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On October 11th, I decided to begin a journey into the depths of my U2 collection. Inspired by the numbers of bootlegs I possessed, but never listened to all the way through, I decided that by the end of the year, I would listen to every U2 track I had on my iPod. All 542 of them.

I ended up downloading more- WAY more- throughout my project, as I re-read U2 By U2, and listened to more bootlegs, becoming curious about surrounding shows and intriguing setlists. I currently have roughly 825 U2 tracks, and ended up listening to 670.

Studio albums, bootlegs, rare tracks, demos, sessions...everything I owned at the time got added to the queue. I archived my journey with accompanying reviews of ALMOST every show and studio album on my LiveJournal, which wasn't getting much use anyway.

It proved to be an amazing experience, heightening my profound respect for the band and my absolute love for their music. It rounded out my live knowledge and educated my ear to each tour's little surprises, and trained it to pick out the studio cuts' best features. I highly recommend doing this once throughout the year, setting yourself a time limit to see that it gets accomplished and not blown off.

It wasn't easy- some periods proved to send me on a little bit of a burnout- but it never lasted more than a few days, and overall, it was clearly a fun, enjoyable project.

I'd LOVE for you to read through parts of it on my LiveJournal- particularly "The Grand Finale, Parts 1 & 2" (The 2 latest posts)...I really threw a lot of my most creative writing into the reviews, and you'll get the chance to see the roots of my U2 appreciation. Anything beyond that you care to read is purely up to you, but I though I'd throw it your guys' way that I even did this, and hopefully I'll get some feedback on it.

Feel free to post comments here as opposed to on the LiveJournal...that'll give non-readers a chance to see some of what I've written on a more trafficked forum.

Thanks for reading through this, and potentially the LJ stuff. You guys rule!!!

Love,
Matt

Coen

15 years

great project! Wish I had the time/courage to start such thing with my dvd/cd collection. There a so many things I have in collection but never actually listened/watched.....

wangmaster

15 years

that's a great read, man.

and congratulations on finishing your project.

MattG

15 years

Thanks

means a lot!

emiel

15 years

Great job

toysfornoise

15 years

my next project will be reading your journal ...
thanx

MattG

15 years

Originally posted by emiel:Great job

Thanks

Genaro92U2

15 years

=0 Thats immense! Good job I want to do that one day, maybe i'll do it this week with like a tour leg

I wanna read your journal of the shows now.

MattG

15 years

Originally posted by Genaro92U2:=0 Thats immense! Good job I want to do that one day, maybe i'll do it this week with like a tour leg I wanna read your journal of the shows now.

It doesn't seem as lengthy as I remember, but listening to the shows and albums all in itself gave me quite a task- reviewing them all was sort of like kicking me while I was down, so to speak

So not ALL of them got reviewed- but quite a few many did that are worth looking through

Thanks for the interest guys!

loftarasa

15 years

Just browsed some of the entries. I totally agree with you upon the Pump it Up snippet as being the best one for Vertigo, besides It's only Rock'n'Roll (but I like it). Make sure you add all your reviews here if you haven''t done so. Today afternoon I likely will read through your reviews of Joshua Tree and NLOTH, listening to the albums prolly

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I remember I once started (!) a similar thing when I began collecting bootlegs. I wrote down my fave renditions from each concert but I stopped relatively soon coz it were too many bootlegs suddenly lol.

Rob1965

15 years

Impressive --- great job!

My U2 project is complete!

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