of thing unless they want to do a career spanning one.
  5. Originally posted by MattG:Man, it really, really bums me out that we won't get a Bomb box. The moment the ATYCLB box was announced I salivated at getting that kind of content from the Bomb sessions / era. Have literally had it quietly in the back of my mind, anxiously excited, for years.


    They still may do one down the road. The bigger Joshua Tree box came at 30 years, The Unforgettable Fire box came at 25 years. A new album is the band’s priority. They have a back up plan ready if they can’t get the album put together and need to delay it to Spring. Neither of those plans currently would have a big boxed set of Bomb stuff coming out at the same time from what I’ve been told. (Likewise, they seem to not be looking at Atomic Bomb for a Black Friday release either. That has to be submitted next month and it seems they plan on doing another single/EP length release.)
  6. Originally posted by tuf392664:[..]
    They included electrical storm and hands that built America though that were both released after 2000. A 2000-2010 best of makes no sense to me.
    Additionally for the 1990-2000 one they re-recorded a number of songs, so all of those could be said to have come later as well and not really from the decade they were celebrating. They set the rules, so they can break them…If they do another compilation I expect the Best of Decade concept won’t be used anyway.

    They already seemed to have moved on when they did “U218” And in the mid-2010s they were looking at a different idea completely for a compilation, which would have included the best of their performances for the BBC. (Never got beyond the research stage, but extensive documents were done up looking at what would be on a single disc, double disc, and a boxed set including video.)

    Regardless, it would be nice if they found some older material to release to fill out any collection. “Mercy” would be a fun candidate, as it’s been released in a live format, and the song appears to have been developed further into “The Little Things”. In this case I’d want the opposite of “The Sweetest Thing” or “Angels too Tied to the Ground” or the AB stuff where they went in and finished up a song. I’d really like to see the original that leaked finally come out…
  7. Originally posted by u2wanderer1:[..]


    They still may do one down the road. The bigger Joshua Tree box came at 30 years, The Unforgettable Fire box came at 25 years. A new album is the band’s priority. They have a back up plan ready if they can’t get the album put together and need to delay it to Spring. Neither of those plans currently would have a big boxed set of Bomb stuff coming out at the same time from what I’ve been told. (Likewise, they seem to not be looking at Atomic Bomb for a Black Friday release either. That has to be submitted next month and it seems they plan on doing another single/EP length release.)
    Any hint at all at what the back up plan is? Still some new material, live material, video, audio or something else even? Maybe an invisible type song that isn't for the regular album but fills a gap?
  8. Originally posted by tuf392664:[..]
    Any hint at all at what the back up plan is? Still some new material, live material, video, audio or something else even? Maybe an invisible type song that isn't for the regular album but fills a gap?
    Another 'exclusive' remix of Atomic City released on limited edition vinyl of all colours of the rainbow. Then more talk from a certain lead singer about how 'on fire' his guitarist is, they've got new songs and there could be upcoming new album possibly sometime in the future.

    I'd hazard a guess an anniversary release of HTDAAB however.
  9. Originally posted by EridescoFly:[..]
    Another 'exclusive' remix of Atomic City released on limited edition vinyl of all colours of the rainbow. Then more talk from a certain lead singer about how 'on fire' his guitarist is, they've got new songs and there could be upcoming new album possibly sometime in the future.

    I'd hazard a guess an anniversary release of HTDAAB however.
    Did you read anything in this thread at all?? HTDAAB ain't gonna happen
  10. U2 fans be like it is at the pressing plant already.