Album Art Flashback: U2

I thought I would be appropriate to have a New Years Day theme for my first blog post of 2010. So, I created a composite of the cover for U2’s 1983 single New Year’s Day. The song is the third track on the band’s album War (right) and was the lead single.

The cover art for War and the previous album Boy have always creeped me out a bit. There seems to be a weird pedophilia vibe going on that I just don’t get. The cover art for New Year’s Day also has a photograph of a semi-nude boy. (U2 fans, please don’t jump down my throat.)

New Year’s Day has been named by Rolling Stone as one of the top 500 songs of all time. It was written in support of the Polish Solidarity movement.