U2 Me2

Come back with me to the Fall of 1981, when I was in High School hanging with a bunch of friends in an apartment. The TV came on and someone said, check out this new video on this new TV channel called "MTV".

I remember digging the video and U2's new sound. Later, October became my favorite U2 album - and still is. Here's total plagiarism of a story on Wikipedia about making the album. It's so good, it deserves to be told here and related to my own U2 spiritual moment on that cold Nebraska night so long ago - but still so very fresh and loud in my musical memory. Also, this memory ties to an earlier U2 post of mine called "War and Thunder".

[October] The album's recording was complicated when the briefcase containing Bono's lyrics was stolen by fans after a show. The band already booked studio time and thus had to continue recording in spite of this, even improvising lyrics on some songs. Bono said of the recording process of October, "I remember the pressure it was made under, I remember writing lyrics on the microphone, and at #50 an hour that's quite a pressure. Lillywhite was pacing up and down the studio...he coped really well. And the ironic thing about October is that there's a sort of peace about the album, even though it was recorded under that pressure. A lot of people found October hard to accept at first, I mean, I used the word 'rejoice' precisely because I knew people have a mental block against it. It's a powerful word, it's lovely to say. It's implying more than 'get up and dance, baby.' I think October goes into areas that most rock 'n' roll bands ignore. When I listen to the album, something like 'Tomorrow,' it actually moves me." The briefcase was eventually recovered in October 2004, and Bono greeted its return as "an act of grace".

Source: htt p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_%28album%29