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The fan club release is gonna sound the best, but I haven't been able to find it for a good price(been years since I looked tbf). I ended up buying a copy off someone from atu2 forums a while back which I am 99% sure is just the DVD files ripped onto a CD.

But this CD is assumedly the holy grail for that recording.

Discogs has it for about $50, but I'd be wary to make sure you get a legitimate copy.

These fan club CDs are the hardest to find online(for torrenting, though I have found most of them at this point) I am planning on purchasing them all some day when I get the money to really complete my U2 collection.

Grouping them in threes is intriguing and I think you're on to something.

I've always included all of their albums and grouped them in pairs, with the latter album serving as a sort of companion piece or further exploration of the more original material on the former. I've always looked at it that way based primarily on the changes that coincided with their live tours, but I've had to make a couple of exceptions.

Bear with me: Boy/October is an obvious pairing right from the start. Under a Blood Red Sky also obviously the live album from the War tour. Then came Unforgettable Fire and Wide Awake In America. The Rattle and Hum film and album is an obvious extrapolation of The Joshua Tree album and tour. They "dreamed it all up again" and reinvented their music (and tour) with Achtung Baby, then recorded Zooropa while still on tour and merely expanded the whole ZooTV concept. So far so good.

Pop is where things get a little tricky and my whole "Albums In Pairs" theory needs an exception, though I often think Pop and its reception are something of an exception in U2's oeuvre anyway. Influenced by a lot of the club mixes from the Achtung/Zooropa days (which they liked), and with some songs leftover from the Zooropa recording sessions, they decided to take ZooTV and make it even bigger with PopMart. They were ultimately unhappy with the result and reaction was mixed, so there was never a companion piece or further exploration of what they were trying to do with Pop. I suppose you could throw in the fact that this is where they decided to release their Best of: 1980-1990 album and remind fans they hadn't completely lost their freaking minds as a kind of follow-up (and for the record I still dig Pop, but I'm glad they remixed and properly finished some of the songs like Gone.)

ATYCLB and HTDAAB can and should be grouped together largely based on the similarities of both tours, as well as the sonic and lyrical themes that run through both albums. But then I have to make another exception with No Line On The Horizon because it has no follow-up or companion album, and the 360 Tour was a behemoth that hearkened back to PopMart but was never expanded with material from a second album.

Which brings us to Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, and with titles obviously inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, I think we can assume that there will not be a third album with a similar title, or an expansion of the I+E Tour. Therefore, if my theory holds up, the next album and tour will be completely different. Unless they do Songs of Ascent, in which case your groupings in threes might start to make a lot more sense.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, NLOTH and the 360 Tour could be considered a follow up to Pop and an expansion of the PopMart tour, they just leapfrogged ATYCLB/HTDAAB to get to it. That's if you want to stretch my theory a little to avoid making exceptions.

If you haven’t read Bono in Conversation it’s a great read

https://www.amazon.com/Bono-Conversation-Michka-Assayas/dp/1573223093

Yes, they’re the reissues released today. I had preordered here: Pop, ATYCLB, WAIA

Id just go with somehting like this,
http://www.amazon.ca/Baby-Banz-Baby-Boys-Newborn-Protection/dp/B007BEHSDU

It seems that your comment contains 1 or more links that are hard to tap for mobile users.
I will extend those so they're easier for our sausage fingers to click!


Here is link number 1 - Previous text "Pop"



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http://www.amazon.com/U2-Zoo-Live-Sydney-Limited/dp/B000HEZC7U

Why didn't you try Google.

That's the only official video released by U2 for the Zoo TV tour. Are you maybe thinking of Pop Mart?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000QUCQFQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1464145358&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=pop+mart+u2&dpPl=1&dpID=61o7rmxvf8L&ref=plSrch

No, got it on Amazon.

Here it is. Unfortunately not online, I transcribed this bit out myself!