Album of the Week: The Unforgettable Fire

[Utoo]

I've been listening to a number of different albums over the last several days, but I keep coming back to this one. What a gem!

 

[U2Man]

Promenade

 

[topplehatU2]

This is probably my least favorite U2 album.

 

[adrball]

opening to UF track...

 

[Aygo]

Wasn't there an apreciation thread about The Unforgettable Fire or something like that a few weeks ago?

 

[U2Man]

so?

This is an album of the week thread. Not an appreciation thread.

 

[Aygo]

so?

This is an album of the week thread. Not an appreciation thread.

So?

You didn't need to be an asshole, I was just asking about that, because I remembered that interferers talked much about TUF a few weeks ago... That's it.

 

[phillyfan26]

Seven outstanding songs.

 

[U2girl]

It has grown on me recently. Now my no. 5 U2 album.

 

[JCOSTER]

I love listening to this album while drifting off to sleep....

ASOH my favorite off the album.

 

[U2Man]

So?

You didn't need to be an asshole, I was just asking about that, because I remembered that interferers talked much about TUF a few weeks ago... That's it.

But if you're a natural born asshole, you cannot help being one, can you?

 

[WalkOnTheEdge]

I don't think there is enough love for "Wire". I think this is one of their most underrated songs.

 

[pgv]

I love listening to this album while drifting off to sleep....

I always do that, this album is perfect to wind down with. A sort of homecoming is very worthy.

 

[JCOSTER]

I don't think there is enough love for "Wire". I think this is one of their most underrated songs.

How I would have loved to see them do it live....

 

[discothequeLP]

I love listening to this album while drifting off to sleep....

isn't it sort of rude to the album if you fall asleep while it's doing its thing?

 

[JCOSTER]

isn't it sort of rude to the album if you fall asleep while it's doing its thing?

Heh?

 

[pgv]

isn't it sort of rude to the album if you fall asleep while it's doing its thing?

Its not like the music is sending me to sleep because its that boring, its more like its lulling me to sleep. Like you know when you are listening to something, and thinking and you drift off..but at the same time you are still concentrating on the music?
Man i can't explain it nevermind!

 

[Aygo]

But if you're a natural born asshole, you cannot help being one, can you?

With this answer you only justified what I posted lately.
Get off, I was trying to satisfy a doubt and stating a fact and you came with a rude and unnecessary answer.

 

[Queen Bee]

A Sort Of Homecoming
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Wire
The Unforgettable Fire
Promenade
4th Of July
Bad
Indian Summer Sky
Elvis Presley And America
MLK




I'm probably alone in choosing UF and Pop as my top two favorite U2 albums.

 

[chickadee]

Wire is awesome. If you're pissed off, it's a wonderful track to listen to turned up loud. A Sort of Homecoming is lovely and Celtic-feeling, I always feel close to that song for some reason and when I get home from America I will probably put it on! And oh I adore Bad, Pride, UF... yum. Not my fave album, but a treasure in its own right and very atmospheric.

 

[jacobus]

TUF is the album that got me addicted to U2 and after all the years it ranks between #2 to #5. the overall atmosphere of the album is outstanding. great record!
and yes chickadee i admit WIRE is awesome

 

[Axver]

Quite simply the best album I have ever heard. It is more than mere music; the atmosphere is so rich and vivid. People may rag on 4th Of July and EPAA a fair bit, but I think they help illustrate where the band was at the time. I feel that with UF, not only do we get the artwork, but we get everything the artist used to create it too - the sonic noodling, the vocal improvisation, the experimentation and exploration.

And I think I'm going to have to revise my list of top U2 songs because ASOH is really begging for a place. What an immensely beautiful song.

I would also like to echo the thought that Wire is excellent and does not get enough attention. The ending is powerful and cathartic.

 

[An Cat Gav]

This album is so perfect, so beautiful, takes you away to a better place, away from all the shit of life.
Beautiful. Got me addicted to U2 also.

 

[cobl04]

Seven outstanding songs.

Would those seven happen to be A Sort of Homecoming, Pride, Wire, The Unforgettable Fire, Promenade, Bad and Indian Summer Sky?

Cos I feel the same way.

Wire is the most awesome song U2 have ever made. 0:17 in Wire, when the bass kicks in is fucking BRILLIANT.

 

[shortfuse]

I love this album... i got into U2 in around seven years ago, and this and ATYCLB were the first ones i bought and i have been hooked ever since

Bad, ASOH, Promenade

 

[Canadiens1131]

Like the girl who used to threaten to beat up people in high school, Unforgettable Fire is a great find if you can bury through the brash opening grooves into the suprisingly smooth, sexy interior of the record.

 

[U2Man]

With this answer you only justified what I posted lately.
Get off, I was trying to satisfy a doubt and stating a fact and you came with a rude and unnecessary answer.

First of all, if you think my first answer was that rude, you might want to reconsider your habit of browsing message boards. All I did was to point out that this wasn't an appreciation thread. You are wildly overreacting.

Secondly, I think most people would agree that calling people an "asshole" is a lot more rude than my post.

 

[Aygo]

First of all, if you think my first answer was that rude, you might want to reconsider your habit of browsing message boards. All I did was to point out that this wasn't an appreciation thread. You are wildly overreacting.

Secondly, I think most people would agree that calling people an "asshole" is a lot more rude than my post.

Yes, you're right, perhaps I exceeded even worse by typing that word and I apologise, but you have to admit that it was not very kind too to answer to it like that.

 

[Canadiens1131]

 

[Axver]

Model trains

/train nerd