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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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There's little in U2's 1980 debut to suggest that this was a band bent on world domination. Indeed, there's a charming, if naive, coming-of-age urgency in songs such as "I Will Follow," "Stories for Boys" and "Out of Control" that may startle listeners more familiar with U2's latter-day bombast and stadium-scale theatrics. Bono's viewpoint, still tantalizingly vague and wide-eyed, showed that his penchant for strident polemics hadn't yet gotten the best of him; his anthems are those of a yearning Dubliner barely out of his teens rather than those of a world-weary multimillionaire. The band's sometimes-ragged musical chops work in its favor here, gently burnished to then-fresh new-wave sheen by producer Steve Lillywhite. If the Edge's dense, effects-laden guitar work seems overly familiar, it's only because this album was such a key influence on the whole "rock of the '80s" sound. Though not quite as moody or musically accomplished as October, arguably the band's first masterpiece, Boy still ranks as one of U2's best albums. --Jerry McCulley

Tracks - 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

Tracks - 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)

More Information

• Studio - Island
• Publisher - Island
• Label - Island
• Binding - Audio CD

Format Information

• Original recording remastered
• Deluxe Edition

Amazon Product ID: B0013LPS7U