U2 - Fire (40th Anniversary Edition)Released for RSD 2021 (June Drop) Fire was originally released as the first single from U2s second album October in July 1981, with J Swallow as the b side. This 40th anniversary picture disc edition includes both tracks on side A, plus two live recordings of Fire on side B from Werchter in Belgium in July 1982 and from a BBC recording at the Hammersmith Palais in London in December 1982. All tracks have been newly remastered. Picture Disc Info, 4

where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world

It meanders and flops onto a table and sits and waits for its birth

butt-wiggling funk

a sprinkling of keys

to better understand it

that makes it all seem equally accessible -- which is a big reason why it turned out to be an alt-rock touchstone of the '90s

post punk shadows of the late 70s and deliver an as yet genre-less record that would come to define the 80s

Available on indies-only transparent orange vinyl

majestic drones and deep listening ambience collide on a new album from Richard Norris entitled ‘Elements’

number 23 on the UK Albums Chart

I wanted to write a song

and end again