Track 1: Where The Streets Have No Name:
I listen to this album and it reminds me, this is why Bono and The Edge can get away with their stage names. (Well maybe not The Edge but the guitar part in "Where The Streets Have No Name" is too cool.) Poor Larry and Adam. I wonder if they have egos just as large or if they'd be happier being nameless and perhaps invisible. But I'm not here to sully their individual personalities. I am here to praise them as the excellent band, musicians, and entertainers they are. How cool they are to still be putting out new albums and making it on to the radio. We're going on decade number three for U2. Holy!
This album has been critically influential to my musical tastes. U2 is one of my "staples". I cannot help but buy every album. I've even paid exorbitant ticket prices to see them in concert, twice, AND it was totally worth it both times. I have had to restrain myself form going a third. They're songs are like gospel to me though and I've listened to this album in particular so many times, it is truly a part of me.
Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "Where The Streets Have No Name" probably being my favorite.
Track 1: Where The Streets Have No Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY7LemSwe7s
Track 2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAadaveBV-o
Track 3: With or Without You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJnElTqYzs
Track 5: Running To Stand Still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioyUGaABjA
Track 7: In God's Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNbWgY5CBKs
The rest are also solid songs, and "On Tree Hill" and "Bullet the Blue Sky" were both singles. 6 of the 11 songs on the album hit the charts. If you have not listened to this, then perhaps you should. If you still don't like it then I don't think you're going to like the majority of my song choices on this blog because I consider U2 and this album central to my tastes.
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