I had a little bit of trouble deciding what song to cover this week – Saturday night’s big surprise, “Lucifer’s Hands” was already covered a few weeks ago, there really weren’t any other big debuts this past week.
Read MoreU2101: Ordinary Love
With the Innocence + Experience tour premiere of “Ordinary Love” coming just four nights ago as I write this, I decided to do something a little different for this week’s U2101, and give you all a little peek into my creative process.
Read MoreU2101 – 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
The big news from this past week seems to have been the great set that U2 played at West Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre. In case you missed it somehow, U2 played five songs (nearly half their set) from Boy-era releases, which means material that came out in 1980.
Read MoreU2101: In God’s Country
I’m trying to be mindful of current events as I write these articles, and one of the biggest events of this past week came on Friday night when U2 broke out The Joshua Tree’s “In God’s Country” during their concert in Phoenix, Arizona.
Read MoreU2101 – Bullet the Blue Sky
So, two shows into the new tour, what changes are we looking at? One missed a show – the first since that song’s debut. Of course, several new songs made their debuts at full U2 concerts, and a couple of golden oldies also found their way back into the set-list. Most notable of those, in […]
Read MoreU2101 – Lucifer’s Hands
I really enjoyed all of the new songs that U2 premiered on the Summer 2010 leg of the 360 tour. Songs like “Glastonbury”, “North Star” and “Every Breaking Wave” really made those shows something special, as did my personal favorite of the songs that debuted at those shows, intro “Return of the Stingray Guitar”.
Read MoreU2101 – The Crystal Ballroom
I really didn’t know what to think of “The Crystal Ballroom” the first time I heard it. I think that of all the new songs (from Songs of Innocence) it’s probably the one that sounds most like what I expected when I heard that U2 were working with Danger Mouse.
Read MoreU2101 – The Troubles
Much has already been said about “The Troubles”, Songs of Innocence‘s closing track, (including this great article from our own Joe Pittella). So much so that I wanted to take my time writing my own take on the subject. That’s why it’s appearing near the end of my U2101 articles dedicated to the songs of […]
Read MoreU2101 – Invisible
I’m not much of a fan of American football. In fact, I can count on two fingers the number of times I’ve watched the sport in my adult life, and both of those times were due to the involvement of my favorite band. The first was back in 2002 when U2 played the Super Bowl […]
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U2101: California (There is No End to Love)
I remember my first listen-through of Songs of Innocence. After the amazing opening combo of “The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)” and “Every Breaking Wave”, I was already in love with the album. When I heard the opening refrain of “California (There is No End to Love)”, with its obvious Beach Boys reference, though, I didn’t […]
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