I confess. On the first listen-through of Songs of Experience, I thought that “Red F lag Day” was the weakest song on the album. I didn’t really enjoy the song, and I was a little disappointed. I didn’t feel that the song was bad, exactly, it just didn’t measure up to the high standards that […]
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As I sit down at my computer desk to write this article, it has been 2018 on the east coast, where I live, for less than fifteen minutes. Of course, new beginnings are on my mind, so I thought it would be appropriate to write about the latest new beginning in U2’s world, the opening […]
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This week, I’m continuing my series on U2’s Songs of Experience. I’m going to write articles on each of the songs from that album, but for the first few articles following the release of the album, I’m focusing on the songs that most impressed me on my first listen of U2’s newest release.
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I really had a hard time deciding what to write about this week. I knew that I wanted to cover a song from U2’s new album Songs of Experience, but there are so many tracks on that album that I genuinely love that I had trouble narrowing it down to just one song to talk […]
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What a week, huh? U2’s fourteenth album, Songs of Experience was finally released — after a delay that seemed interminable, but actually left a smaller gap between album releases than we’ve experienced with the past few albums.
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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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 […]
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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 […]
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