Growing Old with the Cure (2)
5/14/12 •
I have seen most of my musical idols in concert – Paul McCartney, U2, R.E.M., Mike Viola – yet one band that I somehow missed seeing over the last 20 years is the Cure. I was already in college when I finally discovered the group, and by that time they had already released their [...]
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The Revised ‘Achtung Baby’ (0)
5/09/12 •
Rock critics usually place U2′s Achtung Baby among the greatest albums of all time. Rolling Stone ranked the album as the 62nd greatest ever, and it topped Spin‘s 2010 list of the 125 most influential albums in the last 25 years. And I hated it. Critics liked U2 going out on a limb, daring to shed [...]
The Revised ‘Rattle and Hum’ (0)
4/19/12 •
So how do you top a multi-million selling, critically acclaimed album such as The Joshua Tree? You make a movie, of course. I should have seen it coming – U2 as movie stars, having the ego big enough to release a movie about themselves and their love of – gasp! – American music. Didn’t they [...]
