I saw the WAR tour in Colorado at Red Rocks. I was 14 at the time! Still have my tour shirt same one Bono wears on stage! Religious experience singing 40! HOW LONG…HOW LONG…HOW LONG…HOW LONG…TO SING THIS SONG…TILL JESUS COMES AGAIN TO TAKE US HOME!!!
WAR was my introduction to U2, and right smack in the middle of my teenage years. Still probably my favorite album of theirs and one of a handful of “perfect” albums I’ve come across during my lifetime where every song is incredible.
Remember when I heard Sunday Bloody Sunday for The very first time. It was a year -83. That clear and new sounding fresh guitar. That high vocal. Never heard anything like that before! I was then in Lapland Finland in a small village. 10 year old. Still big fan, they are one of a biggesr reasons that I’m making my own music, writing songs and play different instruments. Thank you Dublin boys!
Happy Birthday to our teen heartthrob lead drummer from the 1980s Larry Mullen, Jr. ! Still devastatingly handsome since MTVs inception in 1981 but such an amazing exceptional drummer in any genre of music! A little bit of brawn and whole lotta beauty has gone a long way to make him one of the best in the business! Totally adorable in the Red Rocks concert in June '83!
it´s maybe one of my favorite U2 songs ,but there´s others that were kind of forgotten and were also great songs from their early lp´s, boy as lot´s of fine songs that stayed in the past,like a day without me ,and i get used to listen to records in an old pioneer system now the cd´s have not the same sound like the bass lines almost disappear, but they changed with grace ,wich is not happening now,they say pop was a failure but i think it was the really last U2 lp ,some new songs are still good but not every lp is that good as the old ones when they came out, my opinion only, i found the how to dismantle an atomic bomb a very bad lp but had parts on some songs that sound really well putted together, the unforgetable fire song was kind of over produced and at the time sound empty when played live, the only time they released that song live was on 360º tour don´t even remenber the name of the lp, i have almost all their lp´s and maxi-singles (that had versions and songs that sounded very good to me)till pop after that only the no line on the horizon that looked as if they wanted to retrieve some of the old U2 was again called a failure with production of the same team of the joshua tree that when it came out it took a bit of time to be the successfull lp that is recognised today, the song that had a diferent guitar rythm in achtung baby tour it surprised me positivelly,i´m talking of bullet the blue sky off course, that´s maybe a mix of classic U2 with the new U2 in a matter of speach that result positivelly for the band ,the zooropa had some songs that were also forgotten like the first one i think it´s called zooropa to, things change with time they couldn´t be young forever and with age it´s dificult to be on top always but they are recognised as one of the best bands in the world ,in 85 i would laugh at that, in a concert he jumped from the stage very litle and strange one and he almost bumped his head into mine then he started to give his phone number and adress to everybody around saying if you go to dublin phone me ,maybe you can stay at my house,this in 82, and sing two songs looking at the band in the stage
War was like a drug that gave my brain a creative new energy in music. This album was genius...something new, with a fresh perspective, and perfect to rip open a new era. Anyone tuning in at the time could surely sense something definite and great with the War album. The rest is history. Surrender is fantastic but also major props to the whole sequence of songs, ending with 40.
I had just got turned on to them a couple months before this album came out & the local radio stations started playing Sunday Bloody Sunday followed by New Years Day. Some friends and I caught the “War Tour” in 83 and here I am 35 years later watching this on UA-cam, Test of Time ❤️
Herd and saw this for the 1st time Fri 4JUN21 😷 I hate how it was hard to find anything on u2 as a teen other than the usual music videos .. There was everything and plenty on more popular rock. Somehow u2 got suppressed in my city until they came to perform a concert then everybody was a u2 fan and radio stations played everything not just the hits as usual 😏
The album that made me love U2, so wish I’d have seen them on the War Tour! I was lucky enough to meet them on the 87 Joshua Tree Tour though. Great guys and very talented. ❤️
A real, honest, great band. It makes me angry I have had to defend against the hate chucked at them for years. Someone said to me once when they find out a person is a U2 fan they lose respect for them. This person is now a function band singer playing at weddings.
I would love to see a documentary on the transition from War to Unforgettable Fire. These are two amazing albums yet they are so so different, even as individual musicians, with the biggest growth from Adam. My first album was War even though Unforgettable Fire was already released. Then I purchased UF and once I found out they had two previous albums, I remember how much anticipation I felt before buying this albums. I first bout Boy and soaked that album in for months before I bought October. I remember the extreme excitement in gifting myself October. Maybe it was the build up to that album that made me fall in love with it the most. It didn’t seem filled with hits, it felt like a very personal album they wrote for themselves amongst the other 3 albums. It’s like falling in love with the girl that isn’t pretty but the girl you fell in love with because you gave her the chance to get to know her deeply from the inside.
This is an absolutely incredible documentary with amazing factoids and insights I've never heard elsewhere. As a mega fan of U2 that really says something. Thanks for sharing this! Can anyone share when this doc came out and on what station?
I have been a fan of U2 since September 1980 and still Maintain Boy is easily their best Album Raw hungry A gem of an album They Havnt produced a good record in years They have become so bland Perhaps a downside of their success or just their immersion into middle class life
Let's be clear. Duran was and is always very tight live. Even at the time. Yes, live aid could have been better, but when well rehearsed Duran rocked! Terribly underappreciated.
11:06 Absolutely crazy on how the people just "decided" that October was a "step back" and an inferior album. How on EARTH .. can anyone not like that record. I'd choose that record easily over war and perhaps all their other great records. What is wrong with the way people hear and interpret music. The October record was pure heart, emotion, beautiful melodies, a great sonic sounding production and a .. 'warmth" to it that was so reflective of how many people perceive early 80s nostalgia. It was a record that was so defining of their early sound. And I'd bet ANYTHING .. ANYTHING .. that if people decided that is was an incredible record, then U2's feelings about it would reflect just that.
Sorry this is Bernie ollocks. October is an amazing album absolutely not a step back from Boy. You can see the bridge from Boy to War through October, Gloria is just a wonderful song and the whole album has something spiritual about it. U2 post 1984 not the same band although still managed to produce some great songs they didn’t capture the same ineffable, touch the rhythm of the universe music as in October, War and one or two songs from Unforgettable Fire notably Bad, Pride and A Sort of Homecoming …
I really believe it was a step back .. while i can listen to boy from beginning to end without the urge of skipping tracks and enjoying it entirely , october its kind of the same but boring, and war was a jump forward ... it has great tunes tho, but it doesnt live to the first record
well, the truth is that they had to record all again because bono wanted to insert passages of the bible in latim wich he did but didn´t came out like that and if you read the biography of the band they talk about those times as the worst in their career due to diferencies in taste for the release of the second lp and the songs being good or bad , there´s better songs than rejoice ,that you say it´s in a top ten best songs of U2 , i think they don´t know it, they played often other october songs ,even the song october was included in one of their last tours playlist ,and if you know the lp there are other great songs ,celebration(in the spring) was ment to be a release single from the Lp they even did a video for the song that used to play often on MTV in the 80´s,but never did not even as a lp song. Rejoice is a great song from the early years but it´s too melancolic ,and as said before they had several years to writte songs that made it to their first Lp but to October there was a small time that they weren´t used to and having recorded two times the songs for the Lp ,it was very hard for them having such a litle (this said by the band)time but that doesn´t make the album sell bad it was a hit regarding sales ,Boy was still selling good when October was already available, i only started to pay attention to their work by the time war lp came out, having seen a concert in a litle music festival in the summer of 1982 ,the stage was so litle that bono sings several songs in the midle of the public looking to the band(wich i already refer to in other coment) on stage and they were acused to be a pro-I.R.A. ,wich they did a press conference to explain how wrong was that statement(this when war was released) , sorry if my english is confusing but it´s not my first language ,regards
When U2 performed in Portugal at the Vilar de Mouros Festival on August 3, 1982, Bono announced the WORLD presentation of the theme New Years Day, is there no record of that excellent concert?
já ha muitos anos perguntei por essa gravação porque vi um gravador de bobines ao pé da mesa de mistura mas segundo me disseram como era uma banda pouco conhecida pouparam fita para gravarem mais do resto do festival, estive lá ha ja muitos anos e lá estava o palco feito em cimento abandonado quase ao pé do rio mas penso que me disseram que ainda não foi destruido por causa das mais recentes edições do festival Paredes de Coura, cumprimentos
Sadly I didnt know, had no idea, All That You Cant Leave Behind would be the last listening album for me. Albums going forward to this date maybe produced 8 ok songs but nothing like past albums 😣
No doubt. Bono's charisma and stage presence certainly helped the band gain a large audience. But Edge's guitar work is what makes U2 stand out from the crowd musically (and to a lesser extent Larry's celtic influenced drumming)
Nothing beats Alex Harvey who's mentioned here but Bono..what a name....had a good stage presence...that worked for the music they did!Names like Bono the Edge cheap like that are annoying!War was a good album start to finish pretty much ..looking back I'm not as keen on it a when a teen but it still a pretty good album nevertheless!
11:36 According to who? Someone's opinion? I think October was a great record. Why do people just follow the herd? "Oh that wasn't a great record because people have said so, so I guess it wasn't a great record". It was more than a great record. I mean, what's a great record based on? A hook? A good lyric? Music sooo much more than that. And this is just a testament as to how most people just listen to music, but don't hear it.
ALright i reject the notion that the guys of duran duran were not as accomplished as musicians as U2. John Taylor is a fantastic bassist who on a technical level is quite beyond Clayton. And the other guys were no slouches either. Now you can criticize that the music they made did not measure with U2's, and i'd DEFINITELY agree (it's also terribly dated seen from today), but they are certainly very competent musicians. Something which they actually never got credit for much on account of being seen as a boy band (which was sorta fair in a way, they were hot and they sang songs that would appeal to girls)
He doesn't say they aren't musicians, just that they had fabulous concerts only because girls screamed at everything they did...not because their live performances could engage an entire crowd
War has at least 3 songs on it (New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Drowning Man) that are better than any song on Boy. Boy is one of the great debut albums of all time. But War is one of the greatest albums of all time, period.
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I saw the WAR tour in Colorado at Red Rocks. I was 14 at the time! Still have my tour shirt same one Bono wears on stage! Religious experience singing 40! HOW LONG…HOW LONG…HOW LONG…HOW LONG…TO SING THIS SONG…TILL JESUS COMES AGAIN TO TAKE US HOME!!!
WAR was my introduction to U2, and right smack in the middle of my teenage years. Still probably my favorite album of theirs and one of a handful of “perfect” albums I’ve come across during my lifetime where every song is incredible.
Remember when I heard Sunday Bloody Sunday for The very first time.
It was a year -83.
That clear and new sounding fresh guitar.
That high vocal.
Never heard anything like that before!
I was then in Lapland Finland in a small village.
10 year old.
Still big fan, they are one of a biggesr reasons that I’m making my own music, writing songs and play different instruments.
Thank you Dublin boys!
Happy Birthday to our teen heartthrob lead drummer from the 1980s Larry Mullen, Jr. ! Still devastatingly handsome since MTVs inception in 1981 but such an amazing exceptional drummer in any genre of music! A little bit of brawn and whole lotta beauty has gone a long way to make him one of the best in the business! Totally adorable in the Red Rocks concert in June '83!
War...in my top 5...heard New Year's Day on the radio,bought the album,fell in love with U2...and still loving this amazing band!❤❤🎵🎶🔝🏳
One of the best albums of all time
My favorite U2 album of all time... by far!!!
most underated song on War album and in U2 career is Like a song ...my fav on War and in life ..... let the bells ring out ....
John Stromboly I couldn’t agree more, poignant lyrics and, well... The Edge
Dude... couldn't agree more!!!
@The ABC Jug Band One of my favorite tracks of all time
I wish they played it now
it´s maybe one of my favorite U2 songs ,but there´s others that were kind of forgotten and were also great songs from their early lp´s, boy as lot´s of fine songs that stayed in the past,like a day without me ,and i get used to listen to records in an old pioneer system now the cd´s have not the same sound like the bass lines almost disappear, but they changed with grace ,wich is not happening now,they say pop was a failure but i think it was the really last U2 lp ,some new songs are still good but not every lp is that good as the old ones when they came out, my opinion only, i found the how to dismantle an atomic bomb a very bad lp but had parts on some songs that sound really well putted together, the unforgetable fire song was kind of over produced and at the time sound empty when played live, the only time they released that song live was on 360º tour don´t even remenber the name of the lp, i have almost all their lp´s and maxi-singles (that had versions and songs that sounded very good to me)till pop after that only the no line on the horizon that looked as if they wanted to retrieve some of the old U2 was again called a failure with production of the same team of the joshua tree that when it came out it took a bit of time to be the successfull lp that is recognised today, the song that had a diferent guitar rythm in achtung baby tour it surprised me positivelly,i´m talking of bullet the blue sky off course, that´s maybe a mix of classic U2 with the new U2 in a matter of speach that result positivelly for the band ,the zooropa had some songs that were also forgotten like the first one i think it´s called zooropa to, things change with time they couldn´t be young forever and with age it´s dificult to be on top always but they are recognised as one of the best bands in the world ,in 85 i would laugh at that, in a concert he jumped from the stage very litle and strange one and he almost bumped his head into mine then he started to give his phone number and adress to everybody around saying if you go to dublin phone me ,maybe you can stay at my house,this in 82, and sing two songs looking at the band in the stage
War was like a drug that gave my brain a creative new energy in music. This album was genius...something new, with a fresh perspective, and perfect to rip open a new era. Anyone tuning in at the time could surely sense something definite and great with the War album. The rest is history. Surrender is fantastic but also major props to the whole sequence of songs, ending with 40.
Fantastic - this was my first introduction to U2 - as a school kid. Wonderful documentary!
I had just got turned on to them a couple months before this album came out & the local radio stations started playing Sunday Bloody Sunday followed by New Years Day. Some friends and I caught the “War Tour” in 83 and here I am 35 years later watching this on UA-cam, Test of Time ❤️
Thank you for posting this. I never even heard of it before. A real treat for the vintage fans.
exacly
Herd and saw this for the 1st time Fri 4JUN21 😷
I hate how it was hard to find anything on u2 as a teen other than the usual music videos .. There was everything and plenty on more popular rock. Somehow u2 got suppressed in my city until they came to perform a concert then everybody was a u2 fan and radio stations played everything not just the hits as usual 😏
The album that made me love U2, so wish I’d have seen them on the War Tour! I was lucky enough to meet them on the 87 Joshua Tree Tour though. Great guys and very talented. ❤️
Thank you for this beautiful rarity.
A real, honest, great band. It makes me angry I have had to defend against the hate chucked at them for years.
Someone said to me once when they find out a person is a U2 fan they lose respect for them. This person is now a function band singer playing at weddings.
Only things that matter get hated. The hate is a badge of honor.
Hated for being rated
my absolute favourite song .... LIKE A SONG .... naive ... young .... "punky" .... pure rock'n roll ... why didn't play it live ? anybody knows ?
they completely blew me away in those early days
Awesome. I've actually been listening to War the most lately ;)
I would love to see a documentary on the transition from War to Unforgettable Fire. These are two amazing albums yet they are so so different, even as individual musicians, with the biggest growth from Adam. My first album was War even though Unforgettable Fire was already released. Then I purchased UF and once I found out they had two previous albums, I remember how much anticipation I felt before buying this albums. I first bout Boy and soaked that album in for months before I bought October. I remember the extreme excitement in gifting myself October. Maybe it was the build up to that album that made me fall in love with it the most. It didn’t seem filled with hits, it felt like a very personal album they wrote for themselves amongst the other 3 albums. It’s like falling in love with the girl that isn’t pretty but the girl you fell in love with because you gave her the chance to get to know her deeply from the inside.
There are an Unforgettable Fire's documetal, maybe don't explain to much the transition from War, but is something. Is about UF's recording.
Our First U2 Album is War
This is an absolutely incredible documentary with amazing factoids and insights I've never heard elsewhere. As a mega fan of U2 that really says something. Thanks for sharing this! Can anyone share when this doc came out and on what station?
2007 it came out on dvd...
I 🧡 U2 🇧🇷🇮🇪
U2 WAR = My favorite album of all time in the history of music!!! (But hey... it's just my opinion.)
I have this on disc, somewhere. It's a brilliant and an important doc on a brilliant and important record.
I have been a fan of U2 since September 1980 and still Maintain Boy is easily their best Album Raw hungry A gem of an album They Havnt produced a good record in years They have become so bland Perhaps a downside of their success or just their immersion into middle class life
Let's be clear. Duran was and is always very tight live. Even at the time. Yes, live aid could have been better, but when well rehearsed Duran rocked! Terribly underappreciated.
11:06 Absolutely crazy on how the people just "decided" that October was a "step back" and an inferior album. How on EARTH .. can anyone not like that record. I'd choose that record easily over war and perhaps all their other great records. What is wrong with the way people hear and interpret music. The October record was pure heart, emotion, beautiful melodies, a great sonic sounding production and a .. 'warmth" to it that was so reflective of how many people perceive early 80s nostalgia. It was a record that was so defining of their early sound. And I'd bet ANYTHING .. ANYTHING .. that if people decided that is was an incredible record, then U2's feelings about it would reflect just that.
Sorry this is Bernie ollocks. October is an amazing album absolutely not a step back from Boy. You can see the bridge from Boy to War through October, Gloria is just a wonderful song and the whole album has something spiritual about it. U2 post 1984 not the same band although still managed to produce some great songs they didn’t capture the same ineffable, touch the rhythm of the universe music as in October, War and one or two songs from Unforgettable Fire notably Bad, Pride and A Sort of Homecoming …
cant believe that dude at ten minutes says October was a step back from boy. get outa here. ha! rejoice is in u2's top ten best songs of all time
I really believe it was a step back .. while i can listen to boy from beginning to end without the urge of skipping tracks and enjoying it entirely , october its kind of the same but boring, and war was a jump forward ... it has great tunes tho, but it doesnt live to the first record
October was brilliant
nicholas usansky I agree with you. October was brilliant. But the band nor the percentages really agreed.
Rejoice is truly an incredible song. Tomorrow & October are up there as my fave U2 songs aswel
well, the truth is that they had to record all again because bono wanted to insert passages of the bible in latim wich he did but didn´t came out like that and if you read the biography of the band they talk about those times as the worst in their career due to diferencies in taste for the release of the second lp and the songs being good or bad , there´s better songs than rejoice ,that you say it´s in a top ten best songs of U2 , i think they don´t know it, they played often other october songs ,even the song october was included in one of their last tours playlist ,and if you know the lp there are other great songs ,celebration(in the spring) was ment to be a release single from the Lp they even did a video for the song that used to play often on MTV in the 80´s,but never did not even as a lp song. Rejoice is a great song from the early years but it´s too melancolic ,and as said before they had several years to writte songs that made it to their first Lp but to October there was a small time that they weren´t used to and having recorded two times the songs for the Lp ,it was very hard for them having such a litle (this said by the band)time but that doesn´t make the album sell bad it was a hit regarding sales ,Boy was still selling good when October was already available, i only started to pay attention to their work by the time war lp came out, having seen a concert in a litle music festival in the summer of 1982 ,the stage was so litle that bono sings several songs in the midle of the public looking to the band(wich i already refer to in other coment) on stage and they were acused to be a pro-I.R.A. ,wich they did a press conference to explain how wrong was that statement(this when war was released) , sorry if my english is confusing but it´s not my first language ,regards
When U2 performed in Portugal at the Vilar de Mouros Festival on August 3, 1982, Bono announced the WORLD presentation of the theme New Years Day, is there no record of that excellent concert?
já ha muitos anos perguntei por essa gravação porque vi um gravador de bobines ao pé da mesa de mistura mas segundo me disseram como era uma banda pouco conhecida pouparam fita para gravarem mais do resto do festival, estive lá ha ja muitos anos e lá estava o palco feito em cimento abandonado quase ao pé do rio mas penso que me disseram que ainda não foi destruido por causa das mais recentes edições do festival Paredes de Coura, cumprimentos
Boy is from 80, not 81, as anyone knows btw @10.50
25:33 lovely jersey bono Mon the faithful
It’s eye opening for me. Always been a fan, but didn’t pay much attention really.
Zooropa/Achtung Baby was the end of U2 for me.
You needed more emotional development in that case
Sadly I didnt know, had no idea, All That You Cant Leave Behind would be the last listening album for me. Albums going forward to this date maybe produced 8 ok songs but nothing like past albums 😣
Zooropa was the last album for me , shame they didn’t quit then as their time was up by then
🤩
and why you can't barely find anything back about this song ? Bono ? why ?
At the 10:00 mark, what concert was that from? Anyone know?
It’s a Uk tv show The tube filmed in Newcastle live at 6pm on a Friday night
Darn right 31:08.
No doubt. Bono's charisma and stage presence certainly helped the band gain a large audience. But Edge's guitar work is what makes U2 stand out from the crowd musically (and to a lesser extent Larry's celtic influenced drumming)
Nothing beats Alex Harvey who's mentioned here but Bono..what a name....had a good stage presence...that worked for the music they did!Names like Bono the Edge cheap like that are annoying!War was a good album start to finish pretty much ..looking back I'm not as keen on it a when a teen but it still a pretty good album nevertheless!
Pongan los subtitulos en espaňol tambien por favor.
Los busqué por todas partes y no pude conseguirlos.
11:36 According to who? Someone's opinion? I think October was a great record. Why do people just follow the herd? "Oh that wasn't a great record because people have said so, so I guess it wasn't a great record". It was more than a great record. I mean, what's a great record based on? A hook? A good lyric? Music sooo much more than that. And this is just a testament as to how most people just listen to music, but don't hear it.
and also in this documentary .... nothing about this song ?????
That was Lilly whit i. Bet the guy how talks about bruce. Fallen angel with robbie
I was wrong his name is kris
I saw your satellite bo no fide. Im just joking. Thats not true
Yeah i steal published mail.
War is such a great record
Drowing man is so good
ALright i reject the notion that the guys of duran duran were not as accomplished as musicians as U2. John Taylor is a fantastic bassist who on a technical level is quite beyond Clayton. And the other guys were no slouches either. Now you can criticize that the music they made did not measure with U2's, and i'd DEFINITELY agree (it's also terribly dated seen from today), but they are certainly very competent musicians. Something which they actually never got credit for much on account of being seen as a boy band (which was sorta fair in a way, they were hot and they sang songs that would appeal to girls)
He doesn't say they aren't musicians, just that they had fabulous concerts only because girls screamed at everything they did...not because their live performances could engage an entire crowd
All he said was that Duran Duran were not as great a live band as U2, which is true.
im afraid "their first great record" is Boy..... i dont like War as much
I love WAR first... and... BOY 2nd! (Different strokes for different folks!)
Why are you afraid?
War has at least 3 songs on it (New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Drowning Man) that are better than any song on Boy.
Boy is one of the great debut albums of all time. But War is one of the greatest albums of all time, period.
Whammy Bard no way. “Electric Co” and “An Cat Dubh” are far better songs than “Drowning Man”
40 is blasphemic.
The sectarian violence came from British occupation.