leamspaceman
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Amazon just changed mine to "Shipping soon"!
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Anyone found out yet what the downloadable content you can get with the Uber is?
Achtung Baby/ Zooropa remaster/ reissue - Part V/Five
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Remastered shipping
Anyone found out yet what the downloadable content you can get with the Uber is?
leamspaceman
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I've never heard of these? Can they be had anywhere? I recently got hold of a load of demos from 'War' that sound pretty good...and a 'full' version of 'Wild Irish Rose' with no narration. Sounds amazing.
Niceman
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
No, they cannot be had, but they've mentioned them. In Cold Blood was a poem version of Numb. Bono wrote a story about children getting raped. It was apparently pretty hard core. I've heard that it got played on the radio once or twice, but I don't know if that's true. Cruising Down Main Street was apparently about the first Gulf War (Cruise missiles.)
Peterrrrr
New Yorker
Baby Zoo Station 
incredible version
Everybody Loves A Winner
There are amazing unreleased material, but the baby version is the most intressting of the 6 discs
incredible versionEverybody Loves A Winner
There are amazing unreleased material, but the baby version is the most intressting of the 6 discs
Peterrrrr
New Yorker
Baby TTTYAATW sound like they have recorded with Bono from this year??
Galeongirl
Galeonbroad
Yes Peter, it has been re mixed by Declan. And there's a few 'new' unreleased songs that feature recent works as well, and one has new vocals.
Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
I just watched the From The Sky Down documentary DVD and it is edited, compared to the version shown on the BBC a couple of weeks ago. Yes, the running time is around 75 minutes and not the 85 of the BBC version. Things I noticed that were cut include:
- the section of other bands breaking up
- first demo of Mysterious Ways (with Bono commenting on the 'It's alright' chorus with "It's not alright" and Edge commenting on how the rhythm lacks personality)
- Edge's comment about his initial solo in Love Is Blindness
That's too bad, actually, as those scenes flesh out the narrative a bit more. It could be that these discs were pressed before the final editing was done.
What exactly are the "Baby"-versions, really? Are they early versions or just simply alternate versions? Sounds great, though. I'm especially loving TTTYAATW. It's probably too happy to've worked on the original album but in itself I think it's better than the album version.
theedgeu2
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
The "baby" versions are basically demo versions of the songs on the album, working versions I guess. I don't know exactly how "finished" they are since I've not heard them.
Niceman
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What exactly are the "Baby"-versions, really? Are they early versions or just simply alternate versions? Sounds great, though. I'm especially loving TTTYAATW. It's probably too happy to've worked on the original album but in itself I think it's better than the album version.
They're supposedly early versions, but I think they've done a lot of work with them more recently too.
Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
They are early (work-in-progress) versions. At least, they don't sound finished to me, with all of that Bongolese.
Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
According to the liner notes only TTTYAATW has some additional (recent) recording. Love Is Blindness has a recent mix (though no additional recording).
Y2K
Refugee
So dumb. Really boggles the mind why they do these things.
Niceman
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
At the very least, I'd wager these are hybrid versions. They may have taken elements from 3 or 4 demos and played around with them to make what we've got. I'm not saying we've got all new vocals and guitar. I am saying they were not sitting in a vault in their present form, but were constructed out of what was there.
btw. What a missed opportunity is that version of One with the exact same vocal track as the album!
Popmartijn
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For TTTYAATW and Love Is Blindness, yes, but for the others I think those were sitting in a vault in the form they're now presented on Kindergarten.
lazarus
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So I went to my Amazon order page just to look at the other shipping options, and how much they were, as currently I had Super Saver free shipping with an est. delivery of Nov. 7-14.
I clicked on "standard shipping" to see what the price was, and was shown a new order page adding $2.98 to the order to get it here between Nov. 4-8.
But I never completed the order, where you normally have to click again to process the seelction or whatever.
Next thing I know I get an email saying my shipping has changed! Just like that.
Kind of ridiculous. It's only a few bucks but the fact that I still might get it a week after release makes it kind of pointless. The only saving grace is that here in Los Angeles I think I'm pretty close to a dist. center so hopefully will have it before the end of this week.
I clicked on "standard shipping" to see what the price was, and was shown a new order page adding $2.98 to the order to get it here between Nov. 4-8.
But I never completed the order, where you normally have to click again to process the seelction or whatever.
Next thing I know I get an email saying my shipping has changed! Just like that.
Kind of ridiculous. It's only a few bucks but the fact that I still might get it a week after release makes it kind of pointless. The only saving grace is that here in Los Angeles I think I'm pretty close to a dist. center so hopefully will have it before the end of this week.
EdgeFest
Refugee
BULLSHIT!!! I adored that part. Seriously WHY. GRR!
I'll now, I'm sure, have to buy the "Director's Cut" limited edition DVD, to get The Edge talking about his guitar solo. :roll eyes:
Is this the Super or the Uber?
BTW - Shipping for my Uber from Canada still says Not Yet Shipped, shipping date November 1 and arrival November 3-4 as I have chosen priority shipping. I am Canadian so it's coming to Canada. (Please let us know where you are and if you ordered the Super/Uber with shipping updates - thanks all! I need to ask my mom to be at my house to accept the shipment so all the help I can get for a better estimate is appreciated)
arw
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it was on the the version I saw on Showtime last night...
Good to know. Those sections were aired in the Showtime version that premiered last night so I will make sure to keep my DVR'd version.
At the very least, I'd wager these are hybrid versions. They may have taken elements from 3 or 4 demos and played around with them to make what we've got. I'm not saying we've got all new vocals and guitar. I am saying they were not sitting in a vault in their present form, but were constructed out of what was there.
btw. What a missed opportunity is that version of One with the exact same vocal track as the album!
I completely agree about the hybrid senario.
Also Ultra Violet vocals sound exactly like the album version to me, with a bit more added to the end.
Scorpionac
War Child
Yeah, I'm pretty certain the Baby versions were cobbled together specifically for the repackaging. I doubt there's any overdubs, though (especially vocals, they all sound like early takes to me - sans One, of course).
My theory on why One features the final vocal is that the band probably decided that letting anyone hear that song's unfinished lyric simply wouldn't do. The song has always meant quite a bit to them, in many different contexts, and I'm sure they don't want to 'devalue' its message(s) in any way.
My theory on why One features the final vocal is that the band probably decided that letting anyone hear that song's unfinished lyric simply wouldn't do. The song has always meant quite a bit to them, in many different contexts, and I'm sure they don't want to 'devalue' its message(s) in any way.
Globo14
Refugee
I don't remember and I don't wanna search, but doesn't Blow Your House Down have new vocals, too?
Niceman
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
The "new" songs are new. They finished the old demos. Just like wave of Sorrow.
As much as I love Ultraviolet on the album - my favorite song off of AB - the "Baby" version is really, really growing on me. I like the darker guitar noise that's closer to the one we heard when it was played live on 360. And I like how they moved the "sometimes I feel like I don't know" part later into the song.
But I remember people saying that they liked how the "Baby" version is "darker" than the "poppy" final song. I disagree. I don't think that the final version is "poppy" at all. It sounds a lot lighter, but it is still a pretty dark song when you listen to the lyrics in context. I think the only time Ultraviolet really felt "poppy" was when U2 played it live on ZooTV and on the Killers' cover version.
But I remember people saying that they liked how the "Baby" version is "darker" than the "poppy" final song. I disagree. I don't think that the final version is "poppy" at all. It sounds a lot lighter, but it is still a pretty dark song when you listen to the lyrics in context. I think the only time Ultraviolet really felt "poppy" was when U2 played it live on ZooTV and on the Killers' cover version.
trevgreg
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I find it funny that they placed the intro to Ultraviolet at the same spot in that "baby" version as the demo for LWTSH.
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How weird too that I finally realized the album is titled "Achtung baby", and the chorus to this song starts out with "baby, baby, baby".
How weird too that I finally realized the album is titled "Achtung baby", and the chorus to this song starts out with "baby, baby, baby".
In U2 by U2 Bono mentions there are many reasons for the album being called Achtung Baby, partially becuase he had a new baby during that time, and because they say "baby" about 40 times in this album when they had never used it before, and also there are references like in Zoo Station "I'm ready, ready for the push" lol
(My facts might be a touch off but that is the general jist of what was said in the book).
corianderstem
Blue Crack Distributor
WTF, why the hell is the version of FTSD different in the box set?
Mind-boggling.
Mind-boggling.
bono_man2002
Blue Crack Addict
So what is the actual "Baby" Disc? (the one with all the "Baby" tunes)
MoodyJ
Refugee
Well that's just bloody ridiculous. The version people paid for is supposed to at least contain the same material as the versions that aired on BBC and Showtime, not less. The exclusions don't make sense to me.
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