This is a continuation from my previous post about the upcoming Achtung Baby box set. I guess I'm gonna have to settle for the Super Deluxe edition. Six CDs and four DVDs. The press release didn't mention if the Achtung Baby and Zooropa albums were remastered. I'm not crazy about discs 3 and 4; Uber Remixes?? The last thing you want is people remixing U2 songs (like in that terrible fan club exclusive Artificial Horizon). Of course Disc 5 is something I gotta have; B-sides and bonus tracks, with rare songs like Satellite Of Love, Heaven And Hell and Lady With The Spinning Head. The last disc is intriguing; "baby" versions of Achtung Baby?? Sounds like work-in-progress demos to me, which is cool.Now the DVD portions; I think they kinda screwed up on this one. Most fans already own the ZooTv Sydney show. If I'm not wrong, there were couple of other shows from that tour which were pro-shot (Yankee Stadium, Dublin, Stockholm) ; I don't understand why those are not released. Also the music videos from Achtung Baby are included, stuff which fans also own. What I can only hope for now is the blu-ray version of the concert and the bonus material, that'll make the viewing experience much better (seriously, the quality of that Sydney DVD wasn't good at all). Also I wished those two albums (Achtung and Zooropa) would get a blu-ray audio treatment; though it's probably not gonna happen.
I'll still get the set for the 92-page hardcover book and those art prints, and of course the brand new documentary, From The Sky Down. I don't actually own a physical copy of Zooropa, so buying this will complete my U2 album collection. On the other hand, I'm not entirely satisfied with the whole thing; I see lotta missed opportunities here. Don't even compare this to last year's Darkness On The Edge Of Town boxset. Now that was SOMETHING. Give the fans what they want, not what they already have.
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P.S. The Uber Deluxe set is RIDICULOUSLY FUCKING EXPENSIVE. Even the new Grateful Dead Europe '72 box set (containing 72 CDs) doesn't cost that much.
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Achtung Baby: Uber Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMC (U.K.)/Island/UMe (U.S.), 2011)
Disc 1: Achtung Baby (originally released as Island LP U28 (U.K.)/314 510 347-2 (U.S.), 1991)
- Zoo Station
- Even Better Than the Real Thing
- One
- Until the End of the World
- Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
- So Cruel
- The Fly
- Mysterious Ways
- Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World
- Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
- Acrobat
- Love is Blindness
Disc 2: Zooropa (originally released as Island LP U29 (U.K.)/314 518 047-1 (U.S.), 1993)
- Zooropa
- Babyface
- Numb
- Lemon
- Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
- Daddy’s Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
- Some Days Are Better Than Others
- The First Time
- Dirty Day
- The Wanderer
Disc 3: Uber Remixes
- Night and Day (Steel String Remix)
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (Perfecto Mix)
- Mysterious Ways (Solar Plexus Extended Club Mix)
- Lemon (Perfecto Mix)
- Can’t Help Falling in Love (Triple Peaks Remix)
- Lady with the Spinning Head (Extended Dance Remix)
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (V16 Exit Wound Remix)
- Mysterious Ways (Ultimatum Mix)
- The Lounge Fly
- Mysterious Ways (The Perfecto Remix)
- One (Apollo 440) (Mix Master S-109)
Disc 4: Unter Remixes
- Mysterious Ways (Tabla Motown Remix)
- Mysterious Ways (Appollo 440 Magic Hour Remix)
- Can’t Help Falling in Love (Mystery Train Dub)
- One (Apollo 440 – Ambient Master S-109)
- Lemon (Momo’s Reprise)
- Salomé (Zooromancer Remix)
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (Trance Mix)
- Numb (Gimme Some More Dignity Mix)
- Mysterious Ways (Solar Plexus Magic Hour Remix)
- Numb (The Soul Assassins Mix)
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (Apollo 440 Stealth Sonic Remix)
Disc 5: B-Sides and Bonus Tracks
- Lady with the Spinning Head (UV1)
- Blow Your House (Analogue Mix – Bono Edit)
- Salomé
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (Single Version)
- Satelite of Love
- Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (Temple Bar Remix)
- Heaven and Hell (In Truth Mix)
- Oh Berlin (Analogue Mix 1)
- Near the Island (Instrumental)
- Down All the Days (Version 1)
- Paint it Black
- Fortunate Son
- Alex Descends Into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/Korova 1
- Where Did It All Go Wrong? (Demo from STS-Dublin, July 1990)
- Everybody Loves a Winner
- Even Better Than the Real Thing (Fish Out of Water Mix)
Disc 6: “Baby” Achtung Baby (track list identical to original album)
LPs 1 and 2: Achtung Baby
5 x 7″ vinyl singles
- The Fly
- Mysterious Ways
- Even Better than the Real Thing
- One
- Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
DVDs
- From the Sky Down: A Documentary
- Videos
- Bonus Material
- ZOO TV: Live from Sydney – The Concert
Disc 3, Track 1 and Disc 4, Tracks 1 and 5 released on Island CD single CID IS 515 (U.K.)/422 866 533-2 (U.S.), 1992
Disc 3, Tracks 2 and 7 and Disc 4, Tracks 7 and 11 released on Island CD single C REAL 2 (U.K.)/422 864 281-2 (U.S.), 1992
Disc 3, Track 3 and Disc 4, Tracks 1-2 released on Island 12″ single 12 IS 509 (U.K.)/422 866 189-1 (U.S.), 1991
Disc 3, Track 4 and Disc 4, Track 5 released on Island 12″ single 422-862 957-1 (U.S.), 1993
Disc 3, Track 5 and Disc 4, Track 6 released on Island CD single CIDX 550 (U.K.), 1992
Disc 3, Track 6 and Disc 5, Tracks 3-4 and 13 released on Island 12″ single 12 IS 525 (U.K.)/422 866 977-1 (U.S.), 1992
Disc 3, Tracks 8 and 10 released on Island promotional CD single U2-FREE (AUS), 1991
Disc 3, Track 9 and Disc 5, Track 13 released on Island 12″ single 12 IS 500 (U.K.)/ 422 868 885-1 (U.S.), 1991
Disc 4, Track 3 released on Island 12″ promotional single 12 IS 550 DJ (U.K.), 1992
Disc 4, Track 7 released on Island 12″ single REAL U2 (U.K.), 1992
Disc 4, Tracks 8 and 10 released on Melon: Remixes for Propaganda (Island MELONCD 1 (U.K.), 1995)
Disc 5, Tracks 6, 11 and 12 released on Island CD single CID 550 (U.K.)/422 864 521-2 (U.S.), 1992
All other tracks previously unreleased.
