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  1. You are 10 years old living with your parents, one day you buy your first U2 record it is JT or AB. You think that the album is nice and the more you listen the more you like it.

    18-22 years later when you listen to JT/AB you still think it is the greatest but probaly not ONLY by the music(without knowing it...).
    When you listen to it alot of memorys come up in your head, it can be a feeling, colour... wich you had when you lived home with your parents. Lets say that first time you heard EBTTRT you had just got your first videogame and where very lucky, first time you kissed a girl you played One, or one time when you where angry you just played Acrobat to show how angry you where...
    That creates an atmosphere to the songs wich you will probaly forever feel the whole life when you listen to the songs. Delete all those memories wich creates this happy/sad/angry athmosphere and you probaly would maybe think other things about your favorite record.

    Well in 2009 you are older and new memories dosnt caught that easy like it do when you are 8-15 years old(because there are so much happening with your feelings/hormones...) and for the first time listen to new album NLOTH it might be more flat for you compared to JT/AB. Well in 2019 you have probaly cry/laught/get upset and under that period listend to songs on NLOTH. You will probaly have a whole different view on it in 2019. It might be one of your favorite album or your worst.

    I can't tell if NLOTH is their best, so far my favorite album is AB. But alot of things are going to happend in my life in the comming years: marriage, house, children. And this happend in the 1-3 years when I listend to NLOTH alot. Maybe NLOTH will get an great atmosphere?
    Ask me in 10 years about this album. It is to early for me to say that this album is one of their best or not. I feel the same about the songs on NLOTH now as I thought when I first heard the songs on AB or HTDAAB when I first heard them, with a critic eye. For an example I didnt thought that there where something special about Bad, UTEOTW, LIB, Acrobat, Zooropa album, OOTS... Well now they are some of my favorites. I think it is wrong to judge the new album and it songs after a week. It is like review a movie without seeing to whole of it. The songs that you dont like now can be your favorites later in your life because of so many listenings or memories.

    Most of us are shakyn our head to old people who says "it was better in the old time", well we are all working like that.

    This is the reason why you can't get that atmosphere that was in the 70s/80s music, it dosnt matter if you make song today and make it sound exactly like those songs in 70s/80s. It dosnt have the atmosphere of memories.
  2. very intersting point. I remeber jamming to JT when i as three in the car growing to my grandparents. One Tree Hill reminds me of my great grandfather, So I see and agree.
  3. I agree...music is also about emotion/feelings. And these are important factors.
  4. So true
    I remember playing When I Look At The World when I broke up with my GF...
    And Dirty Day when I just heard my grand-grand-dad had died.
  5. The most vivid memories are sitting in a car, looking at the sky and listening to streets
    My amazement over AB, and my parents playing ATYCLB at family parties, and I finally realized that it was amazing.
  6. Originally posted by gwiz:The most vivid memories are sitting in a car, looking at the sky and listening to streets
    My amazement over AB, and my parents playing ATYCLB at family parties, and I finally realized that it was amazing.




    I also remember playing Discotheque when I heard I graduated to the next year in school
    And when I heard my aunt had a little cousin born I was just playing One Tree Hill
  7. I like the idea of this thread. Ever since I found U2 in 1987, each album has become a way of marking a period of my life. Joshua Tree was my first love. I remember getting for Christmas, and can still remember where I was the first time I heard RTSS. Rattle and Hum was my first anticipation album, again a christmas gift. Achtung Baby capped off a tumultuous period of hearing rumors of possible breakups, and then wtf/this is awesome first listen. AB defined my high school years. Zooropa reminds me of a girlfriend, long gone. Pop, honestly took me a while, and ATYCLB has lost the initial luster. What I really want to talk about is HTABB and me. This is by no means a defense of the album, it is what it is. But it will always hold a special place in my heart.

    The album came out 3 weeks after the birth of my fiirst child. I was on top of the world. Freedom has the scent like the top of a newborn baby's head. A month after the release, my wife had a relapse of her cancer, and had brain surgery in May. That was my 2005. On hand I had never been better. On the other, I was scared shitless, and HTAAB was my soundtrack. When I pick my son up from daycare, we blasted COBL, and in the private moments of dispair, Miracle Drug and SYCMIOYO were appropriate. The surgery was a sucess, and we have been healty since.

    In Dec '05 the Vertigo Tour came to my hometown, and it was something I looked forward to all year. I followed the tour daily, checking in to see what songs I could expect. The night of the show I went with my entire family, and it was a beautiful cathartic night, and in the meantime we have had another child, both of whom are U2 fans.
  8. Very tru. The Joshua Tree is my soundtrack to a 1987-1991 relationship which fizzled out around the time of Actung Baby release. When I listen to the Joshua Tree now 22 years later I am 18 all over again
  9. Originally posted by notcomingdown:I like the idea of this thread. Ever since I found U2 in 1987, each album has become a way of marking a period of my life. Joshua Tree was my first love. I remember getting for Christmas, and can still remember where I was the first time I heard RTSS. Rattle and Hum was my first anticipation album, again a christmas gift. Achtung Baby capped off a tumultuous period of hearing rumors of possible breakups, and then wtf/this is awesome first listen. AB defined my high school years. Zooropa reminds me of a girlfriend, long gone. Pop, honestly took me a while, and ATYCLB has lost the initial luster. What I really want to talk about is HTABB and me. This is by no means a defense of the album, it is what it is. But it will always hold a special place in my heart.

    The album came out 3 weeks after the birth of my fiirst child. I was on top of the world. Freedom has the scent like the top of a newborn baby's head. A month after the release, my wife had a relapse of her cancer, and had brain surgery in May. That was my 2005. On hand I had never been better. On the other, I was scared shitless, and HTAAB was my soundtrack. When I pick my son up from daycare, we blasted COBL, and in the private moments of dispair, Miracle Drug and SYCMIOYO were appropriate. The surgery was a sucess, and we have been healty since.

    In Dec '05 the Vertigo Tour came to my hometown, and it was something I looked forward to all year. I followed the tour daily, checking in to see what songs I could expect. The night of the show I went with my entire family, and it was a beautiful cathartic night, and in the meantime we have had another child, both of whom are U2 fans.



  10. Paint It Black cover by U2 reminds me of riding on the highway in the South of France during the summer 3 or 4 years ago. Played that song over and over.
  11. Originally posted by dieder:Paint It Black cover by U2 reminds me of riding on the highway in the South of France during the summer 3 or 4 years ago. Played that song over and over.


    I really love that version of the song.


  12. Me too. Funny my dad is a big Stones-fan (he likes U2, too) but he is really disgusted when I let him hear the U2-version.
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