Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday New Year’s Day Bad / Beds Are Burning (snippet) Pride (In the Name of Love) Where the Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet) I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For With or Without You Bullet the Blue Sky / The Star-Spangled Banner (snippet) […]
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Highest Paid Musicians List Topped By U2 and Metallica
Today, Billboard released its list of the highest paid musicians of 2017, which yielded results both surprising and unsurprising. You can decide which of those adjectives applies to the following fact: only 7 of the 50 are women. Lady Gaga was the sole female artist to make it into the Top 10 (#6). Taylor Swift–somewhat […]
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ICYMI: U2’s Facebook Live Q&A
I’m on an island at a busy intersection – which (fact alert!) happens to be the only U2 lyric to contain the word “busy.” Like you, I have places to be and jobs to do – and yet, we all strive to stay plugged in to all things U2. If today’s Facebook Live Q&A was […]
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U2101 – Silver and Gold
Today, I’m continuing my series of articles of songs from The Joshua Tree. The choice of song for this article is one that was initially written and recorded in 1985, a couple of years before The Joshua Tree was released in 1987, but a re-recorded version of “Silver and Gold” was released as a B-side […]
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U2101 – Trip Through You Wires
Since the announcement of the latest Joshua Tree Tour, I’ve been focusing on lesser known highlights from the album the upcoming tour takes it’s name from. One such underappreciated song comes from The Joshua Tree’s second side, the wild and unruly song that hasn’t been played live since 1987, “Trip Through Your Wires”
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U2101 – Mothers of the Disappeared
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you probably already know that U2 has announced their upcoming Joshua Tree 2017/2019 Tour, on which they plan to play the entire Joshua Tree album in sequence at every show. This means that we, the fans, are going to be treated to some wonderful […]
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U2101 – Red Hill Mining Town
As I sit down to write this, the U2 world is engulfed in an inferno of rumors. What’s known for sure is this – this year, 2017, is the thirtieth anniversary of the original release of U2’s hit record The Joshua Tree, and U2 seems to be planning a tour or a series of concerts […]
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U2101 – Exit
“Exit” is a song from U2’s best-selling album, The Joshua Tree, which was first released in 1987. “Exit” is a dark song, both lyrically and musically, and the song’s words concern a trip into the mind of a very disturbed individual. For a band like U2, who have made their reputation recording hopeful, uplifting songs […]
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