tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620417008960069715.post155221269731645305..comments2024-01-20T10:19:12.985-05:00Comments on Martin's View: U2 - Under A Blood Red SkyMartin Maenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08640466353011569116noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620417008960069715.post-4643051192079822662013-11-07T17:58:12.488-05:002013-11-07T17:58:12.488-05:00Looks like Mark and I took a similar path with thi...Looks like Mark and I took a similar path with this album although I started with a vinyl copy, as all men should.<br /><br />It perfectly encapsulated the band's output up to that time and I wore out my first vinyl copy; actually, it got scratched somehow. Bought another one, though. In 1985 or 1986 I picked up the <b>U2 War Is Declared</b> double album set that was originally broadcast on radio in July 1983. Sadly, it was one of the records I sold to pay medical bills in 1987. So glad when the CD/DVD package came out which had most of the songs. <br /><br />Such a shame that money (which U2 has more of than just about any other band, I'd imagine) blocked the use of the Sondheim sample.<br /><br />In the Summer of 1985, I was housesitting for family friends in the Foothills. The house itself sat on a hill so when you were in the pool, it looked like one of those infinity pools with a killer view of the city on the horizon. I hauled my boombox up there and played three albums over and over and over that week: Led Zep's <b>In Through The Out Door</b>, the <b>Vision Quest</b> soundtrack and U2's <b>Wide Awake In America</b>. I had seen the band for the first time live in March and the two live tracks that make up the A side of that EP transport me back to that show every. damn. time. Especially "Bad".HERChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00361888365133381438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620417008960069715.post-84815889263437168002013-11-07T10:17:37.607-05:002013-11-07T10:17:37.607-05:00Agreed that the edited version does not seem right...Agreed that the edited version does not seem right. Thanks so much for your comments, Mark.Martin Maenzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08640466353011569116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620417008960069715.post-29363354665413225742013-11-07T07:53:33.258-05:002013-11-07T07:53:33.258-05:00Great album overview, as always. This one is favo...Great album overview, as always. This one is favorite U2 release, bar none. I've purchased three different copies of it. I first bought it on cassette and it was the soundtrack to my Christmas break in December 1983. It's been required listening every December since. I've held on to the tape only because it contains the brief "Send In The Clowns" section in "The Electric Co." The edited version just doesn't seem right, does it? <br /><br />My take is here: <a href="http://markscds.blogspot.com/2011/11/u2-live-under-blood-red-sky-1983.html" rel="nofollow">The CD Project: Under A Blood Red Sky</a>.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13004375650529185768noreply@blogger.com