First New U2 Album Experience?

[Mirrorball Girl]

My first U2 purchase was AB, but my first new U2 release was POP. (I became a fan in early 1996.) I was a fan, but not a huge fan, so I don't think I got it until later on the evening it came out. Yeah, it definitely came out on March 4th, 1997. I remember because it was the stupid joke among my friends and I that U2's new album came out on "command day." (March 4th? March forth? Get it?

)

Aaaaanyway. I pretty much liked the album at first listen, although I must say if anything, it's only grown on me since then.

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"I still can't play guitar
How the hell did I get this far?"
~Bono, Detroit

There is no way we could possibly do infinity push-ups.

 

[Angel]

My very first U2 purchase- 'Rattle & Hum'. I can't honestly remember my first thoughts though.
Every other album thereafter I bought on the release date.
I remember collecting all the old stuff was fun.

 

[thingstomake]

My first U2 album was Joshua Tree (bought on cassette in the spring of 1988). My first new U2 album was Rattle and Hum, which I bought on the first day (October 10, 1988). I skipped Chemistry in college to run out and buy it. I still have the "long box" that the CD came in (remember "long boxes"?). I remember the movie came out on November 4, 1988 which I saw on opening night...got a poster as well. Since then, I've bought every new U2 album on the day of release (Nov 1991, July 1993, March 1997, Oct 2000)

 

[U2girl]

Originally posted by zooropamanda:
hmm u guys changed this topic.

Thanks U2girl! Thats my new word. Im going to walk around saying that now.

You're welcome.

 

[EdgeZTV]

Pop, but really ATYCLB. The latter being somewhat disappointing.

 

[elevation]

I got Achtung Baby on tape as a Christmas present when I was 15. My sisters were quite a lot into the band, but I just remember I gut more than annoyed listening to Babyface over and over again when they played Zooropa.
Anyway, I looked at the tape and what was that: A snake and a naked woman on the front cover! What was this: Metallica?! Having listened to cheesy pop melodies my entire life, this cover wasn't really my type of music (so I thought). My sisters asked me after I got the tape: Are you listening to U2? Me: Sure! (Tryed to looked cool though I had never really heard of the band).
So I put the casette in my walk man and heard the first sounds of "Zoo Station". It was awful! I absolutely hated it! I removed the tape and hid it somewhere. Six months later I found it, decided to listen to it again and I was hooked. I listened to it over and over, I mean, really, a LOT of times. And I couldn't get enough of it...To this day I owe my sisters big time for buying me the tape..

And now I'm a much bigger fan than they are...

My first new album was POP. I remember being extremely disappointed, and it took me more than a year really to love it. It was a slow starter

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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle". - A. Einstein

[This message has been edited by elevation (edited 02-02-2002).]

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

The first U2 album I bought was Achtung Baby (on cassette). I made my dad take me to the record store and when I came home I listened to it over and over and over again on my walkman. Then I bought everything else they had released up till AB in the following weeks after. I bought Zooropa and POP in the summer of 98, and The Best Of and ATYCLB on the day of release.

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My scream got lost in a paper cup...

 

[achtung__baby]

Originally posted by zooropamanda:

Bono screaming like a woman about fruit?!

Haha!

Have to admit I only became a *proper* fan after ATYCLB despite liking them for years - but it was still incredible going out and buying stuff like Boy which I'd never heard before for the first time. Counting the days until the new album (and tour

) though.