Songs of Surrender by U2
U2's 2023 album re-records forty songs from across their catalogue in stripped, acoustic, reflective form.
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Songs of Experience by U2
U2's 2017 album reads like a set of letters to the people they love, an older band looking back with hard-won warmth.
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Bad for You Baby by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2008 release, guitar-led music with real feeling. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
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Pop by U2
U2's 1997 dance-rock experiment, a restless record about faith and emptiness that I found long after its release.
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Close as You Get by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2007 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
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Dark Sky Island by Enya
Enya's 2015 album, layered Celtic-tinged songs about journeys, islands, and the night sky, calm as ever.
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Old New Ballads Blues by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2006 release, expressive playing rooted in the blues. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
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Songs of Innocence by U2
U2 look back to their youth on the 2014 album Songs of Innocence, a record of first loves, lost friends, and the music that shaped them.
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Power of the Blues by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2004 release, expressive playing rooted in the blues. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
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Back to the Blues by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2001 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
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Zooropa by U2
U2's experimental 1993 record trades stadium rock for electronic textures, a strange and rewarding album I found years later.
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Rattle and Hum by U2
A late discovery of U2's 1988 album, a sprawling live and studio record about America, roots, and rock itself.
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A Different Beat by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 1999 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
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A Day Without Rain by Enya
Enya's calm 2000 album, layered Celtic-tinged songs about time and seasons, found by me years after it appeared.
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The Celts by Enya
Enya's 1992 reissue of her 1987 debut, a soundtrack to a Celtic history series, which I found years after its release.
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The Unforgettable Fire by U2
U2's atmospheric 1984 album, the record where they reached past anthems toward something stranger, found by me much later.
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Dark Days in Paradise by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 1997 release, expressive playing rooted in the blues. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
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No Line on the Horizon by U2
U2's 2009 album is their most experimental in years, restless rock searching for the line where sky meets sea.
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October by U2
U2's 1981 second album is their most openly spiritual, a raw, searching record I came to long after its release.
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And Winter Came... by Enya
Enya's 2008 album draws on winter and Christmas, a calm, layered record of snow, light and quiet wonder.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2
U2's warm 2000 return to song and heart, an album I revisited and found wiser than I remembered.
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Blues for Greeny by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 1995 release, expressive playing rooted in the blues. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
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Boy by U2
U2's 1980 debut catches four young men finding their sound, a raw, ringing record about growing up.
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Shepherd Moons by Enya
Enya's lush 1991 album deepened her signature sound, a serene Celtic record I found years after its release.
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After Hours by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 1992 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
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