U2's Adam Clayton believes that by reinventing some of the band's oldest tunes on their new Songs Of Surrender collection, the songs have only now grown into what they were meant to be.
Among the early tracks U2 has revisited some 40-years-on are such classics as “I Will Follow,” “Two Hearts Beat As One,” “Stories For Boys,” “11 O'Clock Tick Tock,” and “40.”
We caught up with the famed bassist and he explained how the band went about restructuring some of their most beloved works: “I guess it was one of the more organic processes that U2 engaged in. Very unwieldy as an idea, y'know — reimagining 40 songs. We started to see that a lot of the early songs that had felt incomplete, or unfinished, or naive — when one looked at them now, in reality those were songs with a lot of DNA and intuition. That when you read them, when you looked back at them now at this position of being in our 60's, those lyrics and those songs meant something.”