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Releases:
Kirk Franklin's "Lean On Me" album(features Bono amongst others)
released
September 29, 1998(NA)
"Forgotten Angels" Hospital Tribute Album(U2's IGWSHA will appear)
October 5, 1998(UK)
Single: New version of "The Sweetest Thing" October 19, 1998(UK),
October 20, 1998(Canada)
CONFIRMED: "U2 PopMart - Live From Mexico" VHS November 3, 1998
NA, November 2, 1998 EUR.
Also, from Oli G, who in the past has been extremely reliable with his
information. The tracklist of this video will be:
1*POP MUZIK 2*MOFO 3* I WILL FOLLOW 4*GONE 5*EVEN BETTER THAN
THE REAL THING 6*LAST NIGHT ON EARTH 7*UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
8* NEW YEAR'S DAY 9*PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE) 10*I STILL HAVEN'T
FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR 11*ALL I WANT IS YOU 12*DESIRE
13*STARING AT THE SUN 14*SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY 15*BULLET THE
BLUE SKY 16*PLEASE 17*WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
18*DISCOTHEQUE 19*IF YOU WEAR THAT VELVET DRESS 20*WITH OR
WITHOUT YOU 21*HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, KILL ME 22*MYSTERIOUS
WAYS 23*ONE 24*WAKE UP DEAD MAN
This is the actual press release for the B-side tracklisting from CNN:
PRNewswire
21-SEP-98
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/-- Island Records announced today the
final track listing of the special B-Sides CD which will be included in
a limited edition version of U2 The Best of 1980-1990, due out for
release on Tuesday, November 3.
The B-sides track listing is as follows:
* The Three Sunrises
* Spanish Eyes
* Sweetest Thing (original version)
* Love Comes Tumbling
* Bass Trap
* Dancing Barefoot
* Everlasting Love
* Unchained Melody
* Walk To The Water
* Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
* Hallelujah Here She Comes
* Silver And Gold
* Endless Deep
* A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
* Trash, Trampoline and The Party Girl
The B-sides disk will accompany a 14 track collection of some of the
band's best known material:
* Pride (in the Name of Love)
* New Year's Day
* With or Without You
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
* Sunday Bloody Sunday
* Bad
* Where the Streets Have No Name
* I Will Follow
* The Unforgettable Fire
* Sweetest Thing (the single mix)
* Desire
* When Love Comes to Town
* Angel of Harlem
* All I Want is You
* One Tree Hill ( New Zealand Release ONLY)
* Red Hill Mining Town (Japan Release ONLY)
* October (Japan Release ONLY -- although I have heard a rumour that
it "may" appear as a hidden track on the regular release)
The two-disk set is being made available to retailers on a one time
only, limited edition basis and will be available to consumers at a
special low price on Tuesday, November 3 in the United States (Monday,
November 2 rest of world). Retailers will then be offered a regular
edition of U2 The Best of 1980-1990, which will not include the B-sides
bonus CD. The regular edition of U2 The Best of 1980-1990 will be
available in stores on Tuesday, November 10 in the United States
(Monday, November 9 rest of world).
/CONTACT: John Vlautin, 212-603-3933, or Karen Wiessen, 212-603-3950,
both of Island Records, Inc./ CO: Island Records, Inc. ST: New York IN:
ENT REA SU: PDT
Concerts/Live Events:
Television/Radio Events:
Ovation TV:
Rocky World, a documentary about Daniel Lanois, in which U2 make an
appearance (and perform as well) airs on September 29 (9:00 a.m.) and
October 3 (5:00 p.m.)
On the Web page, but not yet scheduled, is "Miss Sarajevo" .
VH1: They are working on a U2 special. Airdate TBA.
Premiering the Sweetest Thing '98 video at 1:30pm
Eastern Time on Monday, 10/5/98.
POP-UP VIDEO airing "Lemon" Tuesday, October 6 at 4 pm EDT
POP-UP VIDEO airing "Stay" Saturday, October 10, 6:00 pm EDT
MTV:
MuchMusic/MuchUSA:
Net Events:
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U2 is featured "In the Studio" at
http://www1.rocktropolis.com/main/events/schedule.asp
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Vote for U2 at DotMusic's Top Albums of All Time (AB is #3, JT is #16)
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Vot for U2 at http://www.bradfitz.com/votingbooth?schwag402
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Fan Club/WIRE/U2 nutzoid meetings:
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18th Anniversary of U2's first performance in Canada Celebration
WHEN: DEC 9th 1998
WHERE: El Mocambo or at a Local Theatre-TBA soon
Contact [email protected] for more information.
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NEWS dates:
MuchMusic airs ST added Oct 3
Zucchero and Bono collaboration added Oct 3
Full Video of Sweetest Thing added Oct 3
REM/U2 flashbacks added Oct 3
RV of part of ST video available added Oct 2
Video Stills of TST added Oct 2
Newsweek review of PJ Harvey added Oct 2
Canadian Release Information -- Sweetest Thing! added Oct 1
Danny Best legal suit added Oct 1
U2 Postmodernist? added Oct 1
Kirk Franklin in Entertainment Weekly added Oct 1
Lyrics to Sweetest Thing added Sept 30
The murder of Jenny Lin added Sept 30
Bono's Top 10 added Sept 29
U2 video added Sept 29
Greenpeace and U2 again? added Sept 29
Butch Vig and U2 added Sept 28
More on Sunny Day and U2 added Sept 28
Dutch TV Top Ten added Sept 28
Another band that sounds like U2(...mixed with BonJovi?) added Sept 28
More RV Interviews of Dublin Video Shoot added Sept 28
Irish Times on Tape/CD Piracy added Sept 28
Entertainment Weekly article on TST added Sept 27
TST info added (late) Sept 27
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MuchMusic aired Sweetest Thing '98 at 2:55pm CST on Saturday.
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>From Pierluigi, a subscriber in Italy:
This was in today Italian newspapers and was confirmed also by
Italian Rock Online(http://www.rockol.it) :
The lyrics of "Blue" (English version of "Blu") , the new single
from Italian singer Zucchero, is a collaboration between him and
Bono. Zucchero recorded some songs for his new album "Blue
Sugar" (out on November 5th; it'll be released in two editions, Italian
and English) at Windmill Lane. Bono also wrote the lyrics for the
English version of Miserere (sang by Zucchero and Pavarotti) some
years ago.
There's also an official website for Zucchero: http://www.zucchero.it
But there are no news for this album and the English version is still
not
updated.
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The full video of ST is available at
http://www.u2dublin.com
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>From SonicNet:
Alternative Radio Tunes In And Turns On To U2, R.E.M.
New singles from '80s superstar acts are getting airplay and
attention from modern-rock broadcasters.
SonicNet Senior Writer Gil Kaufman reports:
If you turned on the radio during the past two weeks, you may
have felt like you were experiencing a mid-'80s flashback.
Between the release of the U2 track "Sweetest Thing" -- a previously
unfinished B-side originally intended for the Irish band's
15-million-selling album The Joshua Tree (1987) -- and the new
R.E.M. single, "Daysleeper," which some radio programmers have
pegged as a classic from the Athens, Ga., superstars, it's sounding
like the '80s all over again.
With modern-rock radio fractured into various niche formats -- some
catering to the harder, more aggressive styles of today's bigger bands
such
as shock- rockers Marilyn Manson and Days of the New, and others going
more mainstream -- the question becomes, "Is there still room for the
likes of
R.E.M. and U2 on alternative radio?"
"The way the business is going ... [b]ands are lucky to have a second
album
played on modern-rock radio, and these two have been around for 20
years."
-- Oedipus, WBCN program director
A sampling of radio programmers said the answer is a resounding "yes,"
despite the fact that both bands are coming off albums that were among
the
slowest- selling of their careers. (R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi
[1996]
and U2's Pop [1997] sold 950,000 and 1.4 million copies in the U.S.
respectively, according to SoundScan.)
"Both these bands are at a point in their career where we don't receive
an
overabundance of phone calls as soon as their new songs hit the radio,"
said Jim McGuinn, program director of Philadelphia's Y100 (WPLY-FM).
"Their fanbase is a little older, but they expect that if a new R.E.M.
or U2 song
is out, they will hear it on the radio."
McGuinn said there was no question that he would play both songs on his
station, which sits in the #5 U.S. alternative-radio market among
stations
reporting to industry trade-magazine Radio and Records. Despite the
profusion of edgier, harder bands that he programs, both U2 and R.E.M.
are
vital, important groups, McGuinn added.
That sentiment was echoed by longtime radio-personality Oedipus, vice
president/program director of Boston's WBCN (104.1 FM). "I always listen
to
the song first," Oedipus said. "But we have a long history with these
bands
from when they were just starting out and, based on that relationship,
I'll
give my friends a shot. They deserve to be heard."
Oedipus, who preferred to use only his radio name, said each band is
getting a fairly healthy 25-28 spins a week on his station. "The way the
business is going," Oedipus said, "music is so disposable. Bands are
lucky
to have a
second album played on modern-rock radio, and these two have been around
for 20 years. For the most part, it's 'here today, gone later today.' "
The warm reception to the songs is surprising given their release at
transitional periods in both bands' careers. "Sweetest Thing," an
unfinished B-side U2 recently re-cut with Joshua Tree producer Steve
Lillywhite, has
nearly nothing in common with the more electronic sounds that the
politically minded Irish-rockers have explored on their past three
studio
albums.
Similarly, R.E.M.'s swaying, acoustic single, "Daysleeper" (RealAudio
excerpt), the first from their soon-to-be-released album, Up (Oct. 27),
has
tinges of some of the band's warmer, folk-rock sound. The ballad is
somewhat of an anomaly on the new album, the first from the group since
founding drummer Bill Berry's departure last fall. Much of Up flirts
with a
variety of unusual percussion-instruments and studio-manipulated vocals
and
effects, giving it a sparse, ambient sound.
One radio personality who said he was not sold on either song was Jed
"The
Fish," afternoon drive-time DJ for tastemaking Los Angeles
alternative-station KROQ (106.7 FM).
"I heard a piece of ['Daysleeper'], and I passed on it," said Jed, who
also
preferred to use only his radio name. He cautioned that, while he was
"not
surprised a bit" by either song, he hadn't closely listened to either
yet.
"It sounded like the same old thing, and I don't think anyone cares,"
Jed
proclaimed. "At least U2 make an attempt to be current, where R.E.M.
have
been re-hashing the same thing for the past 10 years."
In the coming weeks, both groups will likely get the benefit of the
doubt
at most modern-rock radio-stations, according to Jim Kerr, who reports
on
alternative radio for Radio and Records. With U2 and R.E.M. long
established
as part of the bedrock of non-top-40 radio, alongside such bands as
Nirvana
and the Smashing Pumpkins, Kerr said that many programmers have a soft
spot
in their hearts for the career acts.
University of Georgia college-station 90.5 WUOG, in R.E.M.'s hometown of
Athens -- which bills itself as one of the first places to play R.E.M.
in
the early '80s -- may not touch the band anymore because they "don't
play
anything that's top-40 music," station DJ Todd Blumenthal said. But
R.E.M.
will get plenty of support from Atlanta's mainstream alternative-station
99X (WWNX-FM), according to that station's program director.
Both bands have been generating healthy calls for the station, WWNX
program
director Leslie Fram said, largely because the two songs quench a thirst
for the classic sound that longtime fans remember.
"We've always felt that if there's one band that helps define this
station,
it's R.E.M.," Fram said.
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Part of the video is available in RV at:
http://www.u2dublin.com
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Video Stills from the Sweetest Thing video can be found at :
http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~allard/sweetest.html
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>From Newsweek:
[P.J.] Harvey shares a manger with U2, and "Desire" feels like the album
Bono & Co. have been trying to make for years. It's cutting edge-working
in blips and beats from hip-hop, techno and industrial music-without
seeming premeditated or phony.
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