Fast Cars

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  Seven Songs for the Week #78 - 2nd October 2024

  Jason Carty

  In other reissue news, U2 are putting out a 20th (20th!) anniversary edition of How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. I remember being in college when the 20th Anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon came out, and it seemed so incredibly old. Does this album seem as old now? I dunno. Anyways the most interesting part was the appearance of How To Re-assemble an Atomic Bomb, a shadow album of alternate and fogotten songs from the original sessions, due to come out in the box set. They released a preview track called Picture of You which sounded good so I went home and put on the HTDAAB album fo the first time since...ever? I never paid it any attention in 2004, my head was in a different place. It's not bad! It just doesn't seem to have a through-line like their other albums. When I got to the last song, Fast Cars (EU & Japan versions of the album only) I realised that the Picture of You song had been hiding on the original album all along. It is also known to U2 fans as Xanax & Wine and has been out there for a while. It's a pity that neither the boxset found space for Native Son, the original version of Vertigo, which I've always preferred.