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 enlarge | Artist: U2
Label: Island
Category: Music
List Price: $34.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 4449
Format: Original Recording Remastered, Deluxe Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.2 x 0.7
MPN: 001094902
UPC: 602517616752
EAN: 0602517616752
ASIN: B0013LPS8Y
Release Date: July 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Sunday Bloody Sunday [Remastered] | | • | Seconds [Remastered] | | • | New Year's Day [Album version - Remastered] | | • | Like A Song... [Remastered] | | • | Drowning Man [Remastered] | | • | The Refugee [Remastered] | | • | Two Hearts Beat As One [Remastered] | | • | Red Light [Remastered] | | • | Surrender [Remastered] | | • | "40" [Remastered] |
Disc 2
| • | Endless Deep [Remastered] | | • | Angels Too Tied To The Ground | | • | New Year's Day [Single Edit - Remastered] | | • | New Year's Day [USA Remix/Kevorkian Remix - Remastered] | | • | New Year's Day [Vocal Extended Mix - Ferry Corsten Remix] | | • | New Year's Day [Ferry Costen - Vocal Radio mix] | | • | Two Hearts Beat As One [Long Mix By Kevorkian - Remastered] | | • | Two Hearts Beat As One [USA Remix by Kevorkian - Remastered] | | • | Two Hearts Beat As One [Club Version - Steve Lillywhite Re-mix - Remastered] | | • | Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop) [Remastered] | | • | I Threw A Brick Through A Window/A Day Without Me [Live from Werchter, Belgium July 1982 - Remastered] | | • | Fire [Live from Werchter, Belgium, July 1982 - Remastered] |
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Album Description
A standard CD (as above) and a bonus CD. Bonus CD includes b-sides, live tracks and rarities. Also includes a 32 page booklet with previously unseen photos, full lyrics, new liner notes by Niall Stokes, and explanatory notes on the bonus material by The Edge.
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One Of Their Best *But* July 31, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Love the CD and the guys who have reviewed it really did good jobs, the first disc is great, really good sound, compaired to the original. The second CD is really nothing new if you have all those tracks from the 80's 12" and 7" craze. I thought they would dump those and add tracks that might have been done during the sessions. Anyway, overall, a great set but not as good as the first two recent remasters because how many times do we really need to hear "New Years Day" & "Two Hearts Beat As One" over & over!
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 The version to own! July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Forget the original remaster. You might as well throw that in the trash. THIS is the version you need to own. U2's 1983 masterpiece 'War' gets the remaster-and-reissue treatment, something that it has long since deserved.
The record is digitally remastered, meaning the sound quality is great. Island Records did a great job. While 'The Joshua Tree' was their breakthrough, 'War' guaranteed they were here to stay.
This album has many of your favorite U2 songs from the '80s. 'Sunday Bloody Sunday,' 'New Year's Day,' '40,' 'Two Hearts Beat As One,' 'Seconds,' and 'Surrender' are fan favorites, and they are all here on 'War.'
The bonus disc, however, is not as good as 'October' and 'Boy,' but it is really good. One of my personal favorite U2 songs is a rarity, and it is 'Treasure.' That song is a great punk song, and is clearly influenced by The Clash and The Jam. It's a fast song, and I classify it as a "speed punk" tune.
'Endless Deep' is a great instrumental. If you own the bonus disc of 'The Best of 1980-1990,' which is 'B-Sides 1980-1990,' than you already own this song. But it's great. It's dominated by The Edge's piano playing.
'Angels Too Tied To The Ground' is a previously unreleased tune. It's a great one, no doubt. Why this was never released before 2008 and has always been stored away in a vault is beyond me. If you are a die-hard U2 fan like I am, than you must hear this song.
The live tracks were recorded at the festival Rock Werchter. Werchter is a village in Belgium, and every year, they have a rock festival, and U2 were an act at the festival in 1982. 'Fire' and 'I Threw A Brick Through A Window/A Day Without Me' were recorded in Werchter, and are probably the best live versions of the songs I've heard yet (Trust me, as a collector of U2 bootlegs for years, I've heard tons of versions.) These are far superior to the studio versions.
The remixes are intended for the U2 collectors and die-hards. The remixes of 'New Year's Day' and 'Two Hearts Beat As One' are great. I own several of the remixes because I bought the singles and EPs. But these are great because they are remastered.
Overall, buy the 2008 remaster of 'War.' I don't care if you bought it when it first came out to CD or when it was remastered in the nineties, buy this edition. If you haven't bought 'War' yet, buy this edition.
Highly recommended for any U2 fan. If you haven't bought this, you need to. A must-have.
ENJOY!!!
 Disc1: Too loud Disc2: Selection could have been better July 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although Disc1 is certainly a sonic improvement over the rather muddy original CD release, it does up the loudness level a bit (A common effect on CD's in the last decade). Some songs like "Surrender" are actually close to or are actually clipping in certain areas, which is a real shame. I'm also confused as to why the longer versions of "Seconds", "New Year's Day" and "Like a Song" weren't used in the re-mastering effort.
But Disc2 is where my confusion really starts to sink in. Many songs have been available as import CD Singles or B-sides and it's nice to have them all together on one CD. And "Angels Too Tied To the Ground" is a new song for this very long U2 fan, so that was a very nice surprise. However, they should have never added the newer New Year's Day mixes - they don't belong there! If those were dropped, the CD would have been about 45 minutes long and they could have included other missing gems like the "Be There" demo plus the demos of "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Like a Song", "Surrender" and "THBAO".
How did U2 get this one so wrong? July 22, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was really excited to have the first three U2 albums remastered with bonus tracks for the first time. These are my favorite U2 records (I am off the train after The Joshua Tree) and the b-sides, single only cuts and live tracks are nice to have in one package. So, how did the band screw up War's bonus material? By including some lame New Year's Day Ferry Corsten remixes instead of the original 12" versions. It's really nothing short of a slap in the face to the fans, whom i'm sure would like to have seen only original period songs included. October makes the same mistake by adding the Common Ground remix of Tomorrow, but that's a minor quibble. And while I know it would have been impossible to get ALL the War versions on the 2nd cd, it would have been in keeping with the spirit of the records to just play it straight. A five star record knocked down to three - what a shame....The other cds BOY **** and OCTOBER *****
Five Stars but with reservations July 22, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Call me a nitpicker, but I would still like to know why this remastered version isn't the same as the MFSL gold CD. I have that one as well, and unfortunately it's still the gold standard. I say unfortunately because it's so hard to come by without forking over a week's paycheck, and while I'm lucky enough to have it, it would have been nice to give everyone a chance to hear the album that way.
I just wish they would have put the full version of "Seconds" as is on the MFSL version. Original LP (and CD) pressings listed the song as 3:24, but that version never showed up til the Mobile Fidelity version came out. Also, the gold version's "Like A Song" is 5:00, while "New Year's Day" is 5:38 (four extra beats before Edge's solo in the middle of the song). Sounds trivial, but it raises the question, if the original master tapes were used for this version while Mobile Fidelity also claimed to use the original masters, why the discrepancy? There were timing errors on three other songs as well, so if you're looking for the 5-minute version of "Two Hearts..." or the 6-minute "Surrender", there's apparently no such animal.
But it's still a five star release and even though it might seem redundant to put ALL those remixes of "New Year's Day" and "Two Hearts Beat As One", I'd rather have everything out there for completists sake. I was lucky in 1987 to buy someone's U2 collection on 7-inch back to the U23 EP and even though the value on those singles might be diminished by these songs finally being available on CD, I don't care. If you enjoy the B-sides from these new remasters, wait until The Unforgettable Fire gets the deluxe treatment. I'd guess next year where it's the 25th anniversary.
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