When did you start to like and love U2?

[BANZAI]

Just two short questions: when did you first like a U2 song and when did you became a U2 fan?

First U2 song I heard and liked: Sunday Bloody Sunday (5 years old, 1985)

Becoming a U2 fan: Achtung Baby-period (11/12 years old, 1991/1992)

 

[waynetravis]

First song i heard was "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for" on vh1's 100 greatest albums in 2002

became a fan ever since

 

[JanuaryStar]

My father had the 'Best of CD' and I was just a little girl then, and liked U2, especially WOWY...

But I became a real fan since 2000 (ATYCLB)

 

[Sicy]

With or without you 1987?

Heard it on the radio and fell in love.. I was 14.

 

[LemonMelon]

When I started to like U2: the first time I heard Pride.

When I started to love U2: June 2002, the first time I heard the Joshua Tree.

 

[Bug]

Zoo Station and rest of AB, 1998.
Brother gave me the album after seeing me bust up at a particularly lame picture of Bono in a magazine.
Started to love after I kidnapped JT from him 2 hours later.

Was 12 at the time.

 

[goincommando]

I've always enjoyed a U2 song whenever I heard it on the radio, but this last Christmas I decided to get in on the greatness and bought War, Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, and Boy at a Best Buy. From then on I was in love.

 

[xaviMF22]

heard beautiful day and was hooked.......

 

[AtomicBono]

Discotheque 1997 9 years old

one listen and U2 were my favourite band

 

[gman]

11 yr old in 1981. Heard Electric co on my BROTHER (who doesnt like u2) tape. I was amazed by the delay at the start of that song. Been hooked since!

 

[J_NP]

Like : Wowy january 98

Love : ATYCLB 2002 / Elevation Boston idem (Also the very 1st time I started as a Guitar Player )

Then After I discovered these 2 words : ZOOTV and Popmart , then the damage was already done

 

[Thora]

The first U2 song I heard was ISHFWILF on the radio in the late 80's. It blew my mind, and I bought all the tapes soon after that.

I started really loving them in 1998, after my best friend bought me the best of 1980-90 CD, since I had lost all my tapes when I moved earlier that year. The rest is history!

 

[Canadiens1131]

Electrical Storm was the first rock single to bore its way into my mind enough to get me into popular music when I was 13.

 

[coolian2]

Beautiful Day in 2002. I heard it and thought "Thats for me".

 

[tiny dancer]

New Year's day did for me,and when I saw them for the first time at Love Aid. WOW!!!

 

[U2democrat]

I had been a casual fan since my sister played Joshua Tree over and over and later when I heard Mysterious Ways and One, but I didn't become a fanatic until Beautiful Day came out (I was 14), then I was absolutely hooked. My parents thought it was just an obsessive phase that would pass...well, it's been 6 years.

 

[blackhawklp5]

I do hate to say it, because it makes me feel like I caught on REALLY late -- but i first became a fan when i heard the Vertigo iPOD commercial

But I'm only 17!!!!

And then I bought all the other records, and its funny because I like the older ones a lot more (October, War).

 

[JCOSTER]

Two Hearts Beat as One - Liked them.
New Years Day - Loved them.
Live Aid - Hook line and sinker.

a 26 year love affair

 

[Screwtape2]

1998- In sixth grade, I got The Best of 1980-1990 because I wanted to get something from the store and I had heard of this U2.
1999- Fell in love with U2 and became a huge fan after listening to The Joshua Tree the first time.

 

[silvrlvr]

Just in the past two years. The first album I bought was Greatest Hits 1990-2000, then Bomb, actually because of the iPod commercial and the Bono/Edge appearance at the Clinton Library dedication. Now I'm working my way backwards (and hopefully forwards.)

 

[u2fan628]

I borrowed WAR from a friend and didn't give it back!
Same friend had a band and I sang NEW YEARS DAY,after that they called me Mr.U2. 20 years later...

 

[jacobus]

1st: PRIDE
2nd: TUF

 

[Chacco]

Out of Control in 1980, since then I've been a fan.

 

[david]

early 90's, around 92. i had achtung baby but it was their 80's back catalog that got me hooked. when i listened to their older material the songs resonated in me and the music moved me.

 

[hcbiggs2002]

Liked U2s performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert but it wasn't until seeing the With or Without You video in the autumn of 1988 that I became totally hooked!

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

Old songs during the 80's...... My sisters were teenagers at the time.....I was too young.....
Then I heard "DESIRE" in 1989 on the radio..... the craziness started right away! Got 3 albums in 2 days......

 

[An Cat Gav]

A cousin of mine from Dublin stayed with us when i was about 5,1980. She kept going on about U2, i remember the cover of Boy very well.
After that the first U2 song I loved was Pride(1984), the first time i really was moved by them was Bad at live aid.
I becam a proper fanatic in 87-88.
The Achtung Baby-Zoo Tv was the ultimate for me. But I'm just as dedicated now.

 

[clifedge]

I first beacme a fan when my college roommate played Joshua Tree in our room, and I first began to love them when I realized that I loved every album I heard by them.

 

[prideofzootv]

first song that i heard-Sunday Bloody Sunday live at Live Aid, this was before the DVD boxset was released, back in 2001 i believe i heard it, when there was a documentary on about Live Aid, when they played songs by the big artists, like Radio Ga Ga by Queen, and Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2, i heard it, got into it,

so from then it was one song at a time, Bad,Beautiful Day etc etc, and now im up to loads of songs!

 

[cruzila]

Became a fan circa the time when Rattle & Hum hit the theaters
Became an obsessed fan during Vertigo, 1st leg.