The third album in U2's discography, War, will make you feel at war. The album opens up with "Sunday Bloody Sunday", an observation of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the title of the song originating from the Bloody Sunday incident where British troops shot civil rights marchers in Derry. Like "Sunday Bloody Sunday", all the songs on War sound militaristic and gritty which shows development from their previous seemingly uninspired albums. As you can see the pain in a child's eyes as his/her mother is taken from them, you can feel and hear the anger, sorrow, and disdain in the music.
Somehow my reviews keep getting shorter and shorter. I think I'm running out of words to use.
Rating: Buy
U2's "The Unforgettable Fire"; Rock; Island Records
What's the obsession with America? I'll never know. In U2's fourth studio album, this mania comes through. The first single "Pride (In the Name of Love), was originally supposed to be about then President Ronald Reagan but decided to change it to be a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists in general. [I'll finish the rest of this tomorrow....]
Rating: Buy
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