“People who can’t stand U2’s earnest, heal-the-world side may want to turn elsewhere right now. The word “love,” unironic and high-minded, recurs all over “Songs of Experience,” the band’s long-gestating sequel to its 2014 album, “Songs of Innocence.” Where “Songs of Innocence” was full of youthful biographical specifics, both euphoric and grim, from the […]
Read MoreU2 is still the biggest rock band in the world, and they’re a Christian rock band. It can be easy to overlook this fact because they’re not that kind of Christian recording group, but the evidence speaks for itself. Now, maybe this comes as a surprise. Maybe you understood U2 to be vaguely spiritual or […]
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This past week saw the completion of sales for the first round of shows for next year’s Experience + Innocence Tour. Unless you’re the type of U2 fan who completely avoids contact with other fans at all costs, then you already know that many fans were…let’s be nice and call it displeased.
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Songs Of Experience, out Friday On stage, U2 are as big as ever. The Joshua Tree tour in the summer was short by their standards, whizzing through the sports grounds of the western world, yet it still ended up as the 12th most lucrative tour of all time – a chart topped by their own […]
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Is U2’s new album Songs of Experience the most human Bono has been in a while? The creation of Songs of Experience, U2’s 14th album, began around the time of Bono’s “high-energy bicycle accident” in November, 2014. His injuries to his shoulder and upper arm were so serious he feared he would never play guitar […]
Read MoreA 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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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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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 […]
Read MoreOpening Act(s): None Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday Pride (In the Name of Love) Gift – Get Out of Your Own Way You’re the Best Thing About Me Beautiful Day – Starman Elevation Vertigo – Rebel Rebel One – Invisible Get Out of Your Own Way Remarks: U2 performed tonight in Trafalgar Square in front of […]
Read MoreNew York City: You can never please all your fans all of the time. However, U2 has done a stellar job of keeping their fans on board with their musical swings. Not this time. U2 fans from around the world have been checking in with disappointment from “verify” ticket master process to the few singles […]
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