U2 have released two previously unreleased songs, titled “Country Mile” and “Picture Of You (X + W),” both from the recording sessions for their 2004 album, “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb,” which is about to be released. celebrated with a special re-release for its twentieth anniversary.
The new edition of the album, entitled “How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb”, will be released on November 22nd and will include ten songs, including two previously unreleased tracks, as well as remixes and live recordings recovered from the archives of the original sessions. Furthermore, for the first time, “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” will be re-released in a remastered version specifically for the twentieth anniversary, with the addition of the bonus track “Fast Cars”.
The “Re-Assemble Edition,” which includes both “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” and “How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb,” will be available as a digital double album starting November 22nd.
Here it is tracklistof “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb”:
Picture Of You (X+W)
Evidence Of Life
Luckiest Man In The World
Treason
I Don't Wanna See You Smile
Country Mile
Happiness
Are We Gonna Wait Forever?
Theme From The Batman
All Because Of You 2
And there it is tracklist of the 20th anniversary re-release:
Vertigo
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
City of Blinding Lights
All Because of You
A Man and a Woman
Crumbs from Your Table
One Step Closer
Original of the Species
Yahweh
Fast Cars
About “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb”, we wrote on OndaRock in 2004: “That simple and epic rhythm, that tinkling guitar, the passionate voice, still manage to bring out the ghost of those guys who played 'Gloria' on the pier of the port of Dublin, young, enthusiastic, with hearts on fire, if what U2 managed to convey in 2004 was just an echo, then it would be desirable for it to be a real farewell, after all it would be much more dignified than that. many others that have been witnessed in the history of rock”. Decidedly prophetic words, those of Paolo Sforza, given the subsequent course of the Dubliners' career.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM