Bono played around a lot with writing about different characters for the No Line on the Horizon album. One of these characters was a reporter, stationed in Lebanon. I always thought that he was a newspaper reporter, mainly because he references the importance of headlines, but I suppose that he could be writing for the […]
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It isn’t often that the members of U2 feel so moved by a single song, or like a song so much, that they choose to name their album after that song. It’s happened, of course, but now that I think about it, in most of those circumstances, it wasn’t so much that the band were […]
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I often get asked how I can claim to be an atheist, as I do, and still be obsessed with a “Christian” band, like U2. In response, I first explain that I don’t think of U2 as a Christian band. Sure, they have some songs that talk about God, but I’ve always thought of that […]
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I expect this to be one of the least traffic-generating articles that I’ve written for U2Radio.com, simply because I don’t expect the topic of the article to draw many readers. “Get On Your Boots” is probably the most hated U2 song that I can think of, and I think that that is a shame. Let […]
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Whenever U2 puts anything out for purchase, I make it a habit to at least buy the biggest, most elaborate, (most expensive) format available so as to not miss anything that is being made available as part of that release. Sometimes, if funds are available, I also buy copies of other formats, too. I’m certain […]
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As I think about my personal history with the song “Grace,” the first thing that comes to mind is an anecdote from about eighteen years ago. I was sitting in line before my first general admission show, a concert at Rupp Arena for U2’s stop in Lexington, Kentucky on the Elevation Tour. The topic of […]
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“4th of July” is one of those songs from The Unforgettable Fire that I feel would have been better as a B-side. Honestly, it’s not that I dislike the song, although it isn’t my favorite, I often wonder what The Unforgettable Fire would have been like if it had contained one more “real” song instead of this […]
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I’ve written in the past about that magical year at boarding school when I was first introduced to and became interested in U2. One memory I have of that time is that the CD of The Unforgettable Fire that I had access to was scratched so that the beginning of “Indian Summer Sky” skipped. For […]
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I’ve written in the past about my mixed feeling for the Unforgettable Fire album. There are a few tracks that I consider to be mis-steps, but then there are a few songs that would be highlights no matter what album they were on. I remember reading many years ago a review wherein the reviewer stated […]
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A long time ago, I had a friend named Larry (no, not that Larry). Larry was a really, really cool guy who never complained when I went on and on about this rock band called U2. Because Larry was not familiar with any of U2’s recordings, I decided that what was needed here was a […]
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