With the tour now less than ten weeks away, one question that’s been on my mind lately is “What song will they open with?”
Read MoreThe State of the U2 Address – The Build-up to The Innocence + Experience Tour
Things have been quiet in U2-land lately as the band gear up for their Innocence + Experience World tour, which opens on May 14th in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. That’s just about ten and a half weeks off as I write this, and there a couple of questions concerning the tour on […]
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Why U2? #52 – Their Future
I started writing these Why U2? articles a year ago this week, and in that time we’ve covered a lot of reasons that U2 is more than just my favorite band. They represent a way of life for me, and for many of you, I’m sure. Everything we’ve discussed, from their sense of humor to […]
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Why U2? #51 – They’re Literate
Don’t you love how literate U2 is? This goes all the way back to their first album, Boy, where they referenced Oscar Wilde in “The Ocean” and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies with the title of the album’s final cut, “Shadows and Tall Trees”. A few years later, on War, “40” quoted the Bible, […]
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Why U2? #50 – They’re Great Winners
As I write this, the Grammys will be airing in just a few hours. Despite all of our hopes, it seems pretty clear by this point that U2 will not be performing this year.
Read MoreWhy U2? #49 – They Always Leave Me Wanting More
It was PT Barnum who famously said “Always leave them wanting more”, and I believe that U2 took that piece of advice to heart. There are almost innumerable pieces of music out there that are known to exist but which have yet to see an official release of any sort. A few of these are […]
Read MoreWhy U2? #48 – The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
Earlier this week, I was listening to a band who isn’t U2, (I’m not going to say who because this isn’t about tearing anyone down), and I remembered reading about how the particular record I was spinning was recorded with each band member recording their parts separately, in different studios in different parts of the […]
Read MoreWhy U2? #47 – Their Gratitude
I’ve heard and read a lot of reasons over the years that people have for hating U2, especially Bono, but none of them have ever been that the band were rude or anything less than gracious in person. It must get old to not be able to leave the house without being pestered for autographs […]
Read MoreU2101 – Your Blue Room
I’m not sure why, but the Passengers album has been on my mind lately. Although it’s not technically a U2 record, I hope that no one will object if I talk a little about it today. The first time I ever heard Passengers, I was in my buddy Travis’s car, late at night in a […]
Read MoreWhy U2? #46 – Their Failures
I have a pretty clear memory of the first time I viewed the Pop*Mart Live From Mexico concert on VHS, particularly the part right before “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”. Bono was thanking the audience for sticking with the band, talking about their motivations for making an album like Pop (which I […]
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