As I wrote last week, in my review of opening night, U2’s current tour has been able to come up with some surprises – things that surprised me, anyway, but I made it a point to steer clear of spoilers while the band was in rehearsals, before the tour began. One of those surprises is […]
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Since nearly the start of 2017, U2 fandom, collectively, has been counting down to the start of the Joshua Tree 2017 Tour. As my part of that countdown, I’ve been focusing each week on tracks that have some connection, however loose, to the album whose thirtieth anniversary is being celebrated this year. Well, the countdown […]
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This week, we’re back on track after last week’s quick divergence away from our series on Joshua Tree related tracks. Our topic today is one of those songs that didn’t make the cut when The Joshua Tree was initially released, but was included on the twentieth anniversary edition as a bonus track. The song is […]
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This week, I’m temporarily setting aside my ongoing series on Joshua Tree related songs to talk about another recent release, U2’s collaboration with West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar, a song titled “XXX”.
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I don’t usually write about remixes or alternate versions for these weekly articles, but today is a little bit of a special occasion, so I decided to make an exception. Just hours ago, as I write this, Irish radio personality (and long-time friend of the band) Dave Fanning premiered on his radio program the new […]
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Since the announcement of U2’s Joshua Tree Tour 2017, I’ve been making an attempt to write these articles about songs that are related to The Joshua Tree, even if they didn’t make the final album. One such song is the topic of this week’s article, a B-side from the “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m […]
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One of my favorite things about The Joshua Tree era of U2’s career is the quantity and quality of unique B-sides. There were six songs that were released on that album’s various singles that weren’t available at that time on any other releases. That’s more than half an album’s worth of new music, and what’s […]
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When it was decided in the early part of 1987 that U2 would not be performing their song “Red Hill Mining Town” live in concert, I imagine that the members of U2 were of the collective opinion that they wanted to do something else to show their solidarity with the mining communities of the UK.
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Even though The Joshua Tree is U2’s best-selling album, there are some songs – outtakes and the like – which are connected to this record but are still slightly obscure. One such example is the “One Tree Hill Reprise”, which will be released in about three months on the thirtieth anniversary edition of The Joshua […]
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Even though “Sunday Bloody Sunday” is frequently cited as the first time U2 made a political statement, I have fond feelings for another song – from the same album as “Sunday Bloody Sunday” – that I feel could tie with that other more famous piece for that title. I’m talking about “Like a Song”, one […]
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