Rolling Stone magazine has put BOY at #4 on its list of "Reissues of
the Year" --
READ THE ROLLINGSTONE ARTICLE HERE
U2
BOY Interscope/Island
U2's near-perfect 1980 debut album -- a precociously mature sunburst
of spiritual optimism and the Edge's minimalist church-bell guitar --
becomes an essential history lesson with a second CD of pre-LP singles
and hellbent live recordings showing the Irish quartet's learning
curve out of garage land. The club-on-fire versions of "Boy-Girl" and
"11 O'Clock Tick Tock," from the Marquee in London, are a thrilling
preview of how U2 would soon slay America. Also recommended: the two-
CD reissue of 1981's October, a flawed follow-up made fuller with
concert and BBC performances of a strong, united band on its way to
1983's War.