A new U2 album is not the earth-shattering event it might once have been. The biggest talking point around 2014’s Songs of Innocence was that it was bunged, unsought, onto the hard drives of 300 million iTunes users — the music forgotten in the ensuing furore. With Songs of Experience, it is therefore understandable that […]
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U2101 – American Soul
I know that some people first downloaded and heard this song a couple of weeks back when it was available for a short time from U2.com. I intentionally put off listening to it, though, because I didn’t want to hear any more of Songs of Experience before the new album was released.
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U2101 – The Blackout
Some of you might have expected me to write this article a few weeks ago, when U2 launched the Songs of Experience promotional era with that video of a live performance from Amsterdam of “The Blackout,” but I decided at that time to hold off on covering the song until a studio version was officially […]
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U2101 – Get Out of Your Own Way
I was at school, on a break between classes, this past week when I happened to look online on my iPhone and I discovered that there had been some U2 action.
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U2101 – Are You Gonna Wait Forever
With just over a month until Songs of Experience’s predicted release date, as we are awaiting confirmation of that date and a few other details, I’m still excited about “You’re the Best Thing About Me.” The first single from U2’s forthcoming album has sustained me through all the weeks of wondering about Songs of Experience. […]
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U2 Spotlight – Impending Announcements
So, during this past week, we finally got some information on Songs of Experience. U2songs.com has been continuously blowing my mind this summer with their coverage of the ongoing saga of U2’s forthcoming album, and they dropped some new info yesterday that totally made my week.
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U2101 – Dirty Day
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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