![]() ![]() These coloured vinyls were released to commemorate U2's Live Under Australian Skies 1984 tour. In Australia a limited edition, red 12" vinyl version was pressed, along with 5 copies in a light blue vinyl. Another Mexican release on the Bertelsmann label was part of the Rockollector series. One Mexican version of the 12" vinyl release of the album had the front and back cover photos reversed. Another interesting release was the Korean issue of Under A Blood Red Sky which came in a blue cover. The Island Masters series of re-issues contained this 'edited' version of Electric Co. These were removed from later pressings for legal reasons. U2 Live 'Under A Blood Red Sky' More images Tracklist Companies, etc. ![]() The live version of Electric Co., which was recorded at the Rockpalast concert in Lorelei, Germany on August 20, 1983, had a snippet of Stephen Sondheim's Send In The Clowns and I Want To Live In America from West Side Story. This album closes accounts, clears unfinished business.The band's first live album was comprised of music from three performances from the War Tour. "Under A Blood Red Sky", the camera pans on a victor's lap of honour. Without the studio shroudings, it becomes unbalanced, too martial, not enough art - the perennial fate of so many anti-war songs set to a military beat. Otherwise, the only track that loses life is "Sunday Bloody Sunday". My only material complaint is the exclusion of "An Cat Dubh". "The Electric Co." is the furthest he ventures into that type of shattering riffing but the Edge's real moments of glory are on "New Year's Day" and "11 O'Clock Tick Tock", the latter a genuine live development of the Hannett-produced original, pulsating through its final section with the guitarist's jagged, spine-tingling variations. U2 have been able to avoid the tiresome profanities of guitar rock exactly because the Edge's style isn't vulgarised from a blues base. But on "Under A Blood Red Sky", the Edge's ability to ride all the horses - rhythm, lead and melody- in the U2 circus, becomes evident and often breathtakingly so. His execution has been so effortless and his function so accepted that his massive responsibilities are often overlooked. This album's also the Edge Orchestra's main feature so far. ![]() "How long must we sing this song?, " U2 inquire on the latter and "Party Girl" is their answer to themselves, never quite shaking off its Police and Darnell antecedents but tantalisingly informal nonetheless, like a grubby leather jacket at an overdressed reception. Like the new seeds of "Party Girl" and "40". It taps a more masterful emotion - yet I get my satisfaction searching for the special moments. This live album's timing means that it doesn't record the early reckless confusion (intentionally so!) that characterised "U2's and particularly Bono's initial international campaigns-in-jubilation, when they were careering around the clubs. Surface noise will not overpower the music. This is necessarily a record of culmination but it shouldn't be mistaken as the complete chronicle. U2 - Live 'Under A Blood Red Sky' (LP, MiniAlbum) Label: Island Records, Island Records Cat: IMA3, IMA 3 Media Condition: Media: Very Good (VG) Noticeable groove wear and light scratches. I wore out two cassettes many years ago blasting this great piece of musical artistry so that every other driver within a five mile radius knew what I was listening to. It finds them in command, invulnerable with one exception.Īn album of confident excitement, the work of a band completely secure about their powers, "Under A Blood Red Sky" registers U2's pride on arrival but its task is not to map out the route behind. U2 at their finest Reviewed in the United States on Verified Purchase I prefer U2 in their raw, early days. Recorded this year at American and German dates, "Under A Blood Red Sky" profiles U2 at the precise point in time when the festival stage has just become their natural environment, when they're no longer the second-best band still seeking favours from the headliners' sound-crew. "Under a Blood Red Sky" is an inevitable obligation and an essential document. Shouting "Showtime" with relish on their route to adulation, for U2 the release of a live album is no afterthought. Populist but not pop, U2 have never accepted the creeping elitism of many of their contemporaries that downgraded live performance as a chore, the unavoidable sales-pitch before the return to the studio refuge. U2 have always been candid about refurbishing standard rock values. ![]()
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