Archive for the 'U2' Category

The New U2

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Rolling Stones magazine reports that Coldplay is coming up with a new album next month (June 17th, actually). The fourth album will be titled “Viva la Vida” and Coldplay has promised a departure from the usual piano and guitar routine that has brought them success in the previous three albums. Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin says […]

U2: over the years

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

It’s so strange, you listen to the latest song of a well-known rock band for the first time, you like the sound of the song so much that you start listening to their music to an extent that you fall in love with songs that the same band made 25 years ago, even before you […]

The next best thing

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

I can’t go to U2. And U2 dont feel like coming here to my country. So I do what I should. I buy their latest “Vertigo//2005. U2 Live from Chicago” DVD.

Bono: Music for America, Money for Africa…DVDs for Asia?

One

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

I am happy that my all-time favorite U2 song is getting accolades even now, a good 15-or-so years after its release.

In fact, “One” is the best song, I have ever listened to.

Now, “One” has been re-released. The song, originally from the album Achtung Baby, has had it’s major re-release in the form of a collaboration […]

New Year’s Day and Truman Specials

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

My New Year was no celebration at all, I was browsing the internet on my computer at home. But yes, music is an important aspect of anything that I do on days like these, so I played U2’s “The Unforgettable Fire” and “New Year’s Day”. I needed Bono’s reassuring, full-of-hope voice.

Bono’s like an old friend […]

Michael has Just Learnt to Rock Bangalore

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

According to news going around, Danish Band, Michael Learns to Rock- more popularly known as MLTR, is due to perform in Bangalore on the 25th of September. The Band will also perform in Bombay.
Romantic ballads of this band have been the prelude to Boyzone listening era of my life before I went on to the […]

U2- Achtung Baby!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2003

“Every artist is a cannibal,
every poet is a thief,
All kill their inspiration,
and sing about their grief”
Achtung Baby! is a reinvention when it was not needed at all. When, riding high on the success of “The Joshua Tree”, U2 could have explored that music further and could have tasted easy success with the “tried and tested” […]