U2start.com | Boy, October, War and Blood Red Sky Remasters

Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I'm so disappointed! Soon after I bought my new Explorer I realized that UABRS is coming out in a week! Now I won't be able to get it the day it comes out Perhaps I can persuade my dad to not take ALL of my paycheck this week

a new Explorer is pretty sweet

is it like Edge's?

germcevoy

16 years

From our friend U2lover156 in a now closed topic

Originally posted by U2lover156:War Re-mastered Bonus Disc - A Disappointment?

The initial re-mastering of the Boy, October & War are great! The original ablum tracks that is. This is my opinion about the bonus disc for War!

The bonus disc for War, it’s a real disappointment! Who really wants to listen to 4 versions of New Year’s Day, only one, the single edit being remotely awesome to listen to. I don’t know about the rest of you guys but sometimes I just hate to hear and even see when some DJ or producer/mixer remixes a great U2 song and just butcher it with cheap effects. They could of thrown in the US version single with a cool intro and bass lines extended with different and meaningful lyrics or even the official extended version which is about a minute longer) but no we get cheap remixes. They even made the mistake twice to throw in three versions of Two Hearts Beat As One, again one of my many favorite U2 songs! The Kevorkian club versions & Steve Lillywhite re-mix are not good, again MY opinion. I really don’t want to upset this U2 community but I am going out there on a limb and stating my disappointment.
The other tracks are good, I enjoy the original stuff and the live ones as well.

I am curious about what you think about the tracks?

thefly07

16 years

Originally posted by germcevoy:From our friend U2lover156 in a now closed topic

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it is what it is and I've learned to live with it. I actually don't mind the remixes, but it is a bit of a cluster fuck

aussiemofo

16 years

Originally posted by germcevoy:From our friend U2lover156 in a now closed topic

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It's been well established in this topic that the War bonus disc sucks monkey balls. I think that's the general consensus around here. Yeah, it's a cop-out and a better fit would have been Under a Blood Red Sky remaster instead of remixes you're not gonna listen to but what can you do? They're not gonna put UBRS as bonus disc when they can release that separately and increase sales. The War album was obviously very light on quality non-album tracks/B-sides to put on a bonus disc.

MWSAH

16 years