{"title":"1980-1989 Rock And Metal Cassette Tapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCassette tapes with rock and metal related music released from 1980 to 1989 with featured bands like: Metallica.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"u2-october-cassette","title":"U2 - October (Cassette)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OjXZtkdnmyQ?si=Zg38cWhG2v2C3Ffj\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003eOctober is the second studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 12 October 1981 by Island Records, and was produced by Steve Lillywhite. The album was lyrically inspired by the memberships of Bono, the Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. in a Christian group called the Shalom Fellowship, and consequently it contains spiritual and religious themes. Their involvement with Shalom Fellowship led them to question the relationship between the Christian faith and the \"rock and roll\" lifestyle, and threatened to break up the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter completing the third leg of the Boy Tour in February 1981, U2 began to write new material for October, entering the recording studio in July 1981. Just as they did for their 1980 debut, Boy, the band recorded at Windmill Lane Studios with Lillywhite producing. The recording sessions were complicated by Bono's loss of a briefcase containing in-progress lyrics for the new songs, forcing a hurried, improvisational approach to completing the album on time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctober was preceded by the lead single \"Fire\" in July 1981, while its second single, \"Gloria\", coincided with its release. The album received mixed reviews and limited radio play. 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It was produced by Steve Lillywhite and was released on 20 October 1980 by Island Records. Boy contains songs from the band's 40-song repertoire at the time, including two tracks that were re-recorded from their original versions on the group's debut release, the EP Three.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoy was recorded from July to September 1980 at Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios, which became U2's chosen recording location during the 1980s. It was their first time working with Lillywhite, who employed non-standard production techniques, such as recording drummer Larry Mullen Jr. playing in a stairwell, and recording smashed bottles and cutlery skimmed against a spinning bicycle wheel.[1] The band found Lillywhite to be very encouraging and creative, and he subsequently became a frequent producer of their recorded work. Thematically, the album's lyrics reflect on adolescence, innocence, and the passage into adulthood,[2] themes represented on its cover artwork through the photo of a young boy's face.[1]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoy received generally positive reviews and included one of U2's first singles to receive airplay on US radio, \"I Will Follow\". The release was followed by the band's first tour of continental Europe and the US, the Boy Tour.[3] The album peaked on the UK chart at number 52 in August 1981 and in the US at number 63. In 2003, Boy was ranked 417th on Rolling Stone's list of \"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\". 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It was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and released on 1 October 1984 by Island Records. The band wanted to pursue a new musical direction following the harder-hitting rock of their previous album, War (1983). As a result, they employed Eno and Lanois to produce and assist in their experimentation with a more ambient sound. The resulting change in direction was at the time the band's most dramatic. 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