U2 has had a significant connection to Berlin throughout their career, particularly during the 1990s when they recorded their album “Achtung Baby” in the city. The band was drawn to the city’s vibrant and creative atmosphere, which was undergoing a dramatic transformation after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The city and its history have […]
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Right from the beginning, I should tell you that there is a lot going on in this video. Firstly, we have scenes from the live-action film Batman Forever, the soundtrack to which is where the song initially appeared. I don’t know a lot about how these kinds of music videos are made, so I don’t […]
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Last week, I was fairly critical of U2’s video for their cover of “Night and Day,” and I commented that it was obvious that U2 was a band in flux at the time that video was being made. Well, with this week’s offering, U2’s video for “The Fly,” all of that uncertainty is out the […]
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One of the great unreleased tragedies of U2’s career is the score that Bono and Edge wrote for the 1990 stage production of A Clockwork Orange: 2004. I say that it’s a tragedy because the one small glimpse that the world at large was given into this musical adventure, a B-side from the 1991 single […]
Read MoreWhile I was driving home from my day job tonight, my iPhone randomly chose to play the following three songs for me, in this order: “Cedarwood Road”, “The Fly”, and “Mofo”. It struck me as the last of the three was playing that each of the three songs transported me to a very different location […]
Read MoreI know that a lot of you are probably groaning to yourselves after reading the title up there “The Fly?!? Oh, man! I hate that stupid song!” while just as many of you (I’m looking at you here, Joe) are jumping up and down with joy. My first experience with the song came right after […]
Read MoreI love guitar music. From power chords to wailing solos, the instrument upon which rock ‘n’ roll is based has never lost the hold over me that started when I was a teenager, just discovering girls and my own musical interests, and i do worship at the altar of guitar heroes like Slash and Jimi […]
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