release date: Nov. 21, 1983
format: vinyl (IMA3) / cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,88]
producer: Jimmy Iovine
label: Island Records - nationality: Ireland
Live Mini-album by U2 is a very fine live release consisting of 8 tracks. The location is obviously pointing to the Red Rocks concert in Denver, Colorado held on Jun. 5, 1983; however, the album consists of three different live concerts, and only tracks #A1 and #A4 are actually taken from the Denver concert in June, whereas track #A2 is from a concert in Boston, Massachusetts on May 6, '83 and all of the B-side tracks are recordings from the Rockpalast 83 concert in West Germany, Aug. 20, 1983. The video / dvd is 'a must-have' for any U2 fan, and that only shows images and sound from the concert in Denver - AND it contains 20 tracks.
The selection of tracks quite nicely encompasses their career so far with songs from from their so far three studio albums, although it only contains one track from October. It's a fine portrait of the band's skills as a dynamic live pop / rock band in ravishing progress.
A 2-disc box set containing both the original Mini-Album and the DVD was released in 2008.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]
