"Beautiful Day" - U2
Digital Compilation Album
Track Listing:
- "Grace" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:31)
- "New York" (Studio Version) - U2 (05:30)
- "Peace on Earth" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:48)
- "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:35)
- "Wild Honey" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:46)
- "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:45)
- "Beautiful Day" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:08)
- "In a Little While" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:39)
- "Kite" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:27)
- "When I Look at the World" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:18)
- "Walk On" (Studio Version) - U2 (04:56)
- "Elevation" (Studio Version) - U2 (03:47)
Background Information
This has to be one of the oddest releases in the U2 catalog. Many will look at this and automatically think this is a bootleg release, and perhaps it is, but somehow this release ended up on legitimate digital sellers such as Amazon, 7 Digital, eMusic, and HMV for sale, and services such as Spotify for streaming.
The whole thing was released on November 4, 2014, and is a reshuffling of the album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”, including the UK bonus track, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”. The whole album is there, just in a new running order. Now the album starts with “Grace” and ends on a quiet note with “Elevation”. The album was made available at various compressed bitrates, and also in FLAC format on various sites. A new cover is attached to these files, using a recent promotional photo of the band and a red font stating “U2” and “Beautiful Day”. All of the tracks found on this release are the same as those found on “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”.
The album was released through a label called “Rapier Music”. This label seems to produce a number of unofficial interview CDs with various artists, a number of collections of music on which the copyright has likely expired, but nothing like this U2 release. Perhaps it was an error that this became available, and it has since been removed from the Amazon US website, but it remains on other sites for sale, and on some streaming sites. This release was available two weeks before the album “Songs of Innocence” was made available to non-Apple retailers in store, and online. The release may have been an attempt to cash in on people looking for the new U2 album, two weeks before it came out on these services.
Liner Notes
Beautiful Day:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono. Synthesizers / programming: Brian Eno. Backing vocals: The Edge and Daniel Lanois. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Additional production by Steve Lillywhite. Mixed by Steve Lillywhite. Additional Engineering: Tim Palmer and Stephen Harris.
Stuck in a Moment:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono and the Edge. Synthesizers: Brian Eno and Bono. Additional Guitar: Daniel Lanois. Brass by Paul Barrett. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Mixed by Tim Palmer in Scream Studios, Los Angeles. Assited by Jay Goin.
Elevation:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono. Synthesizers: Brian Eno and The Edge. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Mixed by Tim Palmer. Assisted by Alvin Sweeney. Thanks to Richard Stannard and Julian Gallagher for their help with the middle 8.
Walk On:
Dedicated to Auug San Suu Kyi. Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Additional production by Steve Lillywhite. Mixed by Steve Lillywhite. Additional engineering: Stephen Harris. Assisted by Alvin Sweeney.
Kite:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono and The Edge. Strings: The Edge. Backing vocals: The Edge, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Engineered and mixed by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney.
In a Little While:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono. String arrangement and synthesizer: Brian Eno. Additional guitar: Daniel Lanois. Produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Additional production by Richard Stannard and Julien Gallagher. Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice, Richard Stannard, and Julien Gallagher at Biffco Studios.
Wild Honey:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono. Additional Guitar: Daniel Lanois. Synthesizer: Brian Eno. Produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Engineered and mixed by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney.
Peace on Earth:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono. Synthesizers: Brian Eno. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Additional production by Mike Hedges. Mixed by Mike Hedges. Engineered by Ger McDonnell. Assisted by Keith McDonnell.
When I Look at the World:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono and the Edge. Synthesizers: Brian Eno. Additional Guitar: Daniel Lanois. Produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Mixed by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.
New York:
Music U2. Lyrics: Bono. Synthesizer: Brian Eno. Additional Guitar: Daniel Lanois. Produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Engineered by Richard Rainey. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Mixed by Tim Palmer. Assisted by Alvin Sweeney.
Grace:
Music: U2. Lyrics: Bono. Synthesizers / programming: Brian Eno. Additional guitar: Daniel Lanois. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Engineered by Richard Rainey and Alex Haas. Assisted by Chris Heaney. Mixed by Brian Eno.
Whole Album:
Produced by: Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Additional production: Steve Lillywhite, Mike Hedges, Richard Stannard and Julian Gallagher.
Recorded at HQ, Windmill Lane Recording Studios, Westland Studios and Totally Wired in Dublin, and South of France. Studio Crew: Studio Manager/Drum Tech: Sam O’Sullivan. Studio tech: Rab McAllister. Guitar tech: Fraser McAlister. Mastered by Annie Acosta at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles. Audio Post Production Manager and Technical Guru: Cheryl Engels at Partial Productions Inc.
Artwork
Unknown.