I think that it’s a real shame that Frank Sinatra never got around to recording “Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad”, the song that Bono and Edge wrote for him, while he was still alive. I wonder what Ol’ Blue Eyes thought of the song, and whether it hitting so close to home […]
Read MoreA Very U2 Christmas
What’s your favorite U2 Christmas reference? I don’t just mean U2 Christmas song, because there are U2 Christmas songs, lyrics, collaborations, melodies and more! Like Bono busking on Grafton Street one week from today, I’m giving it my all when it comes to listing all the U2 Christmas references ever recorded (if I missed any, […]
Read MoreU2101 – Looking Back and Ahead
So it seems that U2’s Innocence + Experience Tour is done and over with, at least for now. “What’s next for the band” is the question on all our hearts and minds, so I thought that today I’d take a stab at playing fortune teller and try to guess what the next little bit of […]
Read MoreU2101 – People Have the Power
When U2 returned to Paris on Sunday to play the first of the two shows that were postponed in the wake of last month’s horrible terrorist attacks, emotion and sentiment ran high. It was no surprise, therefore, that the band had something special up their sleeves – an appearance by New York singer / songwriter […]
Read MoreU2 Life Goes On!
This week, those of you returning home from Dublin are probably somewhere between fantastically exhilarated and gravely depressed. You’ve probably forgotten who you are and where you come from, because for the past week, you were Irish – all smiling and making out with the powerful (AKA the upper echelon of U2 fandom, and possibly […]
Read MoreU2101 – With or Without You
“With or Without You” is another one of those songs that U2 will probably never stop playing live, and I suppose that there’s good reason for that. If I had to choose one song to name as U2’s signature cut, it would probably be this hit from 1987 – their very first American number one. […]
Read MoreRachel’s first look at U2’s California
It’s funny to me that just a little over a year ago, I looked at the list of titles on Songs of Innocence and freaked out over a little song called “California (There Is No End To Love).” I knew as soon as I saw that title that I was going to like this strange […]
Read MoreFans say U2’s 3Arena gig like a ‘pub show’
Fans said that U2’s 3Arena homecoming gig was “like a pub show”, saying the gig was so intimate it was like you were in Bono’s house. U2 super fan Beth Nabi, who travelled from the States to see all four 3Arena gigs, told TEN after the gig: “It was special. U2 were so well received […]
Read MoreThe Ultimate U2 Snippet for Dublin
The band is in Dublin, and there are two shows left. What rare song should they play? Obviously, A Sort of Homecoming! As our friends at U2 Gigs recorded, U2 appropriately played this fan favorite at Slane Castle on August 25, 2001, and again on November 16, 2001 in Oakland, CA (that time, because the […]
Read MoreU2101 – Mysterious Ways
In the fall of 2002, around the time that U2’s Best of 1990-2000 came out, I was working at a record store in Cincinnati, Ohio. I remember that during the first time I played the store’s promotional copy over the in-store stereo system, when “Mysterious Ways” came on, one of the girls I worked with said “I […]
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