badfire83
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What was the reasoning behind the release of this ep? I like it alot but it just seem odd to me. They had just released Under a Bloody Red Sky a little while before it. Though Bad is great on it.
Wide awake in america ep
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Yeah I'm sure they made millions on that one.
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Yahweh said:
Especially considering that the EP was apparently released in May 1985 (so about 2 months before Live Aid).
If I remember correctly, the Unforgettable Fire single was not released in the US but as imports started charting so well, U2 released WAIA there and then made it a worldwide release when imports of it started charting in other countries.
Or it might be that the UF single wasn't released in the UK, I'm not sure. But I think that's how it goes, that UF imports charted so well somewhere that WAIA was released and then when WAIA itself charted in yet other places, it became a worldwide release.
Or it might be that the UF single wasn't released in the UK, I'm not sure. But I think that's how it goes, that UF imports charted so well somewhere that WAIA was released and then when WAIA itself charted in yet other places, it became a worldwide release.
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Whatever the reason, "Love comes tumbling" makes it worth every penny.
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From Carter Alan's book, Outside is America, U2 in the U.S.:
Island didn't feel confident that there was another potential single on the album and scrapped plans to release one, although the title track would come out as a single in Europe.... As soon as the 1985 American tour concluded in early May, U2 released a four-song EP... it was produced for the American market, and also for Japan, and it became a highly demanded import in the U.K. and Europe...WAIA was the American companion to a European release of the "The Unforgettable Fire" single...
Island didn't feel confident that there was another potential single on the album and scrapped plans to release one, although the title track would come out as a single in Europe.... As soon as the 1985 American tour concluded in early May, U2 released a four-song EP... it was produced for the American market, and also for Japan, and it became a highly demanded import in the U.K. and Europe...WAIA was the American companion to a European release of the "The Unforgettable Fire" single...
Party Boy
Refugee
UF was released as a single in the UK. Think it reached number 4 or maybe number 3?
Boozyuzi
Acrobat
UF was released in the Uk as 7", 12" and 7" double pack single.
IIRC correctly it was released in April 1985.
IIRC correctly it was released in April 1985.
namkcuR
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WAIA and TUF Single are cut from the same cloth. The only track on WAIA that doesn't appear on some form of the TUF single is the live cut of Bad.
pookersmom
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What's interesting is that in the documentary of the making of the Unforgettable Fire album that was ORIGINALLY aired on MTV (not the version they later put for sale on VHS), you hear them working on "3 Sunrises" almost as much as "Pride."
I don't know -- I guess for 20 years I've just been assuming that they released it because they knew I needed something to tide me over between UF and JT....
I don't know -- I guess for 20 years I've just been assuming that they released it because they knew I needed something to tide me over between UF and JT....
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