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Best of the best
If you go and check out NME, you’ll see that they’ve decided to run a little poll where you get to vote for your favourite U2 track of all time. With so many to chose from, how does one decide?
Come on folks, let’s get voting for some of those lesser known, more underrated songs. Gems like Room at the Heartbreak Hotel or Walk to the Water.
McGuinness has got reservations
Paul McGuinness talks to the always excellent Word Magazine in a “110 songs you have to hear” feature in their April issue. McGuinness recalls listening to (We’ve Got) Reservations by Simon Dupree and The Big Sound on Radio Luxembourg:
We think Mr McGuinness may be talking about the song ‘Without Reservation‘.
Talk about the songs you think people have to hear on the Word Magazine forum. Or you can tell us.
Willie or won’t he?
U2′s Show designer Willie Williams talks to Roland Schulte at Interference.com about the process of designing a rock show. Although he has thought about the next U2 tour, he has no idea what direction they will go in: “Elevation [which] went for the spirit. Next time – who knows? I guess we
We Nicked Your Lick
We knew it was inevitable. Guitar and sample lovers The Beta Band have finally stolen from The Edge. For their new single “Assessment,” The Beta Band employ the guitar riff from “I Will Follow” (audio and video for “Assessment” here). Mixer Nigel Godrich, most noted for his work with Radiohead, might have had a hand in the riff’s appearance on the track. In 2001, Godrich worked with U2 on a remix for “Walk On.”
“Assessment” is out on Monday, April 12 on Regal (EMI).
The Judas-Jesus song
To mark the 50th anniversary of the ‘rock revolution’, the Santa Cruz Sentinel discusses some of the popular songs of the last half-century. This week’s song is U2′s Until the End of the World.
Mark Setz, pastor of the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, starts off with: “You could call it “The Passion of the Christ” according to U2 and Judas.” and continues to compare the song with Gibson’s film: “While Mel Gibson
Neil McCormick: popstar at last
Journalist Neil McCormick, in the midst of recording an album, finds himself among the greats on the soundtrack of The Passion Of The Christ.
McCormick attended Mount Temple with members of U2 and has written about the band on numerous occasions. His brother attended that near mythical meeting in Larry’s kitchen after the drummer-to-be posted a note on the school message board.
Read the story of a hack, a Bono, an Ali and Mel ‘Gorilla’ Gibson.
I Want A Dog
And speaking of dance music… @U2 has reported something very interesting: Garrett “Jacknife” Lee, noted mash-up producer and current in-studio helping hand for the new album sessions, sampled the infamous Negativland “U2″ track on his first independent release, 1998′s “A Dog Called Snuggles.” Strange bedfellows?
Lemon Interrupted
Karl Hyde, of the excellent techno act Underworld, has finally come clean on what, exactly, the long-rumored “lost” U2/Underworld “remix” of 1997 actually was; as it turns out, it wasn’t a remix at all, but a full-on collaboration between the two bands! From an interview in Hollywood news-mag No Ho L.A.:
KARL HYDE: Yeah, they’re mates, that’s real. It started off a couple albums ago now. They asked if we were interested in doing a remix, and at that point we were feeling it would be nice to do something different than that. Knowing that U2 are pretty open minded people, we suggested a collaboration, rather than it being just U2 or Underworld, form another band…
Canadian NDP leader writes Bono
Canadian NDP Leader Jack Layton has written an open letter to Bono to tell him Prime Minister Paul Martin has not followed through on the promises he made after Bono’s speech to the Liberal leadership convention last year. The issues Bono raised did not feature in Martin’s first Liberal Throne Speech and the government’s budget.
Layton writes:
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- U2 Fan Survey 2012: Third Set of Results Available May 23, 2012The third set of results from the 2012 U2 Fan Survey is now available, and it takes us through your votes on U2's albums and songs. As a reminder, the survey was open from April 5th through April 30th. We received completed responses from 3,530 fans in 79 countries this year, both of which are down from 2010. We think that's likely due to the band […]
- A Look at My U2 Framed Album Cover Wall (PHOTOS) May 22, 2012How would you like to have a wall in your house covered with perfectly framed U2 album cover art? You could just have your favorite U2 albums on the wall or, like me, you could go all the way and put every U2 album on display in order — like this: That’s one of the [...]This is a post from the @U2 blog.A Look at My U2 Framed Album Cover Wall (PHOTOS) […]
- The Resource Miracle May 22, 2012[Note: This essay appeared in the May 28, 2012, edition of TIME magazine.] It's become the go-to cliché of modern economics. Natural resources are a "curse." When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly […]
- Bono Pays One More Tribute to Steve Jobs May 22, 2012Bono made an appearance via video tonight at the Webby Awards, contributing to a tribute to Steve Jobs. A host of tech legends and celebrities each paid tribute to Jobs in five words or less, a Webby Awards tradition. It looks like Bono’s contribution was recorded within the past week, but that’s just a guess. [...]This is a post from the @U2 blog.Bono Pays […]
- Billboard Music Awards: U2 Top Touring Artist May 21, 2012Gestern Abend wurden in der MGM Grand Garden Arena von Las Vegas die Billboard Music Awards 2012 verliehen. U2 wurden dabei - wie bereits im Jahr zuvor - in der Kategorie Top Touring Artist ausgezeichnet. Neben U2 waren in dieser Kategorie auch noch Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Take That und Roger Waters nominiert. ... […]