Boy | 
 enlarge | Artist: U2
Label: Island
Category: Music
List Price: $34.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2649
Format: Original Recording Remastered, Deluxe Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: 001094602
UPC: 602517616707
EAN: 0602517616707
ASIN: B0013LPS7U
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | I Will Follow | | • | Twilight | | • | An Cat Dubh | | • | Into The Heart | | • | Out Of Control | | • | Stories For Boys | | • | The Ocean | | • | A Day Without Me | | • | Another Time, Another Place | | • | The Electric Co. | | • | Shadows And Tall Trees |
Disc 2
| • | I Will Follow (Previously Unreleased Mix) | | • | 11 O'Clock Tick Tock | | • | Touch | | • | Speed Of Life (Previously Unreleased Track) | | • | Saturday Night (Previously Unreleased Track) | | • | Things To Make And Do | | • | Out Of Control | | • | Boy-Girl | | • | Stories For Boys | | • | Another Day | | • | Twilight | | • | Boy-Girl (Live at The Marquee, London) | | • | 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Live at The Marquee, London - Previously Unreleased Version) | | • | Cartoon World (Live at The National Stadium, Dublin - Previously Unreleased Track) |
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Album Description
A standard CD and a bonus CD. Bonus CD includes b-sides, live tracks and rarities. Also includes a 32 page booklet with previously unseen photos, full lyrics, new liner notes by Paul Morley, and explanatory notes on the bonus material by The Edge.
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| Customer Reviews:
Familiar tunes return, new gems delight August 25, 2008
D. Goldenberg (California)
2 complete CDs, both a joy for different reasons: the original songs bring back a sense of nostalgia for the band's exuberant beginnings, and the new tracks of live recordings and some never before released are a delightful surprise. It's a complete U2 package for those who really love this band. Comes with a very polished book with historical photos, retrospective by Paul Morley and comments by The Edge on the rare and unreleased tracks. It's worth the extra expense if you want to go deeper into the U2 catalog.
BOY DO I LOVE THIS ALBUM! August 10, 2008
Johnny Lightning (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The packaging on the Deluxe 2 CD set is absolutely stunning; I especially love the little essay and notes written by The Edge. Re-mastered by Cheryl Engels and Arnie Acosta at Bernie Grundman Mastering, with direction by The Edge, the original album sounds fantastic. A tremendous improvement over the original CD release back in the day. I'm enjoying this album like I'm hearing it for the first time! I agree with everyone else's comments. The bonus tracks are fun and interesting to me.
Boy, That's the Ticket July 30, 2008
David D. McFarland (Oceanside, California United States)
I agree with everyone else who reviewed it, but check it out, very much worth the money, geeze wish I would not have bout all the original singles etc from them but anyway, a great first album and late for work and need to cut this off, so get the CD's.
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"It's a musical journey." July 27, 2008
J. Hogate
What a debut! This is an awesome intro to U2 at the beginning. I admit I didn't even discover it until after Under a Blood Red Sky and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in 1983 on MTV, heck I was only 10 (probably not much older than the 'boy' on the cover), but once I got clued in to them after that then Boy, October, and War were in constant rotation on my tape deck. "Out of Control" still rules, and the rarities on the second disc are some of the best. "Boy-Girl", "Things to Make and Do", "Touch", and "Another Day" are also great and there are even a few surprises I never even heard of! I remember sitting in front of the radio back around 1987-88 listening to local radio station 91X's first few U2 A-Z weekends trying to capture every non-album song they ever did on my tape recorder. That was quite a chore! Most of the gems I discovered then can be found on this deluxe edition. If only it would have been released back then! 20 years later is quite a wait... but worth it.
U2's "Boy" - A Historical Footnote to A Rock Classic July 24, 2008
Jeff Feezle (Indiana)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Boy" - A Historical Footnote to A Rock Classic
So many of rock's bands in the 70's and 80's had kick-butt debut albums, and U2 was certainly no exception. Although "U2 3" is their first release (3 song EP), "Boy" introduced the world to the combination of post-punk and new wave that was to change the face of American and British music for the 80's and most of the 90's. United States audiences half-way embraced United Kingdom new wave or punkmusic, but until U2 emerged with their unique sound, most of the US was totally ignorant of any music coming from Europe. Their allegiances, in the late 70's and early 80's were still confined to the supergroups of Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, the Eagles and Doobie Brothers. It was ripe for a completely new genre to come and displace the formula-matic pop rock that had so dominated FM rock.
Credit FM radio's AOR (album-oriented-music) and College Radio for making the US aware of bands like U2. I saw the first U2 tour in 1981- right when U2's second album came out "October." Back then, it was not unusual for three bands to play a concert, and fairly big acts, but the third act was usually a cutting edge band. U2 was the 3rd billed band that night behind the J.Geils Band and Steve Miller. Both of those bands were supposed to be two of the best live bands in the world, and damn if U2 didn't blow them both away! Yup! That's how hot they were right out of the gate. I remember Bono jumping off 15 foot super stacked amplifiers, doing a tuck and roll, coming up precisely midstage, while all the while singing while doing these gymnastics. I've seen hundreds of concerts (being an FM disc jockey) but had never, and still have never seen an act with more energy that Early U2. That night, EVERYONE walked away stunned asking: "Who WAS that band?" The local record stores quickly sold every U2 album in stock within the week.
So what was so unique about this debut that changed the face of rock and roll? It married the Punk rock movement with the New Wave movement into a singular sound that was based on both primitive rhythms, and elaborate jangling guitar work. It had a frantic pace that U2 never quit duplicated, so that makes "Boy" sort of the hard rockers favorite U2 albums. They had flashes of it later on, but "October" and "Boy" had an intensity and compact sound that was later slowed down and more maturely attuned to. It was enough to capture the US interest and provided the base clay that virtually all of the new wave bands of the 80's tried to emulate. This was the album that did that: roots rock of New Wave and Alternative music. It took another three or four albums for U2 to completely break out, but after "War" and "Joshua Tree", virtually all rock lovers knew who U2 was.
I think it is critical for rock fans to understand the context of WHY this album release was so important, so forgive me a bit if I didn't really review the new deluxe edition of `Boy". That was not my intent with this writeup. I am just trying to give you a bit of a background on the album itself.
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