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mogwai-movie-house · 4 months

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The Best Album Per Year for Sixty Years

No-one asked for it, of course, but I do like making lists, so here's me pondering what have been the best Long Players in the album artform the past 60 years. I originally tried to keep it to just one per year, but many years that proved impossible: when listing multiple albums I have tried ranking them with the one I feel narrowly edges out the others first, and I use lower case to indicate an album that is not at the same level as others on the list but was the best I've heard from that time.

Feel free to have fun with the list and make up your own.

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1962 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan 1963 The Freewheelin' - Bob Dylan 1964 another side of - bob dylan 1965 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan 1966 Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys / Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan / Revolver - The Beatles 1967 Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles / The Velvet Underground & Nico / Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel / Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart 1968 Astral Weeks - Van Morrison / The White Album - The Beatles / Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel / We're Only In It For The Money/Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa 1969 Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones / Abbey Road - The Beatles / In A Silent Way - Miles Davis 1970 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel / Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon 1971 Imagine - John Lennon / Blue - Joni Mitchell / What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye/ 2 - Moondog 1972 Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones / Discover America - Van Dyke Parks / Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart / Ege Bam Yasi - Can 1973 Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges 1974 Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan 1975 Horses - Patti Smith / Discreet Music - Brian Eno / Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd / Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler 1976 The Ramones - The Ramones 1977 Low - David Bowie / New Boots & Panties - Ian Dury / Marquee Moon - Television / 77 - Talking Heads 1978 Music For Airports - Brian Eno / This Year's Model - Elvis Costello / Third (Sister Lovers) - Big Star / More Songs About Music & Food - Talking Heads 1979 Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division/ Fear of Music - Talking Heads / Into The Music - Van Morrison / Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa / Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young 1980 Remain In Light - Talking Heads / Closer - Joy Division / One Trick Pony - Paul Simon / Common One - Van Morrison 1981 Faith - The Cure 1982 Thriller - Michael Jackson / 1999 - Prince / 4 - Peter Gabriel / Too Rye Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners / Big Science - Laurie Anderson / Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 1983 Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits / Murmur - R.E.M. / Hearts & Bones - Paul Simon / Off The Bone - The Cramps 1984 Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution / Hatful Of Hollow - The Smiths / Various Positions - Leonard Cohen / Reckoning - R.E.M. / The Unforgettable Fire - U2 1985 Don't Stand Me Down - Dexys Midnight Runners / Rain Dogs - Tom Waits / Around The World In A Day - Prince & The Revolution / Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega / Hounds of Love - Kate Bush / Hunting High & Low - A-ha 1986 Parade - Prince & The Revolution / So - Peter Gabriel / The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths / Graceland - Paul Simon / Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout / Blood & Chocolate/King of America - Elvis Costello 1987 Sign O The Times - Prince / Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths / The Joshua Tree - U2 / Actually - Pet Shop Boys / Tango In The Night - Fleetwood Mac 1988 Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison & The Chieftains / Green - R.E.M. / Viva Hate - Morrissey / The Serpent's Egg - Dead Can Dance / Surfer Rosa - Pixies / Naked - Talking Heads / Introspective - Pet Shop Boys / I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen / Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins 1989 Disintegration - The Cure / Technique - New Order / Doolittle - The Pixies / Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan / Avalon Sunset - Van Morrison / Rei Momo - David Byrne / Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys / Candleland - Ian McCulloch 1990 Extricate - The Fall / The Good Son - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Songs For Drella - Lou Reed & John Cale / Jonathan Goes Country - Jonathan Richman 1991 Screamadelica - Primal Scream / Achtung Baby - U2 / The Bootleg Boxset - Bob Dylan/ Having a Party with - Jonathan Richman 1992 It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads / Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Automatic For The People - R.E.M. / Good As I Been To You - Bob Dylan / The Future - Leonard Cohen 1993 Debut - Bjork / Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld / Neroli - Brian Eno / Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair / Come On Feel - The Lemonheads / Zooropa - U2 / Vena Cava - Diamanda Galas

1994 Selected Ambient Works Vol. II - Aphex Twin / Toward The Within - Dead Can Dance / Let Love In - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Dummy - Portishead / Autogeddon - Julian Cope / Vauxhall & I - Morrissey 1995 Anthology - The Beatles / The Ugly One With The Jewels - Laurie Anderson 1996 Boys For Pele - Tori Amos / Gone Again - Patti Smith 1997 Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized / The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan / Vanishing Point - Primal Scream 1998 Up - R.E.M. / I'm So Confused - Jonathan Richman 1999 Play - Moby / I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy 2000 XTRMNTR - Primal Scream / All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2 / The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem / Kid A - Radiohead / KY - Lemon Jelly 2001 Vespertine - Bjork / Love & Theft - Bob Dylan / No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2002 The Eminem Show - Eminem 2003 Room On Fire - The Strokes / The Man Comes Around/Unearthed - Johnny Cash / The Wind - Warren Zevon 2004 Has Been - William Shatner / How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb - U2 / You Are The Quarry - Morrissey / The Milk-Eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom / Smile - Brian Wilson 2005 Another Day On Earth - Brian Eno / Le Fil - Camille 2006 Modern Times - Bob Dylan / Surprise - Paul Simon / Love - The Beatles 2007 for emma, forever ago - bon iver 2008 vampire weekend - vampire weekend 2009 No Line On The Horizon - U2 / The XX - The XX 2010 show me the face - michelle gurevich 2011 Angles - The Strokes / So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon 2012 Life Is People - Bill Fay / Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen 2013 Comedown Machine - The Strokes / Crimson Red - Prefab Sprout 2014 Ghost Stories - Coldplay / 1989 - Taylor Swift 2015 ★ - David Bowie 2016 Lover, Beloved - Suzanne Vega / Stranger To Stranger - Paul Simon 2017 American Dream - LCD Soundsystem / antisocialites - alvvays 2018 music for installations - Brian Eno 2019 weezer (teal album) - weezer 2020 rough & rowdy ways - bob dylan 2021 happier than ever - billie eilish / lindsey buckingham - lindsay buckingham 2022 dragon new warm mountain i believe in you - big thief

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sslimbo · 2 months

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The Joshua Tree, the fifth studio album of the Irish rock band U2, was released on 9 March 1987.

#the joshua tree #U2 #1987

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theunderestimator-2 · 1 year

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The Long Ryders in the final moments of their performance at Islington Assembly Hall in 2019, as captured by Tom Gold during their tour to support an album of new material about 30 years after their breakup, getting back in the world they helped create.

Originally associated with the early-’80s Paisley Underground scene, these LA-based punk rock-influenced garage rockers with a Neil Young flavor to their psychedelic roots rock sound reached their high point by the mid-’80s. They embarked on their first international tour to Europe in 1985, where they were greeted with sold out shows, amazing crowd receptions, an NME cover and a dozen record companies at their London hotel door after their second show, then headlined a Barcelona festival in front of 100,000 people in 1986.

However, back in the US, things had gone from hot to cold in about three weeks, after fans accused them of selling out for doing a beer TV commercial that killed the band stone dead and furthermore, turning down the offer to open for U2 on the North American leg of their Joshua Tree tour was a major opportunity blown that didn’t exactly help. They found themselves broke and facing a dead end after two members left the band, so by late 1987 they eventually called it quits, predating the alt-country movement that would gain in popularity by the mid-'90s by a full decade.

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#the long ryders #paisley underground #garage rock revival #roots rock #americana #psychedelic rock #people #live gig #2019

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retropopcult · 1 year

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"Sweetest Thing" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It was originally released as a B-side on the "Where the Streets Have No Name" single in 1987, but the song was later re-recorded and re-released as a single in 1998 for the band's compilation album The Best of 1980–1990.

"Sweetest Thing" became a #1 hit in Ireland, Canada, and Iceland and reached the top 10 in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. In the US, the song peaked at #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Bono wrote the song as an apology to his wife Ali Hewson for having to work in the studio on her birthday during The Joshua Tree sessions, and the music video features him taking her on a carriage ride along the Georgian mile in Dublin, from Fitzwilliam Place onto Upper Fitzwilliam Street, enlisting various performers along the way in an effort to say sorry. The performers include Riverdance, Boyzone, Steve Collins, the Artane Boys Band, Chippendales dancers, and the Celtic Knights. And of course the other three members of U2—The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.—Norman Hewson (Bono's brother) and Dik Evans (The Edge's brother) also appear.

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rastronomicals · 1 month

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1:02 AM EDT March 17, 2024:

U2 - "With Or Without You" From the album The Joshua Tree (March 9, 1987)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

#U2 #The Joshua Tree #With Or Without You

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chopper-witch · 2 years

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Thinking about all the songs Eddie would definitely say are poser songs or aren’t “his kind of music” that he definitely would have listened to in secret/his music taste if the Duffer’s let him live.

So fuck it, he’s alive.

You know what comes out in 1987? Sweet Child O’ Mine. And oh boy, does he try to hold back. Guns N’ Roses is a little too mainstream, don’t you know? But he can’t help it. It’s a banger, full stop.

You know what also comes out? It’s ‘The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’ by R.E.M. Yeah. That one he refuses to admit to.

And the final one in 1987 - which you don’t have to pull out of him at all, surprisingly - is U2′s album The Joshua Tree. Despite three songs being known enough for Steve to jam to them whenever Eddie is in charge of music, Eddie refuses to be embarrassed for liking such a great album.

Bleach comes out in 1989. No one is really listening to Nirvana yet. They just got this new sound, he swears, that derives from metal. Grunge, they call it. Out of Seattle. There are a few other bands with the sound too, but he likes them best. Of course, he gets all pouty when Nevermind is released, and all of a sudden, Nirvana is one of the biggest bands and no longer his thing, and even Nancy is singing ‘Come As You Are’, not just ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.

Then imagine catching him humming ‘Under the Bridge’ (1991) by Red Hot Chili Peppers and calling him out, and he’s like, “they’re just on the radio all the time, babe, it’s not my fault. Still poser music,” but then also hearing the whole album (Blood Sugar Sex Magik) in the background one day and he tries to hide it before you see him taking it out of the player.

Don’t even get me started on his secret love for ‘Losing My Religion’ (1991). It’s ‘End of the world’ all over again.

‘Unbelievable’ (1991) by EMF is slightly easier to get him to admit to because he makes bad jokes about it. “You think I like that song? The things you say...You’re unbelievable.” “Eddie, that is literally part of the chorus.” “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” “Eddie.” “... okay it has some great guitar. But that’s it.”

Him complaining that suddenly everyone is into Metallica since ‘Enter Sandman’ and ‘Nothing Else Matters’ (1991) came out and how he “liked them before they were cool.”

“Is nothing sacred anymore?” he would dramatically whine as all of a sudden the radio is filled with grunge and even metal. You don’t even have to turn to a special station. But he serenades you with ‘Nothing Else Matters’ anyway.

1991 is a hard year for him with music :(

#why yes I have written multiple school assignments on the cultural impact of various music genres how can you tell #stranger things headcanons #Eddie Munson headcanons #Eddie Munson x reader #I also think Eddie would work as songwriter because while his band isnt taking off like he would like he is good at writing songs #Inspo is my parents and their music progression over time #baby me in the car listening to 70s disco and 80s metal and 90s grunge #versus adult me listening to hyper pop :)

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olafsings · 1 year

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Music History Today: May 16, 2023

May 16, 1987: U2 scored their first chart-topping single in the US with “With or Without You.” The band had only modest success until The Joshua Tree album. They had long been stars in their native Ireland, and with their previous album, The Unforgettable Fire, they broke through in the UK. Until "With Or Without You," their biggest US hit was "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" at 33. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" followed to the top spot.

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zenaidamacrouras1 · 9 months

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42 Perfect Songs - 1987

Look, this song is so good. Come dance with me! You could keep it upbeat and silly but maybe instead will dance just a little bit too sexy together, it will might make everyone else in this part slightly uncomfortable, but just lean into it.

Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Whitney Houston though, right? She is so fucking hot in that picture. PHEW! White tank top, sex hair. Mmph. Damn.

Okay, was I talking about wanting to make out with Whitney Houston or this song?

I like the rhymes in this song (I am a bitch about rhymes, do not underestimate this compliment). I like the way it escalates just enough without repeating too many times and making me have to skip it. It's such a good, smart pop song.

I like the way it can go from very sexy to very family friendly. I like Whitney's happy little laughs during the little jammy breakdown.

Speaking of family friendly, I actually have very fond memories of this song because whenever I am holding a baby I like to sing, "Oooh, I wanna dance with some baby, with some baby that loves me." Which all babies love you. You can just love a baby and dance with them and it's socially appropriate. I could probably make a list of 42 songs I like to re-write to sing to babies but this one is my favorite.

(Runner up pop song that I have baby lyrics to: I like to sing Beach Boys "I Get Around" but as "I Look Around" cause babies really like to look around at stuff and I think it's just great.)

Honorable mention for 1987

Too Drunk to Fuck by the Dead Kennedys (also Holiday in Cambodia from the lovely named album "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death") I need to rick-roll you with "Never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley. So, just imagine it. Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega is the most abstract observational poem about alienation to ever dominate the world charts (and Luka - another hit song about child abuse!) U2 put out Joshua Tree in 1987 so just you know. That album was a thing. The End of the World as We Know It by REM Also Guns N Roses put out Appetite for Destruction that year which is a real "All Killer No Filler" album (i.e. every song slaps). It's an absolute cultural gem, especially if you are like spackling a ceiling, digging a really deep hole, or some other sort of zone out manual labor where you're going to get sweat in your eyes over and over.

Here's the list (I'll make a playlist at some point)

1993 - Rebirth of Slick, Digable Planets 1995 - Santa Monica, Everclear 2005 - Up the Wolves, Mountain Goats 1992 - Rebel Girl, Bikini Kill 1987 - Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody1982 - Edge of Seventeen, Stevie Nicks 1981 - Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder

#42 perfect songs #zenaida talks (too much)#zenaida playlist #Spotify

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2o3dinge · 10 months

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Colin & Jared and another Dublin thing that connects them: U2

Colin Farrell and Jared Leto have one thing in common beyond a doubt: their affinity for the band U2. Not only affinity for, but also proximity to them.

Jared & U2

Let's look at the picture below. It hints at U2 gifting the Leto brother's band Thirty Seconds to Mars (30STM) a lot of Guinness and Champagne and leaving their 'best wishes' and a recipe to mix all of that together after 30STM's Dublin concert on May 30, 2018.

Pretty friendly. Yeah, and why not?

In 2017 Jared had in fact presented the 'Global Icon' Award To U2 at the MTV EMAs like a good ol' friend and with a lot of praise, framing the influence of U2's 1987 album The Joshua Tree on Shannon and him in the 80ies like some kind of founding myth for 30STM. It's not even hyperbole: they had frequent U2 collaborators Steve Lillywhite and Flood produce their album This Is War (2009) and Lillywhite Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams (2013). Unsurprisingly they sound very U2ish.

Fun fact: the picture was posted on Twitter on May 31 - Colin Farrell's 42nd birthday.

Colin & U2

Colin Farrell is some kind of honorary member of U2 since - forever. A google search reaps plenty of evidence of him going to concerts or hanging out with them at PR events, award shows or just hanging out.

He's so close with the band, he even met his on-off-girlfriend through them, who was The Edge's PA. It's not only him, all Farrells are friendly with the band. In 2011 Bono attended Eamon Farrell's birthday party, who's Colin's brother, even though Colin wasn't present, and so on. I don't know if this is a common Dubliner thing, maybe all Dubliners know U2 personally in some way...

Fun fact: Colin's godmother and aunt Martina is married to a man who owned U2's favorite club among others in the 1980ies. U2 once flew from somewhere in Europe back to Ireland just to go to that club.

In 2003, Colin, at the height of superstardom, and Bono were practically glued together. The picture below shows them at an Oscar party (Jared was there too).

Jared & U2

Jared has crossed paths at least with The Edge and Bono long before 2017. No wonder as Bono is a sucker for fame and money and has been mingling in Hollywood society for decades. In 2003, the year Colin was glued to Bono's side, Jared's hardly been a total stranger to the "U2'ers" either...

The picture below shows him at a Golden Globes party in 2003. (Colin was there too) Jared's girlfriend Cameron Diaz, at the height of her stardom and who would dump him for Justin Timberlake shortly after this, had starred in Scorsese’s Gangs on New York (2002). U2 had written a song for the soundtrack and won a Golden Globe award for it, but not the Oscar. In fact, the movie won none of its ten nominations. All Oscar hopes for that movie were squashed.

We see Jared here kind of cockblocking/chatting up Daniel Day Lewis whom he to this day quotes as an inspiration and role model as an actor.

Colin & Jared & U2

Alexander (2004) was shot on three different locations in Morocco, England and Thailand from late September 2003 to mid February 2004. Right after returning home from the Alexander set in Thailand, Jared started to perform Where the streets have no name (WTSHNN) at 30STM concerts. Along with this the infamous Alexander-ish song A Modern Myth was played live for the first time, which made it the first song from their 2005 album A Beautiful Lie that saw the light of day.

After shooting for months with ultra U2 fan Colin, choosing a U2 song that talks of sunlight, dust clouds, poison rain, the desire to break free and be together - and desert plains.... Hello Morocco nostalgia?! Most of the cast were Irish dudes culturally socialized in the 80ies. I can easily imagine this song being an unoffical hymn at parties. Besides Macarena, maybe.

I think, for Jared WTSHNN is linked to the experience of shooting Alexander, which he said was full of "adventures" and changed his life and let him "fall in love with the desert". Both Jared and Colin have talked about the "amazing" experience they had in Morocco. It's telling that after general shooting for Alexander had stopped merely a week prior (Feb 13, 2004), Jared flew back to L.A., still looking like Hephaistion and all, and played these two songs.

In 2008 Colin and Jared were in Park City, Utah, for several days. Why?

The Sundance Film Festival.

Colin promoted In Bruges (2007) and the documentary Kicking it (2008). He was executive producer and narrator for the latter. In Bruges was set as the opening night film and premiered on January 17. The film would rehabilitate Colin as an actor after the ill-received Alexander had almost tanked his career and plunged him into the arguably most severe personal crisis of his life.

In January 2008 Colin was 31 years old and 24 months into his struggle for sobriety. His little son had been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that would impede his intellectual development and come with medical complications. Colin's had to wrestle with a stalker, with the publication of an unauthorized sex tape and a romantic liaison with a 21-year-old medical student that took a morbid turn when her depressive ex-boyfriend couldn't handle the break-up and committed suicide. And certainly there were some more problems that didn't go public.

In Bruges though would win him a Golden Globe 2009. A ray of light on the horizon...

Fun fact: Colin's character is named Ray. Jared had played a Ray before in Lonely Hearts Killers (2006) with Salma Hayek, who had starred alongside Colin in Ask the Dust (2006) right before she went on to shoot with Jared. A character called Rayon would then be Jared's Oscar ticket in 2014.

Jared had no movies to promote at Sundance 2008, he was just there... he hopped from party to party accompanied by Brent Bolthouse - a man generally described as a L.A. "nightlife impresario and businessman" - to whom Jared was glued to in public for most of the 2000s until he was suddently and inexplicably not. Jared's most memorable contribution to the festival that year was making out with Paris Hilton for some reason.

Jared and Colin with festival director Geoff Gilmore.

On January 19, 2008 U2 graced the Park City, Utah with their presence to introduce another of their vanity projects: U2 3D. "U2 3D mobilizes digital 3-D and surround-sound technology to plunge us into almost supernatural proximity to the musicians." Alright...

Jared and Brent attended the first screening of U2 3D. The two screenings and parties for U2 3D were the hottest tickets in town that year. Long waiting lines and exclusive guest lists.

Before the screening there was a U2 3D cocktails and dinner party at the Bon Appetit Supper Club. Colin was invited. He's chatting to the U2 3D director Catherine Owens here.

But he left early to attend the screening of Kicking it. From there he went to the after party at Greenhouse at the top of Main and hung out some more with Brendan Gleeson and Mary-Kate Olsen. The U2 3D after party was at the same place. One party became the next and Colin and the U2ers were present.

The picture shows Colin and Mary-Kate cuddling at the In Bruges party, two days before the U2 3D premiere.

Fun fact: Mr. Leto isn't a stranger to the Olsen twins, especially Ashley, either...

I'm pretty sure the two well-connected L.A. hipsters Leto and Bolthouse didn't miss out on the U2 3D after party. There were rumors of the band performing there, which didn't happen in the end. They somehow had secured tickets for the screening, which, by all accounts, wasn't an easy task, they probably made their way inside the after party as well.

It's improbable that Colin and Jared roamed the same street at the same festival for some days, and didn't take notice of each other, not even amidst the U2 hype in that year.

Especially when an Irish newspaper article would quote Jared saying something like this shortly after this (January 25, 2008):

I don't know if you've spent any time in Colin's company, but that guy is just so amazing. His zest for life is infectious. I consider him to be a good friend and hopefully if he's in Dublin when we're there, we'll get to hang out.

So why not hang out in Park City? Proof of this "good friendship" is hard do come by since at least 2004.

U2 360° tour 2009

So this is Jared in a workflow in his home studio cutting the Kings and Queens music video. Only two months to go until the release of This Is War. Maybe he's a bit distracted because all the celebrities flock out to Pasadena to see U2 on their 360° tour at the Rose Bowl. Among them - of course - Colin Farrell, seen here in the backstage area. He's found himself a second baby mama while filming a movie with her the year before.

Fun fact: the liaison unfortunately overlapped with his relationship with writer Emma Forrest to whom he also proposed parenthood, as one can read in her very fine, bittersweet memoir Your Voice In My Head (2011).

Her name is Alicja Bachleda-Curuś. She's 26 years old in this picture (baby daddy is 33) and has delivered a baby son only 18 days ago but you wouldn't know it just looking at her. It's unclear whether the reIationship at this point is still a romantic one, or if it ever really was, because he was already busy thinking about Elizabeth Taylor when he came home from the hospital. Alright... Alicja's baby daddy is about to dump her, but provide for her. That kind of thing.

I somehow love that Henry is her spitting image nowadays!

MTV Unplugged (2011)

In 2011 30STM performed a very good version of WTSHNN during their session. Obviously still fans of the song.

Fun fact: Colin was in NYC on the day (May 13) the MTV Unplugged session with the WTSHNN cover was recorded.

He was papped around Times Square, early and late evening in front of the (then) Foxwoods Theatre (right next to the New Victory Theater) looking a bit pissed.

Apparently he was on his way to a preview performance for the ill-fated Spider-Man musical Turn off the dark that had music written by his buddies Bono and The Edge. After a hiatus for creative overhaul preview shows had begun again May 12th.

Fun fact: this whole Spiderman musical idea suffered from hubris, not unlike Alexander had, which was mostly rooted in this constellation:

Other pics and a video of Colin were taken in front of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, wether it was the next morning or not is hard to tell. Colin takes a cab and off he goes… He's in different attire and not accompanied by his sister Claudine, so probably the day after, May 14.

Anyway, he went to NYC with his sister, and though all the available paparazzi fotos give the date as May 13, there's a chance the Farrell siblings were personally invited by the producers, namely Bono and the Edge, to attend the reopening (preview) show which was set for the 12th. Whichever date it was, the fact remains that Colin was in town when Jared recorded MTV Unplugged.

Fun fact: Unplugged also featured a cover version of Message in a bottle by The Police, that wasn't televised (along with Alibi). They played an acoustic version of Message in a bottle 18 times while on tour in 2005 and 9 times in 2006, then several years did not. 2005 was the year Colin was shooting Miami Vice ending in an OD, and 2006 his first year sober after rehab.

Jared had multi day rehearsals for Unplugged at the (former) Sony music studios which were in 20 min walking/driving distance from Times Square. All of the places are in proximity.

Wouldn’t Colin pay a visit to a friend he used to be close to, a fellow U2 fan? It would be so fitting for him as a gesture of support.

Alas, nothing of the kind was ever known…

#jared leto #farrelleto #alexander 2004 #Colin Farrell/Jared Leto #alexander (2004)#farrelleto meta #colin farrell

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