U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

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• U2 THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE

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Free Music Review: Unforgettable! Absolutely Unforgettable!
Hit: 5 Stars

We've all already heard "Pride In The Name of Love" as well as the haunting and passionate "Bad". I definitely believe that these two songs deserved all the popularity that they got then and still get today as they are among their best singles to date. There are two famous hit songs that are entitled "Bad". One is by Michael Jackson and the other is the other hit single of "The Unforgettable Fire". No offense to MJ but While I enjoy the MJ song quite a lot, U2's "Bad" to me is far superior and has such a haunting mix of passionate dynamic vocals, haunting keyboards, and a dark moody undertone to it and the result is one of my all time favorite U2 songs. The song grows more and more passionate and builds up towards the last two minutes and climaxes with such incredible power that "Bad" is just phenomenal. I love the haunting moody ambience that fades into the night after the beats and guitars end. While Bono has written passionate and mature music in the years since then, his abilities have never matched what he had done on this incredible song. What's even more amazing is that this song uses mostly just two chords and still comes out being a masterpiece track! With Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois as producers, this song has some keyboards that sound similar to those on Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain" although no where near as strong as those on the latter.

The non-singles on this album in my opinion are among my favorites though. "A Sort of Homecoming" is in my opinion, the best opening track on any of U2's albums beginning this album on a passionate and haunting note with passionate lyrics and dark yet intense moody atmospherics to create a truly marvelous and unforgettable. "Wire" is just energetic mayhem with a high-pace rhythm and edgy guitar playing by Adams. Many seem to really dislike the fifth and sixth tracks "Promenade" and "Fourth Of July". It's a deep shame as these really do such a fantastic job of blending moodiness with dark ambience, electrifying guitar bubbling guitars and breezy atmospheres. To me, this is my favorite 'lonely cloudy evening' theme song. The title to "Fourth Of July" may be a bit deceiving as it has no explosive styles that would make one think of actual fireworks but on the other hand, it would evoke images of seeing the fireworks but from a great distance as to not hear the popping sounds of them at all and thus I have to say that I absolutely adore this song. "Indian Summer Sky" is very much like "Wire" but as multi-rhythm like that track is and is slightly more acoustic than the former but still is a good song. "Elvis Presly and America" is a great and odd track with pounding pulsating drum beats and a mix of ambient blues and alternative rock. This is an excellent song and I totally defend it on here. The final track on here "MLK" is an odd and haunting closer to this haunting and elegant masterpiece with a hazy and ghostly ambient breeze for the melody and the sound of a breeze that fades into the night.

U2 may have struck multi-platinum with their next two albums "Joshua Tree" and "Achtung Baby" but from my perspective, U2 reached their early artistic pinnacle on this record and while U2 have been the masters of reinvention throughout their career, I cannot deny that U2 have never toyed with passion, poetic lyric writing, atmospherics, darkness and moodiness the way they did on "The Unforgettable Fire" and this album is an album that must be included by ALL U2 fans' collection, both casual and die-hard fans. And so U2 closes out their early period on a phenomenal note and ushered in the era of superstardom and selling millions and millions of albums while retaining their artistic ability and punch to this very day. Please buy this album. I cannot recommend it enough. When I was done listening to this album, I felt like I had floated off the surface of the sidewalk during the album playing and finally softly touched back down when "MLK" faded into the night. It's that good! Just sheer and utter imaginative brilliance this record has! Even if you have the singles on the 1980-1990 hits CD, the non-single tracks on here warrant buying this album anyway. If only I was old enough to experience this when it was in it's heyday (I was barely two when this album came out), it would've been unbelievable! To Henry Rollins, no pun intended but take a chill pill man! ::-)

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This special edition marks 25 years since the album's original release in October 1984. Recorded at Slane Castle, Ireland, The Unforgettable Fire was the first U2 album to be produced by Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, and spawned two top 10 UK singles - "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" and "The Unforgettable Fire".

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