October (Remastered)
by
U2
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Release type:What's this?
studio album
First released:
Oct 20 1981

Overview Edit

October is the second album by Irish rock band U2, released in 1981. The album featured spiritual themes, inspired by Bono, The Edge, and Larry Mullen, Jr.'s memberships in a Christian group called the "Shalom Fellowship", which led them to question the relationship between the Christian faith and the rock and roll lifestyle. The album received mixed reviews and limited radio play.

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This particular version Edit

Version description:
Remastered
Record label:
Catalog number:
ICT9680
Release dates:
  • Jul 22 2008

Genres

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR), Alternative Rock, Post-punk, Progressive Rock, Rock, Pop, Classic Rock. Vote on Genres

What do Amazon.com customers think?

5 stars Spiritual Work
U2 have always had an undercurrent of spirituality and religiousness running through their music. Growing up in a country that is literally divided by faith, the band members were obviously influenced by religion. October is their most overtly religious album where songs like "Rejoice", "Fire", "I Fall Down" and "Is That All?" find the band searching for answers to higher questions. "Gloria" opens up the album with a punch as the song which starts off with a driving guitar riff before ending up …
Written by Thomas Magnum
3 stars Not fully formed.
I believe there are certain albums that subjectively achieve greatness by exactly when and where you first heard them, and not necessarily due to their content.

Many of the laudatory reviewers here at Amazon, on this album, go out of their way to mention when and where they first heard this record.

Objectively, it doesn't hold a candle to its' predecessor, "Boy" or its' successor, "War". The songs just aren't there.

It's a well-known fact that Bono had his lyrics pilfered just prior to recording…
Written by M J Heilbron Jr. "Dr. Mo"

Track listing Edit

Credits Edit

  1. composer

    1. U2
  2. design

    1. Ian Finlay [photography]
  3. engineer

  4. performer

    1. Adam Clayton [bass guitar]
    2. Bono [vocals]
    3. The Edge [guitar]
    4. The Edge [piano]
    5. Vincent Kilduff [uillean pipes]
    6. Vincent Kilduff [bodhrán]
  1. producer

  2. writer

    1. U2

Other versions Edit

October 11 tracks format: 1 x vinyl
record label: Island Records
catalog number: 4228422972
release dates: Jun 15 1990 in United States
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October 11 tracks format: 1 x cassette
record label: Island Records
catalog number: ICT9680
release dates: Jun 15 1990
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October 11 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Island Records
catalog number: 4228422972
release dates: Jun 15 1990
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October 11 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Island Records
catalog number: 4228422972
release dates: Jun 15 1990
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October 11 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: 4228422972
release dates: Jun 15 1990
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October 11 tracks format: 1 x vinyl
record label: Island Records
catalog number: 4228422972
release dates: Jun 15 1990
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October 11 tracks format: 1 x cassette
release dates: Oct 17 1990
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October 28 tracks Deluxe Edition
format: 2 x CD
record label: Island Records
catalog number: ICT9680
release dates: Jul 22 2008
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October 11 tracks 2008 Vinyl
format: 1 x vinyl
record label: Island Records
release dates: Oct 20 1981 in United Kingdom
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Trivia Edit

  • recorded at Windmill Lake, Dublin, July - August 81
  • U2 almost disbanded while making this record. Larry, Edge, and Bono were all questioning whether it was right for them to be Christians and be in a band at the same time.

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