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U2: Until the End of the World
by Nenad Georgievski
U2: Until the End of the World Bradley Morgan 240 Pages ISBN: 1786751658 Gemini Adult Books Limited 2025 There are bands we live with for so long that they become part of our personal geography. For Bradley Morgan, author of this new book on U2, it's clearly the case. This is his second exploration of their world--the first focused specifically on The Joshua Tree era (U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in ...
Continue ReadingU2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots In Mythic America
by Nenad Georgievski
U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America Bradley Morgan 216 pagesISBN: 1493061178 Backbeat 2021 Popular music, like books or visual arts, is often one of the best ways we have through which we can view our own cultural orientation and the times we live in. The artistic and experimental shifts in music have often reflected the changes that have occurred in our societies. In this regard, we can view popular music ...
Continue ReadingU2: All That You Can't Leave Behind 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)
by Doug Collette
The music of U2 on All That You Can't Leave Behind is very much in keeping with the austere black and white graphics, preserved throughout the graphic design of this digipak as well as its enclosed twenty-four page booklet within. A distinct move away from the density of production experimentation on their three previous studio albums—Achtung Baby (Island, 1991), Zooropa (Island, 1993) and Pop (Island, 1997)— the sound produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on this 2000 project is ...
Continue ReadingU2 at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin
by Nenad Georgievski
U2 Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin November 13, 2018 There is a popular adage about the value of perseverance that says it doesn't matter how many time you get knocked down but what matters is how many times you will get back. That certainly applies to the malady that hit U2 during their concert in Berlin during the second concert (01.09.2018) at the start of the last leg of their world tour Experience and Innocence in the ...
Continue ReadingU2: Songs of Experience: Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
It's perfectly fitting so many of the song titles on U2's Songs of Experience sound like self-help aphorisms (at worst) or quick excerpts from an individual's inner dialogue (at best). “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way" and “You're The Best Thing About Me," to name just two, are parceled over the course of a baker's dozen tracks, the sequence of which at large plays off against a search for personal identity against a newsreel of current events.
Continue ReadingU2: Songs of Experience
by Nenad Georgievski
By blending a dazzling array of musical influences and directions for more than 4 decades now, Irish band U2 has come to represent one of the boldest rock bands in both genre-blending style and lyrical impact. 40 years since U2 was formed, the band continues to develop and refine the template they essentially created with surprisingly positive results. Several decades forward and U2 remains the world's preeminent rock band. There is literally nobody else in rock music these days that ...
Continue ReadingSteve Averill: U2's Joshua Tree is Still a Strong, Exciting, and Relevant Album
by Nenad Georgievski
Album art has always played an important role in how certain music was received. The best album covers are often as much a part of the whole work as the music itself. They are not only a marketing tool but an extension of artistic intent as well as they create a visual representation of the music i.e. it sets the stage for what the listeners would experience. Graphic designers have been creating works of art that obviously have transcended mere ...
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