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Accelerate is awfully good--if not quite great--but what's indisputable is that it goes by fast. Producer Garret (Jacknife) Lee, who worked on U2's "still-got-it!" record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, thereby earning a Ph.D. in jarring legends from complacency, grasped that making an album that didn't stop to think would solve R.E.M.'s two biggest problems: Stipe's tendency toward romantic drift and Buck's stunted, decadelong desire to plug in his guitar and blow people away. Dispensing with dirge-y ballads and long musical bridges to nowhere, Accelerate clocks...
...when it comes to policy, I don’t need them to tell me what to do, I know what I want to do as president. I’m doing another [video] in New York tomorrow. And that was with the fellow who is the producer of U2. Well I know that that’s a band but he wants to see if he can’t help make me known. That’s very exciting for me, but they want me to sing a song. But I don’t know...
...star President of this country." Certainly Clinton is greeted like a rock star by the mostly student crowd as he moves down the ramp from Main Hall to a podium on the mall in the heart of the campus. Flash bulbs go off, camera phones are lifted high and U2 blasts over the speakers...
...U2's City of Blinding Lights Key lyric: "Blessings are not just for the ones who kneel ... luckily...
...year after Irish Rocker Bono visited Nicaragua in 1986 to raise awareness about Central American war refugees, U2 released its smash-hit album The Joshua Tree, and Nicaraguans immediately recognized that one of the songs seemed to be written about their country. It wasn't, but 20 years later, most people here still hold as fact that Where the Streets Have No Name was written about Managua, a squat and sprawling capital city where, well, the streets are unnamed...