Today we are discussing the promotional music video for “Two Hearts Beat as One,” the second single from U2’s third album, War. “Two Hearts Beat as One” is a fun, upbeat song and in general the music video follows the mood of the song. There are lots of shots of circus performers, a theme that […]
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This week we pay a visit to the video for U2’s first bona fide hit, “New Year’s Day,” although it only qualified as a hit in certain parts of the world…not so much in the United States, where I live.
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As a fan, I always get excited when U2 releases a new single between albums. It’s as if the band is telling us, “this song is so amazing, burning with such intensity and modernity and relevance that we can’t even wait for the next album. We have to put this out NOW.” I felt that […]
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A few years ago, when U2 was in the middle of a program of remastering and re-releasing several of their early albums, I really got a kick out of the songs that were left-over from the from the sessions of the album in question. On several such tracks, the band took an existing musical track, […]
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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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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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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 […]
Read MoreThere are a few songs in U2’s catalog that the band has never played live. Songs like “Acrobat” and “Red Hill Mining Town” that, despite the most fervent hopes of the band’s fan-base, have never made the transition to an on-stage performance. Add to that list today’s topic, “Drowning Man”, from 1983’s War album.
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