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Track List
01) Sunday Bloody Sunday
02) Seconds
03) New Year's Day
04) Like a Song...
05) Drowning Man
06) The Refugee
07) Two Hearts Beat as One 
08) Red Light
09) Surrender
10) "40"
01) Sunday Bloody Sunday
02) Seconds
03) New Year's Day
04) Like a Song...
05) Drowning Man
06) The Refugee
07) Two Hearts Beat as One
08) Red Light
09) Surrender
10) "40"
4:40
3:10
5:35
4:46
4:14
3:40
4:03
3:46
5:34
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First Released
1983
Pop-Rock
Political
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War é o terceiro álbum de estúdio da banda de rock irlandesa U2, lançado em 28 de fevereiro de 1983. O álbum chegou a ser considerado como o primeiro álbum abertamente político do U2, em parte por causa de canções como "Sunday Bloody Sunday" e "New Year's Day", bem como o título, que se origina da percepção da banda sobre o mundo na época; Bono afirmou que "a guerra parecia ser o tema para 1982".
Embora os temas centrais dos seus álbuns anteriores, Boy e October foram focados na adolescência e espiritualidade, respectivamente, War foi centrado nos aspectos físicos da guerra e as sequelas emocionais. O álbum foi descrito como a gravação onde a banda "transformou o pacifismo em uma cruzada".
War foi um sucesso comercial da banda, batendo Michael Jackson em Thriller do topo das paradas se tornando o primeiro álbum da banda a chegar na #1 posição no Reino Unido. Ele alcançou a posição de número #12 nos Estados Unidos e se tornou o primeiro álbum da banda a ser certificado em ouro no país. Em 2003, a revista Rolling Stone colocou o álbum na #221 posição na lista dos "500 Melhores Álbuns de Todos os Tempos".
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In 1982, back before world leaders were being brow-beaten by Bono, U2 were teaming up once again with Steve Lillywhite (who’d produced their debut, Boy, and October) for a crack at their third album. Whilst there’s no denying the youthful energy and industrial quantities of testosterone on display, it’s something of a mixed rattlebag that highlights the pros and cons of the band. After a while all that breathless beseeching, fiery indignation and BIG guitar heroics grows a tad wearisome; a bit like being shouted at by someone who means well but doesn’t know when to turn the volume down.
The palette broadens on “Red Light” with backing vocals from Kid Creole’s Coconuts no less, and some equally superfluous trumpet - the latter making a tokenistic jazz noise atop the impervious surface of the band’s default setting, that only loosens up enough to work effectively by the time the track is fading-out.
Similarly the hurtling ardour of singer and guitarist going at it full-tilt on “Like A Song”, becomes interesting only when it threatens to spill over into the thunderous rumble of Larry Mullen’s drumming. By then though, the faders are sliding into zero. More effective contributions arise from Steve Wickham’s soaring violin as it weaves around chiming harmonics and multi-tracked acoustic guitars of “Drowning Man.” ”“ something the Eno-produced James would emulate the following decade. His stirring violin also heats up the anthemic “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, a rough-hewn stomp that falteringly navigates its way between posture and politics.
For all the evident unevenness, you can’t knock the sure-footed pure power-pop of “Two Hearts Beat As One” and “New Years Day”. Though Adam Clayton’s bass line had an unlikely genesis (he was trying to play the Visage hit, “Fade To Grey”), it’s reverberations set off a chain reaction of exultant flag-waving around the world. Though War explores some of the glassy sonics which The Edge would later perfect, it falls short of the musical maturity they were to find with their 1984 studio follow-up, The Unforgettable Fire.
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War é o terceiro álbum de estúdio da banda de rock irlandesa U2, lançado em 28 de fevereiro de 1983. O álbum chegou a ser considerado como o primeiro álbum abertamente político do U2, em parte por causa de canções como "Sunday Bloody Sunday" e "New Year's Day", bem como o título, que se origina da percepção da banda sobre o mundo na época; Bono afirmou que "a guerra parecia ser o tema para 1982".
Embora os temas centrais dos seus álbuns anteriores, Boy e October foram focados na adolescência e espiritualidade, respectivamente, War foi centrado nos aspectos físicos da guerra e as sequelas emocionais. O álbum foi descrito como a gravação onde a banda "transformou o pacifismo em uma cruzada".
War foi um sucesso comercial da banda, batendo Michael Jackson em Thriller do topo das paradas se tornando o primeiro álbum da banda a chegar na #1 posição no Reino Unido. Ele alcançou a posição de número #12 nos Estados Unidos e se tornou o primeiro álbum da banda a ser certificado em ouro no país. Em 2003, a revista Rolling Stone colocou o álbum na #221 posição na lista dos "500 Melhores Álbuns de Todos os Tempos".
User Album Review
In 1982, back before world leaders were being brow-beaten by Bono, U2 were teaming up once again with Steve Lillywhite (who’d produced their debut, Boy, and October) for a crack at their third album. Whilst there’s no denying the youthful energy and industrial quantities of testosterone on display, it’s something of a mixed rattlebag that highlights the pros and cons of the band. After a while all that breathless beseeching, fiery indignation and BIG guitar heroics grows a tad wearisome; a bit like being shouted at by someone who means well but doesn’t know when to turn the volume down.
The palette broadens on “Red Light” with backing vocals from Kid Creole’s Coconuts no less, and some equally superfluous trumpet - the latter making a tokenistic jazz noise atop the impervious surface of the band’s default setting, that only loosens up enough to work effectively by the time the track is fading-out.
Similarly the hurtling ardour of singer and guitarist going at it full-tilt on “Like A Song”, becomes interesting only when it threatens to spill over into the thunderous rumble of Larry Mullen’s drumming. By then though, the faders are sliding into zero. More effective contributions arise from Steve Wickham’s soaring violin as it weaves around chiming harmonics and multi-tracked acoustic guitars of “Drowning Man.” ”“ something the Eno-produced James would emulate the following decade. His stirring violin also heats up the anthemic “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, a rough-hewn stomp that falteringly navigates its way between posture and politics.
For all the evident unevenness, you can’t knock the sure-footed pure power-pop of “Two Hearts Beat As One” and “New Years Day”. Though Adam Clayton’s bass line had an unlikely genesis (he was trying to play the Visage hit, “Fade To Grey”), it’s reverberations set off a chain reaction of exultant flag-waving around the world. Though War explores some of the glassy sonics which The Edge would later perfect, it falls short of the musical maturity they were to find with their 1984 studio follow-up, The Unforgettable Fire.
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