Product Description
Rare Actual 1984 Japanese First Pressing! Vinyl Still In Top Condition Over 40 Years Later! Beautiful Textured Cover Includes Insert, Plus Lyric Sheet. Record Has Picture Labels. Produced By Brian Eno, ‘The Unforgettable Fire’ Is One Of The Best LPs By U2.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint Original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
A Sort Of Homecoming
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Wire
The Unforgettable Fire
Promenade
Side 2:
4th Of July
Bad
Indian Summer Sky
Elvis Presley And America
MLK
AMG –
The shimmering textures of the title track, the charging "A Sort of Homecoming," and the surging Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute "Pride (In the Name of Love)" are all remarkable, ranking among U2's very best music. In many ways, U2 took their fondness for sonic bombast as far as it could go on War, so it isn't a complete surprise that they chose to explore the intricacies of the Edge's layered, effects-laden guitar on the follow-up, The Unforgettable Fire. Working with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, U2 created a dark, near-hallucinatory series of interlocking soundscapes that are occasionally punctuated by recognizable songs and melodies. In such a setting, the band both flourishes and flounders, creating some of their greatest music, as well as some of their worst. "Elvis Presley and America" may well be Bono's most embarrassing attempt at poetry, yet it is redeemed by the chilling and wonderful "Bad," a two-chord elegy for an addict that is stunning in its control and mastery. Similarly, the wet, shimmering textures of the title track, the charging "A Sort of Homecoming," and the surging Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute "Pride (In the Name of Love)" are all remarkable, ranking among U2's very best music.