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Check out today's Boston Globe.  In the Rocknotes in the Living/Arts
section, it gives you the "Rattle and Hum" playlist in detail.  It
doesn't say if it will be one or two CD's, but my guess is two since
there will be six live tracks out of the fifteen songs.  The album will
ship Oct. 3, but the movie will be released Nov. 4.  Can't wait!

--Roger

    
    I just read in BillBoard that it will be a single CD with about
    72 minutes of music.
    
    ann
    

    Thanks, I was worried that I wouldn't have enough money!?!

    
The 45 (both vinyl & cassette) are in stores NOW!.
    
    The cd single should be at Rockit Records in south Nashua the end
    of this week.
    
    The soundtrack was delayed a week. Now, the expected release date
    is oct 11.
    
    ann
    

    
    Has anyone picked this up?  And comments and/or reviews?
    
    							-rjk

    Yup, I got it yesterday when It came out.  I think it's a great
    album and the sound quality is excellent. (although it's AAD)
    There are a couple of "OK" songs on it, but the rest, IMO, is,
    depending on the song, great to excellent!
    
    There are a couple of great cover songs (Helter Skelter, All along
    the watchtower) and a couple of songs with the likes of Bob Dylan
    and BB King.
    
    Steve O
    

I got mine yesterday also.  U2 is branching out with this album.  You
have bits of r&r, blues, folk, and gospel.  It's like a U2 kaleidoscope.
If you like U2, you'll get it.  If you just started getting into U2, I
suggest getting the other cds first.  You'll see evolution right before
your ears.

--Roger

    re -.1
    
    I see you played your copy a couple of times yesterday.  Tell me
    if you feel this effect from the album:
    	
    	I feel that the band is extremely excited about the new music
    	that they are hearing (blues, gospel, folk ,etc.).  The feeling
    	I get is that U2 would just like to shout out at the world and
    	say, "Hey everyone, look what we found. (refering to blues...)
    	Why don't you give it a try, we think it's great!!!"
    
    Steve O

Re: -1

I only played it twice;-)

I read the New York Times review which liked their live tracks, but
scathed most of the new tracks.  Sorta branded them as egomaniacs.  The
reviewer basically said Bono's rather breathy, uncontrolled voice didn't
lend itself to the blues (I'm paraphrasing here).

On the other hand, the Globe praised the album.  I guess you'll have to
figure it out for yourself.  It'll take me a month or so.  By then, the
movie will be out.

--Roger

    
    Re: .8
    
    I must be getting old but for those of us who already have *found*
    the blues, folk, etc.  it's kind of funny...
    
    Don't get me wrong, I *like* U2 and think it's good that they may
    help expose people to music that they have been unaware of.  Seems
    these things go in cycles.  Other old-timers may recall Cream and
    the Stones leading listeners to the *real* blues, the Byrds pointing
    the way to folk music, Chicago and BS&T turning people on to jazz.
    
    

re .9

>> By then, the movie will be out.

Is this a soundtrack for a movie?  Is this a concert movie?

Walker

    It is primarily a concert film documenting their last tour to 
    support the album "The Joshua Tree". The album/soundtrack combines
    live cuts from the film as well as new studio material.

    Great album, Lechqueer has it on sale this week. Like a number of
    the Live tracks but I am a bit undesided about the studio tracks,
    will need to listen to them a few more times.

    
    Has anyone else bought Monty Python's *The Final Ripoff* double
    CD set and discovered that although the discs are labeled differently,
    they contain the same material?
    
    I've just come across a second set, exchanged for the first (which
    I thought was defective) and once again, two discs with the same
    stuff on it.
    
    Am I just not getting the joke here?  Is it Python's way of getting
    back for having *Matching Tie and Handkerchief* be a three-sided
    album.
    
    DFW

    re .14
    Why is this in the U2 topic?  Or are you trying to tell us something
    about you feeling on "Rattle and Hum"???
    
    Steve O

    
    OK. I was a mug, I rushed out and bought this. It is an unreservedly
    opportunistic release. I was extremely disppointed. This was one of the
    few times when I hae bought an album without listening, after Joshua
    Tree, I thought I could rely oupon U2 for quality and originality.
    Wrong.
    
    For sale: �8.50 to any UK reader. Mail me.

    
    The first CD3 from the album is out (The only "Desire" CD I've seen
    is a 5" import).  It has "Angel of Harlem", "A Room at the Heartbreak
    Hotel" (also on the 45) and "Love Rescue Me", a new version from
    October 88 with Keith Richards and Ziggy Marley (!!).
    
    It comes in a plastic "Gem-Pak" which is much nicer than the common
    carboard sleeves and miles beyond that stupid CBS pouch.