My journey with U2 started with October , and soon after I picked up a copy of Boy . I put both of those albums on a single cassette and it lived in my car for a long time. My first car, purchased off my parents: a giant green 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham only had an 8-track player, so I bought a cassette adapter from Radio Shack so I could have tunes in the car. When the single dropped early in 1983 I eagerly snagged a copy, and then waited for the album. The title track was definitely U2, but it was different too. It was more, but it was hard to put a finger on, but it was awesome. Then there was the very rough "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop)" that remains to this day a lost track for the band. I suppose this was a rough mix, and was more reminiscent of their first two albums, and stylistically would have been ad odd duck going forward. The second side contains live tracks taken from a Belgium television special from July of 1982, and contained "Fire,...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget