Newyarsday

I was cleaning out my room and I found an old book from when I was (probably) 11 years old.  At that time the only U2 songs I knew by name were New Year’s Day and With Or Without You (I also liked Bad, but I could never remember the name of the song, so I called it If I ). In this old book I tried to write the lyrics from New Year’s Day down and that resulted in this:

Newyarsday

I transcribed it:

yeeah!
(melody) [music]
world is fyerd on newyarsday
a world is fyerd is underway
i wonna by with you by with you newyarsday
nothing chances on newyarsday
on newyarsday
i wil by with you again 2x
2                                   a again

under a bludred sky
……………………… black and white
…..
say its frue its true running back for you
……………………………………………………..

Breathe!

I’m busy writing an album review…
So you can enjoy your time waiting while listening to Breathe!

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

Let me in the video

Surprise! Surprise! The new video is here!
Well if your an U2 fan there is an 0.567359% chance you have not seen it before.

I’m sorry Anna I’m sorry…
What? What’s happened?
You said, hihi, you said 0.567359
Oh no I didn’t!
Yes! haha It should be 0.567395
Oh I don’t believe it! Oh no!!![1]

So…
Here is the video!
If you’ve watched it before you’ll see that not only the words Getty Images are removed, but that some other bits have changed too.

Official video is now here: click
I like the video very much!
Look Bono doing crazy between 0:00 and 0:01 :D
And Bono bowing like that at 3:23 :)
*sigh* I love this band… :)

Getting On Your Boots

This could be a very short entry, because my personal experience with Getting On Boots is very small: I haven’t had boots (just shoes) for a long long time… Now that we’re (or just me) are (am) talking about Boots, it puts me in mind of a song called Get On Your Boots by the famous Irish band U2. Luck would have it that I’m an enormous fan of them so I could tell you a lot about it and their song…

I dreamt about it! Twice! In the first dream (13 January) I heard it in my dream and when I woke up a tried to put it into words and I described it as: Quick! Very U2ish and similar to Vertigo. I remember that I really liked it. But in the second dream I heard it again (about 2 days later) and I didn’t like it any more, so I did not know what to expect after all…

Now the title, I think it is similar to I Threw A Brick Through A Window. Both are things that you can do, and yet they are not so very clear, because I Threw A Brick Through A Window is not about throwing a brick through a window, but seeing your reflection in a window and wanting to smash it. This is what Edge said about Get On Your Boots (in Hot Press)

“It’s based around the idea that men have fucked things up so badly, politically, economically and socially that it’s really time we handed things over to women. We had our doubts when we saw a rough cut – but the finished video is brilliant. He’s [director Alex Courtes] really nailed it.”

“Women of the future
Hold the big revelations”

I’ve read comments on how people (U2 fans) don’t like the lyrics, but I think they’re great. Look at this:
“I got a submarine
You got gasoline”
If men have the submarines they wouldn’t get very far if they don’t have gasoline. Luckily for them the women have it (would be very unlucky if no one had it…) and so they have to work together to get the submarine working. So the submarine could also stand for the Earth (weirdest metaphor for the Earth I’ve ever heard, but hey! this is U2, they can do anything). So what have we learned from this?
Earth = a Submarine! :D
Ok, and that we, not only men and women (aliens are not excluded), but everyone has to work together to get our planet functioning properly :) And this are only 7 words from the whole song… XD

I now realise that I have not yet mentioned that I really like this song (you could have guessed)… It is very catchy and although it is different from the classic U2 (ATYCLB) it is still very U2ish. When I first heard it, it put me in mind of Vertigo and Xanax And Wine (not bad :P)

Maybe I’ll post ((my thoughts on) the video) in three days…

And last but not least, in case you have momentarily forgotten it and need a reminder… Only 1 month more to go!!! (Well if you live here, it could also be 3 or 4 days later (poor you))