While I was driving home from my day job tonight, my iPhone randomly chose to play the following three songs for me, in this order: “Cedarwood Road”, “The Fly”, and “Mofo”. It struck me as the last of the three was playing that each of the three songs transported me to a very different location […]
Read MoreU2’s Most Uncomfortable Song!
It’s time to talk about the elephant in the U2 room, and that’s “Sleep Like a Baby Tonight“. Is there any other song off the new CD that makes you more uncomfortable than SLABT? One of the problems is that it’s so good – I love it and hate it at the same time, if […]
Read MoreKnow Your Bonoisms, Part 14 – Bono Gets Personal on “Song for Someone”
Bono has been quite open about the transparency of Songs of Innocence; if there’s one point he wants to emphasize, it’s that this is the most personal U2 album to date. Although “Iris,” “Cedarwood Road” and “The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)” are great examples of that, one song that I feel isn’t getting its due […]
Read MoreHey U2 Fans, It’s No Longer 1991!
I am declaring that music is no longer subjective! That’s right, Matial Law has been declared. Curfews are in effect. I am the John Lithgow to your Kevin Bacon’s Footloose. When The Edge said, “If you don’t like U2 music, you’re not trying hard enough,” he was addressing the haters. I’m talking to the fans […]
Read MoreU2101 This is Where You Can Reach Me Now
After a couple of weeks to absorb the new album, I think I can safely say that my least favorite cut is probably “This is Where You Can Reach Me Now”, the band’s nod to their childhood heroes The Clash. I’ve never admitted this out loud before, but if I were being honest, I’d have […]
Read MoreWhy U2 #31 – The Case of the Controversial Covers
During this past week, U2 revealed the cover artwork for the upcoming retail release of Songs of Innocence. My first thought was “What are they thinking?”. If you haven’t seen it, the image is a touching picture of Larry and his 18 year old son, the former’s arms wrapped around the latter’s waist, with his […]
Read More‘Songs of Innocence’, pre-order and cover artwork preview
We are getting closer to the October 13th date for the physical release of the Songs of Innocence album. We are getting more information on the three formats available, Deluxe, 2 CD Format, 2 LP White Vinyl Format, Single CD Format. Deluxe, 2 CD Format which comes with 2 x 16 page booklets, the 11 track album on CD1 plus additional tracks […]
Read MoreKnow Your Bonoisms, Part 13: Classic Bono Lyrics on Songs of Innocence
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 […]
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