It used to be a very uncommon occurrence for U2 to perform a remixed version of a song from the stage. This changed famously in 2009 while U2 were on the 360 Tour. One of the highlights of that show, and the centerpiece of the set-list on that tour was a rendition of Redanka’s remix […]
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I guess it is true what they say, that everyone loves a happy ending. I have to admit that even though I like shows and movies with ambiguous, or sometimes even unhappy endings, I still can’t resist the lure of a world where everyone’s story turns out OK. It just makes me feel good. This […]
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Last week, we looked at the video for “Get On Your Boots,” a wonderful, complex video for what is probably the least-loved song in all of U2’s catalog. This week, in direct contrast, I am critiquing the video for “Magnificent,” a fantastic cracker-jack of a song with, in my opinion, a ho-hum, overly-simple video. The […]
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If the comments I’ve heard from fellow U2 fans are to be believed, “Get On Your Boots” is probably the least-liked song that U2 has ever recorded. Twelve years after the song’s release, I still hear people complaining about the song and how much they hate it, but I never hear anyone mention the video. […]
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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 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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Surrender has been a theme of U2’s music throughout the band’s career. This could be, in part, because surrender is an important idea in Christianity–the idea of surrendering one’s whole life to God. It could also be important to the band members because of the thought that when, in a battle, one side surrenders, the […]
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I still remember the week building up to the release of No Line On The Horizon. I was, of course, neck-deep in U2, excitedly following the news, and downloading and listening to each and every one of their promotional appearances. It was one of those promotional appearances – I think the one from February 23, […]
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