Galeongirl
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I actually like Peace on Earth.
I actually like Peace on Earth.
I actually like the football video for Stuck. It's one of the first U2 videos I ever saw, and I think it's cute. It has some nostalgia value for me. Good old 2001; it was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
I also thought the Elevation video was really cool when I was 14. It seems a little cheesy now (OK, maybe more than just a little), but I still like it.
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I was 10 when I saw the Boston DVD for the first time. It's not one of their best, but that show changed my life.
I love the Pop-era pageantry: costumes, stage and lights, including Village People. Yes, it was totally ridiculous, but the monster set of balls it took made the whole thing appealing and hot as well.
I love the Boston DVD, I think it's a hell of a lot better than the Slane one which everyone raves on about.
I also have one friend who is a super fan like me, but he is shameless about it, whereas I try to not reveal my super fan side to many people.
I find it very embarrassing when he publically displays our U2 knowledge. Like he'll say "hey Dave, remember the live version of "like a song"? They only played that once, right? Didn't they also not play "refugee" and "red light"? And I'll be embarrassed to know such an obscure fact, but I can't seem like a phony to him either. It's awkward!
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This is something I never understood. Why do you find this so embarrassing? What's so shameful about knowing a lot on your favourite band? You call your friend shameless, shouldn't it be that he's actually proud of his fandom and his knowledge, while you are the one that is ashamed by it for reasons I don't understand?
I tend not to bother my friends with my U2 knowledge, but they know that if someone starts me I'll take the challenge. Then again, I don't have just a vast U2 knowledge but seem to remember random music facts anyway, so they usually use me for pubquizzes.
I was 10 when I saw the Boston DVD for the first time. It's not one of their best, but that show changed my life.
I was 10 when I saw the Boston DVD for the first time.
I was 14 when I saw it on VH1 on Thanksgiving weekend. I recorded it onto a VHS tape and watched it over and over until I got the DVD.
I love the Pop-era pageantry: costumes, stage and lights, including Village People. Yes, it was totally ridiculous, but the monster set of balls it took made the whole thing appealing and hot as well.
And yeah, I conceal my level of fandom all the time. I'd never pretend not to like things I do, but I def. have to tone down the amount of detail I know. When you're talking to a casual fan and accidentally wander into 'Stockholm vs Rotterdam version of TTTYAATW' territory, that can be embarrassing.
Really cool...
May I ask what made you interested into watching that show for the first time? was U2 THAT cool as recent as 2003 that some preteenagers were so eager to watch it and even record it? or it was a "my parents had been playing U2 to me since I was born, so..."
I had started liking them that summer because I liked Beautiful Day and the rest of ATYCLB (my brother downloaded it off of AudioGalaxy; remember that place!?). The first time I saw them on TV was actually U2 Does Much on MuchMusic and I thought they seemed like really nice guys, not the usual kind of rock stars, so that just made me like them even more. And then I started looking them up on the Internet and read every interview I could find and learned about their history and all the albums I had yet to listen to. And that time period was great because it seemed like every time I turned on the TV I could find something U2 related on at least one channel. They were everywhere! Also, I wrote a book report on U2 At the End of the World in 2002 when I was in eighth grade. I didn't tell my teacher about all the swearing and other adult content in there, though.
Oh, and my parents didn't like U2. They thought they were either a metal band or some New Age group for some reason.
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1. Gone new mix is better than the original.
So weird or not, ATYCLB and Bomb were very accessible for teenagers.
It not weird. These two albums did much more for the band in the respect of gaining them fans than Zooropa and POP.
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1. Gone new mix is better than the original
2. Wild Horses temple bar edit is better than the original.
3. Apart from the intro, I prefer the studio version of Streets to live, in particular the bridge.