U2: War (180g) Vinyl LP #TTLessentials which is followed by some

which is followed by some chopperation taken to The Police's "When the World Is Running Down

It was a time in which he nearly tripled his audience on the strength of his first two releases and his live show

12 tracks luxuriously spread over three LP's with detailed liner notes on each record in the gatefold sleeve

Released by Motown on double vinyl with bonus 7" housed in a gatefold sleeve with a twenty-four page booklet

reviewed by Michu Meszaros 02/2015

U2: War (180g) Vinyl LP #TTLessentials which is followed by someFollowing 1980's Boy and 1981's October, U2 presented a more direct album, and the pivot is obvious right from the opening seconds of politically charged opener, "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Where the groups first two LPs dealt with more abstract concepts like adolescence and spirituality, War is a visceral response to what was happening, a protest album w harsher sounds, simpler, startling rhythms and a sense of awareness on all fronts. The obvious