U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
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Free Music Review: U2 At Their Best
Hit: 5 Stars
I was a freshman in college when this album was released. I remember begging my parents to go buy it for me before they came to visit me on campus (in very rural Tennessee - no place to buy new vinyl). In my opinion this album was the culmination of the raw talent in U2 with the production skills of Eno and Lanois, producing U2's best, most creative work throughout their career. Sure, they became mega-stars later on, but never again did they release anything with the creative range this album offers. Eno and Lanois' were able to comprehend the appropriate mood and atmosphere for the topic of the songs and capture it perfectly in the studio, producing an album that stands out amongst many great ones.
My power went out for about 8 hours last Saturday night during a tremendous thunderstorm. Left with nothing but a fully charged iPod I lay in bed and listened to this album for the first time in a long time and remembered just how great it is, from Bono's soaring vocals to the layered atmospherics of Edge's guitar, and of course the driving rhythm section of Mullens and Clayton. I highly recommend listening to this from start to finish in a dark room with headphones - truly one of my all-time favorite albums. It's no coincidence that Brian Eno has had a hand in many of my all-time favorites (see Talking Heads' Remain in Light).
Free Music Review: The Unforgettable Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Almost as if WAR had never happened, U2 return with a dreamy and atmospheric work . And yet the harder edge of that angry album is still present underneath it all, driving the music forward. The result of this strange mixture is magical and wonderful. This is U2's first album that sounds really complete and it's something that shouldn't be passed up by anyone.This would be the first collaboration between U2 and producer Brian Eno and as an experiment it really works well. Some of U2's best known and best sounding material is contained on this album. From the ubiquitous "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" to the little known, and seriously underrated "Elvis Presley and America", there's very little here that isn't fantastic. The tone that begins at the start of the album manages to sustain itself for the entirety. This is really quite an achievement, as there are far too many albums that start well but sputter out somewhere before the end. On THE FORGETTABLE FIRE, the magic is sustained well.
A moody, atmospheric album that works on almost every level. It's a much more mature work than what we'd seen from U2 in the past. The dreamy tone is quite effective and stands up quite well to repeated listens. One of the best albums, not just from U2, but from all that the 80's had to offer.
Free Music Review: U2's strangest, warmest record
Hit: 5 Stars
To me, this was the last album from the first incarnation of U2. After this album, U2, for better or worse, became "a supergroup", and a "rock band"--terms that didn't really apply to the group's early career. Unforgettable Fire is a wonderful example of a band taking one last step back from the brink of success, and looking inward. Although there are a couple of standout singles, this album in general is very moody, a little dark and unfocused, but also very warm -hearted --and it leaves a lot to the individual interpretation of the listener. What I really love is that it totally defies categorization. It's certainly not a hard rock album, not Irish folk, and not new wave, although it has elements of all those. Also, unlike some later U2 records, it doesn't sound so suffocatingly planned out and honed to perfection. In my opinion, U2's strong Christian beliefs and moral and social commentary work much better and are a lot more powerful when the music, and especially the lyrics, are very abstract and expressionist, as they are on this work. This album was nearly perfect, but I wish it had included two fantastic songs that were cut from it--Love Comes Tumbling Down and Three Sunrises. In my opinion, this was U2's strangest, warmest and most wonderful recording.Free Music Review: An unforgettable album!
Hit: 5 Stars
Around 1980,when U2 landed a contract with Island Records,they put out BOY that same year,OCTOBER the following year,WAR in 1983 and UNDER A BLOODY RED SKY in early 1984. This album,their fifth,spawned the Top 10 hit PRIDE(IN THE NAME OF LOVE) which is an ode to the late Dr. Martin Luther King,the civil rights leader that was shot to death in Memphis on April 4,1968. Frontman Paul "Bono Vox" Hewson,mentions the date minus the year in the song("Early morning,April 4,a shot rings out in the Memphis sky."). The song was later recorded live in 1987 for 1988's RATTLE AND HUM. Another track on this album is entitled MLK. The title track,4TH OF JULY and A SORT OF HOMECOMING are also memorable tracks. U2's 1987 follow-up,THE JOSHUA TREE would become a megahit inspiring the live tracks recorded for RAH and the documentary film of the same title. One other Irish artist that I know of gained notoriety in the USA and that's the folk band The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Hewson and his three fellow bandmates David "The Edge" Evans,Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. are still going strong today. Hewson,commonly known as Bono,even makes appearances by himself. I have to admit that this is an unforgettable album.Free Music Review: A magnificent departure
Hit: 5 Stars
What we have in 'The Unforgettable Fire' is absolute classic U2 that shows what makes them a top class rock band and pre-dates the more preachy nature that the band have introduced in more recent years.
The album opens with 'A Sort of Homecoming', the kind of genuine U2 rock song that they have, to an extent, lost along the way. Indeed much of what is on show here has been lost along the way by U2. It is not that their new music is bad, but somewhat more predictable. It is difficult to picture them doing a completely instrumental number like '4th of July' on a newer album. 'Bad' is another form of their music that has all but disappeared and is a classic that is typical of their earlier albums.
This is the album that truly launched U2 in America and it is easy to see why. This is the first U2 album that clearly defines their sound and defines the sound that they would follow for years to come. Here there is a very marked departure from the days of 'Boy' and 'October'. 'The Unforgettable Fire' marks the beginning of U2's musical expression of their connection to American rock and also marks the starting point of what was to become their world renowned style.