This is the first I'm really looking forward too. I was only 9 when ATYCLB was released, just hit the shelves for me and that was it. With HTDAAB I knew there was a release coming but I wasn't really watching with a lot of interest because I didn't spend much time on the net and didn't really keep up to date with things. Now however, I just can't wait.I know where my priorities lie now. Can't wait.
This is the first I'm really looking forward too. I was only 9 when ATYCLB was released, just hit the shelves for me and that was it. With HTDAAB I knew there was a release coming but I wasn't really watching with a lot of interest because I didn't spend much time on the net and didn't really keep up to date with things. Now however, I just can't wait.I know where my priorities lie now. Can't wait.
This my second pre-album anticipation--but the first to share with Internet fans! I became a lukewarm fan when Beautiful Day came out, then evolved to an huge fan in the summer of '03 when I completed my album collection. I remember being on the Internet one day and accidentally coming across Interference. I think it was through them that I found out VH1.com was going to be streaming HTDAAB one week before it hit shelves. That entire week, I'd come home from classes and listen to it on repeat. The day it was released, I went to the store at 10am and bought the super deluxe edition. It was a great feeling.
This my second pre-album anticipation--but the first to share with Internet fans! I became a lukewarm fan when Beautiful Day came out, then evolved to an huge fan in the summer of '03 when I completed my album collection. I remember being on the Internet one day and accidentally coming across Interference. I think it was through them that I found out VH1.com was going to be streaming HTDAAB one week before it hit shelves. That entire week, I'd come home from classes and listen to it on repeat. The day it was released, I went to the store at 10am and bought the super deluxe edition. It was a great feeling.
This is my first........ man do I love it! Oh god, I can't wait any longer!! If I suddenly stop posting, I'll be lurking outside Hanover Quay lol
I guess I'm getting old since I can clearly remember some anticipation before The Unforgettable Fire, the first I saw the video of Pride played on television was also the first time I heard the song. The video was great and impressive at that time (I was 8 years old, my older brother 13 got me into U2 and 'forged' me more or less to listen to War and UABRS). The video was amazing, as was the song. We (my brother and I) heard that the song was of the new U2 record called Unforgettable Fire, which existence we didn't know.
the anticipation for The Joshua Tree is more vividly in my memories, my brother was 16 and very keen on this new record, bought the LP on the day of release, but had already bought the vinyl single of WOWY before. The sound of WOWY was so new and so great, everyone was talking/buzzing about it and knew this would be their best. But also the 'new' looks of the band, longer hair of Bono and Edge, the cowboy hat and Adam's glasses made them look more mature. So in that sense, Joshua Tree was quite a radical step from TUF, and everybody was surprised by that, almost equally in my memory to the radical shift in the Achtung Baby era.
I guess I'm getting old since I can clearly remember some anticipation before The Unforgettable Fire, the first I saw the video of Pride played on television was also the first time I heard the song. The video was great and impressive at that time (I was 8 years old, my older brother 13 got me into U2 and 'forged' me more or less to listen to War and UABRS). The video was amazing, as was the song. We (my brother and I) heard that the song was of the new U2 record called Unforgettable Fire, which existence we didn't know.
the anticipation for The Joshua Tree is more vividly in my memories, my brother was 16 and very keen on this new record, bought the LP on the day of release, but had already bought the vinyl single of WOWY before. The sound of WOWY was so new and so great, everyone was talking/buzzing about it and knew this would be their best. But also the 'new' looks of the band, longer hair of Bono and Edge, the cowboy hat and Adam's glasses made them look more mature. So in that sense, Joshua Tree was quite a radical step from TUF, and everybody was surprised by that, almost equally in my memory to the radical shift in the Achtung Baby era.
I guess I'm getting old since I can clearly remember some anticipation before The Unforgettable Fire, the first I saw the video of Pride played on television was also the first time I heard the song. The video was great and impressive at that time (I was 8 years old, my older brother 13 got me into U2 and 'forged' me more or less to listen to War and UABRS). The video was amazing, as was the song. We (my brother and I) heard that the song was of the new U2 record called Unforgettable Fire, which existence we didn't know.
the anticipation for The Joshua Tree is more vividly in my memories, my brother was 16 and very keen on this new record, bought the LP on the day of release, but had already bought the vinyl single of WOWY before. The sound of WOWY was so new and so great, everyone was talking/buzzing about it and knew this would be their best. But also the 'new' looks of the band, longer hair of Bono and Edge, the cowboy hat and Adam's glasses made them look more mature. So in that sense, Joshua Tree was quite a radical step from TUF, and everybody was surprised by that, almost equally in my memory to the radical shift in the Achtung Baby era.
I wish I was born in the seventies..or sixties. Strangely enough, my dad has the same age as Bono but didn't grow up with U2, while he was 21 at the time of Boy. I actually converted my dad in a fan, although he isn't die-hard like me.
Has anyone here ever been to a U2 dress rehersal? I'd love to try and get into one next tour. (That, and, you know, an actual concert.)
wow i love this topic. read how people experienced the old days...
i hope they will rework some live songs... maybe another rework of Bullet, I hope they will rework The Fly cause the solo of the Vertigo Tour is not so strong as the Elevation Tour solo of The Fly... little chance however that they gonna rework it. bono said that they really got it right live now, but it's ok. it's still my 2nd favourite song of them or something in that range...
maybe they gonna rework vertigo like they did with elevation which is even better played than on it's original era.
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........ man do I love it! Oh god, I can't wait any longer!! If I suddenly stop posting, I'll be lurking outside Hanover Quay lol
