Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: The awakening of innocence

I first heard this LP (as they were then!) as a 17 year old in 1981. I've lived the same length of a lifetime since then, but despite being older and a good deal more cynical, I can still never fail to be moved by "October". I think I was looking for the same things they were looking for, or so I thought at 17. I can still hear both anguish and innocence in songs like "Tomorrow", "I fall down", "October" and "Stranger in a strange land", and i gently laugh at myself, as the songs bring back memories of how callow and inexperienced with life I was. The 90's U2 is a splendid artistic machine, now that they've left the Joshua Tree pomposity behind. "October" is a picture of how the early 80's U2 were looking for clues in directions that no other bands were going in at the time.