Well it’s holiday shopping season again and you know what that means. Bands/record labels re-releasing old albums with a smidgen of new content in an attempt to get people to re-buy their favorite albums. I had thought U2 to be above this sort of thing but apparently they’re not. In fact they’re taking it one step further and going CAPCOM on us by re-releasing The Joshua Tree in a 2 CD deluxe edition and also a 2 CD/1 DVD box set Limited Edition Super Deluxe.
Fortunately, this re-release seems to have some substance as it contains 14 unreleased songs from The Joshua Tree recording sessions. The Limited Edition Super Deluxe will also have a DVD of a 1987 gig the band did at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris. Since I’m a sucker for high quality video of live U2 performances, I plunked down my $47.99 to pre-order the Limited Edition Super Deluxe. I can’t help but feel shitty for doing so though.
The video above is Bono explaining and singing along to one of the unreleased tracks, Wave of Sorrow. I’m not terribly impressed by the song, but then again, it’s pretty hard to get a good impression from an embedded video of Bono singing along with a tape in the background.
Waves of Sorrow [u2.com]
