U2: War (180g) Vinyl LP #TTLessentials music label: Chit Chat Records

music label: Chit Chat Records 2015

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

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

Pressed on heavyweight 180 gram purple vinyl by the good folks at Music On Vinyl

U2: War (180g) Vinyl LP #TTLessentials music label: Chit Chat RecordsFollowing 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