U2-The Unforgettable Fire (MoFi Ultradisk UDCD 624)

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What we got from that is the Unforgettable Fire. A mix of pure pop genius, architectured poetry of both music and words, and the feeling of suspended free fall. Most of this is endured by Eno's love for flawed, raw takes, and in-completed ideas. So much so that the most popular song, and radio friendly of the bunch, 'Pride', sounds almost out of placed with its well crafted sound. This is not to say there was no deliberateness on U2s part. If this new remastering does anything, it brings out the wonderfully crafted sound that U2 brings to the album. This in no way sounds like a band with whom in 83 (a year and 8 months earlier), put out the raw sound of rock/punk that was War. Maybe it wouldn't be their most well crafted of attempts to refurbish themselves, but it would definitely lay the ground works for future endeavors such as The Joshua Tree (the newly re-hashed 'Disappearing Act' (featured on the bonus audio CD) is fairly safe to say the start of what would become 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm looking For'), Achtung Baby and even their newest No Line On the Horizon, which touches upon the Unforgettable Fire regularly (ie Fez-Being Born). (excerpt of Amazon review)