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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U2 Spotlight – Alternate Versions of “You’re The Best Thing About Me”
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m absolutely loving all these different versions of “You’re the Best Thing About Me”. Hardly a week has gone by this month that we haven’t gotten some small release from the biggest band in the world, and they’ve mostly centered around the new single that is […]
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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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U2 Spotlight – The Cancelled St. Louis Show
I normally reserve these “U2 Spotlight” articles for weeks when there was some big news in the U2 world that wasn’t quite right for a U2101 article, which I try to keep focused on a particular song each week. I wanted to say something this week about what happened yesterday in St. Louis, and I […]
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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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Songs of Innocence: 3 Years Later
I love writing about U2 album anniversaries, and Songs of Innocence is no exception. Three years after U2’s surprise release of the long-awaited record fans have come to abbreviate as SOI (and as Ken Wong tweeted today, “Oddly the same day we learned about the existence of petty bitching about getting something for free”), what […]
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U2 Spotlight – The Blackout
We are now officially in the age of Songs of Experience. That era began this last Wednesday when U2 streamed a video of themselves in Amsterdam playing the brand new song “The Blackout” on Facebook. This is not the article for my review of the song – I’m saving that for the official release of […]
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U2 rocks out as it readies post-Trump album
NEW YORK (AFP) – U2 on Wednesday (Aug 30) rocked out on a guitar-charging first track of its upcoming album, which the Irish rock legends had largely finished last year but revisited following Donald Trump’s shock election victory. In the first taste of its upcoming album Songs Of Experience, the band released The Blackout, a […]
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We will run like a river to the sea
I have been avoiding this post for a really long time. Weeks, actually. Because even though I knew exactly what I wanted to say, putting my thoughts into words took a little bit of courage. I always hope that someone, somewhere out there, finds meaning in the things that I write. But this time, 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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U2 to release new album on December 1
U2 have revealed when they’ll release their new album – and it’s just in time for Christmas. ‘Songs of Experience’, the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2014’s smash hit ‘Songs of Innocence’, will be released on December 1. The record will launch on World Aids Day in conjunction with Project Red, the fundraising charity Bono set […]
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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.
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