Much like “Mothers of the Disappeared” always gets played whenever U2 is in Argentina, another song that always gets played when the geography is right is “Spanish Eyes”, which usually makes an appearance when the band is in – yep, you guessed it – Spain.
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U2101 – Pride (In the Name of Love)
It was good enough to be U2’s first top 40 hit in the USA, but NME magazine thought it sounded too much like “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, a complaint which has never made much sense to me. I’m talking, of course, about “Pride (In the Name of Love), the second most played song in all of […]
Read MoreU2101 – Zoo Station
On Thursday of this past week, U2 began a 4-show stand in Berlin, Germany, which is, of course, well known as the city where parts of Achtung Baby were recorded. In celebration of that connection, U2 performed their song “Zoo Station”, Achtung Baby’s opening track, for the first time in nearly nine years.
Read MoreU2101 – One
Music comes from funny places. The song “One” is a good example. For a song that came from a tumultuous period in the life of U2, it has come to represent unity, acceptance, and tolerance in a way that the four members of U2 might have found hard to believe when the song was birthed.
Read MoreU2101 – Magnificent
Unlike most U2 fans I talk to, I actually like “Get On Your Boots”. It’s fun and funky and a little bit rockin’ and it scratches a very particular itch for me and my taste in music. I do agree with most fans, however, that it was a poor choice for first single in support […]
Read MoreU2101 – Zooropa
The first few times I heard the Zooropa album, it didn’t really connect with me. As I think back, I can’t really come up with a reason why, except maybe that it was so different.
Read MoreU2101 – Angel of Harlem
“Angel of Harlem” has been on my mind a lot lately, because it’s one of those U2 songs with a radio version that only differs in the most subtle ways from the album version – in the case of “Angel of Harlem”, the difference seems to me to be that the horns are just a […]
Read MoreU2101 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
I have a very distinct memory of the first time I ever heard “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”. I was a child, I’d guess probably nine years old. It was late at night and I was out somewhere with my mom. We were waiting in the car – I think we were […]
Read MoreU2101 – Satellite of Love
This marks the first time that I’ll be talking about a cover for my weekly article. I suppose that the first thing that I should advise you to do is to check out Lou Reed’s sublime original (I’ll even supply a link, right here)
Read MoreU2101 – Party Girl
I debated with myself when titling this article as to whether or not I should use the song’s full name – “Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl”, as it was labeled when it first appeared thirty-three years ago as a B-side on the single for “A Celebration” – but I chose to go with the […]
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