***Official U2 Appreciation Thread***

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,521
    Poncier said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:


    anyone in the fan club? I joined last summer as the fan club item was BOTH of these books. Got volume 1 last fall. Second one still stays "in progress" in my account. I hope it ships soon. 
    Yeah, I've been in the fan club going back to the old Propaganda magazine.
    They are brutally behind with their annual "gifts". I selected lyrics volume 2 when I renewed OVER A YEAR ADO. Still haven't received it.
    This year they sent out the initial renewal notice with 2 choices, volume 1. volume 2 or both. All the diehards already had both (well had ordered volume 2). Finally, they added a renewal option for "special gift to be announced". Apparently, the person who used to be in charge of Pearl Jam's Christmas?random holiday 8 months later single got a job at U2.com once PJ discontinued the fan club singles.
    Yeah I ordered both. Hope it ships before my sub is up. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,118
    rahjiim said:
    brianlux said:
    Nice to see some love for U2 here!

    I'm slowly savoring Bono's memoir and have to say, it's turning out to me one of my favorite music memoirs.  Great stories, and the man is not hesitant in the least to admit to his flaws.  Recommended big time!
    IMG

    I agree, l have to listen on audible again. I love the way he reads it, not only the Irish accent. Ed should do something like this, but he probably never will. 
    I saw the live book show. He can definitely tell a good story. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    rahjiim said:
    brianlux said:
    Nice to see some love for U2 here!

    I'm slowly savoring Bono's memoir and have to say, it's turning out to me one of my favorite music memoirs.  Great stories, and the man is not hesitant in the least to admit to his flaws.  Recommended big time!
    IMG

    I agree, l have to listen on audible again. I love the way he reads it, not only the Irish accent. Ed should do something like this, but he probably never will. 

    Great idea!  I'm generally not an audio book fan, but I think I would really enjoy hearing Bono read his book.  Cool idea about Ed doing that too!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,521
    I think the way Ed talks I'd never be able to stay awake. lol
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    I think the way Ed talks I'd never be able to stay awake. lol

    "Hey Stone, come over here and say something, would ya?"  :lol:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Heard a good joke earlier today:

    I bought a U2 GPS and its a piece of crap!

    The streets have no names. And I still have not found what I am looking for.


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Poncier said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:


    anyone in the fan club? I joined last summer as the fan club item was BOTH of these books. Got volume 1 last fall. Second one still stays "in progress" in my account. I hope it ships soon. 
    Yeah, I've been in the fan club going back to the old Propaganda magazine.
    They are brutally behind with their annual "gifts". I selected lyrics volume 2 when I renewed OVER A YEAR ADO. Still haven't received it.
    This year they sent out the initial renewal notice with 2 choices, volume 1. volume 2 or both. All the diehards already had both (well had ordered volume 2). Finally, they added a renewal option for "special gift to be announced". Apparently, the person who used to be in charge of Pearl Jam's Christmas?random holiday 8 months later single got a job at U2.com once PJ discontinued the fan club singles.
    Yeah I ordered both. Hope it ships before my sub is up. 
    You'll get it even if your sub expires and you don't renew.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,521
    Yeah, I know, I just prefer to be a current member if something goes wrong, that’s all. 
    By The Time They Figure Out What Went Wrong, We'll Be Sitting On A Beach, Earning Twenty Percent.




  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,906
    I orders a few tshirts from the sphere shows from the Australian website last september... crickets...   I tried to email them... crickets...
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,259
    https://observer.co.uk/culture/interviews/article/bono-i-might-go-to-my-grave-thinking-there-was-that-one-song-i-let-go-of
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited May 11
    nicknyr15 said:
    https://observer.co.uk/culture/interviews/article/bono-i-might-go-to-my-grave-thinking-there-was-that-one-song-i-let-go-of

    Great article, thanks for posting it!
    Having very recently read Bono's excellent memoir, Surrender, the part that really hit me is this:

    His approach was, until now, predicated on what he often refers to as his single useful idea: you don’t have to agree with people on everything if the one thing you do agree on is important enough. I ask him if that philosophy is still tenable in the face of Donald Trump’s brutal “America first” ideology?

    “I don’t think so,” he says, wearily, “I can’t do it. The organisations I helped create and sustain can’t carry the anger that I have at the vandalism, not just of USAID, but of people’s lives – the people that worked on it and the people whose lives depended on it.”

    There is a sense of deep personal betrayal evident in his voice. “I think what [Trump’s government is] doing now is so shortsighted and frankly dumb. Then there is the delight, the – dare I say it – glee of these people, as they pull life-support systems out of the wall with no warning. That means a haemorrhaging of human life. It’s hard to measure the enormity of it now.”

    Aren’t many of the people who are behind this vandalism, as he calls it, the same Republicans and Christian evangelists he had worked with previously?

    He accepts that some of them are. “I’m sure that, when their constituencies find out, they will take their support for this administration away. Whether it’s millions or hundreds of thousands of lives at risk, how in any way can you justify that as a Christian or religious person?”

    Given all that, where does this leave him?

    “Out of a job. I don’t think you can turn off being an activist but I’m not sure the conversations I enjoy between opposite points of view are ones I can referee at this present moment. But there are other people who can take up that torch. We are into new territory and it’s incredibly disturbing. I don’t recognise the GOP [Grand Old party]. There are some people I know who I imagine still care and have kindness in them. And it’s worth dwelling on the word kindness. In terms of the evisceration of USAID and Pepfar, unkind is not the word to describe it – it’s murderous.”

    He falls silent for a while. “In our lifetimes, yours and mine, we had the sense that the world was evolving in the direction of freedom… but, the thing is, there is no sound historical backing for that belief. Our lives are a tiny fragment of time; the bigger moral arc of the universe does not bend towards justice. It has to be bent towards justice.”



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    great quote clip ^^   thanks for that !
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    helplessdancer said:
    great quote clip ^^   thanks for that !

    Glad you appreciate Bono's words.  The whole book left me with sooo much appreciation for the man!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,252
    I was today years old when I found out where U2's name origin came from. 
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,906
    eeriepadave said:
    I was today years old when I found out where U2's name origin came from. 

    where did it come from?
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,481
    The spy plane piloted by Gary Francis Powers. Crashed during the Cold War and a prisoner trade had to be negotiated for his return.
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,906
    CarryTheZero said:
    The spy plane piloted by Gary Francis Powers. Crashed during the Cold War and a prisoner trade had to be negotiated for his return.

    I thought it might be after the airplane, but I didn't realize there was a bigger story to it.  Cool!
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,252
    Zod said:
    CarryTheZero said:
    The spy plane piloted by Gary Francis Powers. Crashed during the Cold War and a prisoner trade had to be negotiated for his return.

    I thought it might be after the airplane, but I didn't realize there was a bigger story to it.  Cool!

    Yeah I came across a youtube video about declassified videos and pictures and they mentioned the U2 and I was wondering if that is how U2 got their name. After googling it sure enough that's what it was. Although I never really wondered where they came up with their name before.
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,481
    Yeah, I always loved history in high school and college (and teaching it to my fifth graders). My high school history teacher threw it in as an aside (back in 1994) when we got to the Cold War. My mind was blown!

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