I often listen the "Crumbs from your table" :)

and my favourite album are: The Best of 1992-2000

and

All that you can't leave behind ( It's a very good album) :)

WOOOO Crumbs.

Happy U2 day! (Yeah, St. Patty's day is my excuse to binge on U2!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Huzzah!

I love the picture of Bono with the Ireland flag blanket.

Uhuhuuu love these piccies :nice:

I never noticed that one of edge smoking and drinking yesterday haha

Ah, isn't sleeping outside stadiums/arenas the BEST?

 

 

What I love the most is when the sun starts to rise, your ass starts to slowly fall off from the cold, and the local bussinessmen are sauntering by with their Dunkin Donuts coffee and donuts in their hands. Giving you those weird "Oh no, they are sooooo weird" looks. Where they're actually the weird ones, going to work while I'll be seeing U2 front row later that day.

 

Pah.

 

But it's a pretty fun feeling, most definately.

 

I totally agree...where did you do this? I did it in Atlanta the night before the 11/18 show last fall. I was able to get right next to the stage at the tip of the ellipse. Met Bono before soundcheck the next day. Definitely the highlight of my year.

I did it before the October 4th show, in Boston. I met Edge before the show, got Adam's autograph, and stood 2 feet from Bono.

 

You know, thinking back on that moment, I could have simply stepped up and asked him for a picture. But I was so in awe I think I just froze:stunned: :( lmfao, oh well.

 

 

You know what else is fun? Sleeping in your car in the parking garage for 3 hours after getting your wristband..... That was so funny.

This has to be on the first page, come on. ;)

The pictures are very funny!

^Hah, indeed. The Edge looks kinda like the guy of Travis I guess? I mean in the first pic.

Hasn't been that much going on in the U2 world lately, but I did stumble across the official video for the U2/Mary J. Blige video for 'One' today.

 

See it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=EMBbY_ZAIIk

 

Here's what I wrote about it in my personal journal:

 

I still don't know how I feel about this.

 

 

I'm kind of sick of this song being bastardized to DEATH. If I have one beef with U2 it's for them to stop the obsession with 'One' and never do another compilation with any of their songs again. Unless it's with someone I like and hand pick.

 

 

Seriously, though. 'One' isn't an angry song. I don't like all the yelling Mary J. Blige does. And I wasn't too big on it during the Hurricane Relief/Grammy shows. All I wanted was U2. Alone.

 

 

The guys look good though, from the shadows you can see of them... Whatever. Nothing beats a buffalo running and sunflowers. That should have been it, U2!!! :(

in our superstar was yesterday round u2 vs.Robbie!

u2 is deffenely talented.

^Indeed, they are! :lol:

 

I've been studying the Troubles in Ireland recently, and have been listening to a lot of U2's songs with a fresher, more enlightened, point of view.

 

I especially listened to the song 'Please' now, and can really see where B's coming from in it.

 

I came across this interesting, short analysis from http://www.atu2.com:

 

"Please"

 

So you never knew love

Until you crossed the line of grace

And you never felt wanted

Till you had someone slap your face

So you never felt alive

Until you almost wasted away

 

You had to win, you couldn't just pass

The smartest ass at the top of the class

Your flying colours, your family tree

And all your lessons in history

 

Please, please, please

Get up off your knees

Please, please, please

Please

 

So you never knew how low you'd stoop

To make that call

And you never knew what was on the ground

Until they made you crawl

So you never knew that the heaven you keep

You stole

 

Your Catholic blues, your convent shoes

Your stick-on tattoos, now they're making the news

Your holy war, your northern star

Your sermon on the mount from the boot of your car

 

Please, please, please

Get up off your knees

Please, please

Leave me out of this mess

 

So love is hard and love is tough

But love is not what you're thinking of

September, streets capsizing

Spilling over, down the drain

Shards of glass, splinters like rain

But you could only feel your own pain

October, talk getting nowhere

November, December

Remember, are we just starting again

 

Please, please, please

Get up off your knees

Please, please, please

Please

So love is big, it's bigger than us

But love is not what you're thinking of

It's what lovers deal, it's what lovers steal

You know I found it hard to recieve

'Cause you, my love, I could never believe

 

 

Ian's take on Please:

 

I really don't know where to start with this tune. This is one of the most emotionally charged, complicated, incredible songs the band has ever done. It is the '90s answer to Sunday Bloody Sunday, and I think that these two songs, more than any others, can be used to demonstrate the change in the band's attitudes between the two decades. For me, the band's album careers are defined by each decadee. The '80s U2 was about the external. Bono wrote lyrics about what he saw, what the world was around him. The '90s U2 was about the internal. Bono wrote about about his internal emotions, how his feelings and perceptions affected the world around him. The '00s U2 seems to be an adept blending of the two. Sunday Bloody Sunday was all about the conflicts. It was sung in for everyone who was frustrated with the conflicts in Ireland. Please, on the other hand, is about Bono's own feelings. It's about the rage and confusion Bono has. He's not yelling out for everyone to hear, he sings most of the song barely above a whisper. The song is about his views and his attitudes towards all the crap. He's telling someone else what his views are, not giving voice to everyone's views.

If you've had a chance to hear multiple versions of the song, each latter version seems to get less and less claustrophobic. The initial demos feel extremely contained, boxed in. The album track isn't quite as enclosed, but it still is very tight. The single version feels a bit more spacious, though not by much. The Popmart live tracks sounded bigger, with Bono's crying out at the end. The Elevation accoustic versions sounded more accepting of others to listening to it, like it was welcoming everyone to listen while Bono was still talking about his most personal ideas. It's like the more he told the story, the more he repeated his ideas, the more comfortable he was with people listening.

 

 

 

I've never noticed how ANGRY the 'Pop' album is..... I can't believe so many people disregard this as a "failure" on U2's behalf. Anyone who says that hasn't spent any time to listen to it in it's entirity.... It's very, very deep. Each time I put it on I'm blown away by it. I think I could even debate that the content on 'Pop' hasn't been matched yet by any of U2's recent albums.

You're so right..funny is that me and many other u2 fans of my age I know started to really like them with this album..anyway I can undertsand that some of the "old" fans were not soo happy with it, but that's probably almost the same thing that happened with Achtung Baby.

I think Pop was one of their weakest albums. . not just because the sales are the weakest of any U2 Album, but the whole thing was so rushed, they had to meet the start of the Pop tour obligation, re record so much of it after Larry Mullens back surgery, the vocals to "Last Night On Earth" were reportedly recorded at the mixing desk the day the album was to be sent for pressing........look at the amount of remixes and edit versons released.......I think it a very dark album, quite eclectic (sorry about the spelling), by eclectic I mean there were songs from Zooropa sessions, songs with and without Larry, sessions in Miami, France, Dublin. . . . anyway I dont know about angry....... there are still some great songs on that album. . . . I put it back on my stereo for the first time in years, and really enjoyed listening to the album.. probably the first time since the Popmart tour to be honest......

 

Anyway, Bono (PBUH) apparently said...that U2 were disappointed with their 1997 album "POP". - (insert cut and paste here!)

 

Bono told the Chicago Tribune: "There is still talk about the band going back in and fixing "Pop", actually going in because the bones of a great album are there."

 

"It didn't communicate the way it was intended to. It became a niche record. That's not what it was intended to be. If we'd just had another month, we could have finished it."

 

The frontman blamed the end results of the pressure of hitting a deadline determined by the start date of their Popmart world tour.

 

He added: " We let the manager book the tour, known in this camp as the worst decision U2 ever made, and we had to wrap up the album sooner than we wanted."

 

"There were great ideas on that album [but] we didn't have the discipline to screw the thing down

 

 

....In a long, wide-ranging interview with a Chicago writer, U2's Bono has offered justifications for releasing songs for iPod commercials, said Pop was a bad album, and defends the band against the 'sell-out' criticism..........

 

 

 

man what a long drawn out post.. thanks for reading it, now go on! get on with your day.

u2 just rocks

beckhamcrosses, I agree. Technically, it is not U2's best. Commercially, it is not U2's best. Critically, it is not recieved well.

 

However, content-wise, I find it amazing. I absolutely love 'Wake Up Dead Man'. How it's almost Bono disregarding Jesus, questioning him. It's very angry. Full of semi-raw emotion. Maybe this does have to do with the rushing of many of the tracks. In a way, I like that. I know I shouldn't bring them into it, but I actually think that Coldplay should do something like this. Not schedule a tour before an album's ready or anything. But do a very raw, quick, album. 'Zooropa' like.

 

If there's any album I wish U2 could go back to and work on more, then rerelease, it'd be 'Pop' hands down. Lyrically, though, leave it how it is!

If there's any album I wish U2 could go back to and work on more' date=' then rerelease, it'd be 'Pop' hands down. Lyrically, though, leave it how it is![/quote']

I just think about Gone...I so love the Best of 90-2000 version...with all the "doooowwnnnn" sang by Edge :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Anything Edge sings is perfect, and I immediately love...... *heavy sigh*

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry.... er. LMFAO! I'm quite in love with The Edge lately.:uhoh:

an_cat, I'm running your reputaion way up. ;)

lol I must agree with you...he should sing more, I love his voice :rolleyes:

an_cat' date=' I'm running your reputaion way up. ;)[/quote']

 

 

 

haha! Why thank you!!:D I must say, I feel QUITE powerful!!!:wink3: :smug:

lol I must agree with you...he should sing more' date=' I love his voice :rolleyes:[/quote']

 

 

Edge's voice is amazing! They need to bring back his Popmart cover of Bloody Sunday... That's my favorite version of that song, ever.