U2 - Songs Of Surrender - Deluxe Box Set - Limited Edition (4LP Vinyl)

Limited Edition Numbered Super Deluxe 4 x 12’’ Collector’s Boxset. Featuring 40 new acoustic & re-imagined recordings from the U2 catalogue.

Produced & Compiled by The Edge and arranged into individual band volumes. This collector’s edition includes ‘With Or Without You’, ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’, ‘One’, ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’, ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’, alongside fan favourites such as ‘Stories For Boys’, ‘Bad’, & ‘Desire’.

• Limited Edition & Numbered Boxset
• 4 x 12’’ 180g Heavyweight Black Vinyl housed in a stunning Matt laminated rigid slipcase with bespoke debossing
• 4 x Unique Individual band member vinyl sleeves and booklets
• Includes new lyrics by Bono
• Includes exclusive photos by Anton Corbijn
• Feat. Liner notes from The Edge
• Dimensions: 316mm wide x 314mm high x 21mm

Songs Of Surrender is curated and produced by The Edge and sees the band revisit some of the most celebrated songs of their 40+ year career, including ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘Invisible’, for a musical reimagining resulting in a completely new recording of each track, to include the arrangements and, in some cases, new lyrics.  

The Edge said of the project: “Music allows you to time travel, and we became curious to find out what it would be like to bring our early songs back with us to the present day and give them the benefit, or otherwise, of a 21st century reimagining. 

What started out as an experiment quickly developed into a personal obsession as so many of our songs yielded to a new interpretation. Intimacy replaced post punk urgency. New tempos, new keys, and in some cases new chords and new lyrics arrived. A great song, it turns out is kind of indestructible.

The process of selecting which songs to revisit started with a series of demos. I looked at how a song would hang together if all but the bare essential elements were taken away. The other main aim was to find ways to bring intimacy into the songs, as most of them were originally written with live concert performance in mind. 

Reviewing these sketch recordings with producer Bob Ezrin, it was very easy to see the ones that worked straight off the bat and those that needed more work. We all got into the sensibility of less is more.”

The 40 newly recorded tracks are collected together under each of the four bandmember names across four separate ‘albums’, with The Edge adding – “Hearing the songs interact, and finding the running orders for the four albums was really thrilling; finding the surprising segues, getting a chance to DJ. Once we had four distinct albums it was easy to see who would be the figurehead for each one.”

Tracklist

LP 1 – The Edge 
01. One  
02. Where The Streets Have No Name  
03. Stories For Boys  
04. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock  
05. Out Of Control  
06. Beautiful Day 
07. Bad 
08. Every Breaking Wave  
09. Walk On (Ukraine) 
10. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 
  
LP 2 - Larry 
01. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses 
02. Get Out Of Your Own Way 
03. Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of 
04. Red Hill Mining Town 
05. Ordinary Love 
06. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own 
07. Invisible  
08. Dirty Day 
09. The Miracle Of Joey Ramone 
10. City Of Blinding Lights  
  
LP 3 - Adam 
01. Vertigo 
02. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For  
03. Electrical Storm 
04. The Fly 
05. If God Will Send His Angels   
06. Desire 
07. Until The End Of The World  
08. Song For Someone 
09. All I Want Is You 
10. Peace On Earth 
  
LP 4 - Bono 
01. With Or Without You 
02. Stay 
03. Sunday Bloody Sunday 
04. Lights Of Home 
05. Cedarwood Road 
06. I Will Follow 
07. Two Hearts Beat As One 
08. Miracle Drug 
09. The Little Things That Give You Away 
10. 40