Remastered for the First Time: U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition 180g 8LP Box Set Includes Unreleased Songs, Remixes, and Live Tracks

This 20th Anniversary Edition celebrates U2's critically acclaimed album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which won all eight Grammy Awards for which it was nominated, including Album of the Year. The original album – released in 2004 and remastered here for the first time – includes the global hit singles “Vertigo” (winner of three Grammy Awards), “City Of Blinding Lights,” and “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own,” alongside bonus track, “Fast Cars.”

This Super Deluxe Collector’s 8 LP boxset includes the shadow album, How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, featuring new, unreleased songs recently rediscovered in the archive of the original album sessions. Also included are remixes and live tracks from the band's Vertigo 2005 shows in Chicago.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was an album that not only led to three more Grammy Awards for U2, but heralded their momentous arrival in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. From the very first sound of Larry Mullen Jr's sticks and Bono's count-in to "Vertigo," there was no room for doubt that they were in the mood to complete the circle back to being the uncompromising rock ‘n' roll band we first knew. The resolution to make a definitive rock ‘n' roll record was unshakeable and Steve Lillywhite jumped aboard as the album's principal producer. He was just the link with U2's lean and formative persona that was required, chief among a cast of eight production contributors that included further longtime confidants Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno and Flood, and newer collaborators Jacknife Lee, Nellee Hooper and Carl Glanville.

The calling card was the unstoppable "Vertigo," the sort of definitive U2 single to give "rifferama," as Bono called it, a good name. It was one of the earliest ideas for what became How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, a riff that immediately sounded like something from the annals of classic rock, somewhere between Zeppelin and the Stooges, but with a 21st century vitality that was entirely custom-made. The song smashed straight to No. 1 in the UK, their sixth chart-topping single. Two weeks later, when the album arrived, it was clear that U2 had outrun all of the misfortune to complete a record full of new signature tunes. Underpinned by rock guitar, they came in a wide variety of moods and tempos, from loud and extrovert on "All Because Of You" to contemplative on "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own." 

Indeed, the album was immersed in that rare spirit that this quartet had developed over decades by now: never to be afraid of thinking big, with inspiring songs that put their arms around their entire world of devotees.