With 40 years, countless honors, some of the highest-grossing tours of all time, one album that irrationally annoyed a lot of people and - perhaps - less and less to prove, what is left for U2 to do? The Irish legends - fresh from Kennedy Center Honors last year, end a five-year gap between albums by revisiting their vast discography for a new project.

Songs of Surrender takes its name from the speaking tour undertaken last year by frontman Bono, tied to his memoirs. While writing those, he - along with guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. - went back into the studio to rearrange, re-record and reinvent 40 songs spanning nearly all of the band's albums and then some. The results, from early teases, promise to be stripped back as well as, in some cases, involving lyrics "finished" by Bono. "A few songs...I've always felt were never quite written," he wrote in Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. "They are now. (I think.)"

"We became curious to find out what it would be like to bring our early songs back with us to the present day and give them the benefit, or otherwise, of a 21st century reimagining," The Edge wrote in a statement. "What started out as an experiment quickly developed into a personal obsession as so many of our songs yielded to a new interpretation. Intimacy replaced post punk urgency. New tempos, new keys, and in some cases new chords and new lyrics arrived. A great song, it turns out is kind of indestructible."

The Edge serves as producer and curator of the sessions, having built "sketch recordings" to review with producer Bob Ezrin, building a "less is more" framework into the proceedings. These revisited versions are bittersweet for longtime fans of the band, as they are seemingly the only time all four members will be heard together any time soon: in a Washington Post feature last year, Mullen indicated that he needed an unspecified surgery to continue playing up to standards, and if the group did plan to tour, he wouldn't participate. (Bono and The Edge have long teased a new, harder-edged album called Songs of Ascent, to match with 2014's Songs of Innocence - the one that showed up in everyone's iTunes - and 2017's Songs of Experience.)

In any case, there's a lot of U2 to hear in a new way when Songs of Surrender releases on March 17. (St. Patrick's Day for an Irish band, we'll let you extrapolate as you see fit.) The album will be available in several formats: a 16-track CD and vinyl title, a deluxe CD that adds four more recordings, and a 4CD or 4LP deluxe set that includes all 40 of the re-recordings, each sequenced around a different member of the band. Pre-order any (or all) of them below.

Songs of Surrender (Interscope, 2023)

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Deluxe CD (includes * and **): Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
CD (includes *): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP (includes *): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

CD/LP 1: The Edge

1. One *
2. Where the Streets Have No Name *
3. Stories for Boys *
4. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
5. Out of Control
6. Beautiful Day **
7. Bad
8. Every Breaking Wave
9. Walk On (Ukraine) *
10. Pride (in the Name of Love) *

CD/LP 2: Larry

1. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
2. Get Out of Your Own Way
3. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
4. Red Hill Mining Town **
5. Ordinary Love *
6. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own
7. Invisible *
8. Dirty Day
9. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
10. City of Blinding Lights *

CD/LP 3: Adam

1. Vertigo *
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For *
3. Electrical Storm
4. The Fly *
5. If God Will Send His Angels *
6. Desire
7. Until the End of the World **
8. Song for Someone
9. All I Want is You
10. Peace on Earth

CD/LP 4: Bono

1. With or Without You **
2. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) *
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday *
4. Lights of Home
5. Cedarwood Road
6. I Will Follow *
7. Two Hearts Beat As One
8. Miracle Drug
9. The Little Things That Give You Away
10. "40" *

Original versions of...

Disc 1, Tracks 3 and 5 from Three EP (CBS Ireland, 1979)
Disc 1, Track 4 from non-LP single (Island, 1980)
Disc 4, Track 6 from Boy (Island, 1980)
Disc 4, Tracks 3, 7 and 10 from War (Island, 1983)
Disc 1, Tracks 7 and 10 from The Unforgettable Fire (Island, 1984)
Disc 1, Track 2; Disc 2, Track 4; Disc 3, Track 2 and Disc 4, Track 1 from The Joshua Tree (Island, 1987)
Disc 3, Tracks 6 and 9 from Rattle and Hum (Island, 1988)
Disc 1, Track 1; Disc 2, Track 1; Disc 3, Tracks 4 and 7 from Achtung Baby (Island, 1991)
Disc 2, Track 8 and Disc 4, Track 2 from Zooroopa (Island, 1993)
Disc 3, Track 5 from Pop (Island, 1997)
Disc 1, Tracks 6 and 9; Disc 2, Track 3 and Disc 3, Track 10 from All That You Can't Leave Behind (Island/Interscope, 2000)
Disc 3, Track 3 from The Best of 1990-2000 (Island/Interscope, 2002)
Disc 2, Tracks 6 and 10; Disc 3, Track 1 and Disc 4, Track 8 from How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Island/Interscope, 2004)
Disc 2, Track 5 from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Decca, 2013)
Disc 1, Track 8; Disc 2, Track 9; Disc 3, Track 8 and Disc 4, Track 5 from Songs of Innocence (Island/Interscope, 2014)
Disc 2, Track 7 from Songs of Innocence (Deluxe Edition) (Island/Interscope, 2014)
Disc 2, Track 2 and Disc 4, Tracks 4 and 9 from Songs of Experience (Island/Interscope, 2017)