U2start.com | The Big Question -- How You Discovered U2

Originally posted by best:Hi, I'm a foreign from Portugal. Sorry my English.
I'm a u2 follower since i was about 16 years and it was a friend of mine, olderthan me that show me and borrow a cassette with songs of boy, october and war and UF cause I remenber love BAD.
The next thing i remenber was watching desire clip on tv and then convice friends to copy their albuns.
Since then they are my band and my girlfriend, nowadays my wife, knew them cause i love their songs.
Today i have a child with almost 2 yars and its unbelivable see that he loves bad, runnig to stand still, wow, uf, 40 in the live from paris and already antecipates some things of the songs, cause he knows the songs since he was unborn, but is interesting that he only listen the dvd from paris he don'like R&H.
I Think u2 will follow me to the rest of my days.
cheers to all.

Cool story

Don't worry about your English. Non-english members dominate this forum

LenaF

16 years

Cool thread!

I told my story when I introduced myself on the forum, so I will more or less repeat what I wrote there.

The short version: I'm a U2 fan thanks to a misplaced remote control

The long version:
When I was in 6th grade I had a substitute teacher who was a huge U2-fan. In English class he let us all listen to Where the Streets Have No Name and try to translate it. I found the song quite good, but a bit difficult (not only to translate). I knew there was a band out there called U2, but not much about their music. Well, this was not when I became a fan.

When Achtung Baby came out I remember being very annoyed by the weird videos and noisy music. I thought the hits from The Joshua Tree were pretty good, but THIS was just annoying (apart from One). So, clearly I did not become a fan...

I think I was in 9th grade, first semester, when me and my twin sister were watching MTV. Suddenly U2 came on and we were literally saying. "NO, not U2! Change the channel, NOW!" But the remote control was misplaced somewhere. When we finally found it, we had seen enough to realize that this was something else than the recent rubbish. This was Sunday Bloody Sunday. Hm, pretty cool, we had to admit and watched it till the end. But this was not when I became a fan.

Half a year later or so, me and my sister were watching MTV when Sunday came on again. This time we were positive right from the start, remembering that it was quite OK, or even good. Soon we were glued to the TV! And when the video ended we were extremely excited, and I mean extremely. I think we were even kind of screaming, actually, as 16 years old girls can. "We have to get all their albums right away!" I don't think we did, but soon enough we had most of them copied to old fashioned tapes. Wow, how I loved what I heard! Especially Achtung Baby... Now THAT is a u-turn! This WAS when I became a fan.

One week after becoming a fan I bought tickets to the upcoming Zooropa show, and the rest is history.

I have to add, however, that in recent years I haven't always been much of a fan. But after watching U23D it all sort of came back again!

Thank you for reading!

PS A couple of weeks ago I contacted the substitute teacher and told him that I eventually became a U2 fan. He's not really a fan anymore, but he liked my story.

WojBhoy

16 years

My cousin got hold of The Unforgettable Fire back in the late '90s, possibly 2000, and I heard MLK for the first time and fell in love instantly. Didn't know who U2 were at that point, but a few months later Beautiful Day came out and I realised they were one and the same band, and here I am today.

MoFoNYR15

16 years

Luckily I was born! I had parents who loved them! I remember being about 7 years old and being so jealous when they went to Yankee Stadium to see them

I watched Rattle and Hum everyday when I was very young. I remember when my father came home with Actung Baby on Compact Disc(How fancy)

markp91

16 years

-The videoclip of BD
- Loved COBL/Vertigo/OOTS
- Loved Yahweh/WITS/TSAC
- Bought U218 Singles - loved WOWY, Elevation, Desire and SBS.
- Bought HTDAAB - loved ABOY
- Watched YT-Clips
- Joined this site.

kisho8

16 years