U2 have announced they will play Dublin and Belfast as part of the European leg of their eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE 2018 tour. The announcement was made on U2’s website which lists the tour dates starting in Berlin on August 31st. The Dublin and Belfast dates will be revealed later as plans are still being finalized […]
Read MoreU2101 – Landlady
Last week, I wrote about “Red Flag Day,” a song that I only came to appreciate after a few listens. This week, I’m writing about a song that I have a similar relationship with — that is, one that didn’t bowl me over with my first listen, but one that I have come to love […]
Read MoreU2101 – Red Flag Day
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 […]
Read MoreU2101 – Love is All We Have Left
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 […]
Read MoreU2101 – The Showman (Little More Better)
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.
Read MoreU2101 – Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way
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 […]
Read MoreU2101 – Lights of Home
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’s Five Most Christian Songs Of All Time
U2 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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