These days, keeping up with all Bono’s radio interviews is practically a full-time job. Just when you think you’re up on all of them, someone tweets you that you haven’t lived as a U2 fan until you hear the Dave Fanning interview. So you listen, and of course it’s superb because it’s nine times longer, […]
Read MoreCovering U2 – Ordinary Love Mixes
I’m going to take sort of a break from our coverage of all new things related to the new album for today’s article, mostly because, as far as I know, there haven’t been any remixes of any of the new material yet. The closest I can get is Ordinary Love, which has had a ton […]
Read MoreU2101 – Every Breaking Wave
Today I want to take a quick look at “Every Breaking Wave”, another song from U2’s latest, Songs of Innocence. “Every Breaking Wave” was very nearly released five years ago as part of No Line on the Horizon. Of course, I’d love to hear a good quality studio recording of the song as it existed […]
Read MoreWhy U2? #30 – U2’s Reactions to Criticism
A hot topic of conversation lately has been the backlash against U2 and Apple following the free release of Songs of Innocence. Of course, this is far from the first (or worst) time the band have been the focus of some negativity, and one thing that I really admire about the band is the way […]
Read MoreKnow Your Bonoisms, Part 12 – Bono on U2 Haters
Bono knows that haters gonna hate, but he’s handling the backlash with the class that we all know he’s capable of. In one of the plethora of radio interviews this past week, it would have been great to hear him say, “Who the hell is Tyler the Creator, and what kind of name is that, […]
Read MoreCovering U2 – Why All the Hate?
This week, I wanted to “cover” one particular aspect of the last week’s events – namely, the irrational reaction that some people have had to being given a free copy of the new U2 album. You’d think that nothing would surprise me at this point, but I have to confess that I was once again […]
Read MoreU2101 – The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
The last few albums released by the band have all been introduced to the world via a first single that tried to strike a balance between sing-along hooks and buzzsaw guitar rock. The first example of this came about back in 2004 when How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb was launched with “Vertigo”. Vertigo may […]
Read MoreWhy U2? – #29 – This Has Been a Great Week!
Today’s article practically writes itself. I mean, really – I’m sure that there are some out there somewhere who weren’t impressed (some people are just never happy) but even the most casual U2 would have to be head over heels in love with the band after this past week. Tuesday was one of the coolest […]
Read MoreU2’s deal with Apple, and why some people went Bananas
I’m sure everyone has stumbled across some negativity towards the recent release of Songs Of Innocence for free on iTunes. This is my interpretation of what happened. So U2 and Apple made a deal. Apple will pay U2 a lump sum of money (reportedly $100m), in order to buy the rights to give Songs Of […]
Read MoreKnow Your Bonoisms, Part 11 – Bono’s Letter to Fans
Because you’re tapped out on Songs of Innocence reviews, I’ll spare you and just fire out a few quick opinions: “Every Breaking Wave” – It seems like it’s the current fan favorite, but it reminds me of an assortment of non-U2 80s acts. Nothing wrong with that, though. Iris – Best lyrics on the whole […]
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