U2 - War
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Free Music Review: love U2
Hit: 5 Stars
arrived quick and I just purchased another copy of a cd i had worn outFree Music Review: Great album
Hit: 5 Stars
Hopefully I don't speak only for myself when I say that this is my favorite U2 cd. There is not one bad song on the album. There isn't even any mediocre song--they are all honestly beautiful and amazing. U2 is amazing (save for their newer material...). If you're contemplating buying this, just do it. You will not regret it.Free Music Review: Sneaking in some Christianity!
Hit: 5 Stars
Someone at college had recommmended the rock group U2 in 1984 and I went out and bought the casette. I know that back then I hated the church and religious people so bad that when the song "40" came on the tape, I fast-forwarded over it. Yet, I started also having weird dreams as I listened often to this cassette on my walkman. Some of these dreams I found out to be prophetic-like dropping out of my grad school the first quarter because of too much work my advisor had given me. I was Christian before I got married and started having marital problems.I guess the problems I had with my ex-wife and her family actually killed my Christian faith! Maybe, the music on the casette, which is apocalyptic in nature did start stirring up the Holy Spirit in me and I did not realize it. And on and on until after 2000 when I did my study on the Psalms I came to the 40th Psalm on which "40" is based and I had to say I was also singing a new song myself. I came around full circle religiously, so to speak. Yet they still do hate me in the church!
I could also say that walking to college through the snow and bare trees in the winter through the park near my apartment, the songs like NEW YEARS DAY seemed to match that mood. As well as at grad school at MSU, I remember walking down the hall of the Chem building singing SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY to myself when no one was there!
I think because of its references to nuclear war and the apocalypse that the Federal Pigs really hate this album! I was talking on the phone to a MSU coed in 1985-1986 and she seemed to equate music by U2 with homosexuality. But I think the artists are married men. I was in chemistry and the MSU chem department was getting big bucks from the Energy Departmement who makes the atom bomb! She used to also equate the TV series MAGNUM PI and the DUKES OF HAZZARD with homosexuality. Must be those twisted government pigs. Our minsters in America who area secretly affiliated with the pigs obviously don't want to give a bad name to the atom bomb or make us fear that muclear war might destroy the world. I know that when I had bought a U2 RATTLE AND HUM concert t-shirt from a big man's clothier, I used to get hate from older people when I went to the grocerys tore. My JAMES DEAN t-shirt also evoked hate from older people. I think it is more that just loser Toledo's "Midwest Mentality"!
From my military training concerning nuclear war and later from listening to Radio Moscow, I could see that Reagan was a nuclear maniac. And after leaving grad school, I joined the nuclear freeze movement-at least I was on their mailing list. And our ex-Marine mailman would make remarks as he delivered their newsletter. It looked like the FBI had inflitrated the SANE/FREEZE nuclear protest club as one newsletter had what they called "PEACE WITH JUSTICE DAY" where the featured speakers were two defectors from the Soviet Army talking about what bad people the Soviets supposedly were. I was also earlier a fan of Hal Lindsey and a believer in the End of the World and Nuclear Armageddon. So, in the end, I decided that America gets what it deserves in the end!
Free Music Review: U2's best?
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, either that or The Joshua Tree. This is a must-have for any self-respecting fan of the group. Everybody knows the cathariatic protest Sunday Bloody Sunday, a driving antiwar song and a true classic. Even better (to me, anyway) is New Year's Day, the album's other big hit - unforgettable indeed. You don't hear much about Seconds, Like a Song..., Two Hearts Beat As One, Red Light or the vaguely Talking Heads-esque Refugee, but they're all as good as the hits, and Bono's vocals are at their peak. Drowning Man is filler, but overall War is one of U2's greatest albums. Free Music Review: "All's Fair in Love and 'War'"
Hit: 5 Stars
U2 started a string of masterpieces with 'War' their first brilliant album from their early years. While 'Boy' and 'October' are excellent and reinvented the wheel of pop music, 'War' is more accomplished and varied musically and is conceptually sound. The raw power of their early years is harnessed on this album as well as an expertise the two predecesors lacked. There are really two sides to the album: One could be called "War;" the other could be called "Love," but they are both intertwined throughout.
Passion is U2's hallmark, and they certainly jump-start the album well enough with their celtic-laced political anthem "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Consisting of basically a mixed band of Irish Catholic and Protestant band members, Bono, their talking head, sings such scathing lines as "We eat and drink while tomorrow they die," and "...to blame the victory Jesus won...on you." "Seconds," continues the flow with a folk-rock beginning that melts into haunting images accompanied by ethereal sounds. Containing the admonition that "They're doing the atomic bomb/Hoping you will join along," Bono and The Edge end singing,..."Say, goodbye; say, goodbye; say, goodbye!" Then, if the drama and tension weren't enough, they play "New Year's Day," a brilliant and mesmerizing song with shimmering piano and the pulsating electric current of Edge's guitar. It is a beautiful and haunting rock song done in the first person for Poland's then-exiled solidarity members. Following is "Like a Song..." one of the best of the album. With great thrusts of fast-forward power, Bono sings a stinging lament for the older Irish generation who don't leave hope for the younger. At the end of the "War" side, "Drowning Man" is the first of their brilliant portraits of someone torn by the horrors of war. The harrowing dimension of a refugee is expertly captured by the music and words. They cover most of the major conflicts well on half a C.D. Then, the second half starts with a make love not war notion by saying the Irish Civil War is making beautiful women defect to America. At this point, Bono couldn't sing "America" with enough scathing force. "Two Hearts Beat as One" demonstrates that "Refugee" is just a transitional song, but the spare lyrics and the cyclical pattern of The Edge's guitar (which give one the sound image of the early flying machines before the Wright Brothers triumphed) a fine thrust of music. It is pretty bottom line about love. "Red Light" addresses unrequited love with a jazzy accompaniment that gives the album a scope previous efforts lacked. "Surrender" is beautiful, and "'40,'" based on Psalm 40, is a celestial send-off that foreshadows the advent of their next work, 'The Unforgettable Fire'.
'War' is a brilliant beginning masterpiece for U2. It is characteristic of what experience would bring for them in a string of albums up to and including 'Achtung Baby,' in '91. It is a ten year stretch that changed the face of music, even while providing passion for often disturbing material.