young u2 fans

[last unicorn]

blueeyedgirl, whenever I see any of your posts I cannot help but feel sorry for you. It must hurt to be so spiteful.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I first heard of them when I was nine, first started listening to them when I was twelve, became a big fan when I was thirteen, joined this place when I was fourteen, and tailed off my fandom when I was sixteen.

Damn my musical education is being crammed real tight. By the time I'm twenty-one I'll most likely be grumpily thumbing my nose at everything except free jazz.

 

[oceane]

It's great to hear about all those young fans! I've been debating when to start properly introducing my little sister to U2...
She will be turning 12 this Christmas and I was thinking that maybe it was the time and I could get U218 for her, but I am not sure she would really get it. She knows about U2 because I am a fan but I don't really know what she thinks of the songs she's heard.

It's funny I remember when I was 12 (it was the AB era) I used to find U2 interesting and I really liked many of their songs, but there was something about them that I found a bit complicated or too sophisticated for me. I remember thinking that I would probably be really into them if I was older. I was right, I became a properly obsessed fan when I was 17 But somehow before that I wasn't quite 'ready'.

 

[jacobus]

@The Edge 1988:
better you listen to TUF, ACHTUNG BABY, ZOOROPA & POP otherwise your musical taste would be ruined for your lifetime don't play with bombs!

 

[powerhour24]

18, had enjoyed some of their music on the radio but when they were brought back to the forefront with ATYCLB is when I really started to discover them...now the obsession is complete.

 

[europop2005]

i'm 20...i became a fan after Elevation...mostly summer 05 i really discoved EVERYTHING though...i'm amazed at the age range at the concerts

 

[Folkelig]

I would have loved to discover U2 for the first time now, then having all those great albums to dig into. I became a U2 fan around the time JT came out, though it was Under a blod red sky that lured me in to U2 world.

 

[pgv]

i'm 20...i became a fan after Elevation...mostly summer 05 i really discoved EVERYTHING though...i'm amazed at the age range at the concerts

Before my first u2 gig i was only expecting there to be lots of 40 year olds there (which I'm fine with) but I loved it that there were people of all ages there!

 

[circa1992]

17, and I've shaken hands with Bono (show-off), and I've attended four shows.

Beautiful Day hooked me.

<----- My daughter was pulled on stage at MSG (11/22/05) at one of the 3 concerts she saw last year, when she was 13. She's been a huge fan for 6 years now. Just the fact that Bono brought her on stage was amazing, but since that day he has acknowleged her at the 12/7/05 Hartford show (by smiling, bowing, and touching his heart after reading our sign), and she got to chat with him very briefly and get a hug and an autograph on her picture (of her on his back) and another on her green "Bono hat" at the NYC book signing 9/26/06. Bono and Edge signed my 11 year old son's tour t-shirt. I figured you shouldn't be the only show off in this thread. But I Do understand how exciting that close encounter can be! For my kids, their U2 love started when they were 5 & 8 years old when ATYCLB came out, but they quickly fell for all of their back catalogue. I became a fan when I was 14, back in 1987!
~Liz

 

[powerhour24]

Before my first u2 gig i was only expecting there to be lots of 40 year olds there (which I'm fine with) but I loved it that there were people of all ages there!

I loved the mix of people you see at their shows also, I wasn't all that surprised given their popularity, but it made the audiences so much more interesting than a typical (even big) concert because usually most of a band's fanbase is from one crowd or generation.

 

[pgv]

I loved the mix of people you see at their shows also, I wasn't all that surprised given their popularity, but it made the audiences so much more interesting than a typical (even big) concert because usually most of a band's fanbase is from one crowd or generation.

Plus it didn't mean I couldn't see (because there were younger/shorter fans than me) and I didn't get crushed like i usually do at gigs by scary moshing teenage boys!

 

[fna692002]

I loved the mix of people you see at their shows also, I wasn't all that surprised given their popularity, but it made the audiences so much more interesting than a typical (even big) concert because usually most of a band's fanbase is from one crowd or generation.

*coughs* The stones *coughs*

 

[wildhoney88565]

Im 16 and i LOVE THEM

 

[BlackElectric]

I'm curious, and this is a genuine question, why are you all fans of such old farts?? I look at all the artists I love and they're only a bit older than I am. If I were 15 today, I don't think I'd be into a band that is older than most parents.

It's like falling in love. You can't help you fall in love with. All you know is that you love them.

U2's music is amazing to me, no matter how old they are. I don't even take their age into consideration when I listen to them.

 

[pgv]

It's like falling in love. You can't help you fall in love with. All you know is that you love them.

Summed it up PERFECTLY!
I heard sunday bloody sunday, and from that moment on I knew I would always be a fan.

 

[mkdominatr]

Im 19. Ive been a fan since I went to see them in Philly for the 1st Elevation leg. It was a random show my family got tickets for and i knew i liked some of their stuff so I went. The rest is history...

 

[annie_vox]

I'm 20 and I've been a fan for 5 years. I became a fan when my father bought me ATYCLB for my birthday. After that I bought a new album everytime I had a chance. I used to put some money apart every week so I could buy a new album. I still can hear my mother saying "Another one? Don't you have enough?" I just smiled at her very contended with my new album. Then came the dvds and some books.
When I went to Vertigo tour it didn't surprise me to see so many people my age and even younger singing along with older people. That's one of the amazing things about this band, the hability to put together so many generations.
The thing is, I fell in love with them as soon as I listened to my first album, and U2 isn't exactely the kind of music I use to listen too. That's another great thing about them, the capacity to captivate fans from different grounds. I'm into the indie rock music and some britpop too, and I have friends that are into rap and r&b but love U2. I think this is beautiful. (I also have friends who hate them but that's another story...)

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Thanks for the replies. I was genuinely interested in how U2 are popular with younger people just getting into them now. It gives you a different perspective from being a longer time fan.

blueeyedgirl, whenever I see any of your posts I cannot help but feel sorry for you. It must hurt to be so spiteful.

I'm glad at least one person is saying prayers for me.

 

[phillyfan26]

I'm young. I've never seen them live (I still regret this). Started with The Joshua Tree, worked on from there. Self-taught U2 fan. No relatives like them.

 

[Varitek]

Started with The Joshua Tree, worked on from there. Self-taught U2 fan. No relatives like them.

Same, nobody in my family had any of their stuff, but I started with War. After I'd been to 4 concerts on the Vertigo tour my mom decided to buy a pair of tickets so she could see them with me for the holidays. So that's me, getting my 50+ yr old mother into U2. Anyway it was a godsend because I bought a floor ticket to the concert the night before the one she was flying me home from college for and that's the night I was in front of the microphone and Bono pulled me up on stage and kissed me on the cheek.

(poor mom, the next night just couldn't compare, although they did snippet She's a Mystery to Me and Xmas Baby Please Come Home. Plus my mother got to sing along to a full verison of Norweigan Wood, by her teenage-crush band!)

 

[ScooterXX7]

My dream is to meet the band before I/they die.

 

[rudybay]

i was 15 and Pop came out, i really liked Pop, and i also like the classics, pride, WOWY, streets, etc, but when the best of came out, that´s when i got hooked, when i was 16, sweetest thing, listening to the B-Sides, three sunrises, i love you ´cos i need to, not because i need you, all that, and then the rest is history, i didnt follow the elevation tour as much as ive followed the vertigo tour due to my exchange year in switzerland, what i did was to listen to achtung baby, zooropa, rattle and hum a lot more in between the lines during that period, i wasnt completely lost with the obvious and general turn out of the elevation shows, but i was much more focused on those albums and the boston DVD which made me cry, streets made me cry, since 2001 ive been playin U2 song on my guitar, always wanted to have a tribute band, but no one likes U2 as much as i do, and if someone does even come close to my fandom, they dont know hot to play any instrument, i´ve been to 3 shows, miami, and both mexico city shows, i recorded in my mind the last time i saw U2, i felt pretty sad, i hope its not the last time. i really envy the people that got hooked on U2 on the eighties, i wish i wouldve had a fan somewhere next to me during that era... to become a U2 fan is quite hard, there´s so much to know, so much to hear, so much to take, but i never get tired, it´s always a pleasure to know how this song came about, how that song mas made, how this show turn out, how this album was recorded, etc etc

 

[rudybay]

2002, that was the year i got all the albums, well except the passengers one, and the million dollar hotel st, i also got all the DVD´s, i just recently lost all the albums, i had them all in a CD carrier in my bookbag, and it was stolen

 

[rudybay]

i remember being intrigued by SBS, hold me, thrill me... i always thought they were amazing songs, but never thought of becoming a fan, a real fan, i always had this huge admiration by how sophisticated they were, how cool they were, this was around 94-96

 

[AtomicBono]

Thanks for the replies. I was genuinely interested in how U2 are popular with younger people just getting into them now. It gives you a different perspective from being a longer time fan.

Yeah, well I'm thinking most of the younger U2 fans don't care about the band's age. I don't factor in age when I listen to any music. It's not til after I fall in love with a band that i bother to learn about them

 

[popacrobat]

im 19 and cool so

 

[AtomicBono]

im 19 and cool so

cool? more like hot

SKEET SKEET!

 

[annabelle]

I love this thread!!

 

[kingofsorrow]

1st time i saw them sneaky irish bastards live was in '91, i was totally in awe of these 4 fucking jerks in a police escort. even more amazing was when i looked around me in the stadium, i saw folks old and young. i was next to a couple in their 50's. their friggin 50's. and they had their grandkids with them who were my age.
u2 has gone beyond borders, age, taste, etc, etc. their not just universal, but eternal.

 

[powerhour24]

I'm 20 and I've been a fan for 5 years. I became a fan when my father bought me ATYCLB for my birthday. After that I bought a new album everytime I had a chance. I used to put some money apart every week so I could buy a new album. I still can hear my mother saying "Another one? Don't you have enough?" I just smiled at her very contended with my new album. Then came the dvds and some books.
When I went to Vertigo tour it didn't surprise me to see so many people my age and even younger singing along with older people. That's one of the amazing things about this band, the hability to put together so many generations.
The thing is, I fell in love with them as soon as I listened to my first album

Very similar to me haha