“Elevation” Digital Release, August 9, 2024

Original Story by Aaron J. Sams (2024-08-08)

The next in a series of singles in the “To Love and Only Love” collection will be released, tomorrow, Friday, August 9. This time it is the single “Elevation”. The collection, “To Love and Only Love“ will reissue 12 singles in total, throughout 2024 to streaming services. Many of these tracks have not been available in the past on these services. The tracks included here are taken from the commercial singles released in 2001 on CD, vinyl and cassette formats. A new single has been released roughly every two weeks since the project started. This is the 10th single released in the collection. The final two are expected to be “Walk On” and “Electrical Storm”.


IMAGE: Elevation Single (Remastered 2024)

The songs included on the new “Elevation” release, available tomorrow, are as follows:

  • “Elevation” (Tomb Raider Mix / Remastered 2024) – U2 (03:34)
  • “I Remember You” (Live from Irving Plaza / Remastered 2024) – (01:26)
  • “New York” (Live from Irving Plaza / Remastered 2024) – U2 (05:42)
  • “I Will Follow” (Live from Irving Plaza / Remastered 2024) – U2 (03:52)
  • “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” (Remastered 2024) – U2 (04:12)
  • “Elevation” (Influx Remix / Remastered 2024) – U2 (04:04)
  • “Elevation” (Escalation Mix / Remastered 2024) – U2 (07:04)
  • “Elevation” (Quincey & Sonance Remix / Remastered 2024) – U2 (06:53)
  • “Elevation” (The Biffco Mix / Remastered 2024) – U2 (04:18)
  • “Elevation” (The Vandit Club Mix / Remastered 2024) – U2 (08:52)

Releases will be available in CD quality and compressed versions, as well as a higher resolution digital release at 24-bit, 44.1kHz.

The “Elevation” single was released on June 25, 2001, and was tied into the Tomb Raider film released that summer. The title track of the single was a remix of the song specifically done for the soundtrack, complete with a big budget video featuring Angelina Jolie in her Laura Croft role. “Elevation” reached #3 in the UK, and #1 in Canada and Ireland. In the US, the song reached #8 in Billboard‘s Alternative songs, and also made it to #32 on the Dance / Club Play songs chart. The song won “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group” at the 2002 Grammy Awards, and was also nominated, but did not win the “Best Rock Performance” category.

Although “Elevation” was released as a digital single as part of The Complete U2 this is the first time it has been released as a standalone digital single outside of that digital collection. A limited stand-alone release appeared on some digital services including just two additional tracks, “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” and a live version of “Last Night on Earth”.

More information on “Elevation” can be found in our “Elevation“ discography entry. More information about the “To Love and Only Love” collection can also be found in the discography.

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