#u2 band

[rebelacrobat]

Bonolisa, Monolisa's irish sister

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round one

U2

Formed in: 1976

Genres: Rock, alternative rock, pop rock, post-punk

Lineup: Bono- lead vocals, guitar 

The Edge- guitar, backing vocals

Adam Clayton- bass, keyboard, backing vocals

Larry Mullen Jr.- drums, backing vocals

Albums from the 80s: 

Boy (1980)

October (1981)

War (1983)

The Unforgettable Fire (1984)

The Joshua Tree (1987)

Rattle and Hum (1988)

Propaganda: One of the few mainstream Irish bands I love, and not only are they still together, but they're also all still around after all these years. They also cover a lot of important topics in their music while still being hopeful, and I think all of them (Bono in particular) have aged quite gracefully.

New Kids on the Block

Formed in: 1984

Genres: Pop, R&B

Lineup: Jordan Knight – lead and backing vocals

Jonathan Knight – lead and backing vocals

Joey McIntyre – lead and backing vocals

Donnie Wahlberg – lead and backing vocals

Danny Wood – lead and backing vocals

Albums from the 80s: 

New Kids on the Block (1986)

Hangin' Tough (1988)

Merry, Merry Christmas (1989)

Propaganda:

[cxtwalkerr]

𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐗 𝐈𝐂꩜𝐍﹗ αe͟s͟t͟h͟e͟t͟i͟c͟ i͟c͟o͟n͟s͟

𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗖 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬┊𝖳𝖧𝖤 𝖲𝖯𝖧𝖤𝖱𝖤

[damnpawprintemoji]

“you break and enter my imagination, whatever’s in there it’s yours to take”

i cannot believe that this quote that is so hannigram coded is a U2 lyric

[timmurleyart]

In need of one ticket please. 🎫 🍀🎶🥁🎸

[u2frommars]

U2 1979-1980

[er-satz]

b day

[mochiiparadise]

oh yeah i also found this in one of my magazines

[xxlindsayheartxx]

INHALER - 03/24/22

Following the release of their 2021 debut album It Won't Always Be Like This, Irish band Inhaler promoted the album on their second North American tour.

The band's name Inhaler comes from a nickname frontman Elijah Hewson was called at school when he would use his inhaler to treat his asthma. But did you know that before Hewson's nickname inspired the band's current name, that they where called "Pat Mustard and the Milkmen", after an episode of the Irish sitcom Father Ted, a tourbus favourite for the boys.

[fknjokeman]

I can't fight you any more, it's you I'm fighting for

The sea throws rock together but time leaves us polished stones

We can't fall any further if

We can't feel ordinary love

And we can't reach any higher,

If we can't deal with ordinary love

[1990-1999scifi-world]

[rebelacrobat]

Larry on the Sphere from Helena Christensen stories (and her great POV)

[fangirlinc]

Desperately need to find U2 fan mutuals!!!!!

I feel like no on my age (20) likes U2 and I get so sad thinking about how I have no one to talk about it with.

If there are any rare gems out there who like U2 hit my line.

I also have hella U2 street cred if that’s an incentive.

[awalkthroughiris]

U2’s The Joshua Tree

hi people! i have no idea what i'm doing but i wanted to post this before i forgot to hehe, i wrote this a little bit ago, but i wanted to share, i fully don't expect anyone to read this but if you do, let me know what you think! i'm so sorry if the formatting is weird, i've never used tumblr LOL.

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Listening to U2’s The Joshua Tree for the first time,

randomly 1-2am on a Friday night.

I’m actively finishing the first track, Where the Streets Have No Name, as I’m writing this. I’m not sure why I’m here, or why I’m awake even, but here I am listening to my first U2 album. I’ve of course heard of U2 before, my parents have played their music throughout my childhood, but the only song I could name is With or Without You, and I honestly don’t even know 90% of that song. Recently, I’ve been listening to the band Inhaler, who’s frontman is Bono’s son, Elijah Hewson, and my parents heard me listening and nonstop talking about them, which in turn has become them telling me to listen to a U2 album. I don’t know why I’m deciding to listen now, but I feel like maybe I’ll have some cinematic existential revelation by listening to this album, but that’s the romantic in me talking.

Okay, about to start track 2 now, but I love track 1, it made me want to drive, somewhere where there’s an arch of trees with arms of sunlight reaching my face. Now that I’m thinking about it, that makes complete sense in terms of the lyrics lol. I guess the same message was conveyed musically as well.

The production of the second track, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” is very pleasing to my ears. This song is distantly familiar to me, I can think of driving to Oregon in the summertime, venturing back roads and this song playing, maybe after Lovers in Japan by Coldplay played. As someone who believes in God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, I can’t help but feel emotional while listening, but this could also be my nostalgic ties.

With this gentle emotional twist in my stomach, and the building of tears in my eyes, With or Without You has begun. My dad said recently how “emotionally evocative” this song is for him, and to be honest I didn’t and probably still don’t understand the way he meant it, but with the placement of this track in the album, I certainly can’t help but feel emotional. It’s giving me a similar feeling to the song A Real Hero in the context of the movie Drive did for me the first time I watched it. The lyrics are so simple yet I find there’s so many ideas and situations I can attach to them. I almost feel as if any interpretation I have would be invalid since I’m just a teenage girl, and a teenage girl who’s never even fallen in love or honestly had any remotely intense romantic feelings.

A switch in pace, Bullet the Blue Sky is playing. It’s easy to feel the angst in the lyrics, with the repetition in the drums and bass, it weirdly feels like slam poetry. This isn’t something I would typically listen to, but I definitely don’t mind it, the guitar break provided a nice amount of time to just, think.

Running to Stand Still’s intro reminded me of a Jeff Buckley cover, Lost Highway. It also makes me think of folk music. The way thoughts in folk music are expressed seemed to be some factor in the way the song is structured, honestly no idea whether that is intentional or not.

Red Hill Mining Town, took a turn I wasn’t expecting at all, I’m kinda grooving out though right now. “You I can’t live without”, since this is a first listen I don’t know the tie, but an allusion to With or Without You?? Oh my goodness, I totally recognize this song as well, the “I’m hanging on” that kicked in around 1:25 is something I recall. It’s weird how my brain hAnGs On to specific parts of these songs. I need to revisit this song after doing some research though because I have no idea what the commentary on this song is for.

There’s so much energy in In God’s Country, it’s refreshing. One of the things I notice with my music taste is that there’s a lack of creative percussion. Which I certainly don’t mind, but listening to music like this helps me understand how, for lack of better words, bland, the other songs can be percussion wise. I don’t have any context to who Bono is really, besides that he’s seemingly been painted as some sort of insufferable humanitarian, but the religion driven metaphors in the lyrics are very interesting.

Trip Through Your Wires might be my least favorite song sonically honestly. I don’t want to be mean, but it just isn’t my favorite. I’m not entirely sure what it’s reminding me of, but it gives me the feeling of an old western setting, which I find, not bland or empty, just not my cup of tea I guess. A complete sidenote though, I am DEFINITELY getting tired as it has hit 2am now.

I’m really liking One Tree Hill so far. One thing I’m really liking about this album, is the places it literally takes my mind to. I think I’m a very visual thinker, these songs evoke blurry pictures that are grounded in nature, images like running through tall grass or driving in some of my favorite places that remind me of my childhood. It feels pretentious to say “my childhood” when I’m 17, but I think it’s easy to understand what I mean. On another more relevant note, this song feels like its painting out an image of what absorbing life feels like: ambedo.

Although it might be the “weirdest” song on the album thus far, I’m enjoying the sonics of Exit. I like how bass heavy it is. Upon further inspection, because I had zero understanding to make of the lyrics, this song was made from the perspective of a serial killer, due to Bono’s reading of a novel. What I found creepily interesting however, was the fact that Robert Bardo used this song as part of his defense for stalking and murdering Rebecca Schaeffer. What I find especially creepy about this, is that I listened to a podcast about this case. An unsettling coincidence.

Continuing on in this unsettling feeling, Mothers of the Disappeared is a heart-wrenching tribute. I don’t think I have much to say about this one, because I have just learned the context to the song’s making and it’s just heartbreaking, I can’t even imagine what families went through. It’s a needed not-so-gentle reminder of what reality can be, and what it is for a lot of people. Its easy to forget that the horrors we hear of are actually real, at least this is the case for me, a girl who has lived in the same city her whole life and generally stays blissfully ignorant. A great finish to the album.

[xtcstuff69]

[cxtwalkerr]

𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐎 𝐕𝐎𝐗 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄﹗ ﹟grammys．　bono u2 a͟e͟s͟t͟h͟e͟t͟i͟c͟ i͟c͟o͟n͟s͟

#u2 at the 66th grammy's awards. february 4th, 2024 from the sphere, las vegas. the fly aesthetic icon.