A little over twenty years ago, at a time when Zooropa was the most recent album that U2 had released, if you had asked me what my favorite U2 song was, I’d have told you “Dirty Day”.
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U2101 – A Day Without Me
Since my head is still spinning with the release of the first single from Songs of Experience, I thought that today I’d focus on another lead single. We’re going all the way back to 1980 here, and the release of the lead single from U2’s very first album. The song was titled “A Day Without […]
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U2101 – You’re the Best Thing About Me
Here we are, with the first U2101 article about a song from Songs of Experience. This is an exciting time to be alive, to be sure. An old friend of mine used to say that one of the best things about U2 was that they were happening right now. I believed her then and I […]
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U2101 – Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
I sat down today to continue my series on songs from and related to the Pop album, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, but after a little review, I discovered that I have covered the whole album and all of its attendant B-sides and other related songs. So, that means that I can […]
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U2101 – Last Night on Earth
OK, it’s confession time. I’ve always thought that the song “Last Night on Earth”, from the album Pop was a very poor choice for a single. It’s not that I don’t like the song…while it isn’t my favorite by any stretch, I don’t think that it’s a bad song, per se.
Read MoreU2101 – Happiness is a Warm Gun
U2 don’t do a huge amount of covers, so usually when they do one, it’s of a song that’s pretty special. “Unchained Melody” and “Paint it Black” come to mind, as those two songs are stone cold classics which U2 made their own.
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U2101 – If God Will Send His Angels
As the Joshua Tree 2017 Tour continues its trek across Europe, we are keeping on with our series on songs related to the other U2 album that’s currently celebrating a big anniversary.
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U2101 – Do You Feel Loved?
Today, we’re continuing our series on the songs from U2’s 1997 album Pop, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, with an article on that album’s second track, “Do You Feel Loved”. “Do You Feel Loved” is noteworthy in that it is the one U2 song that I am aware of that most heavily […]
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U2101 – The Playboy Mansion
Transcendence through trash. That alliterative phrase really sums up what I believe the band were attempting with 1997’s Pop album and the ensuing Pop*Mart Tour, and nowhere was it better showcased than on one of that album’s unsung heroes, “The Playboy Mansion”.
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U2101 – North and South of the River
Continuing our coverage of the Pop album in this, the year of its twentieth anniversary, I thought that today I’d write about something a little offbeat but still related to Pop. That brings us to “North and South of the River”, a song that initially came to life in 1995, two years before the Pop […]
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