It shouldn’t be any secret to those who read my articles regularly that I am a fan of pop music. I’m a fan of good music, in general, regardless of the genre, and I don’t see a thing in the world wrong with a good pop tune, with a strong melody and a good hook, […]
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I’ve made an effort over the last few weeks to cover the few tracks from War that I hadn’t already written about since this year that album, an important album in U2’s history, celebrates thirty-five years of existence. Today is the last of my articles on War’s album tracks, so I think that next week […]
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U2 has never been shy about exploring genres other than rock. From the pseudo-rap of “Numb” to the club inspired music of “Mofo,” our boys are determined to break down barriers wherever they find them, and musical classifications are no exception. That brings us to what I consider to be the band’s first experiment with […]
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Wow. What a week, huh? U2 kicked off the eXPERIENCE+iNNOCENCE Tour in grand fashion in Tulsa, Oklahoma with what might be my favorite set-list ever. The band also released a single containing remixes of “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way.” This release contains a great version of the titular song in the Funk […]
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I think that every U2 fan in the world, unless they’ve been living under a rock, was aware that tonight was the opening show of the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour. I was lucky enough to catch a few streams of the show, (a HUGE thanks to all those who broadcast the show from Tulsa) and […]
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Thirty-five years ago this year, U2 released War, the record that turned them into stars, at least in the UK. Since we’ve finished up our series on Rattle & Hum, I thought that it would be appropriate to go over a few highlights from War, before moving on to Zooropa, which also celebrates an important anniversary […]
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U2 used to perform a lot more covers on-stage than they do now. Songs like “C’Mon Everybody,” “All Along the Watchtower,” and “People Get Ready” were important parts of U2’s set-lists during the late eighties. One other song to add to that list is U2’s cover of a classic Beatles song, “Helter Skelter.” I consider […]
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Since in my last article I wrote about a song that was co-written by the legendary Bob Dylan, I thought that it was appropriate to discuss another Bob Dylan contribution this week. I’m talking about a song that was written by the master wordsmith, (although his version is not the most widely known), “All Along […]
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This week, we’re talking about one of the most underrated songs in U2’s entire catalog. You know the type that I’m talking about–one of those songs that wasn’t released as a single and never received the attention that it deserves. There have been plenty of songs like that in U2’s career–songs like “Like a Song,” […]
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This week, we are continuing our series highlighting some of the songs from Rattle and Hum, since that album is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year. Today’ topic is a little bit of an odd duck–it is a song that represents the first instance of Edge taking lead vocal on an entire song, with no […]
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