Songs of Experience

November 26, 2017November 26, 2017 voxxLeave a Comment

Songs Of Experience, is an acquired taste but the melodic, punchy tunes soon get under your skin

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 […]

November 26, 2017 voxxLeave a Comment

Review: Song-by-song guide to U2’s 14th album

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 […]

November 20, 2017November 24, 2019 broadswordLeave a Comment

U2101 – American Soul

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.

November 13, 2017November 24, 2019 broadswordLeave a Comment

U2101 – The Blackout

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 […]

November 6, 2017November 24, 2019 broadswordLeave a Comment

U2101 – Get Out of Your Own Way

I was at school, on a break between classes, this past week when I happened to look online on my iPhone and I discovered that there had been some U2 action.

October 23, 2017October 22, 2017 broadswordLeave a Comment

U2 Spotlight – Impending Announcements

So, during this past week, we finally got some information on Songs of Experience. U2songs.com has been continuously blowing my mind this summer with their coverage of the ongoing saga of U2’s forthcoming album, and they dropped some new info yesterday that totally made my week.

October 2, 2017October 1, 2017 broadswordLeave a Comment

U2 Spotlight – Alternate Versions of “You’re The Best Thing About Me”

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m absolutely loving all these different versions of “You’re the Best Thing About Me”. Hardly a week has gone by this month that we haven’t gotten some small release from the biggest band in the world, and they’ve mostly centered around the new single that is […]

September 11, 2017November 24, 2019 broadswordLeave a Comment

U2101 – You’re the Best Thing About Me

Here we are, with the first U2101 article about a song from Songs of Experience. This is an exciting time to be alive, to be sure. An old friend of mine used to say that one of the best things about U2 was that they were happening right now. I believed her then and I […]