Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V3 #551

[E Geist <i_scoobysnak at yahoo_com>]

i was 8 or 9 when bobby sands staved to death.  not to
suggest that ALL music is borne of political
"situations," but U2's energy from boston to d.c. on
the eastern seaboard has sutained and sustained,
transformed, and grown since *the unforgettable fire*.
 i rode around at 16 on country roads with friends to
the j. tree.  that energy and craft and art was
sparked by the goings on between ireland and england
in the late 70s, I'm convinced.  u2 harnessed it, and
more power to them.

--- jillian tully <waytogojane at hotmail_com> wrote:
> i said it :), and i am aware that u2 fits into that
> category...although i 
> honestly never picked up on the christian thing
> until i read about it (i was 
> 6 or 7 when the joshua tree came out, and although i
> loved that record even 
> then, i wasn't too coherent regarding, say, "gloria"
> or "40".)
> 
> they do fit into that category, and yet they
> completely escape it somehow. 
> you don't ever hear people asking about their faith
> in the same way they ask 
> about OtR or sixpence or sarah masen...and this is
> because people didn't 
> come to be fans of u2 through cornerstone or
> truetunes or grassroots 
> music.com or friends who listened to other bands in
> that subculture.
> 
> it's all perspective.
> 
> jillian.
> >okay, this is the second time in as many days
> someone
> >has used U2 to make this particular parallel
> between
> >Christian musicians 'preaching' and secular
> musicians
> >'preaching' something else.  to me it seems obvious
> >(if you pay attention to what Bono is singing in
> the
> >latest two U2 albums) that U2 would fit more
> closely
> >into the category that our very beloved OTR fits
> into:
> >something like, Christian artists who are not
> trying
> >to preach to anyone, only trying to be honest with
> >their art.


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