Track Listing

1. The Unforgettable Fire
2. Bad
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
4. A Sort Of Homecoming
5. The Making Of The Unforgettable Fire - Documentary
6. U2 at A Conspiracy Of Hope Concert
7. U2 at Live Aid
8. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
9. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #600 in Music
• Released on: 2009-10-26
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: 1.19 pounds
• Running time: 86 minutes

CD Description
U2’s fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire has been remastered to mark 25 years since the album's original release in October 1984. Recorded at Slane Castle, Ireland, The Unforgettable Fire was the first U2 album to be produced by Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, and spawned two top 10 UK singles--"Pride (In The Name Of Love)" and "The Unforgettable Fire".

This Limited Edition Box Set containing two CDs (remastered album and bonus audio CD), a DVD with live footage, documentary and videos, a 56 page hardback book with liner notes by The Edge, Brian Eno, Danny Lanois, Bert Van de Kamp and Niall Stokes, and 5 photographic prints.

Customer Reviews

The best reissue yet
"The Unforgettable Fire" gets an unforgettable reissue in the style of "The Joshua Tree" release a couple of years back, and it's an instant hit.

I think it stands up as the best of their reissue work to date by a country mile, and iv'e enjoyed all of the reissues thus far.

Even if you are one of those who have felt that U2 have been cashing in with all of the recent rereleases (and I know that even a good few genuine U2 fans are included in this) You will want this one.

The Bonus CD has enough quality material to have produced a fresh album, whether back in the mid 80's or possibly even now.

The DVD documentary section captures the pure rawness of the band as they were transforming unwittingly from psudo punk pretenders to the super-rock-band they would become within the next few years. The footage of the Slane castle sessions is gift to their fans just before xmas. The whole DVD is a well put together "video scrap book" of the period with a couple of defining live performances, four commercial videos from the album and the aforementioned documentary.

The whole period from "War" to " Achtung Baby" is my favourite U2 era, and If like me "Bad" is one of your enduring favourites from the band, then the live versions on the bonus discs (DVD and CD) are probably worth the purchase price alone.

And I haven't even mentioned the title CD yet. Do I have to say anything? it speaks for it'self surely....... Only I would say that a few folk have said they prefer the sound of the original vinyl. Well I remember having the vinyl and I must confess that I'm a true digital convert. I think that CD beats vinyl any day, but thats just a personal opinion (sorry guys). I get the whole raw sound thing of vinyl but still love the cleanness of CD and how you can play with the sound on good equipment.

From a true "U2-o-phile" (mind you i'm not sure if one of those doesn't sound a bit dodgy... read that 3 star review, and you'll get it) This is a complete winner and I dearly hope that "Achtung Baby" gets the same treatment as this and "The Joshua Tree" did to complete the set.

...and may your dreams be realised
I remember my sister telling me - about how `The Unforgettable Fire' was the soundtrack to her painting for her Art degree at Aberystwyth, around the turn of 1984/5. The ambient textures, the lush, sweeping soundscapes, the occasional broad-stroke such as `Pride (In The Name Of Love)' perfectly matching - if not her muse, then her mood - as she endeavoured artistically, in a remote coastal resort by the Irish Sea. Many miles away on the other side, just a few months earlier, the men behind the music were purchasing their first, modest homes in County Dublin besides the same sea.

Having established themselves as Christians in one of the most vital new bands to come out of the Post-Punk era, they now broke fresh ground and formed a production partnership which would come to characterise their future sound(s) and influence nearly every decision they were to make; artistically, commercially, politically and spiritually.

Brian Eno was an atheist listening only to Black Gospel when this young Irish band first approached him. In fact, he'd listened to nothing else for three years, so disillusioned was the Roxy Music keyboardist with conventional rock and it's rituals. He suggested that the French-Canadian catholic musician, Daniel Lanois, join him: initially, to pass the gig over to him. Realising that the band wanted to play on to his own tune, Eno stayed and the result was something which, a quarter-century on, hasn't dated at all; despite criticism at the time that it was merely a `transitional album'.

Titles like `Elvis Presley and America' and `4th July' alluded to their growing obsession with the States; the title-track along with `A Sort Of Homecoming' even now, are remarkable feats of song-writing and arranging; the band members clearly competent by now, to pull them off. Two Martin Luther King tributes, (the other being the meditative `MLK') weren't enough at the time to prevent the feeling that this was a less-overtly Christian album than it's three predecessors. But closer inspection of `Bad' - which Bono recently admitted he wished he'd developed more - reveals a piece of art notable for it's spiritual yearnings for the sake and state of the souls of others. Indeed, this was a group moving away from religious sloganeering towards artistic engagement, highlighted by subtle use of Biblical metaphors: red wine puncturing skins, mountains disappearing into the sea and so on. Reaching a quiet crescendo midway, with `Promenade', we're in a living room on the Irish coast, with it's sentiment of moving "up the spiral staircase/To the Higher Ground". Van Morrison couldn't have put it better.

`The Unforgettable Fire' was a song and an album inspired by paintings from Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, which Bono associated with his impressions of the account of Sodom and Gomorrah. Indeed, he quotes the line from Genesis: "...and don't look back," Spiritually and artistically, they never did. JOHN CHEEK

Believe it or NOT The Unforgettable Fire has GOT BETTER
Having been a U2 fan for all my life, i'm 40 going on 41 now. - Let me first say if you are a U2 fan and wondering if it's worth upgrading to this Deluxe Edition of The Unforgettable Fire, and if like me, you had the album on vinyl before you bought the album on the terrible analogue CD mix from the 1990's i would say definately buy the 2009 CD edition - PLEASE DO, you won't be dissapointed it's truly superb. I thought the re-issue of the Joshua Tree was as good as it gets, well I was wrong, after hearing how they have completely improved the sound quality of this spellbinding album, I am so glad I have re-purchased the album, yet again lol. Personally, I don't think the boys will ever make a more perfect record, it's beautiful, thought provoking, mesmerising and above all I think Bono voice on this album is truly breathtaking.