Pop (Part 1)
It's time to dive into U2's much beloved, and also much maligned 9th studio album, Pop. It's a polarizing work among fans and critics and God knows the band's spent the last 25 years trying to distanc...
8 Jan 20241h 33min
Zooropa (Pt 2)
In Pt 2 on Zooropa we continue our song by song examination and then get into the launch of the European leg of Zoo TV which sees the band rediscovering their love of Dada. The wildly successful Zoo T...
29 Des 202352min
Zooropa - Part 1
U2 came home after the Outside Broadcast Tour completing a wildly successful 1992 that saw the band reinvent themselves on record and as a live act. It was supposed to be a six month break before retu...
22 Des 202352min
Achtung Baby - Pt 3 (Zoo TV Tour)
In our third part on the Achtung Baby period we dive into Zoo TV from the conception of the tour to the financial constraints, to the moral conundrums surrounding corporate sponsorship at the time. We...
15 Des 20231h 11min
Achtung Baby (Part 2)
After the contentious early sessions in Berlin, everything finally crystalizes and U2 deliver its crowning creative achievement, the unprecedented deconstruction of everything that got them to the top...
8 Des 20231h 44min
Achtung Baby (Part 1)
We're going in for a really deep dive on Achtung Baby. In the first of three parts, we pick things up with Bono's "gotta go away and dream it all up again" speech at the end of the Love Town Tour when...
1 Des 202337min
Rattle and Hum (Part 2)
In this second part of our look at the Rattle and Hum era, we talk about the brutal criticism that came U2's way, in particular, toward Bono. The band had bad reviews before, but it was never this per...
29 Nov 202349min
Rattle and Hum (Part 1)
In the first of our two parts on the Rattle and Hum album and the film, we dive into why this period is so poorly remembered. We question what the hell the band was thinking but, more importantly, whe...
28 Nov 20231h 3min
