Het Grote U2 Topic (deel 4)

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 20:25 schreef m021 het volgende:
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Tour

Het antwoord op mijn mail aan HMV:
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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 20:00 schreef LeonH het volgende:
Wat zal de nieuwe tournaam zijn?

Ikzelf zet in op de "Vertigo-tour" of "Atomic bomb-tour"

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 20:31 schreef Murray het volgende:

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Vertigo Tour ligt wel het meest voor de hand, maar op de een of andere manier vind ik dat toch niet lekker klinken...

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 21:02 schreef greatgonzo het volgende:
zijn er al data bekend wanneer de tour evt hier komt??

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 21:27 schreef m021 het volgende:

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Omdat het ook best veel werk is om topics door te lezen zal ik maar even antwoord geven.

- begin juli (15 juli is al eens geroepen) is het grootste gerucht

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- ook is er een kans dat U2 op het Belgische festival "TW Classic 05" zal staan

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 21:58 schreef Neva het volgende:
ik vind 4 juli een mooie datum

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Geboortedatum: 1981-07-04

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 22:07 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:

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Ik begrijp 't .

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 22:13 schreef Neva het volgende:
hmm die vraag van de mediamarkt klopt nie geen enkel van de antwoorden is correct..
Bono vox komt voort uit wat de presiter/pastor tijdens zijn doopsel zei.. omdat die zo schreeuwde zei die dude bono vox oftewel goede stem.. wat een stelletje losers

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 22:19 schreef MuadDib het volgende:

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Komen al die bijnamen van U2 en Virgin Prunes niet uit de Lypton Village periode?

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 22:19 schreef MuadDib het volgende:

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Komen al die bijnamen van U2 en Virgin Prunes niet uit de Lypton Village periode?

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 22:13 schreef Neva het volgende:
hmm die vraag van de mediamarkt klopt nie geen enkel van de antwoorden is correct..
Bono vox komt voort uit wat de presiter/pastor tijdens zijn doopsel zei.. omdat die zo schreeuwde zei die dude bono vox oftewel goede stem.. wat een stelletje losers

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The origin of Bono's name has been variously attributed to a dog food, a brand of hearing aid, and the Latin phrase for 'good voice'. The hearing-aid explanation seems to be the most widely accepted. There was a shop in the O'Connell Street area of Dublin which sold 'Bonavox' hearing aids, and this seems to have been adapted to Bono Vox.

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from the origin of Bono's name (a hearing aid store called Bonovox, which means "good voice" in Latin)

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ORIGIN OF NAME: Paul was originally nicknamed "Bono Vox" by his friend, Guggi, a high school cohort who stole it from a hearing aid store on O'Connell Street in Dublin. Fittingly enough, the original moniker meant "good voice" in cockeyed Latin. Paul later shortened it to Bono, which remains his name to this day.

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Op dinsdag 30 november 2004 22:35 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:

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echt niet.

http://www.google.nl/sear(...)google&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-47,GGLD:nl&q=origin+bono%27s+name

http://www.threechordsandthetruth.net/u2bios/u2bonobio.htm
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec(...)/701-6155353-1869937
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http://www.atu2.com/band/bono/
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Review: U2's 'Bomb' fails to explode
Band's new album hits some heights but often falls flat


U2 tends to remind me of middle-period Who: two bands whose pretensions are usually undercut -- beneficially -- by punkish roots and crack musicianship.

The Who managed to avoid the ponderous pitfalls of Pete Townshend's big concepts by simply playing the hell out of "Tommy," "Who's Next" and "Quadrophenia."

Similarly, U2 has never shied from trying to sound like the world's most important band, but thanks to the group's chops, humor and self-knowledge, even a song such as "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" -- or a lyric as determinedly poetic as "Have you come to play Jesus/To the lepers in your head" -- avoid artistic affectation.

Usually.

On the band's new album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2 is again aiming high. "Love and Peace or Else" evokes the Middle East to talk about relationships, big and small; "Yahweh" uses a name for God in a song about pain, love and the cleansing of the soul.

What's missing, too often, is melody -- and without melody, the lyrics call too much attention to themselves. After all, in the best U2 songs, such as "Pride (In the Name of Love)" and "One," the music is as lyrical as the words. Not even all Bono's emoting -- sometimes growling, sometimes belting -- can overcome having nothing to sing.

So "Miracle Drug," a song about love, drags. "City of Blinding Lights" meanders. They're not bad songs, but they're not memorable either.

That's not to say the album doesn't have its moments. "All Because of You" and "A Man and a Woman" have the understated power the band generates like no other. They're sneaky songs, gaining depth with each listen.

And "Vertigo," the lead track, somehow combines nightclub darkness with brutal introspection ("the jungle is your head," "it's everything I wish I didn't know"), yet works as a great single, thanks to Edge's blazing guitar and the propulsive Larry Mullen-Adam Clayton rhythm section. It's "Mama Told Me Not to Come" with spikes.

"How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" isn't a dud. There's too much tight playing, too many solid songs for that. But the album tends to hold back when it needs to let go. Because of that, this "Bomb" doesn't quite have the explosiveness of the band's best work.