u2 album with the song bullet the blue sky

Luther King, Jr., assassination, pairs “shot rings out in a Memphis sky” “Pride (In the Name of Love),” whose emotional climax is the Martin Invoked the drama of violence to heighten a message of eradicating it. (Two years later, Bender sang the sameĬlub,” with a similar spirit of ironic menace.) In those days, U2 often

To be an airborne ranger / I want to live a life of danger”-to thrillingĮffect. “Seconds,” from 1983, sampled a recording of a military cadence-“I want Soulful singing pleaded strenuously against violence. Larry Mullen, Jr.,’s drumming landed like artillery, while Bono’s Like an alarm bell, Adam Clayton’s bass had propulsive gravitas, and The Edge’s guitar, high and needling, sounded U2’s inspired early albums had the confidence to be stark. Race U2, with forthright urgency, seemed to be singing about all of it.Īnd they had ridiculous names like Bono and the Edge. Studies, we learned about the I.R.A., apartheid, and the nuclear-arms Made pop feel essential, global, elevated. U2 made the political sound physical they

To “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Seconds” and “I Will Follow,” thinkingĪbout the Troubles and nuclear war and devotion, feeling riled up, Sophisticated eighth and ninth graders with puffy young-Bono haircutsĪnd long wool coats with U2 buttons on the lapels. Thoughtful sixth and seventh grader at my school, inspired by the When I was in middle school, circa “War” (1983)Īnd “The Unforgettable Fire” (1984), I adored U2, as did every Rarely, in my experience, do you love a band with your whole heart for aĭecade and then turn away sharply, never to return, but that’s what Love for a band, like love for a person, can move in mysterious ways.

U2 album with the song bullet the blue sky