I bought this album when it was released, I was a huge U2 fan from Dublin. I played it alot and as a result it eventually got scratched, as vinyl does. About 2 years later I went into town in Dublin and bought myself a new copy. I was walking along with it under my arm, my U2 bages on my jacket and feeling great when I saw Larry Mullen walking along Middle Abbey Street, I said hello and he stopped and i showed him my purchase. He told me they were recording a new album and it would be out soon. That album was War. Great guy, down to earth and made my day to meet one of my heroes.

I must be one of those weirdos because I LOVED this album, and just hearing these songs brings tears to my eyes! I literally had JUST written a paragraph about Bono, Edge and Larry's crisis of conscience between their rock & roll lifestyle clashing desire to be good Christians and glorify God. And then at the 8:30 mark...there it was. Thank you for adding that. Lots of U2 stories gloss over this part of their lives, but it was a VERY big deal. We wouldn't have had U2 after that point, had they gone through with it. But if you are a true fan of U2 and get into the lyrics, you will notice that there is ALWAYS an underlying theme of Christ's redemption, about hope, love, and not taking your you or your life too seriously--after all, you can't take it with you!

@catnapgee5357

Жыл бұрын

not a weirdo at all, you have a heightened sense of good music that doesn't relate to the masses ... consider yourself fortunate, this album was the defining U2 and trhesongs were intense and excellent

@rebusd

4 ай бұрын

October is peak U2 in my book as well

U2's label Island deserves a lot of credit. They gave the lads another chance and they went on to become the biggest band in the world. Shows you awesome things can happen when you give people a chance.

I consider 'October' to be my favourite U2 album - is just incredible to listen to

@olbigdik

4 жыл бұрын

You have great taste, Gooser

@MrJahvah

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

@exactsame

4 жыл бұрын

RoadGoose Very underrated Gloria, I Threw A Brick, I Fall Down And Tomorrow are just magical A Celebration topped things off...

@digitalneko7975

4 жыл бұрын

My fav too, I remember the debut of this album :)

@Pstaines439

4 жыл бұрын

Its so much deeper, and one of my faves too.

I've never seen this documentary before not that I've never saw any U2 documentaries just NEVER this one.It's really nostalgic footage of U2 in the early days GOD HOW I SO MISS THE EARLY 80s.

@goudagirl6095

3 жыл бұрын

it was truly an amazing time, wasn't it? We've fallen so far in 30 years....

@Oh_I_Will

3 жыл бұрын

This isn’t a documentary....this is just video footage with some dude apparently reading out of a book or some other source which isn’t cited....

WOW!! Had U2 broke up back then during "October" , I would never have seen them play live, we'd never would have WAR, Unforgettable Fire and all the other albums that followed. October still remains one of my favorites and for a time, it literally was all I listened to.

It took awhile to grow on me, but October is now my favorite U2 album. I think it is very deep, complex and beautiful thematically and musically. A very real album released at a time when popular music was just beginning to head in the opposite direction with the birth of MTV and at a time when the convenience of modern life and the image of affluence at the beginning of the 1980s was just coming into the forefront.

@goudagirl6095

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Very well said.

@gmar7836

2 жыл бұрын

It really is a decent album. Tomorrow is just gorgeous

Please make more of these U2 LP documentary vids . The world needs this right now.

In my opinion, this is their best album of all time.

@gmar7836

2 жыл бұрын

😊❤️

As a 21 year old in 81, the first side of October and their first album was a staple for me, far from home at the University of Colorado. I saw them in Orlando the year before with 200 people, and I am so glad that I saw them in Denver at the end of 1981, with about 500 people. I had taken a date, and she was making fun of the name U2. I think I changed her life that night. I saw her face change when she heard Gloria! This band was such a joy to watch before war, I cannot tell you the power that they had live in 1981-82. I listen to October a lot now, 40 years later. I’m loving this series of videos! Here’s something that finally occurred to me, Bono‘s birthday, corresponds with the U2 incident with Gary Powers in 1960, there is no such thing as coincidences!!!!

@lorivought886

3 жыл бұрын

Close, but Bono's birthday is May 10.

That album cover was the first picture I saw of the band and will stay with me forever Gloria...Dublin Docks...still gets me every time...

October the song is the most haunting melody that Edge plays I've always loved it from the first time I heard it back in the 80s

@gmar7836

2 жыл бұрын

Have you heard Tomorrow??

This series is fantastic! Thanks so much for doing it. I have been a hardcore fan of U2 since 1981, and this series you are doing has been a revelation. I am learning and seeing things about the band that I have never heard or seen before. Keep them coming.

I love October as an album when it came out I was soon to be a teenager and I could feel the raw angst in the lyrics it’s just a great album to listen to takes me right back.

These are very good documentaries! Please keep making them!

How I love those first two albums !

October has some of Bono's most thought provoking lyrics and the sound of a band searching for something great, but not quite hitting the heights. Musically, U2 come on leaps and bounds in terms of their skills and Larry, Edge and Adam are all on fire. Great album and more refreshing sonically than the more successful Boy. Great series too, massive U2 fan here and been studying these guys for decades. Can't wait for more!

@talku2forum903

6 жыл бұрын

You've got some insightful comments

@Will21st

5 жыл бұрын

I love October, I think it's a great U2 album.

@gmar7836

2 жыл бұрын

It really is decent. Tomorrow is my favorite. I wish the band would play tomorrow live more often

@I Love U2. October was a commercial failure in 1981, certainly not. It charted in the top 50 in every european country and peaked at 11 in the UK albums chart and worldwide it reached n°6 in New Zealand. And they packed 2,000 seat venues everywhere

Dude please you have to continue with these documentaries

Thx for posting. A u2 real fan, love their early times!!!

OMFG! Who decided October was a flop?? 40 years later, it is still relevant and unbelievable.

@mysticedge4

3 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly I also love Pop and Zooropa

Kind of crazy that they say October was a flop. I think October is a better record than War.

@Gigirizzolihhhhyyy

4 жыл бұрын

Agree

@coldacre

4 жыл бұрын

the heavy Christian themes though were commercial suicide for a rock band in ‘81. especially one yet to break through. I prefer the October album too... but New Year’s Day launched “War” and put the band up a level commercially

@angelaortenzi-maccoll2917

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@paulmapp8306

4 жыл бұрын

@@angelaortenzi-maccoll2917 October is a better all round LP - but War had the better tracks. New Years Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday are both better than any one track on October.

@bonsummers2657

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulmapp8306 Rejoice and Gloria are epics. New Years Day is the ultimate epic though, but still…. Rejoice and Gloria are major. Sunday Bloody Sunday is a classic though. And Fire, live, is also amazing.

I was born October 12 1981 Been a U2 fan since a child. As a musician and artist. I had no idea it was actually October 12 I always assumed that the album was just released in 1981 but this is really cool because this is one of my favorite albums along with the Unforgettable Fire. Over the past like 27 years this album was special and just to find out that it was actually released the day I was born makes it even more special.

Amazing documentary very good with many anecdotal things many intimates infos very good materials of U2,every fan have to see this,the docks of Dublin so good,thanks to share 😊

that snippet of Tick Tock at the end was amazing. I listen to a lot of new guitar bands, bands sometimes with two or more 6 strings in them. But for me no other band has created quite such a powerful sound, yet, as U2. Great video.

11 o' clock is such a blast, man! I'd die to see this last 11 performance on the video

These videos are fantastic. Saw the October tour at the Hollywood Palladium. Something I will never forget.

Awesome. Awesome work. I know a lot about this great band and still learned some things here. Please keep them coming!

These are so well done. Thank you.

Just an amazing story and thanks for sharing!!

Wow! Very cool. I've always loved October.

Absolutely love October! To me the first four (Boy, October, War & Unforgettable Fire) are U2! I liked Joshua Tree and later albums, but there is nothing as good as those first four in my opinion.

@taradead

3 жыл бұрын

First 3 records absolutely blew me away. Unforgetable Fire started their major improv period and most of the songs felt underdeveloped ('Wire" is good was the only good song that actually sounded finished). Hated Joshua Tree..."in God's country" was the only song I liked at all.

@gmar7836

2 жыл бұрын

Then you are what I call a “classic U2 fan”. 😊

fine piece of documentary you have done -

Interesting -- maybe it was more of a UK thing. My recollection -- I was around 18 at the time -- was that October helped break U2 in the US more than Boy. The video for "Gloria" obviously had a lot to do with it, but as I recall October put U2 on the map in the US in a way Boy had not. I think Boy generated a lot of buzz so that when October came out radio programmers were ready to give it a lot of attention. Sure, War was the album that really opened the floodgates, but it's very strange to hear that October was considered a flop!

@09penny1

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. The first time I saw U2 was in a music video performing Gloria on MTV in 1981. I think that's where most Americans were first introduced to U2.

You have amazing Rock docs. such in depth knowledge and i am a huge U2 fan but you have proved your worth and i realize i have a long way to go to learn all about U2!! I now realize i know there is a U2 but i dont know U2.. you are changing this. Please post more and you have a career in this. You got my sub

Absolutely loving these videos. Please keep going through all the albums!

@talku2forum903

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd love to see him taking on JT or AB ... great quality

When they toured for October, the songs sounded great LIVE!

This is such a great video! A few facts I didn't know.....

Another great installment!

I have to admit, this is my favorite U2 album. The atmosphere and melodic nature is just beautiful. I love the piano of I Fall Down... Scarlett, Fire... Just a lot of gorgeous neaunces.

excellent series!

5 star documentary ! u r amazing wow............. 4 star U2 album seen U2 5 , 6 , 7 times

Really, really great content!

Very good and professionally made documentary. Check out the other two parts as well.

I loved October. I'm not christian, but the music on it was so good, I just went with it.

Brilliant album....end of !

Great album.

you should keep making videos about the remaining albums, it's good content!

This is excellent stuff.well done.

@eamonq9535

4 жыл бұрын

Seperated at birth

I so wish they’d tour with this album again!! Like they did with The Joshua Tree, but focus on Boy/October/War 👍👍

I still follow. 2021

Thanks!

great stuff!! subbed immediately!! U2 rox!!

"Scarlet" my fav tune of the whole album..

@mysticedge4

3 жыл бұрын

Is that all? Hehe

While I love countless brilliant songs by U2 and the boys - nothing makes me happier than hearing Gloria live. It's such an incredible track and OCTOBER is a great album - way better than Boy.

@gmar7836

2 жыл бұрын

Ummmm nooooo Boy is actually better but October is decent. It has decent moments. Boy rocks

@vanmayhem

9 ай бұрын

@@gmar7836October better

enjoyed that nice one 👍

Great video.

excelente documental, saludos desde buenos aires

The thing about U2, and the thing I think a lot of people miss, is the layers of meaning in their lyrics. I'm always hearing/reading someone say, "This song means..." and then going on to describe one possible meaning behind the lyrics. But U2's complexity shows up in their lyrics, and most of their songs have some kind of Christian element to them. (It helps to be a Christian to know this, because a lot of it is subtle.) Bono, Larry and Edge didn't give up their faith to stay in U2, they just chose to not pigeonhole themselves into a specific category. The church group they were hanging out with was trying to protect them from the "evils" of a rock lifestyle, but that church failed to realize that God could -- and would -- still use them within the secular music profession. They don't "evangelize" but for the most part live lives of integrity quietly and without banging Bibles over people's heads. (I say "for the most part" because they are, after all, imperfect human beings.) That's a better way to point to Christ than the way most of the church has gone about it.

Fan since 1983. My favorite band always. October is a decent album. Song Tomorrow is just breathtaking. One of U2’s best songs. But holy crap I did not know Edge and Bono wanted to leave the band, all these decades I did not know. 1981 was just a rough year for them but hey, they made it through. And I remember as a teenager, I would stay up very late watching MTV, sifting through all kinds of crap videos just waiting for U2 to come on and when Gloria played, I got goosebumps. Because when I was a teen, nothing else mattered to me other than U2.

Boy and this is my top u2 albums

Great documentary. You did your homework I believe. I can't understand if anyone disagrees with this history. Really was an alternative to the usual love songs. They wanted to say more and they did. Other bands did. too, but not as boldly as they did in effect as sting did. I don't care who did more, but his concerns were right up there,. but U2 started this trend. atin

Lovely work bud :)

I think this is probably their most underrated album. It is very moody, the lyrics are more basic, Bono was still learning the craft but he did put complex ideas through and that displays an intelligence lacking in most bands. There is a lot to love here and like many great albums, sometimes it takes a while for people to catch up with it. I love the early period of U2 1979-1983. They did some great music afterwards but they went form an Irish band to an international band. I get it.....they had to grow and change but this period is what I most love.

At 10:00 the song a celebration plays..I’ve loved U2 since I was 14 in 85 and never knew why was the song never on any album that I know of?

Larry is a great drummer. I never appreciated that much back in the day.

@jaybee9269

4 жыл бұрын

Tony Solinas >> Have to agree with you there. My favorite U2 records are “The Unforgettable Fire” and Achtung Baby”. Really liked ATYCLB, too.

@goudagirl6095

3 жыл бұрын

when you're "in it" you don't really appreciate it till you have some hindsight to appreciate the brilliance of their music and lyrics! Same for me!

Thank God for Paul & Steve!

October is in my top 3

Briefcase left behind. It was returned to Bono 30 years later. Gloria one of their greatest.

Please do the unforgettable fire album.

@talku2forum903

6 жыл бұрын

This!!

@brettscott8288

4 жыл бұрын

...and Pop, and....well...all the rest!!

@mysticedge4

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Haynes he said he will but I don’t think he will because he hasn’t done one in a while

I'll try and speak up, this LP changed my life...

An underrated album

October, War and UF were a terrific Trilogy ...I lost all interest when JT was released and never came back...

@patriciaque197

2 жыл бұрын

You've missed out

@virginiafernandez4435

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. JT lost the signature feel of the band, I was heartbroken. To this day I cannot listen to anything after UF. What happened to them with JT?

❤

The Edges non-technical guitar echoing the future. An ultra modern sound with added 11th (D), 9th (B) and 7th (G) and an E note in the bass. You could put any lead singer in front of the Edge, Adam and Larry and they would sound good.

To me, U2 was always a little better when they were unfocused and more abstract: October, Unforgettable Fire, Pop.

@silasbrooks2697

2 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm quite randomly asking but does anyone know a good place to stream new tv shows online ?

October was one of the better more interesting albums

On 2:40-2:41, The Edge is very happy because he's maybe enjoying this "Gloria" performance

@jasonlefler3456

4 жыл бұрын

I believe that’s from Berlin, 1981.

Rejoice is about the destruction of a series of old buildings in Dublin brought down to create public housing. Many In Dublin thought doing so would create isolation among those who would have to live in the high rise housing projects.

Funny but I feel kinda dumb now. I was a huge U2 fan since Boy came out and saw them on the October tour. I never thought about those songs being "Christian" for some reason. If I had I doubt I would have listened to them. 🤷‍♀️😜I didn't listen to them much after Joshua Tree.

Shalom basically gave the band an ultimatum to either be in the band or Shalom. The boys picked U2 and rest is history.

@jasonwood3377

4 жыл бұрын

They still keep in touch with one of the founder members, a guy by the name of Chris Wroe, there’s no bad feelings but the band felt they were very regimented in their faith and were heading in a different direction.

@jasonwood3377

4 жыл бұрын

G F Chris Wroe was one of the founder members of Shalom.

@coldacre

4 жыл бұрын

G F you’re actually wrong. U2 was originally called Hype and they were a 5 piece for the first few gigs. the fifth member was Dick Evans

Bono Vox!

October was a weak album for sure but War is never made without it. October just evokes my early childhood. Is That All? remains one of my favorite album closers of all time

Why wasn't the song Stranger in a Strange Land not talked about? I loved the video but still.

1981 i had chance see them Georiga Tech. for 6 bucks i kicked myself last 40 years

@patrickforde7684

4 жыл бұрын

Tight bastard . Typical yank .

“Celebration” should have been on the original October album. Very catchy. smh

Boyyo

Pongan los subtitulos en espaňol por favor.

Does anyone know the name of the song at the end of the video?

@jamesholden658

4 жыл бұрын

11 O'Clock Tick Tock

legenda PLEASE!!! em Português

Maybe they "faced difficulty," but there were SURELY DETERMINED!

I think October is good winter album. Tomorrow is a choon.

the end of the lean years is just around the corner

why is this "documentary" solely based on the lyrics? The music says just as much if not more.

their is a youtube video of a woman from dublin stating around 1981 bono got a prophecy he would be the greatest evangelist ever if he gave up singing rock dongs and sang gospel.

U2 breaking up over faith would have been yet another horror we could have chalked up to religion and Ireland in particular has had enough of that. Glad common sense prevailed. Amazing band!

Also you'd probably get allot more views if you called these Documentaries. Most people will probably just think these are reviews.

@GetRekt-bw6pu

4 жыл бұрын

Alot

What happens to this chanel? :0

@GetRekt-bw6pu

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

The only real flop for me has been How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. And this an unpopular opinion. Except for A Man and a Woman, Original of the Species, and Yawheh i think despite the commercial success of Vertigo, the album was not daring as all their other albums. In the other hand, October is am album full of doubt and pain, and it shows beautifully... it is a hidden gem in their catalog..

I do consider October to be one of their weakest albums, and yet still enjoyable.

@Biltospill

4 жыл бұрын

A weak U2 album is a chart topper to most bands.a weak U2 album (if that exists?) is something most artist would kill to achieve