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It's there in my U2 collection. For awhile, it was lost in the CD swallowing hole that is my car, but it found it's way back. I don't know much about it. I'm pretty fluent in most things U2, but this album....I don't really know what happened. I know contains Pride and Bad, two of U2's biggest hits. But the studio versions are so inferior to the live versions, that they hardly are listenable on the album. Unforgettable has been, to me, the final frontier in U2's music. I've found every b-side, side project song, every pre-boy song I can get my hands on. But in my 8 years as a fan, I've never experienced the magic of Promenade, Indian Summer Sky, or Elvis Presley and America. It just never happened.
But I am in love. A sort of homecoming in it's original version brings a totally new element to the song! Wire is pure energy, awesome. Unforgettable Fire and Promenade are some of U2's most beautiful. I went to u2.com and looked up some of the lyrics. Bono is probably in one of his best forms on this album. You have to think about these lyrics, but once you do, they mean so much more. I can't believe I haven't come to this album before! I burnt a new copy of it, and put 3 sunrises and Love comes tumbling on, just to make it a longer and more complete album. With these added tracks, this is just a perfect album! I feel like I felt when I was first discovering U2. It's good to have things like this happen during this "down time" of waiting for the new album.
But I am in love. A sort of homecoming in it's original version brings a totally new element to the song! Wire is pure energy, awesome. Unforgettable Fire and Promenade are some of U2's most beautiful. I went to u2.com and looked up some of the lyrics. Bono is probably in one of his best forms on this album. You have to think about these lyrics, but once you do, they mean so much more. I can't believe I haven't come to this album before! I burnt a new copy of it, and put 3 sunrises and Love comes tumbling on, just to make it a longer and more complete album. With these added tracks, this is just a perfect album! I feel like I felt when I was first discovering U2. It's good to have things like this happen during this "down time" of waiting for the new album.