U2 and Twilight Desktop Backgrounds

Here's a few of my desktop creations. The images used are not my own but taken from various websites. The way they're put together, that's my doing ;)

It was a Beautiful Night!

Yesterday was beyond amazing! Seeing U2 perform for the first time during their North American tour....being present at the event was something more special than I can actually say! Our seats were AMAZING to say the least! It was the closest I have ever seen them at any of the last 5 concerts I have attended.

I do have to say that the concert had a completely different feel than I had ever experienced than anything they have done in the past. The last two tours seemed intimate. This tour it felt like there was a disconnect. It was not at all the intention that the band had - they wanted the audience to feel like they were a 5th member of the band. Don't get me wrong, the concert was amazing! It was just different.

They also played a few songs from the past that i have never heard them perform live before: The Unforgettable Fire was among them as well was Ultra Violet. And there were some songs that they did not play that I had heard played live every other time I had seen them: Bullet the Blue Sky and Until the End of the World.

The night was amazing though. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I consider myself extremely lucky to get tickets and seriously awesome seats.

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Today I get to see four of my favorite Irish men on stage!!! I am beyond excited!!! This is the first time I have been able to attend a show that was the first one on the tour in North America. AND it's the first time that I got tickets on a lower level so Bono and the boys don't look like ants on stage (not that it really matters a whole lot since they have the big screens which are AWESOME!).

So I leave for the Windy City with my Sweetie and a fist full of cash to blow on every U2 item my little heart will desire :)

U2 performed during the half time show of the Super Bowl in 2002. The tragedy that occurred on 9/11 happened only 4 months prior to their performance.

At this time U2 was also touring and they had worked the tribute into the show. Just as you see it. All the names of those who lost their lives scrolled by as they same Where the Streets Have No Name.

Today, this is my tribute to those who perished and to honor those who are fighting to preserve our freedom.

Numb

Numb is a song that is mainly spoken by The Edge. The video is so funny! Take a look!

U2 Guide in Dublin

After cruising around a U2 fan site (@u2.com, I came across a map that shows all of U2's old haunts. It's a must do for any U2 fan headed to Dublin.


View @U2's Guide to U2's Dublin in a larger map

Get On Your Boots

This song was the first single released from No Line on the Horizon. Oddly enough the song really sounds nothing like the rest of the album. The song has grown on me though, although it does not rank among my top faves.

The Sweetest Thing

Oddly enough, Bono wrote this song for his wife, Ali. I remember reading somewhere he intended for it to be a love song. After reading the lyrics you will see that it didn't quite turn out like that lol Bono had said that somehow it always happens when he trys to write songs for his wife HA!

My love, she throws me like a rubber ball
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
But she won't catch me or break my fall.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
Baby's got blue skies up ahead
But in this, I'm a raincloud
You know she wants a dry kind of love.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)

I'm losin' you, I'm losin' you
Ain't love the sweetest thing?

I wanted to run, but she made me crawl
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
Eternal fire, she turned me to straw.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
I know I got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her
I guess it's a blind kind of love.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)

I'm losin' you, I'm losin' you
Ain't love the sweetest thing?
Ain't love the sweetest thing?

Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
You can sew it up, but you still see the tear.
(Oh, the sweetest thing.)
Baby's got blue skies up ahead
But in this, I'm a rain-cloud,
Ours is a stormy kind of love.

U2 on SNL!

U2 is going to help kick off SNL's season by being their first musical guest!!! WOOT WOOT!

One

U2 made three versions of videos for the song One.

This version features Bob Hewson, Bono's father. And it seems like Bono singing the song to his father - but that is just my assumption.



This version features Bono sitting at a table at a bar singing the song. It almost seems like you're sitting at the table with him and he's talking to you. It's one of my favorite videos of all time.

This version features stills and video footage of buffaloes and flowers including the word One in different languages.



Mary J. Blige covered the song a few years ago. This version is pretty cool. I love MJB and she's performing with some of my favorite guys.

Johnny Cash - The Wanderer

Did you know that Johnny Cash performed a song on U2's Zooropa CD? It's the very last track and it's sorta a secret song. Johnny sings the song while The Edge plays guitar and sings background. It's actually a pretty cool song to hear Cash sing.

U2 Three

This was U2's very first album release. It was released in 1979 and only contained three songs: Out of Control, Stories for Boys, and Boy/Girl.

Limited copies were made, but there were several presses were made of the LP. Very few copies still exist.

About four Christmases ago, my husband asked me what was one of U2's singles that I wanted the most. My response was, "U2 Three but there is no way that you could ever find a copy of it." Apparently that set him on a hunt and lo and behold I unwrapped my very own copy of U2 Three! Although my copy is one of the later presses, I am still very proud to own it and display it in an album frame next to my desk.

Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own

Bono with his father, Bob Hewson who passed away in 2001

Bono wrote this song as a tribute to his father. From what I have read about Bono's life from his biography, his dad was pretty much a hard ass. Bono's mother died when he was only 14 which left his father to care for him and his brother. One gift his father did give him was his voice. Bob was an amateur opera singer. And if you ever hear Bono singing Miss Sarajevo and performing Pavarotti's part, you will see clearly he inherited his voice.

I really like the video for this song. Bono seems transparent. And another cool fact, some of the video was recorded in the house where Bono grew up.

U2 Way

photo from Getty Images

In March, around the time when No Line On The Horizon was released, New York City named a street after U2. U2 Way aka W. 53rd st.

U2 does David Letterman's Top 10 List

When I was looking for a video of Breathe performed on David Letterman, I stumbled across this video and thought it was hilarious!

Breathe

I remember hearing this song for the first time on the David Letterman show. U2 performed during the entire week that No Line on the Horizon was released. The first time I heard it I didn't really like it - it's very different from anything else that U2 has ever done. But the song grew on me and it's one of my favorites from NLOTH.

Grammys

U2 has more Grammys than any other band - period. The total to date is 22 and of course growing. Pretty impressive for a 33 year old band made up with a bunch of boys from Dublin ;)

Beautiful Day

This is one of my most favorite songs! It was the song that played at my wedding reception when my hubby and I were introduced. It's a song that can get me in a good mood no matter what has happened.

Bono said that he wrote the song thinking of a man who lost everything and still somehow finds something to be happy about. Maybe that's why it always seems to cheer my up :)

Wanna her the song? Click here for the video.

Next Stop Chicago!!!

U2 gave their last concert in Europe on the 22nd. Next stop is Chicago! The very concert that I will be at :) WOOT!

If you wanna see a video clip from the show click here. (I didn't watch it though;)

Kite - Letting Go

Today was my son's second day of kindergarten. It has been very strange to not have my little sidekick with me all day long.

Bono wrote the song Kite about his kids and letting them go - them not needing him.

Here are the words to the song:

Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

Cause hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone, anything at all

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to know what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me

I'm a man, I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to know what it is will break you
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Roof top to the basement
The last of the rock stars
When hip hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
That was the big idea