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The Unforgettable Fire (Remastered - Deluxe Edition) | 
| Artist: U2
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1044
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: 001336602
UPC: 602527014036
EAN: 0602527014036
ASIN: B002JTHFV2
Release Date: October 26, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | A Sort Of Homecoming | | • | Pride (In The Name Of Love) | | • | Wire | | • | The Unforgettable Fire | | • | Promenade | | • | 4th Of July | | • | Bad | | • | Indian Summer Sky | | • | Elvis Presley America | | • | MLK |
Disc 2
| • | Disappearing Act | | • | A Sort Of Homecoming | | • | Bad | | • | Love Comes Tumbling | | • | The Three Sunrises | | • | Yoshino Blossom | | • | Wire | | • | Boomerang 1 | | • | Pride (In The Name Of Love) | | • | A Sort Of Homecoming | | • | 11 O'Clock Tick Tock | | • | Wire | | • | Bass Trap | | • | Boomerang II | | • | 4th Of July | | • | Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come |
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| Customer Reviews:
U2's best album sounds even better, albeit a bit over-packaged October 29, 2009
Colin Mccartney (Manchester, Lancashire United Kingdom)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
"The Unforgettable Fire" is U2's turning point. Had they not enlisted the services of Brian Eno when they did, they perhaps might have gone down the same road as Simple Minds (i.e. fondly remembered, though discarded early works and cheesier later works).
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br /If your knowledge of this album extends only to the two singles - "Pride" and the title track - and you didn't bother buying it because you weren't particularly impressed by either, then I envy you because you're in for a treat here. Even The Edge in the liner notes describes "Pride" as the song that he was, at least sonically, the least happy with. Yet "Pride" in a sense is the key track: the link between the flag-waving "Under a Blood Red Sky"-era U2 and the fuzzy logic that is "The Unforgettable Fire". Other than on "Pride, the politics are stripped away in favour of atmospherics. The other tracks are uniformly excellent although none jump out as radio-friendly (perhaps the reason this LP saw only one further single release). Some of the songs have a seasonal feel: winter landscapes ("A Sort of Homecoming"), rainy Sunday afternoons in Ireland ("Promenade") and high summer ("Bad"). Then there's Elvis Presley and America - it's one of those tracks that you just can't work out where the hell they got the idea from (New Order's "Hurt" has left me similarly puzzled and amazed).
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br /Whilst I didn't particularly think the album needed a remaster I must say that it never sounded better although perhaps that in itself is not a good enough reason for re-buying.
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br /The deal-clincher for me was the bonus disc - a) to reclaim "Boomerang II" - one of my favourite B-sides of all time (my 7" copy long since lost) and b) a chance to hear some of the unreleased material from the time. The latter does not disappoint either. "Bass Trap" (an instrumental) is Blue Nile-esque in its ability to capture a vibe. Daniel Lanois's remix of "A Sort of Homecoming" was apparently done while he was working on Peter Gabriel's "So" and madly enough, sounds as though it could have been lifted from it. Now THAT could have been made an interesting single. The newly finished track "Disappearing Act" fortunately doesn't sound newly finished and is rather good (vastly better than anything on U2's last album). Nevertheless, it will not have escaped many fans' attention that all of Wide Awake In America, widely available for some time on CD already, appears on disc 2. This is perhaps not too bad a thing since it was excellent but hardly worth the full price they charged for what was effectively a single - so if you've never succumbed to buying that one, this isn't actually a bad way of getting hold of it. And it probably fits better as a bonus to "The Unforgettable Fire" than as a stand-alone release anyway. It's also a good way of getting hold of the Martin Hannett produced version of "11 O'Clock Tick-Tock" - though quite why it's included I'm not too sure as it surely predates the rest of the material here by several years.
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br /The hard back book packaging's a little over-done maybe (though not as bad as the "super deluxe" edition) and you certainly don't need the full lyrics either - part of the magic of "Elvis Presley and America" is trying to work out what the hell Bono was singing about.
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br /But I could only ever give this a 5 star review as it's one of my benchmark albums. Roll on the "Achtung Baby" deluxe edition (but don't bother re-doing "Pop" on my account lads).
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Alex DeLarge (Dublin, Ireland)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well-priced and packaged set if you need the xtra tracks. Not sure if the remaster adds much to the record: the original release on CD was a bit soupy and so is this: the storm propulsed rhythm section don't sound any enhanced here, the voice isn't enhanced by the sound on this by any means, and the lead guitar (if that's the name for what Edge does) is a bit too trebly..
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br /UF is undoubtedly U2s best album. Eno and Lanois' production, it might be. The songs it most definitely is.
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br /Bono's pitch shifts on A Sort Of Homecoming. Stunning.
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br /The evocative lyrics to Promenade, inc. "roman candle lightning" - Leopold Bloom/ Gerty MacDowell? O yes.
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br /And all the rest of it. Apart from Pride, which sounds as comprehensively pony as it always did, loved the MLK quote about nuclear weapons on the sleeve of the 12" single though.
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br /Extras are worth the few quid more for this edition: the remix of Wire captures the guitar like I'd hoped the remastered album would. Yoshina Blossom (apologies I'm not a U2 fanboy never heard it before) sounds like a proper New Order/U2 bside ie brilliant, 11 O'clock Tick Tock - maybe Martin Hannett's genius didn't suit U2, sounds ok but no great shakes.
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br /You either get The Unforgettable Fire or you don't. For those of us that do: enjoy.
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Another great u2 Remaster November 18, 2009
D. O'Toole (the UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
br /Maybe I'm biased as this is still my favourite U2 album but the remastering is great. The previous version on CD never sounded loud or clear enough, well it's been sorted now and I'm very pleased with how it's turned out.
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br /The 2nd disc(although I have had most tracks for a long time anyhow) is an excellent memento to the working of how the album shaped and formed(all be it with remixes again but it is a decent remix) and as a package is great.
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br /If you like u2 but aren't mad about them the single disc is a must remastered
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br /Roll on Achtung Baby remastered, that should be a peach.
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br /And Roll on POP too, I think it's still an underrated album. And with the possibility of U2 completley reworking it as they were never satisfied with the final product, it could be a completley new album we hear....but that could be a long way off yet!
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