U2 - Boy download free

Boy. What else is there to say? It's U2. Early U2. It's Rock, actually Post-punk since the era for it was beginning to close. Bono's vocals, Edge's guitar effects, Adam's deep bass, Larry's blitzkrieg drums. The band was just starting out in Ireland, and like most bands, you have to start out sounding like something else that already exists before creating your own sound. Most bands start out like this and U2 is no exception. At least the album is very decent in terms of the genre.I Will Follow: Bono laments the loss of his mother years before, Edge uses high strung guitaring with some clean sound. Larry runs down on the drums with toms and snare triplets. Adam goes up and down on the bass. The song has sounds of shattering glass (or christmas ornaments?) and some chimes.Twilight: Edge opens with some solo riffs and it immediately goes into song. Bono has some shallow vocals and jumps around in his singing especially "TWI-LIGHT!". Not much to say about this song, but it runs well with the album.An Cat Dubh suite: I basically call the next three songs "An Cat Dubh" (or The Black Cat) suite. I do this primarily because each song segues into the next ending with Out of Control and ends the first side of the LP version.An Cat Dubh starts very slow and remains that way for most of the song, but sounds a lot like marching. Into the Heart is very calm and not very full. Little to no drumming and Edge runs a echoing guitar with Adam doing a simple bass line. Out of Control returns to a punk rock sound starting with Adam pounding a bass line which The Edge then enters and Larry starts hitting the hi-hats in 16th notes. The song shows what's to come later on the album.Stories for Boys: From their U2 Three EP, Stories for Boys opens the second half of the album with similarity to Out of Control. Not much to say on this song, again.The Ocean: Shortest track (I think U2's shortest "actual" track out of their whole career). Not much to say. Very deep guitar and bass, ocean sounds.Day Without Me: U2's first single from the album. Opens with Edge using longer delay and some phaser. Fast bass strumming from Adam and Bono's shouting vocals about his own struggle within. Wishing for "A Day without me". Edge (or Bono?) provides some very high pitched vocals near the last minute of the song.Another Time, Another Place: Another punk song. The funniest thing I heard on the album "Ay-ya ya, Look at her, she's so beautiful", Bono completely sounds like he's lost in his own thoughts.The Electric Co./Shadows and Tall Trees: Both songs segue into each other. Electric Co. provides some delay triplets coming from the Edge and Larry starts crashing those cymbals. This song, I feel, has the easiest lyrics to sing along to, though Bono is fast-paced this time. The false fade out gives the song more feel as Bono ad lib.s through the rest of the song after Edge's solo. Right when Co. finishes, Tall Trees immeadiately starts with a calm tone. Over the course of the song, the chorus is multi-tracked with a chorus of voices singing "SHADOWS, SHADOWS". This resembles some of the much that comes in their later works. The song slowly fades out too.Untitled – I really saw no point in this track. You can't tell what's going on, but it sounds like it's recording something in an auditorium with a brass band going off..... Good end to an album?Boy is a good starter album for U2. I have to give it 4 stars though because even though it delivers, half the tracks bear similar resemblence in Bono's singing. Edge's use of effects and riffs go hand in hand with the rest of the guys. This album showed what was to become of U2 before the next albums "October" and "War" were conceived.