How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition) U2

• 1 Vertigo (Remastered 2024) 03:14
• 2 Miracle Drug (Remastered 2024) 03:59
• 3 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (Remastered 2024) 05:08
• 4 Love And Peace Or Else (Remastered 2024) 04:50
• 5 City Of Blinding Lights (Remastered 2024) 05:47
• 6 All Because Of You (Remastered 2024) 03:34
• 7 A Man And A Woman (Remastered 2024) 04:30
• 8 Crumbs From Your Table (Remastered 2024) 04:59
• 9 One Step Closer (Remastered 2024) 03:51
• 10 Original Of The Species (Remastered 2024) 04:41
• 11 Yahweh (Remastered 2024) 04:41
• 12 Fast Cars (Remastered 2024) 03:43
• 13 Picture Of You (X+W) 04:18
• 14 Evidence Of Life 03:06
• 15 Luckiest Man In The World 06:12
• 16 Treason 04:44
• 17 I Don't Wanna See You Smile 03:17
• 18 Country Mile 04:58
• 19 Happiness 04:29
• 20 Are You Gonna Wait Forever? (Re-Assemble Edition) 03:50
• 21 Theme From 'The Batman' 01:43
• 22 All Because Of You 2 03:33
• Total Runtime 01:33:07

Info for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition)

Newly remastered! 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', recently rediscovered in the band's archive and now released for the first time as a standalone album.

"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. (The Edge)

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 album that carries U2 into its 25th year--and likely the mixed blessings of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--is one of its most frank and focused since the days of October and War. But its gestation was anything but simple, in part salvaged from '03 sessions the band deemed subpar. Enter Steve Lillywhite, the band's original producer and sometime collaborator in the decades since, who helped retool the track "Native Son" (originally an antigun screed) into the aggressive iPod anthem "Vertigo" and leaves his distinctive stamp on the muscular "All Because of You." Perhaps weary of ceaseless, fashion-driven reinvention in the wake of monumental success, U2 seem only too happy here to re-embrace their original sonic trademarks in service of more daring, pop-melodic hooks than they've collected in one place in decades. The Eno/Lanois produced "Love and Peace or Else" may shimmer with the duo's electro-production conceits, but it's Edge's lugubrious, postmodern John Lee Hooker guitar swagger that drives it. Elsewhere, Bono's trademark dramaturgy is spotlighted on "City of Blinding Lights," the unabashed romance of "A Man and a Woman," and the confessional "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." It may come wrapped in a conundrum--is it nostalgic retrenchment or a sum of the band's endless musical catharsis?--It's also the album where, Fly and MacPhisto be damned, U2 boldly claims its arena titan mantle with apologies to no one. (Jerry McCulley)

Bono, lead vocals, additional guitar (tracks 2, 9, 11), piano (5)
The Edge, guitar, backing/additional vocals (1–7, 9, 11), piano (2, 4–5, 10–11), keyboards (3), additional percussion (7), synthesizer (10–11)
Adam Clayton, bass
Larry Mullen Jr., drums, percussion, backing vocal (2)
Additional musicians:
Jacknife Lee, additional synthesizers (1–2, 4–5, 7–10), programming (2, 4), keyboards (6), additional guitar atmospherics (8)
Daniel Lanois, additional guitar and pedal steel (9), mandolin (11), shaker (4)
Carl Glanville, additional percussion and synthesizers (2)
Brian Eno, synthesisers (4)
Fabien Waltmann, programming (3, 5)

Digitally remastered

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With its textured guitars, U2's sound was undeniably indebted to post-punk, so it's slightly ironic that the band formed in 1976, before punk had reached their hometown of Dublin, Ireland. Larry Mullen Jr. (born October 31, 1961; drums) posted a notice on a high-school bulletin board asking for fellow musicians to form a band. Bono (born Paul Hewson, May 10, 1960; vocals, guitar), the Edge (born David Evans, August 8, 1961; guitar, keyboards, vocals), Adam Clayton (born March 13, 1960; bass), and Dick Evans responded to the ad, and the group formed as a Beatles and Stones cover band called the Feedback, before changing their name to the Hype in 1977. Shortly afterward, Dick Evans left the band to form the Virgin Prunes. Following his departure, the group changed its name to U2.

U2's first big break arrived in 1978, when they won a talent contest sponsored by Guinness; the band were in their final year of high school at the time. By the end of the year, the Stranglers' manager, Paul McGuinness, saw the band play and offered to manage them. Even with a powerful manager in their corner, the band had trouble making much headway -- they failed an audition with CBS Records at the end of the year. In the fall of 1979, U2 released their debut EP, U2 Three. The EP was available only in Ireland, and it topped the national charts. Shortly afterward, they began to play in England, but they failed to gain much attention.

U2 had one other chart-topping single, "Another Day," in early 1980 before Island Records offered the group a contract. Later that year, the band's debut, Boy, was released. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the record's sweeping, atmospheric but edgy sound was unlike most of its post-punk contemporaries, and the band earned further attention for its public embrace of Christianity; only Clayton was not a practicing Christian. Through constant touring, including opening gigs for Talking Heads and wet T-shirt contests, U2 were able to take Boy into the American Top 70 in early 1981. October, also produced by Lillywhite, followed in the fall, and it became their British breakthrough, reaching number 11 on the charts. By early 1983, Boy's "I Will Follow" and October's "Gloria" had become staples on MTV, which, along with their touring, gave the group a formidable cult following in the U.S.

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