101 reasons why U2?

[CKONE]

It can be a song, a note, a lyric, a campaign, a favourite band member, a time, an album, a gig, an outfit, an emotion, a memory or whatever reason U2 are for you. (if we can keep count then great I suggest a running total on the bottom of each post?)

To start for me its:-

1987
The Joshua Tree
A link is lost the chain undone




(3)

 

[martha]

Driving south through west Texas in the early morning sunlit fog while Electric Co. was playing. I was driving off the end of the world.




(4)

 

[Chizip]

Adam's giant wang


(5)

 

[JCOSTER]

I Will Follow
the sound of it

(2)

 

[fly so high!]

Soulful
Sentimental

(2)

 

[Chizip]

I Will Follow
the sound of it

(2)

uh 5 + 2 = 7

 

[JCOSTER]

I was just adding my own wise guy.

 

[Chizip]

I was just adding my own wise guy.

the point is youre supposed to add your reasons to the total number so its easy to keep track of them all until we get to 101

there were 5 reasons previously listed, you had 2, so you add those to the total to make 7!

 

[gareth brown]

surely, 9?

 

[U2lunatic]

The Unforgettable fire
Bono's songwriting

(11)

 

[jacobus]

BOY
OCTOBER
WAR
TUF
TJT
R&H
ACHTUNG BABY
ZOOROPA
HMTMKMKM
PASSENGERS
POP

 

[AttnKleinkind]

Macphisto

(I believe we're at 23?)

 

[gman]

Live Aid

24

 

[LemonMelon]

Dream out loud, at high volume

(25)

 

[RademR]

Edge's guitar sound
u2 live experience
Kite
ZooTV

(29)

 

[YBORCITY]

Driving from New York City the day after 9/11 (I was lucky enough to find a rental car at JFK) to my home in Florida and listening to ATYCLB over and over and over..... I didn't feel so alone


Hearing U2 play Streets in a huge football Stadium with a Thunder Storm raging in the background.



(31)

 

[diamond]

32.

Driving through Northern Arizona in the early 1990s through sleet and snow and for the very first time I hear the haunting opening riffs of "Night and Day"..crackling through my car stereo speakers.

dbs

 

[gman]

The biggest Tv screens in history.
A motorised Lemon
A 100 ft high pickle on a stick

35)

 

[silvrlvr]

Edge's beanie

Adam's stance

Bono's bounces

Larry's glare

39

 

[LMP]

Wait? Where was the pickle?

Do you mean an olive?

Bono as The Fly ftw.
Waving white flags
U2's disastrous trip to Graceland

42

 

[gman]

OLIVE THEN

still 42

 

[catlhere]

#40 should have been "40"

THE mullet

(43)

 

[MsPurrl]

My sister swandiver and myself scoring tickets to the 10/10/01 show at Notre Dame.

Accompanying my other sister, my brother, his wife, and their son to their first U2 show and watching their euphoria (they got it!)

Accompanying my nephew and MrPurrl to their first U2 show (different show!) and watching their euphoria

Feeling like I'm walking a foot off the ground, with sparks flying out of my fingertips (thanks, swandiver!) after a U2 show

That's 4 more = 47

 

[diamond]

The first time I heard NYD in 1983.

dbs
48

 

[Utoo]

"Fuck the film!"


49

 

[craigp]

"fuck the revolution!"

(50)

 

[Joey788]

The Fly (the song)

The opening of Zoo Station

Bad on the Vertigo Tour

Window in the Skies

The different song transitions into Streets on each tour

(55)

 

[diamond]

Reason 56-
http://members.aol.com/diamondbruno9/Dave_BONO_01.jpg

dbs

 

[bono_212]

Chicago 5/21/05, hearing The First Time live

Buying HTDAAB at 12:27 AM and listening to it until 3 AM, while reading the book, even though I had school the same day

(58)

 

[pepokiss]

if I just add 50 songs can we end this?