Both these formed a large part of the soundtrack of my mid-late teens. You would be hard pushed to find a better output than the first 4-5 albums from each - especially if you combined them with what Joy Division / New Order were also putting out. WFH has given me a great chance to listen to these again. Take off Ocean Rain, put on October, replace it with Power, Corruption & Lies, and then Heaven Up Here. Powerful stuff.
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[Music] Celebrating the amazing early (up to Joshua Tree) music of U2 and Bono
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Both these formed a large part of the soundtrack of my mid-late teens. You would be hard pushed to find a better output than the first 4-5 albums from each - especially if you combined them with what Joy Division / New Order were also putting out. WFH has given me a great chance to listen to these again. Take off Ocean Rain, put on October, replace it with Power, Corruption & Lies, and then Heaven Up Here. Powerful stuff.
I was lucky enough to see The Jam at the Centre and The Stranglers, The Police played The Dome, but I didn't go.
My mates and I, age about 16 in 1981 stumbled across New Order by chance. It may’ve been from Peel or NME. From the very beginning, musical heaven for us. As was The Cure and many other New Wave bands.
Always an impressionable age, those teenage/early 20’s musical memories remain evocative forever.
Along with the fact that 'She' was into them as well. Or maybe I was because she was. No matter what - as you say, evocative forever!
Fignon's Ponytail
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That ZOO TV Tour absolutely blew me away at Wembley. Probably the best show I've ever been to. Thanks for posting this - will listen to it today in the office. It was only a while ago I realised that the Edge actually married the belly dancer on that tour as well!
I was at Northbrook College around 1992, and was so into U2 that I went full "Edge" with my clothes & beanie hats, and even persuaded my mum to give me the Adam Clayton bleached blond slick back mohawk...
Still love "Where the Streets" live on the Rattle and Hum movie though, with the massive red "sunrise" behind them, and the lights coming up...the opening to it still gives me chills to this day.
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bobbab5
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Both. With whom, and when, did you go to Ashburnham and Greenbelt?
Live by the sea
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U2 are a decent band no doubt but are in my opinion over rated . Very good does not equal great .
bobbab5
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U2, the camping or both
Both. With whom, and when, did you go to Ashburnham and Greenbelt?
AmexRuislip
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Local youth group to Ashburnham & Greenbelt with mates all aroundearly 1980s.
That ZOO TV Tour absolutely blew me away at Wembley. Probably the best show I've ever been to. Thanks for posting this - will listen to it today in the office. It was only a while ago I realised that the Edge actually married the belly dancer on that tour as well!
I was at Northbrook College around 1992, and was so into U2 that I went full "Edge" with my clothes & beanie hats, and even persuaded my mum to give me the Adam Clayton bleached blond slick back mohawk...
Still love "Where the Streets" live on the Rattle and Hum movie though, with the massive red "sunrise" behind them, and the lights coming up...the opening to it still gives me chills to this day.
The live versions on Rattle and Hum are brilliant. Sunday Bloody Sunday, Streets, With or Without You. And that version of Exit. wow.
This zoo tour video is even better Than Sydney imo. more raw. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNSrAEUsuIU&t=580s
bobbab5
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I went to Ashburnham once with the Boys Brigade in '83, and for a few years for church weekends.
I went to Greenbelt from '86 to '98, with my church youth group.
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AmexRuislip
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My husband likes U2 a lot and we have seen them in concert a few times. They are very good band live and have some great songs and I have no issues when he plays their music at home. Still, I don't know why, but they have never been a band I feel any affection for, even though I think they are very good. They seem to get the same criticism that any commercially successful band or musician gets, the "they've sold a lot of songs so they must be sh!t" strange logic.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Quite possibly one of their best songs ever - yet its not one thats mentioned very much. Gives me chills every time I hear it.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Watching this has made me wish I'd got tickets for the JT tour....the first one I've missed for ages.