MrPryck2U
ONE love, blood, life
Holy shit, Borders! I used to buy all of my POP import singles there.
Holy shit, Borders! I used to buy all of my POP import singles there.
They were good with that sort of thing.
First on my radar: Rattle & Hum.
Sold: Achtung Baby. Actually really was The Fly. The single was actually released on my 13th birthday, and I guess that's the age where you are just ready for a song or album to really grab you and... oh, MUSIC. The Fly leading to Achtung was that for me. For a lot of people my age I guess it was just a little bit later with Smells Like Teen Spirit, but a lot of really 'new' stuff was going on then. The early-mid 90s really were genuinely amazing across the board, but especially so when you're that age and just discovering music in general.
Anyway, bought Achtung the week it came out. Can very clearly remember everything about and around hearing Zoo Station crashing through the speakers for the first time.
I'm pretty certain it was Under a Blood Red Sky. I remember playing that one on my turntable over and over, more than War. Though Unforgettable Fire was the first one I bought the day it came out and midway through A Sort of Homecoming I was ready to march off with them, white flags in hand, wherever they were headed.
I had a bit of a bumpy patch after seeing my first Achtung Baby show in Philadelphia. I was actually kind of pissed off afterwards. I didn't take to their new "show." It took awhile to get it. Have to say I drifted away a bit with No Line.
Sort of funny, Invisible went in one ear and out the other when it first came out but when I downloaded SOI on Itunes, the first song that played was Invisible that was hanging around in there and it actually blew me away.
Love SOI, though if anyone had asked my opinion, I would have made it less 'studio' and more 'standing on a barge in the Liffey' (ie grittier)
Achtung Baby started my interest, at a wee 12 years old.
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me reeled me in at 15
Pop closed the deal at 17.
I would say Achtung/Zooropa made me a fan but Pop really turned me into a crazy obsessed fan.
Sold: Achtung Baby. Actually really was The Fly. The single was actually released on my 13th birthday, and I guess that's the age where you are just ready for a song or album to really grab you and... oh, MUSIC. The Fly leading to Achtung was that for me. For a lot of people my age I guess it was just a little bit later with Smells Like Teen Spirit, but a lot of really 'new' stuff was going on then. The early-mid 90s really were genuinely amazing across the board, but especially so when you're that age and just discovering music in general.
Such a nice thread! I loved reading all your stories!
now hates U2 and is a guns n roses man!
Alrighty, let me start off by saying that I am young enough that I can't really remember a U2 album release besides SOI, so I am a rather new fan. Anyway, I was in English class two years ago and we had been discussing The Troubles and its effect on Irish literature. Near the end of class when we had some free time, my teacher decided to show us the video of Sunday, Bloody Sunday from UABRS on YouTube for whatever reason. I had heard of U2 and had sort of listened to a few songs of theirs, but I had never heard Sunday, Bloody Sunday before or known how incredibly passionate the band was. When I came home from school and my dad asked me about my day, I was still so impressed by the video that I told him about it, and he then told me that War was his favorite album (and still is). My dad had the CD, and I put it on my iPod, playing it on repeat for weeks. It's the first album I remember listening to that I knew was urgent. Besides just becoming a U2 fan with that album, that's when I began to really connect with music.
Now, as for becoming a superfan though, it had to be with the second U2 album I listened to, Achtung Baby. Going from War to Achtung Baby, I was amazed that one band could make two such different albums and still sound authentic. I knew after the fadeout of Love is Blindness that U2 was already my favorite band.
We had no choice .
Yea, I liked Vertigo, got a few albums from a mate's parents, then started by getting AB and JT, all their 80s albums (as they're the cheapest), when I heard Pop I was pretty much a goner too. I still remember that I bought Zooropa when we had a school trip to Rome, lol. Same with Passengers, I just couldn't find them here, and went in a random record store in Rome and there they were.
Achtung Baby started my interest, at a wee 12 years old.
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me reeled me in at 15
Pop closed the deal at 17.
I remember seeing a movie which I think was called sunday bloody sunday as well.
About the troubles in Ireland. And it had SBS in it. I think I was about 14 or 15.
That's the first time U2 actually got my attention. I was shocked at how much emotions it brought up.
After finishing the movie , I ran upstairs, checked out more of their work. Pretty much just dowloading their entire catalogue with "limewire"
And then I was stunned at how diverse they where. The melodies, the lyrics.
The thing that topped it off was discovering that my parents had the live in Boston DVD. (Which my parents told me I HATED.. Because they watched it so much.
personally I thought that was a Neil Young dvd instead but okay)
I saw Kite, Bad, The Fly, and finally was on the point of no return. HTDAAB catapulted it into a heavy desire to see them live. But I was too young, and ended up seeing them during 360.
Ha. I like this thread. Every story is quite fun to read.