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War (U2 album)

metirish Feb 28 2013 11:00 AM

Released 30 years ago today........30 fecking years....wow [youtube]uIuAFBRyjj4[/youtube] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(U2_album)

metirish Feb 28 2013 11:29 AM Re: War (U2 album)

A great live staple [youtube:26512tuw]AjtpplE39_g[/youtube:26512tuw]

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 11:30 AM Re: War (U2 album)

Heard pre-Boy "11 O'Clock, Tick Tock" on the radio two days ago. It was a new way of writing songs at the time. In retrospect, it doesn't sound that different from Joy Division. War was this really strident step forward out of that atmospheric childhood dream, though, wasn't it?

metirish Feb 28 2013 11:33 AM Re: War (U2 album)

Funny that you mention Joy Division, I have been listening to them a lot lately....and New Order.......I appreciate them more now than then......same is true for War etc.

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 11:47 AM Re: War (U2 album)

Ten seconds of reading about "11 O'Clock Tick Tock," and it seems my association with JD was hardly novel. Wikipedia wrote: The non-album single was produced by Martin Hannett, renowned for his work with Joy Division, a band influential to U2. The band first met Hannett while he was producing "Love Will Tear Us Apart" with Joy Division, where U2 were silent studio onlookers during the session.

metirish Feb 28 2013 11:49 AM Re: War (U2 album)

where U2 were silent studio onlookers during the session. didn't know that, very cool.

Mets – Willets Point Feb 28 2013 12:07 PM Re: War (U2 album)

metirish wrote: where U2 were silent studio onlookers during the session. didn't know that, very cool. Whoah!

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 12:11 PM Re: War (U2 album)

I hadn't even known they had a producer before Steve Lilywhite.

Mets – Willets Point Feb 28 2013 12:21 PM Re: War (U2 album)

See, they didn't show that in "24 Hour Party People."

Ashie62 Feb 28 2013 09:49 PM Re: War (U2 album)

metirish wrote: Funny that you mention Joy Division, I have been listening to them a lot lately....and New Order.......I appreciate them more now than then......same is true for War etc. Excellent movie on Curtis and Joy Division called "Control" making the rounds on Sundance. They used Curtis' wifes biography as the POV..4 stars..

vtmet Mar 03 2013 10:51 AM Re: War (U2 album)

loved the "War" and the "Boy" albums...but I find the rest of U2's collection almost unlistenable...Might be because the girls that lived next to me in my college dorm used to listen to "the Joshua Tree" about 20 times a day for every day for 2 semesters straight...I kind of lost interest in U2 when it was constantly playing...I still have my Joshua Tree LP, but it might get played once every couple of years...The exception to my "newer U2" rule is the song "one", never get sick of hearing that one...

HahnSolo Mar 07 2013 12:09 PM Re: War (U2 album)

Edgy MD wrote: I hadn't even known they had a producer before Steve Lilywhite. Speaking of Mr. Lillywhite, I enjoyed this interview with him about the album, even if the interviewer comes across as a gushing fan-boy. [url]http://www.atu2.com/news/trust-trumpet-solos-and-long-lost-interns-remembering-war-30-years-later-with-steve-lillywhite.html

metirish Mar 07 2013 12:27 PM Re: War (U2 album)

Yeah he kind of ruins the interview with his gushing....anyway this made me laugh interviewer I guess that's true too. But U2 sort of chews up and spits out their producers with the exception of you, [Brian] Eno and [Daniel] Lanois. So maybe you're just in that zone that works with them really well. quick, name anther U2 producer?

Edgy MD Mar 07 2013 01:27 PM Re: War (U2 album)

Flood.

The Second Spitter Mar 08 2013 12:11 AM Re: War (U2 album)

Fuck yeah. Their last album before they did a Jose Reyes.

Gwreck Mar 08 2013 05:55 PM Re: War (U2 album)

But U2 sort of chews up and spits out their producers with the exception of you, [Brian] Eno and [Daniel] Lanois. So maybe you're just in that zone that works with them really well. quick, name anther U2 producer? Jimmy Iovine. -- Seriously, though, the albums that were produced (in their entirety) by Lillywhite or Eno/Lanois are: Boy October War The Unforgettable Fire The Joshua Tree Achtung Baby All That You Can't Leave Behind That's something like 90% of their very best work right there, and 60% of their entire career.