Bridget BuckleyMay 26, 20151 min13 Days of U2: Day 13Songs of Innocence (2014) Despite being named the number one album of 2014 by Rolling Stone Magazine, it became famous (or infamous) for...
Bridget BuckleyMay 25, 20152 min13 Days of U2: Day 12No Line On The Horizon (2009) People never really responded to this album. Maybe it was the five year break between albums, maybe it was...
Bridget BuckleyMay 24, 20151 min13 Days of U2 : Day 11How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004) “Vertigo” Where we learn Bono can’t count in Spanish and discover the best U2 song to run to....
Bridget BuckleyMay 23, 20153 min13 Days of U2: Day 10All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) This is such a personal album for me that forever changed my relationship to music and my...
Bridget BuckleyMay 22, 20152 min13 Days of U2: Day 9(photo: U2.com) Pop (1997) “Discotheque”: I still remember sitting in my college dorm when U2 announced the Popmart tour from the...
Bridget BuckleyMay 21, 20151 min13 Days of U2: Day 8Zooropa (1993) This whole album is sort of an Achtung Baby Part II. Mostly made during a twelve week break between the American and...
Bridget BuckleyMay 21, 20151 min13 Days of U2: Day 7Achtung Baby (1991) “One” The album that almost ended it all and the song that healed old wounds and allowed them to keep making music....
Bridget BuckleyMay 19, 20151 min13 Days of U2: Day 6Rattle and Hum (1988) "Helter Skelter": “It’s a song Charles Mason stole from the Beatles, we’re stealing it back.” A cover can be...
Bridget BuckleyMay 18, 20152 min13 Days of U2: Day 5The Joshua Tree (1987) “Where the Streets Have No Name” Could have been called “The Song That Almost Never Was,” but now it seems...
Bridget BuckleyMay 17, 20151 min13 Days of U2: Day 4Unforgettable Fire (1984) "Bad" (click to listen) If “Sunday Bloody Sunday” is an anti-terrorism song, then “Bad” is an anti-drug song. ...
Bridget BuckleyMay 16, 20152 min13 Days of U2: Day 3War (1983) "Sunday Bloody Sunday": (click to listen) A full on anti-terrorism song, it references January 30, 1972, when 26 protesters...
Bridget BuckleyMay 15, 20151 min13 Days of U2: Day 2October (1981): “Gloria” (click to listen) Is it sacrilegious to pick only one song off of this album? Maybe, but at least “Gloria” is...
Bridget BuckleyMay 15, 20152 min13 Days of U2: Day 1I can barely stand it...in 13 days my husband and I are taking our two children, Maeve (11) and Brendan (7) to their first U2 concert at...