October - Remastered [VINYL]

Product Details

Artist : U2
Binding : Vinyl
EAN : 0602517616790
Label : Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-07-21
Running Time : 41minutes
UPC : 602517616790

ASIN : B0013LPS9I

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Gloria
2. I Fall Down
3. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
4. Rejoice
5. Fire
6. Tomorrow
7. October
8. With A Shout (Jerusalem)
9. Stranger In A Strange Land
10. Scarlet
11. Is That All?

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Customer Reviews

Weaker than Boy but still great (2008-05-06)

One thing I've never understood about this album is why it seemed to be hated so much. Sure this isn't one of U2's strongest releases but it's still a great album.Overall the lyrics aren't up to Bono's usual standard but he lost his songbook and had to make up a lot of the lyrics on the spot so I think he deserves a little slack for them.Oddly enough the best two songs on this album are the ones that opened both sides of the vinyl ("Gloria" and "Tomorrow"); these songs are classic U2 songs that (especially "Tomorrow") go unnoticed by the general public. Even the band seems to have forgotten them as they haven't even put "Gloria" on any of their Best-Ofs, which I simply can't understand.Other highlights of the album include basically the first eight songs, each one of them is a great song and "Rejoice" features Larry Mullen's only drum solo! The last 3 songs are where the quality of the album drops. "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a good song but leaves the listener feeling like it could be more, "Scarlet's" biggest problem is that it doesn't close the album; it would have been the perfect closer but instead U2 decided to close the album with "Is That All?" Which for the first 20 seconds or so sounds like it might actually be a great song (If you're a U2 fan you'll recognise the riff as being from "The Cry") but then Bono uses probably some of the worst lyrics of his career, the only thing that stops this song from being bad is "The Cry's" guitar riff which lifts the song from being bad to being average filler.This album is probably U2's most overlooked album and it doesn't deserve to be (then again I'd be hard pressed to find a U2 album that deserves to be...). The album is nowhere near as bad as it is portrayed in general, it is a great album. Parts of it aren't that good but overall it's great and seeing as most people will probably listen to it with low expectations, I'd say most people will be pleasantly surprised by how good it actually is.

A brillant album (2008-02-02)

A young U2 powerful & exciting album with the band experimenting on slower tunes October More soulful/punk & less technical than their later stadium sound. This still could be the band in small gigs/clubs before they went mega. But then i liked all the early stuff before J Tree. It seams once you start to earn your 1st million life gets too comfertable, too much studio time, too many flunkies, no more queing to get into a club, VIP galore, the sword becomes a little blunt.

4 stars is fair. (2007-07-26)

This is a fantastic and under-rated album (although not on this website!). October has a good mixture of spiritual contemplative songs and the anthemic tunes they became synonymous with. The Edge's guitar is great, amazing how early his unique style was set. I actually heard Gloria first on Under a Blood Red Sky (also great), and Bono's rallying call at the beginning still puts shivers down my spine. What a great showman he was and still is. I stopped listening U2 in my 20's as I got a bit sick of them, but as I'm revisiting their early albums I'm really appreciating how dynamic and melodic they were back then. This album and also boy, both stand up to today's music.A great line in the song Rejoice - "I cant change the world, but I can change the world in me". Hmmm? Oh well, we only had a few years wait till Bono started!!!

Disappointed at the time (2006-04-12)

When October was released most people bought it because of U2's excellent debut Boy. I remember being disappointed at the time and now almost 25 years on the album hasn't improved with age. There are no great songs here hence omissions from the best of packages.

Quality 80's rock. Bloc Party paid attention, have you? (2005-09-22)

I remember buying this record on vinyl, complete with inside picture sleeve. Some rather lovely photographs, if I remember rightly; and certainly better than the front cover. But this matters not. This is a quality album. I always preferred this to either 'Boy' or 'War'. And I still rate it as one of their better efforts. I'm not a U2 evangelist; I think they are a little hit and miss. And their last two records have been distinctly workmanlike, painting by numbers, but 'October' is still a good listen. It's got the sound of a band finding their feet, experimenting a little. They may not admit as such, but Bloc Party have this record in their DNA...

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