Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, October 1981

30 Sep 1981
'Needs time to work its way into your heart...'

'It's not a fashionable record either, because it needs time to work its way into your heart. And if U2's emotionalism is at times threatening in its nakedness, they're detractors will just have to lump it because they're here to stay.'

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