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With a title inspired by an exhibition of paintings by Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE confirmed U2 as one of a handful of bands able to tackle such vast and emotive subjects with dignity and musical integrity. There are few artists capable of writing about religion, war, race, politics, and life with such ferocity and global commercial success. 'Pride (In The Name Of Love)', an elegy for Martin Luther King, was a breakout hit, and every track--wrapped in the Edge's impressionistic guitar splashes--reveals a quartet hungry for the world stage. The production by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois was a taste of things to come.
Live Recording
Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums).
Recorded at Slane Castle, County Meath and Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
U2: Bono (vocals); The Edge (guitar, keyboards, vocals); Adam Clayton (bass);
Additional personnel: Paul Barrett (synthesizer); Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois.
Q (10/96, p.189) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...the making of THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE witnessed the first signs of a remarkable chemistry between an artfully analytical producer and a peak-of-powers group....simply sounds timeless..."
Q (Magazine) (p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "As the transitional work that propelled U2 into the elite stratospheres of global stadium rock, THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE is aptly named." U2 Unforgettable Fire Songs Unforgettable Fire Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Creme de la Creme
Before their huge commercial success with "The Joshua Tree", U2's non-commercial art reached a zenith with "The Unforgettable Fire". This is an elusive, amorphous album, difficult to describe, full of eerie suggestion. The first U2 record I ever heard was "Pride (In The Name Of Love)", and I instantly loved it, but I soon realized that it paled in comparison to the dramatic statement of the title cut, or the gut-wrenching "Bad". What can I say? The CD is breathtaking.
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 forgettable 80s music
Lot of filler on this mediocre 80s album
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Simply one of the best albums period.
From start to finish, this album is far and way the best U2 album available and 20 plus years later, still listen to this album on a regular basis. No CD collection is complete without it.
Submitted by Roger (Montville, NJ)
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Pride in the name of love is one of my all time favorite rock songs, you can't go wrong dancing to a song about Martin Luther King and Jesus rocking as tunefully hard as Zepellin. All the other songs are incredible sonic landscapes of beauty and passion, the lyrics are equally smart and moving about spirituality, political dangers and human frailty. The Edge really exploits the G and D notes on the guitar in a terrific style of beauty from harmonics to every fret he can find them with incredible atmospheric backing from Eno. These guys were at their artistic peak and truly inspired, no wonder they became gigantic stars.
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even though I am an absoloute huge D.M. fan I submitt and realize that U-2 are thee gods and I laugh at anyone to attempt to try to come to half the genius of this opus!!
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Buy Unforgettable Fire CD Purchase Unforgettable Fire CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | U2 Achtung Baby CD (1991)
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In 1991, U2 shocked the pop-music world with ACHTUNG BABY, a striking departure from the Irish band's beloved '80s arena-rock sound. Here the group careens into sonically adventurous territory, reveling in distorted guitars, drum loops, and layers of synthesizers.
The stunning opening track, "Zoo Station," kicks in with fierce, fuzzed-out guitar and a clanging industrial beat, Bono's distinctive voice the only tell-tale sign that this is indeed a U2 album. From here, ACHTUNG BABY deftly maneuvers between giddy electro-pop (the shimmering "Even Better Than the Real Thing," the funky "Mysterious Ways"), bold techno-tinged rock (the majestic punch of "Until the End of the World," the seductive squall of "The Fly"), and contemplative ballads (the heartbreakingly beautiful "One," the haunting closer "Love Is Blindness"). Throughout it all, the quartet plays to the peak of its abilities, ...
| | U2 Zooropa CD (1993)
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ZOOROPA won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
The bright, digital-looking album artwork alone hints at U2's intentions on ZOOROPA--to take the group's electronica-laced approach on ACHTUNG BABY to the next level. While ambient-music pioneer Brian Eno had a strong presence on the former album, here he's practically a fifth member, contributing synthesizers and keyboards to most of the disc's 10 tracks.
Fans looking for vestiges of the old, JOSHUA TREE-era U2 are essentially left empty-handed, though the gorgeously spare and melancholy "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" does touch on their earnest earlier sound. ZOOROPA truly gets going with the fascinatingly droning "Numb," which features the Edge on lead vocals and stands as the most adventurous single that the Irish quartet has ever released. From here the album hits a stride, careening through the giddy Euro-disco of "Lemon," ...
| | U2 Pop CD (1997)
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Like much pop music in the mid-1990s, POP is cobbled together out of buzzy synthesizers and reverberant keyboards, techno drum loops and funky live drums, guitars distorted into clouds of metal, vocals you sometimes have to work to hear, and songs that seek God and sex and other important stuff in the world's trash heaps. And it's obsessed, more than anything else, with pop itself. At its most frisky, as on the dance-club single "Discotheque," POP sounds like Oasis backed by the Chemical Brothers (see that combo's recent single "Setting Sun" for comparison). Drop the club beat and add a bright acoustic guitar, as on "Staring At The Sun," and POP sounds like, well, Oasis.
This is the kind of future-pop U2 introduced on its watershed 1991 album ACHTUNG, BABY, and POP completes a sort of trilogy. Whereas 1993's ZOOROPA played up the "art" side of this experiment, POP, which finds art-rock influence Brian Eno gone from the producer's seat and techno wiz kid Howie B. taking up some of his space, plays up the pop side. It's the most playful album U2 has ever made, with grooves ...
| | U2 Joshua Tree CD (1987)
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THE JOSHUA TREE won the 1987 Grammy award for album of the year.
Few bands are as ready for superstardom as U2 circa 1986. After chart successes with WAR and THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE and a high profile appearance at Live Aid, the Irish quartet holed up at a Dublin studio with engineers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and crafted the definitive sound of late '80s mainstream rock. Deftly marrying WAR's edgy bombast, THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE's impressionism, Eno's ambient flourishes, and the band's newfound interest in American roots music, THE JOSHUA TREE is U2's crowning moment, a perfect nexus of the band's expansive muse and the popular zeitgeist. It consistently ranks in the higher reaches of critics' lists of the greatest albums of all time.
Thanks to both Eno's georgeous production and a stellar set of songs, the album has aged stunningly. The first three tracks--the rousing "Where the Streets Have No Name," the gospel-inflected ...
| | U2 Rattle & Hum CD (1988)
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Recorded live during the Joshua Tree Tour in the U.S. and Europe in 1987.
The aural companion to the band documentary of the same name, RATTLE AND HUM is where U2's began to tire of being the anthem-making rock heroes they had become in the '80s. That's not to say the songs didn't approach serious subject matter, but there was more musical and lyrical diversity than on albums past. They repeatedly play with the rock & roll myth throughout RATTLE AND HUM, covering the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" and Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," casting aspersions on "the golden age of pop" on "God Part II" and busting out their own blistering version of the Bo Diddley beat on the irresistible "Desire."
The band began to explore American roots music as well. "Angel of Harlem," a tune about Billie Holiday, was recorded in Memphis' famed Sun Studios. Bono makes his first official Gospel foray on "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." The lads from Dublin even collaborate with B.B. ...
| | U2 Wide Awake In America CD (1985)
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This includes live recordings and out-takes from the "Unforgettable Fire" tour and album, 1984-85.
Put together as a follow-up to the phenomenally successful THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE, ...
| | Calexico Spoke CD (1997)
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While Calexico's 1997 debut album, SPOKE, contains strong hints of what was to come for the group, it clearly stands as an early point in their evolution. The hazy spaghetti-Western Mexicana that would later become so prevalent pops up at a few points here, but doesn't dominate the album. Multi-instrumentalists John Convertino and Joey Burns had only recently splintered off from Giant Sand, and the Captain Beefheart-gone-indie-rock flavor of their former band ...
| | Kim Lenz And Her Jaguars CD (1998)
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This self-titled debut from Kim Lenz and her three piece backing band, The Jaguars, is a polished offering from a rough-and-ready rockabilly outfit that was formed in 1996, two years prior to this release. Lenz, who plays rhythm guitar, sings her songs ...
| | Deep Forest Comparsa CD (1998) Enhanced CD
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Deep Forest emerged in as a unique phenomenon in the '90s, employing the ambient musical techniques established in the '70s and '80s, but with an added twist. Using natural sounds and souped-up technology to create something of a world-music/ambient/techno fusion, Deep Forest captured the imagination and ears of millions of listeners. COMPARSA represents not a departure so much as a strengthening of position. Deep Forest finds those elements of their sound that speak most directly to the listener and expands on them to fine effect. Fans of their music will be slightly surprised at some of the new timbres and rhythms on COMPARSA, but they will certainly not come away ...
| | Red Krayola Fingerpainting CD (2001) (Import)
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| | Bill Douglas Place Called Morning CD (2001)
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| | Rock & Roll Classic Love Songs CD (2003) (Import) Germany
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Rock & Roll's Classic Love Songs is an 18-song disc with a misleading title. These love songs are definite classics of the early '60s, but they are a lot more pop than they are rock & roll. There's no Eddie Cochran or Chuck Berry or Little Richard; instead, there are plenty of sweet melodies from the likes of Ketty Lester ("Love Letters"), Johnny Tillotson ("Poetry in Motion"), the Crests ("Angels Listened In"), the Casinos ("Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye"), Frankie Avalon ("Just Ask Your Heart"), and the Dixie Cups ("Chapel of Love"). It's not without reason that this was released a couple weeks before Valentine's Day; it's not a bad compilation of songs from the period that fit the mood. ~ Andy Kellman
This collection from the always-reliable Varese Sarabande label compiles 18 chart hits that appeared ...
| | Saturday Session CD (2005) (Import) Italy
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