Zoocoustic
War Child
I'll admit it: When ATYCLB first came out, I loved the album, but I thought that U2 was pretty much done being a huge, popular rock group. Among other things, they were too old, and the whole Pop era just left a really nasty taste in too many people's mouths.
I remember a year ago at this time, I hadn't heard much of Beautiful Day on the radio at all. Stations were basically ignoring U2, and although the tour was coming up, I didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal to most people.
So what has happened since then: Well, BD goes 3 for 3 at the 2001 grammies, the album sells over 3.2 million in the US, the tour sells out nearly every show, the band picks up that MTV award, they play at virtually every major event they can (among which are SNL, NBA finals, Letterman, Leno, MTV awards), throw Elevation onto a major summer movie soundtrack, Walk On becomes basically the soundtrack to 9/11, they get slated to perform at the Super Bowl and invited to the Olympics, and now they pick up an AMAZING 8 Grammy nominations!
I will be the first to admit it: I NEVER thought it was going to go this far for U2 this time around. I figured the ZooTV era was their last time in the spotlight. I would have bet against any of you who said they would be where they are right now.
It's never felt so good to be so wrong...
I remember a year ago at this time, I hadn't heard much of Beautiful Day on the radio at all. Stations were basically ignoring U2, and although the tour was coming up, I didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal to most people.
So what has happened since then: Well, BD goes 3 for 3 at the 2001 grammies, the album sells over 3.2 million in the US, the tour sells out nearly every show, the band picks up that MTV award, they play at virtually every major event they can (among which are SNL, NBA finals, Letterman, Leno, MTV awards), throw Elevation onto a major summer movie soundtrack, Walk On becomes basically the soundtrack to 9/11, they get slated to perform at the Super Bowl and invited to the Olympics, and now they pick up an AMAZING 8 Grammy nominations!
I will be the first to admit it: I NEVER thought it was going to go this far for U2 this time around. I figured the ZooTV era was their last time in the spotlight. I would have bet against any of you who said they would be where they are right now.
It's never felt so good to be so wrong...