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  1. Apologies if this has been noticed before and/or posted before, as I am still fairly new to the forums, but in re-reading parts of U2 by U2 recently I was struck by something similar to the Pop-era article on U2.com that was posted earlier by wowow. If you have it, check out page 324, where Bono is talking about HTDAAB and particularly City of Blinding Lights. After talking about how "oh you look so beautiful tonight" is "such a naive and innocent line," he says in general of the whole album that "these are songs of innocence, songs of experience" (!) He adds, "the theme of that whole album is that naivete is a powerful thing, in the sense that you are more powerful sometimes by not knowing what you're up against in this life." And further still, Bono goes on to describe the Anton Corbijn exhibit from 2000 of many pictures of himself, revealing how if he could, he would tell "young Bono" to "stop second-guessing himself" and that he now realized "how much he'd lost." Isn't this a concept for the upcoming tour that has been rumored - old Bono talking to young Bono?

    I know I've read reviews and heard comments from people comparing SOI to HTDAAB in this way, but wow, reading Bono using the eventual titles themselves (SOI and SOE) was pretty incredible! It makes me wonder if SOI is what they wanted Bomb to be all along? That album seemed to start off as an intentionally political album, then got more personal, then on the Vertigo Tour slanted more political again. Like maybe the whole theme of naivete got lost in the shuffle, and now has been revisited ten yeras later (with SOE to continue this?)
  2. Originally posted by bpt3:Apologies if this has been noticed before and/or posted before, as I am still fairly new to the forums, but in re-reading parts of U2 by U2 recently I was struck by something similar to the Pop-era article on U2.com that was posted earlier by wowow. If you have it, check out page 324, where Bono is talking about HTDAAB and particularly City of Blinding Lights. After talking about how "oh you look so beautiful tonight" is "such a naive and innocent line," he says in general of the whole album that "these are songs of innocence, songs of experience" (!) He adds, "the theme of that whole album is that naivete is a powerful thing, in the sense that you are more powerful sometimes by not knowing what you're up against in this life." And further still, Bono goes on to describe the Anton Corbijn exhibit from 2000 of many pictures of himself, revealing how if he could, he would tell "young Bono" to "stop second-guessing himself" and that he now realized "how much he'd lost." Isn't this a concept for the upcoming tour that has been rumored - old Bono talking to young Bono?

    I know I've read reviews and heard comments from people comparing SOI to HTDAAB in this way, but wow, reading Bono using the eventual titles themselves (SOI and SOE) was pretty incredible! It makes me wonder if SOI is what they wanted Bomb to be all along? That album seemed to start off as an intentionally political album, then got more personal, then on the Vertigo Tour slanted more political again. Like maybe the whole theme of naivete got lost in the shuffle, and now has been revisited ten yeras later (with SOE to continue this?)
    Yeah And this was posted as well some days ago (dating back from 1997!!!): http://www.u2.com/news/article/1108
  3. think it says something about the album when three of my five favourite tracks from it are on the bonus disc
  4. Still part of the album, so there's nothing wrong with that.
  5. I love this album alot and I dont mind if you play it twice a day at double intervals but no more than that otherwise it gets annoying and in the way, but you can check in on this in the future and I bet I dont mind it being playing more, but I just cant handle it if its playing all day for some reason, but I dont mind to follow this up
    soi awesome album, but remember there is other good music that needs listening to as well
  6. I could still listen to this item all day everyday. But I do agree it that it wouldn't be fair to the other 7 gigs of music I own to do that.
  7. I still listen to this album once or twice week, but it used to be every day
  8. I listened to it pretty much every day for the first month I haven't listened to it in full in 2015 at least. Having it in my iCloud though means that all the songs still get a regular listen on shuffle.
  10. Yes, it was everyday. Haven't listened to it in full for a couple of months... Always put on California, Cedarwood and Troubles.

    Just worried that the album will feel so old when I see them in Oct (over a year).
  11. Originally posted by zooropa93:Yes, it was everyday. Haven't listened to it in full for a couple of months... Always put on California, Cedarwood and Troubles.

    Just worried that the album will feel so old when I see them in Oct (over a year).
    Yeah, Paris and Glasgow will see them over 14 months after the album was released - not to speak about Dublin... That's my only worry too.

    But to everyone worrying that they don't listen to the album so much: what did you expect? It's only natural. Listening to it once or twice every day for 6 months (it's been almost 6 months already since they released SOI, people!! Time flies) would mean an extreme burnout, and none of us want that, right? Listening to it a bit less is fine as long as you still like and enjoy the songs, that's what's all about after all.
  12. Originally posted by zooropa93:Yes, it was everyday. Haven't listened to it in full for a couple of months... Always put on California, Cedarwood and Troubles.

    Just worried that the album will feel so old when I see them in Oct (over a year).
    That's what I thought. Have been listening to it a lot in recent weeks and have to say I love the album
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