U2 releases How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 20th anniversary edition with extra shadow album
U2 have today shared a new track titled ‘Luckiest Man In The World’ from How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb, a collection of ten songs taken from the original recording sessions for ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’ - the critically acclaimed, eight-time Grammy winning album - which includes new, previously unreleased songs recently rediscovered in the band’s archive. Listen to ‘Luckiest Man In The World’ here. Watch lyric video here.
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition) – featuring both How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb – is OUT NOW to mark the 20th Anniversary of this seminal album. Listen here.
The first songs that were made available from How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb are the single ‘Country Mile’ and ‘Picture Of You (X W)’, listen here. Watch lyric videos here.
The Edge said of How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb – “The sessions for ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’ were such a creative period for the band, we were exploring so many song ideas in the studio. We were inspired to revisit our early music influences, and it was a time of deep personal introspection for Bono who was attempting to process - dismantle - the death of his father.
For this anniversary edition I went into my personal archive to see if there were any unreleased gems and I hit the jackpot. We chose ten that really spoke to us. Although at the time we left these songs to one side, with the benefit of hindsight we recognize that our initial instincts about them being contenders for the album were right, we were onto something.
What you’re getting on this shadow album is that raw energy of discovery, the visceral impact of the music, a sonic narrative, a moment in time, the exploration and interaction of four musicians playing together in a room... this is the pure U2 drop.”
Order / listen to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition) HERE.
ABOUT - HOW TO RE-ASSEMBLE AN ATOMIC BOMB:
How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb is a collection of ten songs taken from the original recording sessions for ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’ - U2’s critically acclaimed, eight-time Grammy winning album - recently rediscovered in the band’s archive and now released for the first time as a standalone album. This shadow album includes new, never-before-heard or previously released songs - ‘Treason’, ‘Evidence Of Life’, ‘Country Mile’ and ‘Happiness’; plus a song called ‘Luckiest Man In The World’ - familiar to fans under its working title ‘Mercy’, an early demo of which was leaked online almost 20 years ago - which now gets its official release; as well as five newly remastered songs - ‘Picture Of You (XW)’, ‘I Don't Wanna See You Smile’, ‘Are We Gonna Wait Forever?’, ‘Theme From The Batman’ and ‘All Because Of You 2’ - all collected together for the first time to mark the 20th anniversary of ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’.
The tracklisting for How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb is:
1. Picture Of You (XW)
2. Evidence Of Life
3. Luckiest Man In The World
4. Treason
5. I Don't Wanna See You Smile
6. Country Mile
7. Happiness
8. Are We Gonna Wait Forever?
9. Theme From The Batman
10. All Because Of You 2
ABOUT - HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB:
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is U2’s eleventh studio album. Released by Island Records / Interscope on 22nd November 2004, it went to No. 1 in 34 countries around the world, including Ireland, the UK and the US. Described by Bono at the time as “our first rock album”, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was recorded at the band’s studio in Hanover Quay, Dublin and the South of France, and produced by Steve Lilywhite, with additional production from Chris Thomas, Flood, Jacknife Lee, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Nellee Hooper and Carl Glanville. The 11 tracks included the songs ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own’, both of which debuted at No. 1 in the UK charts, the first time a U2 album produced two chart topping singles. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and its singles won a total of eight Grammy Awards, sweeping all of the categories in which the band were nominated, with ‘Vertigo’ alone winning three in 2005, including Best Rock Song. The band were the night’s big winners in 2006, taking home the Grammy for Album of the Year, as well as Song of the Year for ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own’ and Best Rock Song for ‘City of Blinding Lights’, with Steve Lilywhite also winning Producer of the Year.
The tracklisting for the remastered How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 20th Anniversary Reissue is:
1. Vertigo
2. Miracle Drug
3. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own
4. Love and Peace or Else
5. City of Blinding Lights
6. All Because of You
7. A Man and a Woman
8. Crumbs from Your Table
9. One Step Closer
10. Original of the Species
11. Yahweh
12. Fast Cars
