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Can you believe that September 25th marks 44 years of U2? Looking around the socials, there are several things going on to celebrate this occasion. Right here in the Zoo, we have a couple of things going on. Tomorrow, (Friday, 25 September), we have the 4th annual (if my calculations are correct) U2 T-shirt Day: https://zootopia.u2.com/forums/topic/41325-u2-t-shirt-day-25-september-2020/?tab=comments#comment-1198471 On Saturday, we also have a listening party for The Unforgettable Fire, here: https://zootopia.u2.com/forums/topic/41346-u2getherathome-a-celebration-of-the-unforgettable-fire/ As I was saying earlier, looking through the socials, I have seen other events also. A very good list of those events can be found here: https://insearchofrockgods.com/u2day-events/ If you have or know of any other events, please feel free to add those to this thread. Also, please add your congratulatory/celebratory comments to the band in this thread. It's a Celebration! Act accordingly. #U244

Can't wait! There's a Rattle and Hum Twitter Watch Party on Friday 4pm PST as well. Load up your R&H dvds and we’ll all aim to press play at (roughly) the same time. Then tweet along using the hashtags #U2Day20, #InternationalDayOfU2, and #U2getherAtHome. More details, including various timezone equivalents at https://insearchofrockgods.com/2020/08/25/u2-day-2020/

“YouTube, Island Records, Interscope, and UMe have announced the relaunch of U2's Official YouTube Channel with weekly releases of the band's most iconic music videos and never before seen content on YouTube, all remastered at the highest standard.” Continue reading here: https://www.u2.com/news/title/remastered-on-youtube/

no Unforgettable Fire play should be without the best B side ever... so...

Everyone who has posted here has expressed my own thoughts so I won't repeat what has already been said. What I will say is that either U2 or people in their organization seem to think that there is an insatiable demand for remixes. Just a quick glance through this forum shows that fans are interested in previously unreleased live material. Remixes are a curiosity/novelty not a major selling point.

Happy eyes!! I got mine too!!

Guess who's back? HA ! As part of the #U244 events, I'm teaming up with the brilliant Tyler of RevU2 podcast and bringing back a new version of the U2getherAtHome party! Off with the shows, on with the studio (kinda) ! We’re throwing a little party for an album whose anniversary is also coming up very soon. And I’m very happy to invite you all to join us for the #U2getherAtHome listening/watch along party : A celebration of The Unforgettable Fire this Saturday 26th at 6PM (UK) ! We’ve been working on putting together a Youtube playlist with a mix of studio/live videos of the album throughout the years and I hope you’ll enjoy listening/watching it as much as we did. I'll post the link shortly before the event. Hope to see you around Zootopians !

As it should be… All the thanks to Jo and Ty for this nice listening party at distance... We all may be far away in distance, but things like this make us close as a community. Let's see what the future brings us... meanwhile, take care and be safe, girls and boys...

All sounds great! We (December) have a version of Heartland coming out. Will post links once finalised. Sounds like a great weekend coming up. #thankyouU2 #U244

I - after many, many months - finally finished 1st in the Diamond League (i.e., the highest of their 10 leagues) for the week on Duolingo! 😊 The highest I was ever able to finish was third (once in the Diamond League, once in a lower league that I can't remember). I even did it as a free member too; so, I beat out all the other free and paid members this past week as well. 😎 I have to give a lot of credit to Duolingo - they make learning a new language very entertaining. (I do recommend the app to others wanting to learn a new language.)

One of the new “extras” released today.

Hopefully as many girls as possible over the course of Justice Ginsburg’s long life and career. She inspired and will continue to inspire me.

I bought the AB uber deluxe 20th anniversary reissue for just over $300 from Amazon Canada (which was somehow cheaper than Amazon US). That set was a veritable cornucopia loaded with conent - EXTENSIVE tracks on cd (two albums, tonnes of remixes, and alternate version of AB) and vinyl (album and all complete singles), two excellent documentaries (one of which was only aired on TV; my old VHS recording of it was wearing thin), music videos, Live from Sydney dvd (previously only available on VHS and Laserdisc), the best packaging I've ever seen with a magnetic tiled cover and pull out drawer box, 84(!) page HC book, Propaganda magazine reprint, 16 art prints, large sticker sheet, beautiful tour pins, and a pair of fly glasses! The 2017 JT reissue was much less fancy, but was still great to have the MSG show, alternate versions of old tracks (not just remixes), and all the b-sides and rarities together on the same slab of vinyl. Plus Edge's book was almost worth the price alone. I still happily shelled out premium pricing to get it. The ATYCLB reissue is very disappointing. To buy this at roughly the same price in Canadian $$ as the AB reissue, for what I estimate to be 1/4 of the content, is no longer acceptable in my mind. I sincerely hope that U2 management recognize that the hard core fans are getting tired of this trend of overpaying for underwhelming content. I will be taking a pass this time.

I'm glad some have the money to buy these things---I don't and I want that awesome looking book Mich40 mentioned. To ALL people/bands who are in charge of these anniversary super deluxe things: I bought the original album. I then bought the cd. I paid for tickets and went to the shows. I bought merchandise. I buy the dvd's.. You then offer me pretty much what I already own but add one or two new things. You charge a premium but it's old merchandise that's been given a new coat of paint. In a decade or so, you will probably release the same thing again (with one or two bonuses) and charge even more, In the end, it is for old music, yet you keep upping the price.. I understand it's my choice if I buy these things or not. Nobody is forcing me. However, why do you not make those one ot two new things, which die hard fans would not have, available for sale without the necessity of buying what we already own multiple times? My criticism is of the machine, not U2.

Looking forward to this beautiful piece of the box set.

You can’t blame them, they want new material Our stuff’s been repeated too many times You can’t sell the same thing to the same old crowd forever

Thanks to the very cool Darkside Records store, I have a piece of amazing U2 history that lives on & on ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Wait, you guys have opened yours ? And played them ? 😲

I got mine at Rock N Soul Records in NYC. They had a table outside, I gave them my wish list; they checked their stock and pulled what I wanted. I never had to go inside. They had everything I wanted except for the Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker at Town Hall, which I was very bummed about.

Shout out to my favorite local store for keeping it safe and well-organized. The vinyl is very pretty.

I was able to buy a copy from local Levykauppa Äx

I will be doing the same once mine arrives. My good thing was reading this headline below. Joe Biden should say at some point during tonight’s debate, “President Trump, you paid more hush-money to women you (allegedly) had affairs with than you paid in Federal Income Tax for the past 15 years.” That would make my day. 😊

Enjoy the rest of your day everyone! And thanks @Madfl3a and revU2 for organizing this.

we do, but gracefully as this album has done...

Of 4th of July of course ! I mean that song is basically the sound drugs make when entering one's system 🤣

Promenade....I remember not having the lyrics to the album and trying to decipher/write them down to this one.

360 is the only time I've sen them do Unforgettable Fire. I was transfixed. Love it on the album but live....unbelieveable. Great memories.

Another good choice - the U2360 version of title track is one of my favorites!

My song ❤️ And 360 was the first time I ever got to hear it live.

I've been a massive pain with Ty to use this one. It made sense. More than a song, Pride has always been about making a stand for me. It HAD to be this one ! SING AMERICA !

Filled out my ballot for the November election which seems odd to write. I got it witnessed and signed. It is selaed. It just needs to be delivered, which I'm doing in person to a dropbox asap. He is fired by me.

I’m from the future, so happy U2iversary !

Cheers to that. There are times where I realize I'm not listening to U2 as much as usual - but never a time I'm not listening at all. Happy 44.

Calling all Zootopians to flood social medias with their favorite performance of the band! Because we def need more live music lately (!!!) , and we can never get enough U2 right?! Drown the silence, and do it with good music! Post your links/vids using the #U244Live hashtag! (mods ?! Mods! Can we do it here too or are you not too keen of spamming? ... I mean unending demonstration of love for the band?!) TOO MUCH ISN'T ENOUGH

The Unforgettable Fire is one of my favourite albums, would love to be there on Saturday but at the moment I am not sure that I can. It is great that the band are upgrading their videos and putting them on YouTube, hopefully this paves the way for some physical releases of upgraded concert videos in the future as well. If I can't make it, have fun on Saturday.

Thank you! The funny thing is that, linguistically speaking, you know the two languages that are closest to Portuguese. Thus, you would have very little problem with the vocabulary once you understood the spelling differences between them. (The grammar could be a different matter.) Duolingo is wonderful! This isn't a random opinion - I taught foreign languages (i.e., Ancient Greek and Latin) for over 20 years. With that experience, I can confirm that their method of teaching is pedagogically sound...and fun! If you like apps that are more conversationally-oriented, you may want to check out Babbel as well. If you want one that's great on all four skills (i.e., reading, writing, listening, and speaking), it's hard to do better than Rosetta Stone. There are many others, but these three would teach you whatever you wanted to learn in whatever manner you wanted to learn.

You are studying Portuguese? That's impressive. I know Spanish and Italian. Portuguese is a whole other ball game. I don't even try to understand when I hear it spoken. I just listen to the flow. It's beautiful. I am going to check out Duolingo. Congrats, dmway.

When you think about it, you get better bang for your buck from the subscription gifts, such as; U22, Another Time, Another Place live at the Marquee, The Joshua Tree Singles Remastered & Live, U2 LIVE SONGS OF iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE and U2 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE LIVE FROM BERLIN. Most of this was previously unreleased or parts of it were. Where as the ATYCLB boxset is just old released stuff remastered.

She was 87. May she Rest In Peace.

RIP Justice Ginsburg

I'm in Colombia and nothing here 😔 In June I received the mail "Your U2.com Subscription order has shipped!" and UPS shows this only: Date Location Activity 06/08/20206:33 P.M. United States Shipment information received by UPS Mail Innovations

I think possibly ATYCLB is coming from the end of U2's career where there just isn't so much quality, unreleased stuff left in the vault. And "remastering" an album from 2000 doesn't really make sense either. Mastering in 2000 was already all high-quality, digital, polished. Sure, they could have included a different concert, and possibly new video. But as for video, well, I'm not sure DVD or Blu-ray releases many any sense anymore. It's just not how people consume video. CDs are at the very tail end of being justifiable. But people just don't consume video via optical discs now. So they've really just packaged together (quite nicely it must be admitted) what they have, and are charging as much as they can get away with for it. To be honest, I don't really blame them - it's a different world now for a music artist (and their team) to generate revenue. They've got to come up with something, and this is it. Still, I'm content to pass, with no sense of regret or disappointment.

Disappointing release for sure. In comparison with re-issues from some other bands in recent years it compares very badly in terms of content. For example REM's, Automatic for the People and The Beatles, Abbey Road re-issues included great sounding new high resolution audio and 5.1 mixes on blu ray disc at lower cost. There was much potential for this reissue but unfortunately I have to agree with most of the other comments on here expressing dissapointment. Altough it is true to say it is impossible to please everyone, I think a band like U2 should be setting the bar for re-issues but I don't think this is the case here.

This has to be one of the more touching stories coming out during our pandemic: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/dog-rejoin-owners-covid/index.html

I was kinda joking, should have gone with the 😜 emoji

I always open and play them. I know it takes away from the “collector value” but I don’t buy them just to look at them and I don’t intend on selling them.

Got my copy at FatKat Records in Antwerp. Best record store in town!

Even in a COVID world, unicorns can come to your rescue 🦄 : https://www.newsweek.com/little-girl-lost-sea-found-floating-unicorn-1528383