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U2 Music Trumps Hate

Before it was fashionable to statement"Love Trumps Hate" U2's music has always positioned a positive message of hope, faith, love and acceptance. U2 fans know that the band does not wear its faith on their sleeves rather they allow the lyrics to speak for them. Faith is much more than a statement of belief in God; it's a feeling that extends beyond self and-and reached out to those that need it most within most U2 lyrics you can find a message, reference and most often God is the lyric. Most fans would not call U2 a Christian band, and even they are first to admit they are not a Christian band. They are just a few boys from Dublin.

Tim Heufeld wrote an article“God is in the house” indeed HE is. For the last three decades, U2 has written songs of faith, hope, and love going thru phases as most Christians do. Tim pointed out that on two albums “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” and “No Line on the Horizon” could be considered as U2’s grounded works.

Bono and the Boys never claimed to have a lock on faith, love, and God, only that one should find peace and why not in God, right that Christians look at U2 and wonder how they can be Christian with drinking, and partying and well frankly enjoying life.

Clearly, how can they be? Simply put God is for everyone and how you choose to live your life is a choice you make, it’s not mine or yours to say this person is more God like we are all in God’s image. U2 only provides the tools for you to make your choice. We looked over Tim’s U2 Rapture Playlist and believed its worth a listen. Try it -

Bono: My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

TOP TEN RAPTURE PLAYLIST

10. “Tomorrow,” October (1981)

Won't you come back tomorrow / Won't you be back tomorrow
Will you be back tomorrow / Can I sleep tonight
Open up, open up to the love of God / To the love of He who made the blind to see
He's coming back / He's coming back
I believe Him / Jesus is coming / I'm gonna be there

9. “Stateless,” The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

I've got no home in this world / Just gravity, luck, and time
I've got no home in this world / Just you and you are not mine
Stateless / Weightless / Stateless

8. “A Sort of Homecoming,” The Unforgettable Fire (1984)

And you know it's time to go / Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning / To a light that's in the distance
And you hunger for the time / Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath / Your own dream landscape

7. “Last Night on Earth,” POP (1997)

She feels the ground is giving way / But she thinks we're better off that way
The more you take the less you feel / The less you know the more you believe
The more you have, the more it takes today
You got to give it away / You got to give it away
Well, she don't care what it's worth
She's living like it's the last night on earth

6. “Gone,” POP (1997)

You get to feel so guilty got so much for so little
Then you find that feeling just won't go away
You're holding on to every little thing so tightly
Till there's nothing left for you anyay
Goodbye, you can keep this suit of lights
I'm be up with the sun / I'm not coming down

5. “I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight,” No Line on the Horizon (2009) (Live U2360 Remix of course!)

It's not a hill, it's a mountain / As you start out the climb
Listen for me, I'll be shouting / We're gonna make it all the way to the light
But you now I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight

4. “Where the Streets Have No Name,” Joshua Tree (1987)

Where the streets have no name / Where the streets have no name
We're still building, then burning down love / Burning down love
And when I go there I go there with you / It's all I can do

3. “Walk On,” All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
Leave it behind

2. “Until the End of the World,” Achtung Baby (1991)

Waves of regret and waves of joy / I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You, you said you'd wait / 'Til the end of the world

1. “Elevation,” All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)

You elevate my soul / I've lost all self-control
Been living like a mole / Now, going down, excavation
I and I into the sky / You make me feel like I can fly so high
Elevation

Playlist credit: Tim Heufeld

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U2 Fans will have to wait until 2015

What has happened to the magic? Over the last few months, it seems that the magic has left the building. U2 expected to release a new album this year with a stadium tour in the summer and it seems that the whole thing stalled out in Dublin. The album we like to call “Lucky 13” seems to be taking longer to finish and while some may say that’s ok because the whole album will capture the magic again.

Rumors suggest that the band was looking creative support on this project and this was the reason to push to 2015. Remember this is a self-imposed release date nothing official was announced.

"We've always needed collaborators to challenge us," says drummer Larry Mullen. "We're slow learners. We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going, it's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work."

Bono then added: "The album won't be ready till it's ready. However, right now, people are walking a little differently -- well, they are not walking, they are running as if to a finish line. There are a couple of songs that are part of the story we have not quite finished. We know we have to spend a couple of years taking these songs around the world, so they'd better be good."

Bono’s comments suggest a world tour will follow shortly after the release of the new project. Will it be worth the wait or have we already experienced the best that U2 has to offer? Time will tell.

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Celebration Time ! Lucky 13 Completed !

The boys have been recently mastering their next project at the Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan.

The new ( yet to be named ) album, the 13th album in U2's discography. Danger Mouse has been enlisted to produce this product.

In addition to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr., Coldplay’s Chris Martin was spotted on the scene, potentially as a featuring artist on the new album. Immediately following the wrap-up of the album, the band hosted a celebratory bash atop the studio.

Some famous faces turned up to wish the band success on the new album including Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and supermodel Helena Christensen.

At this rooftop celebration, the band also recorded an acoustic version video of ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ featuring Clayton on piano for “global participatory art project” Inside Out.

Though no official release date has been stated.