20 Years since HTDAAB.
I’m enjoying Country Mile. It’s no classic and I’ll probably wear it out pretty quickly.
But this release has got me all nostalgic for the build up to this album.
The endless speculation on here about tracklists and what songs would sound like. I spent hours on here.
The general sense of disappointment in the album title. And that bloody awful album cover.
The leaked beach clips (Miracle Drug in particular had me anticipating it to be U2’s finest ever moment. It wasn’t). Those beach clips hit different.
Preordering the Deluxe version from a defunct JB Hi Fi in the city and excitedly picking up after uni. Retailed at $64 I think. Was still on the shelf 10 years later for $15.
I watched the DVD and read Bono’s Book of Scribbles plenty of times. I even remember the smell of it.
The local commercial rock radio station’s first play of Vertigo, and then subsequently every hour after that. Recording it onto cassette. But still buying the CD single. And upon the release of the album, the radio station played a new song from the album every hour.
What a time it was