Well, I figured it was time to start my first thread as a member of this forum, so I decided to pay tribute to a minor (or maybe major) U2 masterpiece: the beautiful, slightly avant-garde and hugely important career milestone known as The Unforgettable Fire.
I remember when this album was new. "Pride (In the Name of Love)" was an instant classic and was all over MTV. The sound of that song very much carried over the sound from the prior album, War. A lot of us expected the entire new album to sound like the first single. Boy, were we in for a surprise! While the trademark chiming guitar of The Edge was very much a focal point, there was new lushness to the songs courtesy of Eno and Lanois.
This new album rewarded the listener who took the time to get used to the new sound. It really took a lot of balls for U2 to release this album. They very easily could have made another War and become arena rock gods, but they chose to expand their sound instead and pretty much built the bridge that led to the Joshua Tree.
I have plenty of opinions about the individual songs on this album, but I thought I would throw it out there for discussion first and see what everybody else's thoughts are on this seminal U2 classic!
