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ELEVATION! (v. 2.0) (U2 Fan Club)
Welcome to ELEVATION v. 2.0! PC's U2 fan club!
Join the club if you're a fan of the best band in the world! Discuss about their songs, Bono, or anything U2-related. Latest single/video: City of Blinding Lights |
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Hope this time it becomes a little bit more popular.... *inserts link in signature* Let's get irishman conversation started! |
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I've seen clips of the City of Blinding Lights video... and it shows them playing the song at the Vertigo tour... it looks so cool... |
I can tell ^^ Can't wait to see the video...It looks so promising...
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Yep! I've only seen a 30 second clip but I want more... o.o
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*nod* It was so good live ^^ I'd like to see which show they took it from. Probably one at like MSG or something.
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City of Blinding Lights is one of HTDAAB's best tracks. Next comes Miracle Drug.
Don't you think they should make Miracle Drug the next single? Though I think they're leaning towards Crumbs... |
I wanna join u2 rule I have HTDAAB and my dad has all the old stuff and I have the single elevation somewhere
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Welcome to the club! =3
U2's older stuff is awesome XD IMO: 90s era (Achtung Baby, Zooropa, Pop) > late 80s (Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum) > early 80s (Boy, October, War) = now (ATYCLB, HTDAAB) |
*pokes the Best o' 80s/90s albums*
It's all right there ^^ Yeah, City and Miracle Drug are def the best. Thing is, all the ****ty fangirls who watch MTV and stuff are obsessed with rap... sort of a disadvantage for a real song. |
Yeah, that's true... and they're all changing the channel when Somtimes... comes on or something...
City of Blinding Lights is such an awesome song... just listening to it is just thrilling when Edge's signature sound is heard... |
I just love that line in miracle drug
"Freedom has a scent. Like the top of a new born babie's head" well maybe 2 lines |
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"A mole/digging in a hole" XD |
Yeah i see what you mean by that bono has a repuatation for that XD
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But he's also genious in lyricwriting, you know. I just love his lyrics in "The Fly" and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"
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Hn, I was just about to say that. For every odd lyric there are 500 amazing ones.
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Yep... just deep and emotional lyrics. I really loved his lyrics in With or Without You and Running to Stand Still
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yeah Io know what you mean
like in Sometimes you can't make it on your own it really emtional cause its dedicated to his dad |
He has a lot of emotional lyrics... Most of the songs that are about Morphine Addiction are...
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I specially like the lyrics of "Beautiful Day" they make me think....
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I love it when he sneaks blatant Bible references in... like 'one man betrayed with a kiss' (Pride (in the Name of Love)) or 'see the bird with the leaf in her mouth/ after the flood all the colors came out' (Beautiful Day).
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Bono has a lot of Biblical references in his songs... it's more than you think. Of course, October has the most... XD
Here are some: (from atu2.com) The Joshua Tree "Where the Streets Have No Name" "We're beaten and blown by the wind" -- James 1:6: "But he should ask in faith, not doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed about by the wind." Although I'm sure there are several layers of meaning to this image, I cannot imagine someone who knows the Bible as well as Bono describing an ideal place in terms of "streets" without thinking of the description of the great street in the kingdom of Heaven -- Revelation 22:1 "Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city." And 22:21 "The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass." (submitted by Rev. Beth) "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "I have spoken with the tongue of angels" -- 1 Corinthians 13:1: "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal." "With or Without You" "See the thorn twist in your side" -- 2 Corinthians 12:7: "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me." "Bullet the Blue Sky" "Jacob wrestled the angel/And the angel was overcome" -- Genesis 32:25: "Jacob was left there alone. Then some man wrestled with him until the break of dawn." "Running To Stand Still" "Sweet the sin, Bitter the taste in my mouth" -- Rev 10:10 "And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter." (submitted by Rev. Beth) "In God's Country" "Hope, faith, her vanity/The greatest gift is gold" -- an ironic take (who says U2 didn't discover irony until Achtung Baby?) on 1 Corinthians 13:13: "So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." (Thanks to Mateo) "I stand with the sons of Cain" --In Genesis 4 Cain kills his brother and is marked forever by God and sent away as a murderer, thus experiencing the scary aspect of coming into contact with the divine ("burned by the fire of love.") In exile Cain has sons: one of the sons of Cain, Jubal, is traditionally considered the ancestor of musicians. "He was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." (submitted by Rev. Beth) "Trip Through Your Wires" "I was cold and you clothed me honey..." -- Matthew 25:35-36: "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me..." "One Tree Hill" "You know his blood still cries from the ground" -- Genesis 4:10 -- "[The murder of Abel by Cain] The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground." "I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky..." -- see note on "Fire." ("The sun is burning black ... the moon is running red ... the stars are falling down" -- from Revelation 6, 12-13: "Then I watched while he broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; the sun turned as black as dark sackcloth and the whole moon became like blood. The stars in the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs shaken loose from the tree in a strong wind." ) "We run like a river to the sea" -- Ecclesiastes 1:7: "All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they go, the rivers keep on going." "Exit" "Saw the hands that build can also pull down" -- Jer 1:10 "See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant." And Jer 31:28 "Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," declares the LORD." |
thats alot of bibal refrences
My friend in real life is convinced that bono sung in the we are the world thing that was done by america like band aid in the uk but he didn't |
I don't know about the we are the world thing but there were a lot of songs like that that he was in... like last year's Grammies... when he sang with a bunch of other artists... "Across The Universe" by The Beatles...
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*nod* You know, Edge seems like a genuinely good guy. I was just thinking about that... ::random::
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Yeah, that's true... though he used to argue with Bono a lot... *points to what Bono said in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame*
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Dead...... No... I won't let this die..... Not after the Live 8.....
THEIR PERFORMANCE WAS AWESOME! Beautiful Day just rocked...... I saw their Live aid '85 performance a few days ago, it is amazing, fantastic, greatly awesome...... Sunday Bloody Sunday pwns....... *points at sig* |
I haven't been able to catch the new video yet... I saw like 3 seconds of it on VH1, but it's not on any sites yet... ::anticipation::
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You mean City Of Blinding Lights, or Beautiful Day (Live 8 performance)? o.o
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City... I didn't know they were re-releasing Beautiful Day.
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Oh COBL! Good video.... I'd give ya the link, if only I had the link..... >>
And they're not re-releasing Beautiful Day.... I meant their performance on Live 8. I'm kinda confusing sometimes ^^; |
City of Blinding Lights was awesome... I so wanted to go to a U2 concert after watching it...>>
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Muahaha! ;)
It'sso awesome live. Everyone is jumping... "Oh, you look so BEAUTIFUL tonight!" I'm so going again in the fall. Yep. Birthday present :) |
Sadly, scalpers strike again... I guess I'll have to wait for the DVD... ._.
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Heh.... I currently couldn't live without 'Elevation'.....It's a great song, it just cheers me up when I listen to it...
I made a compilation of some of the best U2 songs and put them into a CD.... Now I have my own "Greatest hits" U2 album, and now I can induct people to this band almost everywhere....XD; |
I can't live without "Stay (Faraway, So Close)" ... it's such an addicting song... ><
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I'm addicted to Discotheque... which is weird. o.o' It's an odd song.
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Pop and Zooropa were underrated... they were actually pretty decent albums... =3
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It's actually on their 'Best of 90s' album, so that's where I got it from. I like 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' quite a bit as well. Though I wasn't sure to be insulted or overjoyed when I heard that 'Stuck in a Moment...' was the title track for some new Cameron Diaz movie...
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... I'd be a bit insulted... that kinda sucks because U2 wouldn't do that.... >>
Achtung Baby was my all time favorite... X3 (as you can see... scattered all over me...) |
Yeah, I generally freak whenever I hear U2 in a movie, but I was just like... no.
Favorite of all-time? Gah, I couldn't choose. :3 |
Joshua Tree is my second favorite though Achtung is still my all time fave by a margin... =D
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I saw the video for 'City' :D So awesomeness.
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By the way, which is your favorite U2 video?
I would have to say "Even Better Than The Real Thing" and "The Sweetest Thing" Sweetest Thing was the funniest video U2 has ever made ... lol |
My favourite's:
Where The Streets Have No Name, playing on the rooftop of a liquor store.... Sweetest Thing, I don't love the song; But the video is just hilarious. Beautiful Day...The airport stuff and planes taking off.... Sunday Bloody Sunday Live Aid performance....That was just awesome.... I like the special effects on Vertigo and The City Of Blinding Lights concert video it's pretty cool. o_o |
Haha, I love Sweetst Thing.
I liked Elevation (it was all... cool) and Discotheque, but I loved All Because of You. Right here in NYC ^^; |
Yeah, the video was cool... can't believe Bono forget his wife's birthday... XD
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Aw xD He did mention her and one of his daughters during his performance at the Hall of Fame ceremony... so... that's cool :/ Heh, I'd do something like that... gah, I can't even remeber where I put ym shoes....
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Yeah... you can probably imagine a rock star like him forgetting his wife and stuff .... lol... his son as a wierd name... >>
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Haha, his son's name is AWESOME. Poor kid xD Isn't the first one normal, though? I guess Paul Hewson Jr. was a stretch...
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Elijah Guggi Q ... something... it was long
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Hey, I was wondering if I can join the club. I love U2.
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Welcome to the club! Hopefully you'll stay active in it!
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It's on @U2... but I don't feel like looking it up... >.>
Welcome ^^; On a random note, I'm totally obsessed with 'With or Without You' and '...Streets Have No Name' now. Sorry, 'Discotheque'. |
It is a really cool song. I like Vertigo, even though it is really main stream.
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Vertigo had a little bit too much airplay... but yeah...
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Seriously? o.o;; By me, Vertigo got next to zero radio airtime.
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Ah... too much airplay here... spawned too many U2 n00bs
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Haha... U2 n00bs... strange concept.
Here's a question, then. How did everyone get introduced to U2? I liked Switchfoot first, and Jon Foreman (their frontman) is a huge U2 fan, so he got me to check them out. |
My dad played "The Joshua Tree" on his stereo and I was dancing around with Streets... that was when I was 6 or 7 I think
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U2 n00bs....XD
"Do you like U2?" "Yes! I like Vertigo" Huh.... I was 10 when I saw Beautiful Day on MTV... I absolutely loved it, but I didn't become a big fan immediately. I guess I just started to check out their songs and they eventually became one of my favourite bands. |
It'd be awesome if my band could be opening act for U2... someday... they'll be 50 years old and all... and still rocking out... like Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler...
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