Best intro for a U2 track period!!🎹🎸🥁 First time I heard them play this track live in Cork, Ireland I was 11 and I'm turning 50 next month. Still timeless.🔥

This track is just peak-U2. I once heard some git in a retrospective documentary say they had been "short of inspiration" on this album. I was still young, but on that day I realised music critics weren't immune to bad ear, bad faith or lousy taste.

This song still sends chills down my spine like it did years ago. One of the best!

Even after all those years I can’t even begin to descripe the feelings this song is giving me. A masterpiece and one of my all time favorite songs. Marie Fredriksson was a huge U2 fan by the way. You can easily hear some of their influences on her Den Standige Resan album.

The strings Lanois had them add at the end just give it this gorgeous Irish melancholy....like a dark fog coming in to fill a green valley. And that's after Edge is adding some very tasty minor key notes in the very dynamic outro

This is their best track, I love it.

one of my favorite u2 songs... easily

The title was taken from an exhibition of paintings done by victims of the US bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Terrific, underrated track by U2. It’s vague & haunting, yet there’s simultaneously a real urgency to it. Edge making those soundscapes with his guitar & the beautiful drumming are the highlights here. But I also love Bono’s expressive singing of those impressionistic lyrics. No traditional chorus-just this thru-line of an amazing downhill feel. Unusual & outstanding. THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE album is forever one of my “if stuck on a deserted island” must-have records.

@AndTheRoadGoesEverOn

8 ай бұрын

Also, congrats to the legendary Brian Emo and Daniel Lanois for the arrangement.

This one is a favourite of mine. It's a beautifully crafted song with some great chord choices.

This is a fantastic album. And two of my favorite songs from it you did today. It’s really cool to see the evolution of Bono’s falsetto. Hearing it here and there on this album than a bit more on the Joshua tree, then hitting insane highs on the song Night and Day in 1990, and being a staple of Achtung Baby and Zooropa. It will be cool to watch you hear Bad, but the album version isn’t why it’s held in such high regard by fans. Live is a whole different experience. And then you hit some of the more… challenging material on the back end of this album. Fun to watch. Thank you for your great reactions.

My favorite U2 song

This is my favorite song on this album, my favorite song from the band and quite possibly my favorite song of all time. Not just for it’s composition but also how it impacted me the first time I heard it. My second favorite track on the album is “Wire” and I could listen to them played back to back on eternal repeat.

One of the most amazing songs from U2. Like you said the composition is just sonically brilliant especially for a rock band. It also shows the range of Bono’s vocals when he goes into that falsetto mode to reach that high note. Just sublime.

My favourite U2 album, my favourite track from it. Only Until The End Of The World is better. I remember going down to the mom and pop record store, picking this up, heading back to the barracks and not leaving my room until I had played this over and over. By the end, there were a few others in the room enjoying it as much as I. Good days. You never disappoint, Matt.

For anyone else a career highpoint. For U2 just another forgotten masterpiece. Speaking of which, nearly time for Bad... 😊

My favourite Track of theirs. Big Roxy Music fans.

I vaguely recall reading something about an exhibition of Japan & WWII - related artwork inspiring Bono... I suppose, the font used on this album's cover indicates as much. Bono's post-punk anger channeled into some unexpected moods and surprising harmonic places - perhaps their most "classical" / non-rock composition by this point. Brian Eno's ambient footprint on this as well - a highpoint of U2's output - all involved personalities coming together for impressionistic & brooding pop.

I know Brian Eno had a hand in the production but it's also about Bono seeing just what his voice is capable of. Beautiful.

I LOVE this song, so powerful and the production is lush ! 😍 My favourite lyrics are: "And if the mountains should crumble Or disappear into the sea Not a tear, no, not I, Stay this time, stay tonight in a lie"

A atmosfera dessa canção é espetacular!! Desde o início nos harmônicos do The Edge, ao refrão puxado forte pelo teclado e a voz do Bono era algo fenomenal!! Mas o que mais me agrada nessa canção sempre foi essa atmosfera espetacular criada por Daniel Lanois junto ao The Edge! Outra canção nesse tipo é um dueto do Bono junto ao grupo Clannad, In A Lifetime!! Um abraço do Brasil!!

Great tune love it matt

Great tune. U2 said they took inspiration for this album from Simple minds new gold dream album. Both excellent.

(A late comment.) If I'm not mistaken, the song (and album) may refer to and be a "continued" tribute to the reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. The lead singer, or front man, Bono, is one of the few, rare musical humanitarians who draws inspiration from the meaningful lives, lived by historical figures. Thus the title, 'The Unforgettable Fire'!✌️😐

Eno can do no wrong.

The 2 songs are pretty short you might want to do both together. This is the first album without steve lillywhite not producing, Brian eno and Danny lanois produced this album that's why bbn it soundc is s different then bv the first 3

@stevenruvolo499

8 ай бұрын

Next 2 songs I meant

@AndTheRoadGoesEverOn

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. Do the next I2 songs together, as the song 4th of July is a short instrumental that Edge described as a “palette cleanser” for back in vinyl days when people had just flipped the physical record over. It’s probably worth doing to the two (next song is bad) in one session.

Wait until you here The song called " BAD " for many real diehard fans not the Tinpot ones who are lining up for that Farce at the Las Vegas Sphere now regard BAD as they're Greatest song ever and I'm one

@handsolo1209

8 ай бұрын

I think when they performed it at Live Aid, that made them huge stars.

The hand gesture meant cello? I thought you were calling me a w⚓

U2 are all Christians (though Adam, the bass player was not at this stage) so a lot of Bono’s lyrics are heavy on biblical references. Might help explain the meaning of some of their music

Hiroshima

This is a great song. I'd take my hat off to Bono, but the vertically challenged gimp would probably hire a private jet to fly it to himself.

@mattsnider2667

8 ай бұрын

You really have a hard time issuing an unqualified compliment, don't you?

@handsolo1209

8 ай бұрын

@@mattsnider2667 Hey, I didn't make one comment about his stupid Mork and Mindy face or his stupid purple glasses. Give credit where it is due.