U2-The Unforgettable Fire (1984)
Artist: U2
Title: The Unforgettable Fire
Year of Release: 1984
Country and Year of Edition: US 1990 PDO
Sell Price: $3.09
Sell Date: 12/23/24
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 12/31/24 NM/NM $4.31
Low: $0.77
Median: $2.48
Average: $2.99
High: $8.86
Current low price: $1.12
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 72
Have/Want: 1935/110
Where Sold: Sallisaw, OK
Time It Took To Sell: 9 years
Where and When Bought: consignment collection
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
The Eno and Lanois produced U2 album The Unforgettable Fire was the only one I ever got on vinyl, having found a used copy for $3.99 about a month or two after it came out. This CD came to me from a consignment collection, that vinyl has long been sold.
At the time, U2 had just become arena-level established with War the prior year. This was considered a critical letdown at the time for reasons that seem odd now. In fact, Island Records went through great lengths to dissuade the band from using Eno, fearing they would be buried under a layer of "avant garde nonsense" just as they were about to hit their anthemic commercial peak.
There were anthemic hits here, particularly "Pride (In The Name Of Love)." The band uses Martin Luther King Jr. as the ultimate symbol of peace in a violent world coming from having grown up through Dublin bombings. Bono became a rock n' roll pope of sorts with this record onward giving him political clout that enables him to get medals to this day, John Brown be damned.
The other video track on this was the title track, but there were other songs that probably had more significance to the bands career like "Bad" and the thematic "MLK"
In this rare case, conceptual artistry won out.
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