How I became a U2 fan

(I also posted this on last.fm, where you can also hear previews of the songs: click)

Prepare yourself for a long list…
This is a timeline, without dates, but with songs! and it illustrates how I came to love U2. All (well all… all that I can remember) the songs that I liked/loved before (and some after) I became a U2 fan are listed here.
It is sorted! so the first mentioned are the first that I liked :)
I shall not list all the U2 songs and albums, only the important ones…

U2? Never heard of them
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
–>U2 – New Year’s Day
Patti Smith – Because the Night
The Mamas & the Papas – California Dreamin’
The Cure – A Forest
Drs. P – Dodenrit
The Beach Boys – I Get Around
Bob Seger – Turn the Page
–>U2 – With or Without You
The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
The Eagles – Hotel California I really hate this song now!
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Deep Purple – Child in Time
Pink Floyd – Brain Damage
+Nirvana – Nirvana
The Rolling Stones – Angie
Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light
+Live – The Distance to Here
+Avril Lavigne – Let Go My first cd
Radiohead – Creep
Melissa Etheridge – Like The Way I Do
Nickelback – How You Remind Me

I begin to like U2
–>+U2 – Elevation Tour Live from Boston
–>U2 – Bullet the Blue Sky (Live From Boston)
This was and is my favourite song from Boston :)
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
+Wishbone Ash – Live Dates
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Overground
Pearl Jam – Black
Sinéad O’Conner – Troy
Eminem – Sing for the Moment
Linkin Park – Somewhere I Belong
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Procol Harum – A Salty Dog
Japan – Nightporter
Cockney Rebel – Sebastian
Therapy? – Diane
Ten Years After – I Can’t Keep From Crying, Sometimes
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Little Wing
Peter Gabriel – Biko

I begin to buy ‘new’ U2 albums
R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Around the World
Uriah Heep – Gypsy
Deep Purple – Lazy
Radiohead – Karma Police
Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
The Doors – Unknown Soldier
Tom Petty – Breakdown

U2 Fan
Gary Jules – Mad World
Mark & Clark Band – Worn down piano
Metallica – Frantic
Metallica – St. Anger
Enya – May It Be
Green Day – Holiday
The Dubliners – Sick Note
Di-rect- Blind for You

Real U2 fan
+Passengers – Original Soundtracks 1
+The Who – Tommy
Arcade Fire – Wake Up
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
Bruce Springsteen – Pay Me My Money Down

–>+U2 – No Line on the Horizon?

Conclusion:
The more I love U2, the less I listen to other songs…
Well I don’t mind! I LOVE U2! :D

Favourite…

Here’s a list of all my favourite things of U2 (There are 39 questions!). If you miss something, want to fill in the same list, have an opinion or simply read it… feel free to leave something in the comments :)

Favourite album
No Line On The Horizon!! ;D No I love them all…
Favourite song
Aargh! Why on earth did I make this list!
Favourite dvd
I can answer this one! My favourite dvd is Popmart Live from Mexico. “Do something funky The Edge!”
Favourite concert you’ve been to
I haven’t been to an U2 concert :’(
Favourite member
The man who’s not ready to re-enter earth’s atmosphere until he’s taken a slice of the moon!
Favourite soundtrack
The Hands That Build America… I have seen Gangs of New York and thought it was a very good movie and although I really like Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me I have seen better movies than that…
Favourite album art
Achtung Baby, but that’s also because I have a lot of HUGE Achtung Baby posters, so I see it everyday :D
Favourite quote (1 or from every member 1)
The Mirrorball Man/Bono: “I HAVE A VISION I HAVE A VISION” What’s the vision? “TELEVISION TELEVISION!”
Adam: “In the early days our ambition was just to end the song together!”
Larry: “It’s a musical journey”
Edge: “Bass players get the weirdest fans. I tend to get the bespectacled M.I.T. students. Bono gets the poets. And Larry, unfortunately, gets the girls. We should have gotten a Ringo.”
and also from Edge: “What ever you do, do not get into a car with Bono. He’s not great at the old driving.”
Favourite opening track (album)
Zoo Station
Favourite last track (album)
40
Favourite track to wake up with
Zooropa, it sounds to me like a city slowly waking up :)
Favourite opening track (tour)
Wake Up by Arcade Fire
Favourite song to end a concert with
How long… to sing this song…. HOW LONG…. to sing this song… HOW LONG… HOW LONG… HOW LONG TO SING THIS SONG
Favourite live song
Love Is Blindness (Live from ZooTV Sydney is brilliant)
Favourite bootleg
2001-07-31 Arnhem, Netherlands – Gelredome
Bono speaking Dutch!!! Alles goed? Prettige dag verder!
Favourite U2 site
U2.com and AtU2.com
Favourite U2 thing you own
My favourite things from U2 are my posters :) Second is my promo cd I won at @U2 with my blogpost! :D And third is my Elevation T-shirt
Favourite book
U2 By U2
Favourite Dalton Brothers song
Lucille (Lost Highway is a close second :P)
Favourite Dalton Brothers member
Alton Dalton
Favourite Passengers song
Slug (What!? you didn’t already know that?! *getting suspicious* Hmmm, you haven’t read all my previous posts have you?)
Favourite song you can play on piano or guitar
October! I can play the whole song on piano :) It’s the only song I can play from beginning to end. Other song I can play bits of on piano are: Sunday Bloody Sunday, Streets, The Sweetest Thing, One, Love Is Blindness, All I Want Is You and New Year’s Day. On guitar I can also play a bit of 40 :)
Favourite duet
U2 and Bruce Springsteen with Stand By Me
Favourite funny non-music video from U2
Difficult question! There’s A Day In The Life Of The Edge, The Maffia Sketch, Edge doing a trick with his hat and many more….
Favourite music video
Possible answers: Elevation, Stuck In A Moment, Lemon, Beautiful Day, If God Will Send His Angels; Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me; One (Berlin), Electrical Storm, Numb, Window In The Skies, New Year’s Day, Original Of The Species, Discothèque or Please… (and now I’m surely forgetting others!)
Favourite overall lyrics
Walk To The Water
Favourite haircut
The mullet!! ehh, well not really… My favourite is ehm… Let’s put it this way: it’s not Bono’s mullet and it is not Larry with long hair
Favourite alter ego
Mr Macphisto
Favourite cover (song)
Happy Birthday!
Favourite karaoke from Edge
I Love You Love!
Favourite Drum part
The Refugee
Favourite Guitar part
Sorry folks, but I can’t answer this question
Favourite Bass part
That has to be With Or Without You!
Favourite Piano part
October :P
Favourite opera part
Miss Sarajevo (Live From Milan), it’s so beautiful… :’)
Favourite U2 joke
Why did Bono fall of the stage?

He was to close to The Edge XD
Favourite Achtoon Baby
November 2007, L’il U2 and the Secret of the Tower
Favourite U2 dream
Hmm, I have now had 20 U2 dreams :D so it’s difficult to pick just one… I think I’ll take the one in which I had a major breakthrough :D
(the dream was longer, but this is a little bit of it)
I was making a ‘math’ test, but all the questions were about U2 :D I could answer all the questions except the last one. The question was: U2 already have a poet what else do they need? I pictured U2 on an deserted island (with Eno and Lanois :P) and tried to imagine what they would need. I could think of nothing, but in the last minute I came up with what I thought was the best answer in the world: ‘Time’ (I was so happy when I thought of that!)
Favourite U2 questionnaire I have filled in
That has to be this one ;D

Well I hope you enjoyed it :D