U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
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Artist: U2Brand: Island
Edition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-06-15
Music Label: Island
Product features:
- U2 LIVE / UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY
- Gloria
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- Party Girl
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- The Electric Co.
- New Years Day
- '40'
Free Music Notes for Under a Blood Red Sky
Free Music Review: A 5 Star Record With Much Room For Improvement
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a five star album for a variety of reasons:
A. The song selection. This is a release from a supremely confident band, trusting that their audience will enjoy the songs they enjoy playing and not just the obvious favorites. Party Girl? 11 O'clock Tick Tock? Rock on!
B. If you are of a certain age, UABRS is inextricably linked to the Red Rocks concert video that was incessantly played on MTV for months and months (and months) back when MTV was not only concerned with music but on a mission to break high quality, envelope-pushing new music in America
C. It is a snapshot of one of Rock's great bands peaking for the first time
All that said, Under A Blood Red Sky cries out for the Deluxe Edition treatment. This short (under 40 minutes) album was sold as an EP upon it's 1983 release and if memory serves was priced accordingly. It seems like this sold for under $6.00 on vinyl. In my humble opinion, Island should blow the dust off the masters re-release it:
A. Remastered in SACD format
B. Fleshed out with all or most of the songs played on the dates originally recorded for the album (I saw this tour at the old Paramount Theater in Portland, OR in 1983 and I remember they were still playing some of the great tunes from Boy, An Cat Dubh particularly sticks in my memory)
C. With a second-disc DVD containing the whole Red Rocks concert
D. Why not add some MTV interview footage from the time?
E. A liner note essay from Paul McGuinness telling the story of the first American transformation: From obscure Irish New Wave up and comers to America's Alterna-Rock heroes with the release of War and the Red Rocks video
UABRS compares favorably to the Who's Live At Leeds. The Who release was an explosive live document also, marred only by it's brevity. The Deluxe Edition remedied that and proved a revelation. Come on Island, get on the stick!
Under a Blood Red Sky Poster
The remastered Under a Blood Red Sky album was originally released in November 1983, and consists of live recordings from three shows on the band's War Tour through Europe and America.There seem to be two major camps of U2 fans now: Those who dig the early albums (good and sensible people), and those who only like the ones from the '90s, putting everything previous down as "classic rock." But U2 only became a classic rock sort of band in 1984, with The Unforgettable Fire. The real early stuff, from '80 to '83, still comes off as edgy--and it's comparatively ignored. Here's a sampler: Under a Blood Red Sky is from a U.S. tour (1983's) in which U2 still thought of itself as a hungry little band from Ireland--and draws (fairly wisely) from the band's first three albums. There's nary a misstep on the entire disc, although it could stand a few more tracks. --Gavin McNett
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