New Album Discussion 1 - Songs of..... - Unreasonable guitar album

[DeVaul]

Oh look, a “second edition” of the V-U2 book while not a single mention of the 2025 subscriber option in sight.

NEW EDITION. V-U2 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK.

A new edition of the V-U2 book is now released, along with a poster and tee featuring John Gerrard's iconic 'Flare' flag from Sphere.

www.u2.com

 

[dan_smee]

I don’t see how these subscriber gifts are so hard. Get people to update profiles with preferences of format (digital, cd, vinyl), price subscriptions accordingly, do print runs based on sensible projections of demand at each level and go through releasing classic live shows, b sides compilations, rarities. It’d be so easy. And they’d be better gifts.

 

[dan_smee]

Digital only sub - $40
Cd and digital sub - $45
Vinyl and digital sub $60

First gift - new years at the point depot. In the format you selected.

Second gift - unforgettable fire tour, Auckland.

Third gift - the b sides, rarities and demos (1979-1984)

 

[DeVaul]

I don’t see how these subscriber gifts are so hard. Get people to update profiles with preferences of format (digital, cd, vinyl), price subscriptions accordingly, do print runs based on sensible projections of demand at each level and go through releasing classic live shows, b sides compilations, rarities. It’d be so easy. And they’d be better gifts.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

per u2songs

Record Store Day 2025 is coming on April 12, 2025. U2’s contribution will be announced today, February 6. This year they will be releasing a 30th anniversary edition of the Passengers Original Soundtracks 1 album. The album, originally release in late 1995, featured U2 with added ‘passengers’ Brian Eno, Howie B, Pavarotti and Holi, in a full length album release. It was released in small quantities on vinyl in 1995, but those have become very hard to find over the years, and recently were mentioned in Record Collector‘s Top U2 Collectibles. This new release will be a double album, and is being released as a “Record Store Day First” release. This is the first reissue of the album on vinyl since the original 1995 release.

The full announcement will be later today, so details are short right now. We will be updating this entry throughout the day as more information becomes available.

 

[lazarus]

Huge, if true.

 

[BEAL]

Concerning

 

[Hewson]

Huge, if true.

Breaking: U2 Announces RSD Release of Cassette Single of American Soul

 

[Fly-2000]

Did this ever get officially released?

 

[lazarus]

So I was thinking about the Grammys and how it’s pretty much moved on from rock, despite the unfortunate inclusion of Cockplay this year.

If U2 has at least a new single by the end of 2025 (or the whole album released), what are the odds they perform on the next telecast?

I’m assuming the days of them being actively invited to play are over, but the question is will Guy Oseary ask the producers for a slot, and would it even be granted?

 

[pacemaker]

Haha dammit. I finally found a decently priced copy of OST 1 on Discogs last year (from Easy Street in Seattle - the first time I’d ever caught a domestic seller selling it). I’ll definitely be picking this reissue up, though.

 

[DeVaul]

I’m assuming the days of them being actively invited to play are over, but the question is will Guy Oseary ask the producers for a slot, and would it even be granted?

Guy is out, the Azoffs are in.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Guy Owhereshe?

 

[ascender_RS]

Haha dammit. I finally found a decently priced copy of OST 1 on Discogs last year (from Easy Street in Seattle - the first time I’d ever caught a domestic seller selling it). I’ll definitely be picking this reissue up, though.

I have come so close to buying a copy many times over the last few years but I've never found one for reasonable money, so this is great. Unless of course its limited to one per record shop, per country and will be on eBay within the hour for the same price as the original version.

 

[Rich79]

Hoping more details to be announced involve some bonus tracks (and not just Bottoms: Zoo Station). Otherwise, my CD copy is doing just fine.

 

[Rich79]

I should mention I'm not just some curmudgeon and that I am happy this release is happening either way

 

[dan_smee]

Wow. This is actually incredible for them to acknowledge it exists. Passengers was released closer to ATYCLB than we are from SOE. They have barely acknowledged it exists since 1996.

I think invoked about happening for RSD when they released Boy because that was a pointless waste, but never actually thought it would happen!

 

[DeVaul]

Was Larry on board with this decision?

 

[Hewson]

Was Larry on board with this decision?

Is it even a U2 RSD release?

 

[Fly-2000]

Hoping more details to be announced involve some bonus tracks (and not just Bottoms: Zoo Station). Otherwise, my CD copy is doing just fine.

Wonder if we'll get the alternate version of 'One Minute Warning' too:

 

[Achtung Ya'll]

Just got my "time to renew your subscription!" email. Of course the subscriber gift options are still just the Lyric books. Which I have vol 1 and have "redeemed" vol 2. How do they handle subscriber gifts for people that have already gotten those other two?

 

[super fly guy]

Nevermind Larry not being on board with this re-release. Neither am I,absolute dross!

 

[DeVaul]

How do they handle subscriber gifts for people that have already gotten those other two?

 

[Achtung Ya'll]

lol combined with your avatar... perfection

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

 

[david]

Nice. Passengers deserved a reissue for so long. My greatest record collecting find story is probably finding a sealed copy of the original vinyl release sitting in a record store in a mall that was shutting down back in 2006. I paid $6.00 for it. I kept it sealed until 2012 or 2013 and finally decided to actually play it.

 

[mikal]

My favorite memory of this album is back in 1995 not knowing it existed until I happen to walk in a store and saw it on the shelves.

 

[DeVaul]

lol combined with your avatar... perfection

I take my job here very seriously.

 

[djerdap]

Now this is a rerelease I will make an effort to buy. Great record.

 

[BEAL]

I remember hearing that U2 did a song with Pavarotti in a brief MTV news update

Then seeing the record at a Borders bookstore

Was an interesting listen. Grew over time but was very much a fan of Slug, Blue Room, and of course MS