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U2 - Songs Of Experience (2017)
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  1. Originally posted by dougcal:I finally got to hear the whole album and I am loving it. Going to be driving everyone crazy listening to this over and over!
    +1
  2. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]


    young 'uns

    Boy - I first became enamored - let me in the sound
    October - hitting adolescence
    War - Angry young man
    Unforgettable Fire - Angry young man with a burning soul
    Joshua Tree - chicken soup for the burning soul. Good album of the year to leave high school behind with...
    Achtung Baby - life takes a whole new direction. Adulthood. Boy grows up. Ready for the laughing gas...
    Pop - still a child, but someone tells me no
    ATYCLB - I'm a man, I'm not a child
    HTDAAB - time won't leave me as I am
    NLOTH - I'll go crazy if I dont go crazy
    SOI/SOE - full circle, in a way... he stops to think, he starts to cry... oh why?


    ATYCLB - A toddler to pre-school, kept hearing the hit of Beautiful Day,
    HTDAAB - Just started school. Heard songs of Vertigo, but was blown away by City of Blinding Lights. But didn't know the band still.
    NLOTH - Not long after this came out, discovered the band (finally), and became my favourite band
    SOI/SOE - Now a massive fan and await to see them for the first time in Australia in 2018!
  3. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    ...go for it

    Boy + October -> older kids with their serious new wave looks and Big Girl is still a little girl really...
    I Will Follow (live): unique Dutch single (I Will Follow in Dunglish means: I understand you )
    War = SBS 12" with New Year's Day + Two Hearts Beat As One - what a joyful sounds (BG's 1st U2 record )
    UABRS -> I seriously can not recall any teenage party where this record didn't close the night...
    TUF -> The important girl decision: "Save your love, save it all (Don't push me too far!)"
    TJT -> I wanna go there with you (Still saving my Love!)
    R&H -> A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel, Unchained Melody + Everlasting Love (= big adolescent confusion )
    AB+ZOO -> Achtung Baby...party hard UV & crashed cars...what more can I say: "Glad to be alive!"
    Pop: Going all Discothèque on the weekend & feeling LOVED (but not waiting on a saviour to come )
    ATYCLB: turning 30...BEAUTIFUL DAY...BIG love (and Big Girls Are Best!) + BIG Holidays with Elevation Air & wedding in white
    HTDMAAB: 30+ A Man And A Woman... (Fast Cars...hello, hello!)
    NLOTH: Philosophy at the UNI: Moment Of Surrender (and getting on the U2 boots while "communting")
    SOI: graduating, Aunt Joyce (Tan'joyce!), family first...u2start second (sort of family 2...)
    SOE: free to wake up on a beach in Greece...free to be myself ...but when will she write her GD book???


  4. This is one of those times when I wish I was born earlier to experience U2 throughout my life like you fine folks. Instead, both as a man and as a songwriter I find myself thinking at various ages:

    16: “this is about how old the guys were when they started U2..”
    20: “this is how old U2 were when putting out their first album”
    24: “wow, U2 was how old I am now when they wrote Pride, Bad, Unforgettable Fire.”
    26: “They were this old when they wrote Still Haven’t Found...and being this age when I’m supposed to know what path I’m on for the rest of life but don’t, totally feel that.”
    (And yes I know they’re not all the same age :p)

    Etc. I didn’t become a fan until I was 15, when the Vertigo tour was in full swing. The guys are legends to me, not four guys that I grew up with, realizing that they were at first just four guys in what now people would probably call an “indie band” (even though U2 was never indie) and seeing them grow into superstars. As someone who can only read about their growth and where it all began etc, they were always legends to me, even though I know on paper that it isn’t true.

    Oh, and I prefer SOE to SOI. Dynamically, SOE does more for me (there’s no really “chill” track like Landlady on SOI), and it makes me feel the feelings I described above more. That U2 are my heroes, and they’re closer to the end of the road than ever. I had to turn off Little Things in the car last night because it was just making me too sad.
  5. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:This is one of those times when I wish I was born earlier to experience U2 throughout my life like you fine folks. Instead, both as a man and as a songwriter I find myself thinking at various ages:

    16: “this is about how old the guys were when they started U2..”
    20: “this is how old U2 were when putting out their first album”
    24: “wow, U2 was how old I am now when they wrote Pride, Bad, Unforgettable Fire.”
    26: “They were this old when they wrote Still Haven’t Found...and being this age when I’m supposed to know what path I’m on for the rest of life but don’t, totally feel that.”
    (And yes I know they’re not all the same age :p)

    Etc. I didn’t become a fan until I was 15, when the Vertigo tour was in full swing. The guys are legends to me, not four guys that I grew up with, realizing that they were at first just four guys in what now people would probably call an “indie band” (even though U2 was never indie) and seeing them grow into superstars. As someone who can only read about their growth and where it all began etc, they were always legends to me, even though I know on paper that it isn’t true.

    Oh, and I prefer SOE to SOI. Dynamically, SOE does more for me (there’s no really “chill” track like Landlady on SOI), and it makes me feel the feelings I described above more. That U2 are my heroes, and they’re closer to the end of the road than ever. I had to turn off Little Things in the car last night because it was just making me too sad.
    Nice, man... except for that last few sentences!
  8. The NME is spitting from an inky page...
  10. NME is a perfect example of how biased the British media are when it comes to their own artists
  11. Hardly surprising. The NME thinks of itself as an uber cool edgy publication...impossible for them to like anything U2 put out given their supposed pomposity. The irony is that the NME is the most pompous music magazine out there
  12. Irony is the new cool...again
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