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Commercial Release |
March 1983 |
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Record Label |
Island Records |
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Top Chart Position |
US: 12, Canada:
5, UK: 1 |
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Singles Released |
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TRACKLISTING |
- Sunday
Bloody Sunday (4:13)
- Seconds
(3:39)
- New
Year's Day (4:55)
- Like
A Song... (3:38)
- Drowning
Man (3:51)
- The
Refugee (4:39)
- Two
Hearts Beat As One (2:21)
- Red
Light (4:03)
- Surrender
(3:57)
- "40"
(2:53)
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| LINER NOTES |
| Bono: Vocal & Guitar. The
Edge: Guitars, Piano, Lap Steel, Vocal ("Seconds").
Adam Clayton: Bass. Larry Mullen Jr: Drums and Percussion.
Electric Violin: Steve Wickham ("Sunday Bloody Sunday",
"Drowning Man") Trumpet: Kenny Fradley.
Backing Vocals: Cheryl Poirier with Adriana Kaegi, Taryn Hagey,
also Jessica Felton ("Surrender", "Red
Light")
Produced by Steve Lillywhite, Except "The
Refugee" produced by Bill Whelan (Mixed by Steve).
Engineeered by Paul Thomas. Assisted by Kevin Killen.
U2 Management: Paul McGuinness. Recorded at Windmill Lane
Studios, Dublin Ireland.
Boy Photograph: Ian Finlay. Band
Photograph: Anton Corbin. Design RX.
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| OTHER NOTES |
| War was U2's third studio album, and
is considered by many to be the first "classic" of
U2's career. It was definitely this album which raised
U2's profile around the world, expecially in North America where
the band had only limited success prior to this.
The album cover is reminiscent of that used
for the Boy album, and Peter Rowan again is featured.
Design of the album cover was by Steve Averill.
War is an album which has been part of MFSL's
remastering program. This program takes the original
master recordings, and presses to CD in a remastered form.
The CD's which are pressed features gold instead of aluminum
which is said to last longer. This remastering has
resulted in several noticible differences in the MFSL recordings,
most noticed here on "Seconds" which is longer and
features an extended section of "Soldier Girls" in the
center of the song. Like a Song is also extended. The only
other U2 albums to receive the MFSL treatment were The
Unforgettable Fire and The
Joshua Tree.
Also of interest is the US version of the CD,
which includes a small essay about U2 and the album's success in
the US. This version of War lists the track times for the
songs and is in complete error. Two Hearts Beat as One for
instance is listed as being 5:00 when in reality it is 4:03 on
this pressing as well as on the MFSL version. These
misprinted track times have lead to some confusion. The
track times listed above are the actual track times for each
song as read from the actual CDs. The times listed on the
back of this US pressing are listed as follows:
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (4:38)
- Seconds (3:24 instead of the actual 3:10)
- New Year's Day (5:38)
- Like a Song... (4:48)
- Drowning Man (4:12)
- The Refugee (3:40)
- Two Hearts Beat as One (5:00 instead of the
actual 4:02)
- Red Light (4:09 instead of the actual 3:46)
- Surrender (6:01 instead of the actual 5:34)
- "40" (2:08 instead of the actual
2:35)
The War album would spawn a very successful world
tour, and the fall of 1983 would see the release of Under
a Blood Red Sky, a live album which captured songs from
several live dates on the tour. |
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