Year: 28 February 1983 (CD Jan 1993)
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (US), UDCD 571
Style: Post-Punk, Pop Rock
Country: Dublin, Ireland
Time: 42:42
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 286 Mb
Charts:
IRE #16, AUS #9, CAN #4, FRA #4, GER #59, NZ #5, SWE #2, UK #1, US #12.
GER & SWI: Gold; NZ: Platinum; UK, FRA & AUS: 2x Platinum; CAN:
3x Platinum; US: 4x Platinum.
War is the third studio album by Irish
rock band U2. It was produced by Steve Lillywhite, and was released on
28 February 1983 on Island Records. The album is regarded as U2's first
overtly political album, in part because of songs like "Sunday Bloody
Sunday" and "New Year's Day", as well as the title, which stems from the
band's perception of the world at the time; lead vocalist Bono stated
that "war seemed to be the motif for 1982."
U2 recorded the album
from September to November 1982 at Windmill Lane Studios with Lillywhite
producing, the group's third consecutive album made at the studio with
the producer. While the central themes of U2's previous albums Boy and
October were adolescence and spirituality, respectively, War focused on
both the physical aspects of warfare, and the emotional after-effects.
Musically, it is also harsher than the band's previous releases.
War
was a commercial success, knocking Michael Jackson's Thriller from the
top of the UK charts to become U2's first number-one album there. In the
United States, it reached number 12 and became the band's first album
certified gold. War received generally favourable reviews, although some
British journalists criticised it. The band supported the album with
the War Tour through the end of 1983. In 2008, a remastered edition of
War was released. In 2012, the album was ranked 223rd on Rolling Stone's
list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(U2_album))
01. Sunday Bloody Sunday (04:39)
02. Seconds (03:22)
03. New Year's Day (05:37)
04. Like a Song... (05:00)
05. Drowning Man (04:14)
06. The Refugee (03:40)
07. Two Hearts Beat as One (04:03)
08. Red Light (03:48)
09. Surrender (05:37)
10. '40' (02:37)
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