{"id":100,"date":"2008-02-02T06:34:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T06:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derwinirawan.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/02\/review-of-one-of-my-favorite-album\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T06:34:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T06:34:30","slug":"review-of-one-of-my-favorite-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dasaptaerwin.net\/wp\/2008\/02\/review-of-one-of-my-favorite-album.html","title":{"rendered":"Review of one of my favorite album"},"content":{"rendered":"

U2<\/p>\n

War<\/p>\n

[Island]<\/p>\n

Artist: U2<\/a><\/p>\n

Released: 28 February 1983<\/p>\n

Review<\/p>\n

by Sid Smith<\/p>\n

04 May 2007<\/p>\n

In 1982, back before world leaders were being brow-beaten by Bono, U2 were teaming up once again with Steve Lillywhite (who\u2019d produced their debut, Boy<\/span>, and October<\/span>) for a crack at their third album. Whilst there\u2019s no denying the youthful energy and industrial quantities of testosterone on display, it\u2019s 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\u2019t know when to turn the volume down.<\/p>\n

The palette broadens on \u201cRed Light\u201d with backing vocals from Kid Creole\u2019s Coconuts no less, and some equally superfluous trumpet – the latter making a tokenistic jazz noise atop the impervious surface of the band\u2019s default setting, that only loosens up enough to work effectively by the time the track is fading-out.<\/p>\n

Similarly the hurtling ardour of singer and guitarist going at it full-tilt on \u201cLike A Song\u201d, becomes interesting only when it threatens to spill over into the thunderous rumble of Larry Mullen\u2019s drumming. By then though, the faders are sliding into zero. More effective contributions arise from Steve Wickham\u2019s soaring violin as it weaves around chiming harmonics and multi-tracked acoustic guitars of \u201cDrowning Man.\u201d \u2013 something the Eno-produced James would emulate the following decade. His stirring violin also heats up the anthemic \u201cSunday Bloody Sunday\u201d, a rough-hewn stomp that falteringly navigates its way between posture and politics.<\/p>\n

For all the evident unevenness, you can\u2019t knock the sure-footed pure power-pop of \u201cTwo Hearts Beat As One\u201d and \u201cNew Years Day\u201d. Though Adam Clayton\u2019s bass line had an unlikely genesis (he was trying to play the Visage hit, \u201cFade To Grey\u201d), it\u2019s reverberations set off a chain reaction of exultant flag-waving around the world. Though War<\/span> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pasted from <http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/release\/3b8c\/<\/a>><\/p>\n

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