My favorite U2 songs are I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Luminous Times, Red Hill Mining Town, Heartland and Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses.
As I have stated over and over, The Joshua Tree means the world to me. It is the album that got me into U2 in 1987 and is still my favorite 30 years later. Below are 17 reasons why I love The Joshua Tree. In order from favorite to least favorite, here is how I rank the songs (including b sides) [continue reading]
On September 9, 2014 the very first time I listened to U2’s Songs of Innocence, “Cedarwood Road” immediately stood out from the rest of the songs and was my favorite. Oddly enough not because of the lyrics, which is usually what gets me about a U2 song (I didn’t know the [continue reading]
Last night Paolo Vetri posted a video of a compilation of live versions of my favorite song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” through the years 1987-2009. Watching it reminded me just how much I truly love this song. It’s more than just my favorite song. It [continue reading]
I got into a conversation on Twitter with David Franklin and Chip Swain about what songs we skip on U2 albums. I think it may have started by one of us saying we didn’t skip any songs on Songs of Innocence and then it just snowballed from there. It’s not that we don’t like these [continue reading]
U2 once again lost at the Oscars. U2’s Golden Globe winning “Ordinary Love” was nominated for Best Original Song from Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. The song was inspired by Nelson Mandela, taken right from his letters to his wife. Unfortunately, U2 lost to “Let it Go” from [continue reading]
A week ago, I wrote I enjoyed “Ordinary Love” more than “Invisible.” But since the release of the video last night, “Invisible” has the edge – no pun intended. Even though I do not enjoy Larry’s buttoned-up collar, I love the video and seeing the [continue reading]
Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” will always be my favorite Christmas song. I even loved it before I knew who U2 were. I remember watching the making of it on MTV when I was 12, then watching the Live Aid concert the following summer. Now when I hear it (and better [continue reading]
U2 has such amazing lyrics. In fact, that is why I love them so much (that and Larry of course). As I started to list my favorites, I realized I was listing entire stanzas from about half of U2’s songs. So I went back and just listed my absolute favorites, and only one liners. Over the [continue reading]
U2 talks of new album in the works, Nelson Mandela U2 looks to Nelson Mandela for inspiration for its ‘Ordinary Love’ on the soundtrack of ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,’ and the collision of youth and hard-earned wisdom on its upcoming album. U2’s band members are [continue reading]
The other day I ranked every U2 album by ranking each song. Even though I ranked each song, that was more about ranking each U2 album. Now I want to share my favorite three songs off each album. This time I am including the b-sides because they are some of my favorites. THE JOSHUA TREE – I [continue reading]
To most people yesterday was Black Friday, to me it was Record Store Day – the day U2’s new single was released! We have been waiting almost four years for new U2 music. We were teased over a month ago with a snippet of U2’s new song “Ordinary Love” in the trailer for [continue reading]
We’ve waited over four long years, but there is finally new U2 music! “Ordinary Love” is featured in the new Nelson Mandela biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba. It will be released in a 10-inch vinyl pressing to mark Record Store Day on November 29th, [continue reading]
October is one of my favorite U2 albums and one of my favorite U2 songs. October is my favorite month, my birthday month. To me, October symbolizes the changing of the seasons and the beginning of my favorite time of year. So I love U2’s October. Other favorite songs of the October album [continue reading]
My favorite song of all-time, U2 or otherwise, is I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, off my favorite U2 album The Joshua Tree. It was my first favorite U2 song and what solidified me as a U2 fan, along with Larry Mullen Jr. With or Without You introduced me to U2, but it was I [continue reading]
Some of my favorite U2 songs are the ones that didn’t make it onto their albums – the B Sides, especially the B-Sides from The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum. My favorites are Luminous Times, Walk to the Water, Spanish Eyes, Deep in the Heart, Sweetest Thing, A Room at the Heartbreak [continue reading]
I love the song Get on Your Boots off No Line on the Horizon specifically for the line “Let me in the sound.” It summarized my entire three-month road trip on the U2 360 tour in 2011. It was sort of my anthem as I traveled across the country driving to all 16 US U2 360 shows. I coupled it [continue reading]
Even though Can’t Help Falling in Love is credited to Bono and not U2, I am going to include it as part of my U2 favorites. U2 played it on the ZooTv tour. In fact, one of my greatest memories of the ZooTv tour is when Bono knelt in front of me (I was in the 3rd row) and sang Can’t Help [continue reading]
When I started this journey into U2 songs and their spirituality, I thought Unknown Caller would be the obvious choice for most spiritual song off No Line on the Horizon – as a telephone call from God, or to God. (Since my research, it seems that other songs are just as spiritual.) I [continue reading]
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight was my favorite song off No Line on the Horizon when it first came out and during the 360 2009 tour, but then Get on Your Boots surpassed it during the 360 2011 tour. It was always just a fun song to me, with great lyrics. In 2009, it was my [continue reading]
Moment of Surrender was one of my favorite songs off No Line on the Horizon from the moment I first listened to it. I thought it was a perfect choice to end each show of U2’s 360 Tour. In Nashville when introducing Moment of Surrender, Bono said, “This is the theme of the show. Thank [continue reading]
On the Road With U2 