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( ...while the band in my head plays a striptease. )

A few weeks ago U2 did a promotional concert on the roof of the BBC building and I thought to myself, "Self, how well do you suppose the crowd could hear everything from way down on the ground?"

Quite well apparently.

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So, um, did anyone point out to The Edge that he stole his own guitar riff (or hook or whatever they call it) from "The Fly" and plopped it into "No Line on the Horizon"? I mean, I still like the song, but, uh, nobody noticed that? Not the guy who's been producing their albums for about twenty-five years? I know that Achtung Baby came out about ( Read more... )

...to lift my spirits. And surprise of surprises, it's a U2 song. Who'd have thunk it! But I love them and they make me happy and this is my favorite song on the new CD (which is quite good...more on that in a future post, of course).
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I finally got the new U2 CD today and because I had a gift certificate, I splurged and got myself the least expensive version of the bajillion limited editions on offer, the CD/magazine/movie download (some artsy fartsy movie by Anton Corbijn with U2 music as the soundtrack) option. Now I figured this magazine would be something about the size of a ( Read more... )

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And let's not even get into Bono and his eyeliner.

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So, I finally got my greasy, little mitts on the remaster of The Joshua Tree and frankly, I can't hear a difference. Heh. That's okay, I mainly got the darned thing because it comes with all sorts of lovely extras such as a disc with B-sides, a bonus DVD of live performances from the JT era, and a book. *sigh* Like I've said, U2 is my religion and ( Read more... )