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U2 - Boy (1980) (2CD Deluxe Edition 2008)
Following the 2007 remastered release of The Joshua Tree, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983), all of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes.
Each album has been released in three different formats:
1. Standard format: A single CD with remastered audio and restored packaging. Includes a 16 page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, full lyrics and new liner notes by Paul Morley. The 11-tracks match the previous release of the album.
2. Deluxe format: A standard CD (as above) and a bonus CD. The bonus CD includes b-sides, live tracks and rarities. Also includes a 32 page booklet with previously unseen photos, full lyrics, new liner notes by Paul Morley, and explanatory notes on the bonus material by The Edge.
3. Vinyl Format: A single album remastered version on 180gram vinyl with restored packaging.
U2's earliest recordings -- their debut EP U2 Three, several non-LP singles and B-sides -- haven't exactly been buried, but they have been orphaned, never seeing an official reissue until they popped up double-disc deluxe reissues of 1980's Boy, 1981's October, and 1983's War in 2008. Prior to this, these stray tracks did leak out on the iTunes exclusive release The Complete U2 (tied into the 2004 release of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, discontinued by the time these reissues showed up), but apart from "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl" -- which surfaced on the B-sides compilation that was added as a second disc to deluxe editions of 1998's The Best of 1980-1990 -- they never appeared on CD. So, this group of reissues is a major archival release, as it unveils the rarest released recordings from one of the world's biggest bands, music that should be available for historical reasons even if it's not very good -- which often it is not, at least not on the bonus disc of Boy. On these 14 tracks, U2 sound impossibly green, working out their fetish for Factory bands while occasionally taking a stab at the barbed punk of the Undertones or Buzzcocks, as on the coiled "Boy/Girl." Rhythms are leaden, the Edge has yet to learn how to paint with his effects, Bono yelps far too often, and they not only lack the majesty that is such a key part of their mystique, they sound slack even on the live tracks from a September 1980 show at the Marquee in London (including the previously unreleased "Cartoon World"). These live tracks are admittedly the closest this music gets to kinetic, but that's not for lack of trying. U2 did attempt to really rock, as on the flatly bizarre unreleased "Saturday Night," which plays like un-ironic arena rock and shows that this is a band that's always been better with big ideas than with small ones. Here, they were surely striving for something huge, but they had little idea of how to execute their ideas. Based on these rarities -- which include all of their first EP, U2 Three, distinguished by different early versions of "Out of Control" and "Stories for Boys"; the B-side "Twilight" (different from the LP version); and both sides of the "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" single, including the flip "Touch" -- it's hard to believe that this quartet could ever conquer the world, but that's exactly why they're worth hearing: these 14 tracks provide a useful lesson that sometimes early recordings aren't harbingers of what's to come...S. Erlewine
There's little in U2's 1980 debut to suggest that this was a band bent on world domination. Indeed, there's a charming, if naive, coming-of-age urgency in songs such as "I Will Follow," "Stories for Boys" and "Out of Control" that may startle listeners more familiar with U2's latter-day bombast and stadium-scale theatrics. Bono's viewpoint, still tantalizingly vague and wide-eyed, showed that his penchant for strident polemics hadn't yet gotten the best of him; his anthems are those of a yearning Dubliner barely out of his teens rather than those of a world-weary multimillionaire. The band's sometimes-ragged musical chops work in its favor here, gently burnished to then-fresh new-wave sheen by producer Steve Lillywhite. If the Edge's dense, effects-laden guitar work seems overly familiar, it's only because this album was such a key influence on the whole "rock of the '80s" sound. Though not quite as moody or musically accomplished as October, arguably the band's first masterpiece, Boy still ranks as one of U2's best albums...J. McCulley
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size: 218 MB
Genre : Rock
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Tracklist:
CD 1
01 I Will Follow 3:37
02 Twilight 4:22
03 An Cat Dubh 4:46
04 Into the Heart 3:27
05 Out of Control 4:14
06 Stories for Boys 3:02
07 The Ocean 1:35
08 A Day Without Me 3:13
09 Another Time, Another Place 4:32
10 The Electric Co. 4:46
11 Shadows and Tall Trees 4:40
12 [Untitled] 0:34
CD 2
01 I Will Follow previously unreleased / Bonus 3:37
02 11 O'Clock Tick Tock Bonus / Live 3:47
03 Touch Bonus / Single Version 3:25
04 Speed of Life previously unreleased / Bonus 3:18
05 Saturday Night previously unreleased / Bonus 5:12
06 Things to Make and Do Bonus 2:16
07 Out of Control Bonus / Single Version 3:52
08 Boy/Girl Bonus / Live 3:23
09 Stories for Boys Bonus / Single Version 2:42
10 Another Day Bonus / Single Version 3:28
11 Twilight Bonus / Single Version 4:35
12 Boy/Girl Live / Bonus 3:26
13 11 O'Clock Tick Tock Live / prev. unreleased / Bonus 4:58
14 Cartoon World prev. unreleased / Bonus / Live 4:22
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