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  2. It's very interesting/nice to see that a lot of your parents were big influences as to why you like U2. I never really had that - although I did listen to an old Abbey Road LP (that's why it'smy favourite Beatles album) when I was young.

    My kids are still very young (3 years old and 8 months old) but I am hoping one day they'll at the very least appreciate (if not like/love) the music I listen(ed) to - especially U2.
  3. Strange one for me because it wasn't the songs as such that got me into U2 it was the live performance that dragged me in. Back in 85 when i was 13/14 a friend of mine's parents used to leave the house to us on a friday night, so obviously it was girlfriend discovery night. 8 girls 8 guys, lights out, stick a video on to muffle the sound of clashing lips(nothing else i'm 13 for god's sake)and off you go for 3 hours. Anyhow that video was U2 live in dortmund 84 and within a month i had gone from tounge wrestling to sat on my own - much to the annoyance of my then girlfriend - watching this amazing concert over and over. That relationship ended pretty soon after that like several others. The only other U2 stuff my friend had was the album War and a dodgy old cassette some irish relative had sent over the sea containing the last 1/2 of a concert from the national stadium 1980! That was all i needed to get hooked.
  4. This was when it all started to kick in and fit together, Beutiful Day was by U2, the same band that sang One, Pride etc and little to my knowledge


    Yes! That's how it also went to me.. I heard the hits before, but Beautiful Day was the song that shaked your mind and pulled you down for more!

    To be honest.. I surely had to get used to the older songs than the recent ones back then in 2000.. Beautiful and the others were the sounds I knew, the ones I heard most of the time..
    That sound was U2 to me. I didn't knew their older unrated songs..

    I had to get used to those later and now I am listening almost everything!
  5. i never posted in this one the first time round. i'll give it a go now.

    my first U2 memory was hearing HMTMKMKM over the closing credits of batman forever when i was about 9 or 10. i was only just beginning to appreciate music back then, and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. it had swagger, it rocked hard, had a great melody and sounded like nothing i'd ever really heard before - or since, for that matter. i even, a couple of times, watched the film just to hear the song over the credits, because i didn't own the cd then and video players take ages to fast forward anyway.

    a few years later i heard beautiful day on the radio and loved it. so much so, i made my first U2 purchase, the 1990-2000 compilation, off of ebay, upon realising that HMTMKMKM was by the same band and on the same compilation, even though it sounded so different! i had heard Electrical Storm and as well by that point, and thought i might as well take the plunge and buy it (with my saved up pocket money) if only for those 2 songs.

    i listened to it and thought it was the absolute balls. the opening two tracks, EBTTRT and Mysterious Ways, had a huge impact on me, and i recall listening to them on my little portable cd player on the coach to london one time, captivated by the vibrant atmosphere they created.

    around this time i realised my dad was a huge fan as well, having seen them live a few times and had TUF and TJT amongst his vinyl collection. he was a big 80s era fan, having been unimpressed by the Zoo Tv show he saw (dance music never was his thing!) and not really followed them since. nevertheless, he told me that they're also my uncle's favourite band, and encouraged me to get into them, and so i did. i slowly bought more and more of their albums, and they slowly but surely continued to climb the ranks of my favourite bands. i got Achtung Baby for christmas around 2007, and loved every track, with it soon becoming my favourite album ever.

    and the rest is history!
  6. People here around do not like U2 actually,but when I heard that they are coing to İstanbul,I thought I've got to see how is a U2 show,then I started the Slane Castle Dvd on my Tv.

    That was possibly the best thing television could ever show,I was blown away with beautiful day,that was the day everything changed for me,when they started to play Angel of Harlem I thought this is it,no band or artist is better than U2.

    And I still do think the same way.
    Then Zoo Tv came up,PopMart,I was spending 4 or 5 hours a day with U2 stuff(I still do,but not that much,but on summer I will )
  7. a couple years ago I heard Electrical Storm on the radio "what's that song?" "U2" "who are they?" put it on my iPod and listened to it a couple times and thought it was no big deal. Then I saw a the Elevation Boston DVD (my dad turned it up really loud) after Elevation and Beautiful Day I put about seven albums on my iPod. That DVD causedme to like 18 U2 songs just by listening to them. when NLOTH came out I was all over it and I'm now waiting for Songs of Ascent tomorrow...

    still got a soft spot for Electrical Storm
  8. u2 is unique in all ways.thats because you like or hate then. or those who dislike have one or 2 songs on HD.

  9. U2 are A part of my Life!
    A Day without U2 Music is no good Day!
  10. It's cool to read everyone's stories on this topic. Don't know how i missed this one a month or so ago. For me, I don't think it is even something that can really be put into words. I feel like the best way I could describe it would be to tell you to watch a live performance of Streets from sometime in the last decade or so. That is U2 to me and why i love U2.
  11. Originally posted by Doc32:It's cool to read everyone's stories on this topic. Don't know how i missed this one a month or so ago. For me, I don't think it is even something that can really be put into words. I feel like the best way I could describe it would be to tell you to watch a live performance of Streets from sometime in the last decade or so. That is U2 to me and why i love U2.


    that really spells out U2, the most U2ish song, BD as a second
  12. their ability to communicate with the audience whwther it be a club, arena or stadium.
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