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  1. I was thinking that... Songs Of Innocence was released out of the blue only 5 years ago. Only 5 years and it's been 4 tours since then, a bike accident, a brush with mortality, and many of us have attended more U2 gigs than in our full previous life before. Time flies.

    I miss the days when SOI came out, the tour was announced, the deluxe version, the extra songs, the new look of the band, everything. It was like U2 had been born again and were witnesses of it.

    Now we have them touring like crazy, every year around different parts of the world. In a certain sense, I wish they went away for a good while, I wish they disappeared off the map so they could come back and blow our minds again.

    I just want to miss them a bit so I can be excited when they're back again.
  2. Originally posted by LikeASong:I was thinking that... Songs Of Innocence was released out of the blue only 5 years ago. Only 5 years and it's been 4 tours since then, a bike accident, a brush with mortality, and many of us have attended more U2 gigs than in our full previous life before. Time flies.

    I miss the days when SOI came out, the tour was announced, the deluxe version, the extra songs, the new look of the band, everything. It was like U2 had been born again and were witnesses of it.

    Now we have them touring like crazy, every year. In a certain sense, I wish they went away for a good while, I wish they disappeared off the map so they could come back and blow our minds again.

    I just want to miss them a bit so I can be excited when they're back again.
    This!!
  3. The last five years have been bountiful.
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong:I was thinking that... Songs Of Innocence was released out of the blue only 5 years ago. Only 5 years and it's been 4 tours since then, a bike accident, a brush with mortality, and many of us have attended more U2 gigs than in our full previous life before. Time flies.

    I miss the days when SOI came out, the tour was announced, the deluxe version, the extra songs, the new look of the band, everything. It was like U2 had been born again and were witnesses of it.

    Now we have them touring like crazy, every year around different parts of the world. In a certain sense, I wish they went away for a good while, I wish they disappeared off the map so they could come back and blow our minds again.

    I just want to miss them a bit so I can be excited when they're back again.
    Wow, five years only. Indeed, 4 tours, two albums - they've been busy. My end: I had two kids and took up a new job, in a new country. It really feels like a lifetime ago.

    I loved SOI. I think the album is more cohesive than SOE. [SOE has a some duds (AS, Love is bigger, although I know that's contentious - and I'm not a great fan of the Showman, either). Also, the sequencing isn't great and Lights of home album version kind of sucks.]

    I actually hope they'll be back soon. With a really strong album. Or with something nice and fresh, like Coldplay just did.
  5. Originally posted by JuJuman:[..]
    Wow, five years only. Indeed, 4 tours, two albums - they've been busy. My end: I had two kids and took up a new job, in a new country. It really feels like a lifetime ago.

    I loved SOI. I think the album is more cohesive than SOE. [SOE has a some duds (AS, Love is bigger, although I know that's contentious - and I'm not a great fan of the Showman, either). Also, the sequencing isn't great and Lights of home album version kind of sucks.]

    I actually hope they'll be back soon. With a really strong album. Or with something nice and fresh, like Coldplay just did.
    Coldplay’s new album has grown on me for sure , hopefully U2 listen to it
  6. Originally posted by JuJuman:[..]
    Wow, five years only. Indeed, 4 tours, two albums - they've been busy. My end: I had two kids and took up a new job, in a new country. It really feels like a lifetime ago.

    I loved SOI. I think the album is more cohesive than SOE. [SOE has a some duds (AS, Love is bigger, although I know that's contentious - and I'm not a great fan of the Showman, either). Also, the sequencing isn't great and Lights of home album version kind of sucks.]

    I actually hope they'll be back soon. With a really strong album. Or with something nice and fresh, like Coldplay just did.
    I know right? Life can be a rollercoaster in such a short period of time. And, for those of us nerds who tend to associate certain periods of our lives with the U2 release/tour cycle, these past years have been really... intense?

    I guess I'm just nostalgic, in a way, and also uncertain regarding the band's future after they play Mumbai in exactly 10 days from now.
  7. I was not following U2 news a lot at the time, because I was studying for my finals to earn a place in university. So, when I saw this brand new album in my phone that morning before Maths period... I was sooo ecstatic. I loved and still love the album. I remember I also missed out on the first dates of the tour, so when they released an addition number of shows, I was at school and using a computer in a room full of students and teachers and I read the news and I started screaming and running up and down the room like a mad man. I remember that so vividly, I remember the feeling of happiness, that’s when I realized what U2 truly does mean to me.
  8. SOI and the tour are still in my top 3 of U2 favorite U2 records and tours.
  9. Who cares about Coldplay?
  10. Not me
  11. Was re-reading the liner notes, and a couple questions popped up for me;

    1) Bono wrote "at some point in 1977 u2 started making music together" - how can he possibly have the year wrong. after U2 By U2, and even their 40th bday balloon video, it proves they know it was Sept 1976. Did someone not fact check this? Or the way he worded it, do you think he actually meant in Sept 1976 they were only playing covers,and they didnt start any Original material until into 1977?

    2) among all the usual names in the thank-yous like Chris Martin, Noel Gallagher, why on earth is Usher listed? I dont recall any sort of association or collab or meeting or mention of Usher with any member of U2 at all ever?

    3) curious how others interrupt Bono's closing line of "We can spend our whole lives searching for cohesion, and in not finding it, turn the world into the shape of our disapointment. Or not. "
  12. Bono, like many other Irish favour myth over fact. It doesn't matter to him whether it was 76 or 77. He also deals in narrative and story as an occupation. His brain, which is brilliant, doesn't pay credence to facts but primarily feelings and stories. He is good at it.

    At least he is not Trump who has no regard for the truth whatsoever.