I remember reading in BIll Flanagan’s superb book U2 at the End of the World that, when they are in the studio, U2 has a tendency to revisit the moods or feelings of everything they have ever recorded. Sometimes, it is easy to pick out where this has happened, kind of like how “One Step […]
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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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I was thinking earlier this week about the old days, when record or CD shops would open up at midnight on release days. I would line up with other music fans to purchase the newest release by our favorite artist. Most times, I was the lone U2 fan in the queue, but that never bothered […]
Read MoreIf I am to be perfectly honest, today’s song, “When I Look at the World,” is one of my least-favorite that U2 has ever recorded. If I am listening to All That You Can’t Leave Behind all the way through, I don’t skip it, but I rarely, if ever, choose to listen to the song […]
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Like most of you fellow U2 fans who are reading this, I go through phases in my U2 listening. There are some songs, for instance, that I just get in a mood for sometimes.
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Continuing on from what we started last week – that is, looking at underrated songs from All That You Can’t Leave Behind – I thought that this week we could examine “Wild Honey”. Recorded, of course, in the year 2000 for inclusion on the album that came out that same year, the story goes that […]
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I’ve been listening to a lot of All That You Can’t Leave Behind lately, and it occurred to me during one of those listenings that something ought to be written about one of the undervalued gems that are buried on the second half of that album (and yes, there’s more than one undervalued gem there).
Read MoreEven though it was never released as a single, U2’s song “Kite” has become a fan-favorite track. It’s not surprising that the song struck a chord with listeners. As Bono said “This song’s about letting go of somebody you don’t want to let go of”, and that’s a feeling that most of us can easily relate […]
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