I know that many people who read my article every week might not think much of the Passengers album. It is weird, experimental, and strangely inaccessible. There is a debate on whether or not it should even be included in U2’s catalog. For the record, I believe that it should be included–all four members of […]
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I’m going to start out this week’s article by retelling a story that many of you probably already know. I feel, however, that I would be remiss in discussing this song without relaying the information that I have, so forgive me if you’ve heard this one. Back in 2001 or 2002, just after Bono’s father, […]
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I often think about how different No Line On the Horizon could have been had U2 stuck to their original plans. Apparently, the album, before it was released, was quite different– remember, producer Daniel Lanois said at one point that the album was as much of a departure from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb […]
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Bono played around a lot with writing about different characters for the No Line on the Horizon album. One of these characters was a reporter, stationed in Lebanon. I always thought that he was a newspaper reporter, mainly because he references the importance of headlines, but I suppose that he could be writing for the […]
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It isn’t often that the members of U2 feel so moved by a single song, or like a song so much, that they choose to name their album after that song. It’s happened, of course, but now that I think about it, in most of those circumstances, it wasn’t so much that the band were […]
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I often get asked how I can claim to be an atheist, as I do, and still be obsessed with a “Christian” band, like U2. In response, I first explain that I don’t think of U2 as a Christian band. Sure, they have some songs that talk about God, but I’ve always thought of that […]
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I expect this to be one of the least traffic-generating articles that I’ve written for U2Radio.com, simply because I don’t expect the topic of the article to draw many readers. “Get On Your Boots” is probably the most hated U2 song that I can think of, and I think that that is a shame. Let […]
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Whenever U2 puts anything out for purchase, I make it a habit to at least buy the biggest, most elaborate, (most expensive) format available so as to not miss anything that is being made available as part of that release. Sometimes, if funds are available, I also buy copies of other formats, too. I’m certain […]
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As I think about my personal history with the song “Grace,” the first thing that comes to mind is an anecdote from about eighteen years ago. I was sitting in line before my first general admission show, a concert at Rupp Arena for U2’s stop in Lexington, Kentucky on the Elevation Tour. The topic of […]
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“4th of July” is one of those songs from The Unforgettable Fire that I feel would have been better as a B-side. Honestly, it’s not that I dislike the song, although it isn’t my favorite, I often wonder what The Unforgettable Fire would have been like if it had contained one more “real” song instead of this […]
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