October (album)
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11 |
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41′08 ″ |
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Bono ( vocals ) The Edge (vocals, guitar ) Adam Clayton ( bass guitar ) Larry Mullen Junior ( drums ) |
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October is the second music album by Irish rock band U2 , recorded between July and August 1981 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin . The album was produced by Steve Lillywhite . The sound engineer was Paul Thomas, assisted by Kevin Maloney. October was released on October 12, 1981.
Themes and motifs
The thematic focus of the album is on religion and belief . This is particularly evident in the pieces Gloria (with the Latin refrain “Gloria in te domine / Gloria exultate”), With a Shout (Jerusalem) and Tomorrow . But the motif of blindness is also taken up in the song I Threw a Brick Through a Window :
- “No one… no one is blind
- Than he who will not see
- No one… no one is blind
- Than me "
The title song October , played on the piano by The Edge, touches on another spiritual motif with exactly 28 words about the interplay of blossom and transience.
background
The recordings for the album were marked by many difficulties, among other things, Bono was stolen a bag in 1981 in Portland / USA during a concert shortly before the start of the recording, in which there was a notebook with all the irreplaceable texts for the album. During the recording, the band was forced to improvise many of the text passages. After Bono repeatedly asked for clues at concerts in Portland over the next 23 years, a 44-year-old woman handed the bag and its contents over to Bono on October 23, 2004. She had found it in the attic of an apartment building.
Track list
- Gloria - 4:14
- I Fall Down - 3:39
- I Threw a Brick Through a Window - 4:54
- Rejoice - 3:37
- Fire - 3:51
- Tomorrow - 4:39
- October - 2:21
- With a Shout (Jerusalem) - 4:02
- Stranger in a Strange Land - 3:56
- Scarlet - 2:53
- Is That All? - 2:59
2008 Remix Deluxe Edition
- Gloria (Live, Hammersmith Palais, London, December 6th 1982)
- I Fall Down (Live, Hammersmith Palais, London, December 6th 1982)
- I Threw a Brick Through a Window (Live, Hammersmith Palais, London, December 6th 1982)
- Fire (Live, Hammersmith Palais, London, December 6th 1982)
- October (Live, Hammersmith Palais, London, December 6th 1982)
- With a Shout (Jerusalem) [Live, BBC Session, Sep 3, 1981]
- Scarlet (Live, BBC Session, Sep 3, 1981)
- I Threw a Brick Through a Window (Live, BBC Session, Sep 3, 1981)
- J. Swallo
- A celebration
- Trash, trampoline and the party girl
- I Will Follow (Live, The Paradise, Boston, March 6, 1981)
- The Ocean (Live, The Paradise, Boston, March 6, 1981)
- The Cry / The Electric Co. (Live, The Paradise, Boston, March 6, 1981)
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Live, The Paradise, Boston, March 6, 1981)
- I Will Follow (Live, Hattem, May 14, 1982)
- Tomorrow (Common Ground Version)
Fire and Gloria were released as single
Individual evidence
- ↑ didactic material on song analysis, accessed on October 27, 2013 (PDF; 163 kB)
- ↑ Swr3: Bono's stolen song sketches for “October” back ( memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
