whichs the best album from U2 and why?
For me, Joshua Tree hit lots of emotional buttons, so it’s hard to separate the personal appeal of that one from The Unforgettable Fire and even their earliest, Boy. I liked the maybe more naive idealism of their earlier work, tho’ it didn’t really seem to come together to make a complete package until Unforgettable Fire. I was actually doing music reviews at the time and wish I could remember the one I did on that one, but something about Eno having given them a focus that they’d somehow lacked, maybe pulling all the strong personalities together as one. Here’s a very nice, very well done review of Forgettable Fire: The Unforgettable Fire (Island ‘84) Rating: A+ With the subtraction of Steve Lillywhite and the addition of producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, U2 moved in a new direction by exploring a more lushly layered and evocative sound. Far removed from their punk rock influenced earlier records, The Unforgettable Fire is a much more mature, adult oriented album. The band sounds
