U2 – Please (Remastered 2024) (1997/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:16 minutes | 462 MB | Genre: Rock
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“Please” is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the eleventh track on their ninth album, Pop (1997), and was released as its fourth single on 22 September 1997 by Island Records. As with “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, the song is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The single cover for this song features pictures of four Northern Irish politicians – Gerry Adams, David Trimble, Ian Paisley, and John Hume (clockwise from top left). Two months before the release of the single, live versions of “Please” and three other songs from the PopMart Tour were released on the Please: PopHeart Live EP in September 1997.
Read moreU2 – Last Night On Earth (Remastered 2024) (1997/2024) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:34 minutes | 380 MB | Genre: House, Techno, Pop Rock, Experimental
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“Last Night on Earth” is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the sixth track on their 1997 album, Pop, and was released by as its third single on 1 July 1997 by Island Records. The song features excerpts from “Trayra Boia”, written by Naná Vasconcelos and Denise Milan.It’s music video was directed by Richie Smyth and filmed in the US.
Read moreU2 – Staring At The Sun (Remastered 2024) (1997/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:13 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Rock
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“Staring at the Sun” is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the fifth track on their 1997 album, Pop, and was released by Island Records as the album’s second single on 14 April 1997. The song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, number one in Canada and Iceland and number 26 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the US, it topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Alternative Songs charts. It also reached the top 10 in Finland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Norway.
Read moreU2 – Discothèque (Remastered 2024) (1997/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:42 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Rock
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The first single from 1997’s album Pop, ‘Discotheque’ went to No.1 in several countries and was performed live for the first time during the PopMart tour opener in Las Vegas on April 25, 1997.
In October 1996 a 30-second snippet of the track, taken from a promotional release, made it onto the web, with the entire MP3 circulating within a couple of months. This brought forward the release of the single, which itself heralded the dance-music vibe of the album where the band were ‘trying to make an ode to club culture without using the tools of dance music’ as Bono later put it. The video for the single, with the band performing as members of The Village People, took some fans by surprise. ‘I like to think we were dangerously ahead of our time,’ reflects Edge. ‘It is a great video and has been copied many times since.’
Read moreU2 – Under A Blood Red Sky (Remastered 2023) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:39 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Rock
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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of U2’s Under A Blood Red Sky (originally release 1983), a newly remastered release of the iconic live album is released through UMR/Island Records.
Consisting of live recordings from three shows on the band’s much-acclaimed War tour, the album helped to cement U2’s reputation globally as one of the greatest live acts of all time. Featuring legendary live versions of early classics including “Gloria,” “I Will Follow,” “New Year’s Day” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” the album remains faithful to the original track list, but has been newly remastered at the renowned studio Bernie Grundman Mastering for Black Friday 2023.
U2 had been honing their stagecraft for the best part of 5 years by the time Under A Blood Red Sky was released as their first live album on November 21, 1983. But in the slipstream of their hugely successful third studio album War, issued some nine months earlier, this was the record that told the world that the Irish band were well on the way to becoming one of the greatest attractions in all of live music. As writer Adam Sweeting put it in his Melody Maker review: “Anyone who’s caught the full blast of U2 at full tilt has to admit it’s a rare old shiver.”
Read moreU2 – Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 23:11 minutes | 260 MB | Genre: Rock
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This follows up the release of “Lemon” as a remastered single on July 21, 2023. That single featured four mixes of the title track, including the “Morales BYC Version Dub” (06:35), and the “Bad Yard Club Mix” (10:14). The “Bad Yard Club Edit” on the “Stay” EP is an edited of the longer mix found on the “Lemon” single.
The cover being used for the “Stay” EP is the alternate cover used for the second CD release in territories where two versions of the single were issued on CD. The singles have never been released with this cover art in North America.
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