Techie2000
Refugee
Beautiful Day for me also...
tmciano said:I was in the army in 1983 in Germany, and this new guy who had just arrived in Germany was assigned to my room in the barracks. Within about 10 minutes after I met him he started raving on about this band called U2. He then played me the "War" album, and then "Boy" on my stereo. I was impressed, I liked what I heard. I will never forget him telling me that he thought U2 was going to be the greatest band that ever was. He must have told me that every day for the next few months before I left and returned to the states. I was not too sure about "The GREATEST BAND EVER thing, but I thought Sunday Bloody Sunday and New Years Day were pretty decent songs.
I didn't keep up on the band much for the next few years, but then one day I received in the mail Columbia House's "Pick of the Month" by that band that my friend in Germany had raved about. I put the LP on my turntable, cranked up the volume, sat back, listened ... and then was TOTALLY blown away by one of the best songs ever recorded...Where The Streets Have No Name. When the song was over, I got up and played it over, and then again, and again. After the 3rd or fourth listen to that first track, I let it play on, and well, of course with each succesive song I was hooked on this great band. I played the JT probably every day, several times a day, for what seemed like a year afterwards, and I remembered what my friend in Germany had predicted years earlier.
He was right.
Just saw my first U2 concert in Phoenix last Thursday, and I am still high from it!!
noodle said:Way back in the old days I was watching MTV & New Years Day came on & that was it - I hungered & searched for everything U2 from then on!!
I was watching this with a friend of mine - I'm from Ireland & she's from England (well Yorkshire - if that even counts as part of a country) & she thought it was the funniest thing ever - made jokes about the 'long suffering Irish' There were Duran Duran on a sail boat in the sunshine with beautiful girls all over 'em in their video & where are the Irish? - bloody Siberia! Typical!! But I loved it!
What - you were expecting a short answer to this?!