Album #62: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb by U2

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Sound: Mid-80s U2

Mood: Preachy

Important Songs: Vertigo, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own

Song You Must Hear: Love and Peace or Else

Quote: “Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.”

Notes: Bono had done a solo tour, but not to sing, rather to speak of the needs of Africa.  He had always been a bit religious and bleeding heart, but this was the ultimate.  So U2’s latest album is the most bleeding heart, and the most psychedelic of them all.  Just my style. 

Album #80: War by u2

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Sound: Early U2 (I don’t know what else to call it)

Mood: Angry and kind of sad

Important Songs: Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Years’ Day, 40

Song You Must Hear: Refugee

Quote: “How long to sing this song?”

Notes: An amazing early work by U2.  It is driving, and points out the horrors of society, but it is also reflective and heartwrenching.  A compassionate liberal’s bleeding heart, out for everyone to see.