U2 -NEW YEAR'S DAY (LONG VERSION) - MAXI VINILO ORIGINAL EDICION ISLAND RECORDS 1982 /1985

"New Year's Day", es una canción de la banda de rock irlandesa U2, forma parte de su disco War, siendo su tercera canción, y su primer sencillo. La canción destaca por el gran bajo de Adam Clayton, y la melodía de The Edge en el teclado.

El sencillo fue un gran éxito para la banda, ya que lograron ubicarse dentro del Billboard Hot 100 por primera vez en su carrera, al igual que en el Top 10 de las listas de Reino Unido. En 2004, la revista Rolling Stone, incluyó la canción en su lista de las 500 mejores canciones de todos los tiempos, ubicándola en la casilla 427. La canción ha sido incluida en los compilatorios The Best of 1980-1990 y U218 Singles.

12" - Island / 12 WIP 6848 (UK)

1. "New Year's Day" (Album version) 5:35

2. "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop)"  3:24

3. "Fire" (Live from Werchter, 4 July 1982) 3:45

4. "I Threw a Brick Through a Window"/"A Day Without Me" (Live from Werchter, 4 July 1982) 6:58

"New Year's Day" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is on their 1983 album War and it was released as the album's lead single in January 1983. Written about the Polish Solidarity movement, "New Year's Day" is driven by Adam Clayton's distinctive bassline and the Edge's piano and guitar playing. It was the band's first UK hit single, peaking at no. 10, also becoming the band's first international hit, reaching for example no. 9 in Norway, no. 11 on the Dutch Top 40, no. 17 in Sweden and charting on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States (just missing the Top 50) for the first time in their career.

In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine placed the single at #435 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".This song was also included in the Pitchfork 500.