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[Music] Celebrating the amazing early (up to Joshua Tree) music of U2 and Bono



Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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While mates at the time got in to U2, a few of us were in the Echo and the Bunnymen camp.

I loved The Bunnymen too, went to that Jan 83 gig at Brighton Dome.

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.
 




BN9 BHA

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Wish I’d seen The Jam, and The Police (but with them, only covering the first two albums). A lucky older brother of mine of HWT’s age saw the lot, plus all the visits to Brighton by The Stranglers, The Clash, etc.

I was lucky enough to see The Jam at the Centre and The Stranglers, The Police played The Dome, but I didn't go.
 


Weststander

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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.

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.
 


Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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Cumbria
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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Jun 29, 2012
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On the Beach
I can see why.
But imho they are one of the Greatest bandS of the last 40 years.
I mean, you Have to admit they know how to put on a show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As1R08FzfkE

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...:lolol:

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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DJ NOBO

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Jul 18, 2004
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Wiltshire
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...:lolol:

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
 








ozzygull

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Oct 6, 2003
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Reading
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.
 








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