U2 – War
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Island Records – 7 90067-1 |
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US |
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Genre: |
Rock |
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Alternative Rock |
Tracklist
| A1 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | 4:38 | |
| A2 | Seconds | 3:24 | |
| A3 | New Year's Day | 5:38 | |
| A4 | Like A Song... | 4:48 | |
| A5 | Drowning Man | 4:12 | |
| B1 | The Refugee | 3:40 | |
| B2 | Two Hearts Beat As One | 4:10 | |
| B3 | Red Light | 4:09 | |
| B4 | Surrender | 5:33 | |
| B5 | "40" | 2:38 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Windmill Lane Studios
- Distributed By – ATCO Records
- Mastered At – Warner Bros. Recording Studios
- Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – △3812
- Mastered At – Specialty Records Corporation
- Pressed By – Allied Record Company – B-17800
- Pressed By – Allied Record Company – B-17801
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Island Records Ltd.
- Copyright © – Island Records Ltd.
- Copyright © – Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
Credits
- Bass – Adam Clayton
- Design – RX*
- Drums, Percussion – Larry Mullen Jr*
- Engineer – Paul Thomas
- Engineer [Assisted By] – Kevin Killen
- Guitar, Piano, Lap Steel Guitar – The Edge
- Management – Paul McGuinness (2)
- Mastered By – Phil Brown
- Photography By [Band Photograph] – Anton Corbijn
- Photography By [Boy Photograph] – Ian Finlay (2)
- Producer – Steve Lillywhite (tracks: A1 to A5, B2 to B5)
- Songwriter – U2
- Trumpet – Kenny Fradley*
- Vocals, Guitar – Bono
Notes
First pressing with dark purple vinyl labels.
"AR" matrix suffix denotes an Allied Record Company pressing.
Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Mastered at Warner Bros. Recording Studio L.A.
Larry Mullen Jr plays Yamaha drums.
© 1983 Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
All rights for the U.S.A. & Canada controlled by Island Music Inc. (BMI)
Island Records, Inc.
Distributed by Atco Records, division of Atlantic Recording Corporation, a Warner Communications Company, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10019.
℗ © 1983 Island Records, Ltd. Printed in U.S.A. TM owned by Antilles Communications Ltd.
Catalog on label: 90067-1
Catalog on spine: 7 90067-1
Some copies of this release were for promotional purposes; these copies have gold stamp and/or suggested cue sheet sticker on front cover (see images).
"AR" matrix suffix denotes an Allied Record Company pressing.
Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland. Mastered at Warner Bros. Recording Studio L.A.
Larry Mullen Jr plays Yamaha drums.
© 1983 Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
All rights for the U.S.A. & Canada controlled by Island Music Inc. (BMI)
Island Records, Inc.
Distributed by Atco Records, division of Atlantic Recording Corporation, a Warner Communications Company, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10019.
℗ © 1983 Island Records, Ltd. Printed in U.S.A. TM owned by Antilles Communications Ltd.
Catalog on label: 90067-1
Catalog on spine: 7 90067-1
Some copies of this release were for promotional purposes; these copies have gold stamp and/or suggested cue sheet sticker on front cover (see images).
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 7567-90067-1 4
- Rights Society: BMI
- Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): ST-IL-835155 AR
- Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): ST-IL-835156 AR
- Pressing Plant ID (On labels): AR
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A etched; SRC stamped, Var. 1): STIL 835155E 1-2 SP-AR B-17800-E △3812 0-1 SRC
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B etched; SRC stamped, Var. 1): STIL 835156E B-17801-E 1-2 SP-AR △3812-X 0- SRC
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A etched; SRC stamped, Var. 2): STIL 835155E 1-2 SP-AR B-17800-E SRC △3812 0-1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B etched; SRC stamped, Var. 2): STIL 835156E SRC B-17801-E 1-2 SP-AR △3812-X 0-[scratched out] SMI-2
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A etched; SRC stamped, Var. 3): STIL 835155E 1-2 SP-AR B-17800+E △3812 0- SRC
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B etched; SRC stamped, Var. 3): STIL 835156E SRC B-17801-E 1-2 SP-AR △3812-X 0-
Other Versions (5 of 454)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| War (LP, Album, Gatefold - Version 3 ) | Island Records | L 37981, L-37981, ILPS 9733 | Australia | 1983 | |||
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War (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Island Records | ILPS 9733 | UK | 1983 | ||
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War (LP, Album, Gatefold) | Island Records | ILPS 19733 | Italy | 1983 | ||
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War (Cassette, Album, Club Edition) | Island Records | A4-90067, 90067-4 | US | 1983 | ||
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War (Cassette, Album) | Island Records | ICT 9733 | UK | 1983 |
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Edited one year agoPicks this up from my favorite local record store. Super clean and sleeve is great. I tend to agree with the “thin” comments—seems to lack dynamic range to hit high and low frequencies. Tweaked the treble and bass a little. Plays perfect though, no surface noise at all. Checked the block on the Discogs 100 list. -
Just procured a NM copy of this OG Allied pressing. Reading plenty of criticism about it being a thin, bright pressing, lacking in bass. I'll be honest. My ears were trained by the cassette tape of this album, back in the late 1980s. This sound is exactly as I it. -
Edited 3 years agoNot a great pressing, but decent. High frequencies are harsh on some songs, not all. New Year's Day sounds very good. A4 has a strange EQ notch that seems to swallow the bass on the 2nd chord of every verse. -
The matrix info on mine matches this, but it has the black Island label instead. Could it be a later uncatalogued repress? -
A thin shit recording. I picked up a random War pressing in a dollar bin at a record store and grabbed this copy because the vinyl was so clean and less than $5. To my surprise this was a US first pressing. Then i put the album on and heard the thinnest vocals I've ever heard.
When people say that a record sounds thin, let me explain what they are hearing. Basically, the deeper the grooves on the record, the heavier the bass frequencies are. This record had little to no bass on it with all vocals and guitars existing in the upper mids and highs range. Everything lacked heft and volume only giving way to a tinny shallow metallic sound.
Yes, at ten dollars this album will get the job done and your friends won't even notice. But for everyone else it's a clearly an inferior record that literally sounds like a recording of a recording. -
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