U2 Music 1976. Featuring Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton. | |||
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1 | Alcatura | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Alcatura Film directed by Van Keineken, director of Breaking Glass. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Always Forever Now | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Always Forever Now Film directed by John Leng Qi about a team of female body sculptors out to avenge the vicious murder of one of their group. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Breaking Glass | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Breaking Glass Film directed by Van Keineken about a young car mechanic unable to attract the attention of a cashier so he arranges an elaborate hold-up that goes badly wrong. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | The Dalton Brothers | BBB | Music | Musicians | |||||||
The Dalton Brothers U2 has been known to dress up as a country band called the Dalton Brothers, supposedly originating during their North American Joshua Tree Tour, during which they went out on stage before their real performance. U2 also appeared as their alter egos to accept three awards during the 1989 New Music Awards (October 26, 1989), for "Group of the Decade", "Album of the Decade" for the Joshua Tree, and "Song of the Decade" for Pride. | |||||||||||
3 | Discotheque | BBB | Nightlife | Nightclubs | |||||||
Discotheque "You get confused, but you know it, yeah, you hurt for it, work for it, love, you don't always show it, let go, let's go, Discotheque." | |||||||||||
4 | Electric Co. | BBB | Corporations | Energy and Power Companies | |||||||
Electric Co. "Red, running red, play for real, the toy could feel a hole in your head, you go in shock, you're spoon-fed, if you don't know Electric co." | |||||||||||
5 | Elvis Ate America | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Elvis Ate America A 4-minute short film by Jeff Koons. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Gibigiane | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Gibigiane Gianniccolo's last film. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Hypnotize (Love Me 'til Dawn) | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Hypnotize (Love Me 'til Dawn) Film about a tabloid journalist being driven to London. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Il Pendolo | BBB | Television | TV Shows | |||||||
Il Pendolo Italian TV detective series that uses a section of Gianniccolo's last film Gibigiane for it's title sequence. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Il Vento | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Il Vento Film by Gianniccolo, director of Gibigiane. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Ito Okashi | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Ito Okashi Film directed by Rita Takashina, a meditation on mortality. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Let's Go Native | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Let's Go Native One of the last films to fall foul of the Apartheid laws in South Africa. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | MacPhisto | BBB | Music | Rock Bands | |||||||
MacPhisto Bono's alter ego during the European leg of U2's ZooTV tour - an aging glam rocker who had long ago sold his soul, complete with gold suit, white pancake makeup and horns. MacPhisto performed as part of each set, waxing poetic about politics and morality. | |||||||||||
4 | Mirages | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Mirages Film by Gianniccolo, director of Gibigiane. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | An Ordinary Day | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
An Ordinary Day Film directed by Lurlene Clewman about a couple that moves into a time machine and is becoming inescapably younger. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Popcorn | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Popcorn Jeff Koons' first film in 1978, director of Elvis Ate America. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Slug | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
Slug Film directed by Van Keineken, director of Breaking Glass. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | The Swan | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
The Swan Film by Mamat, a metaphor for the metamorphosis of rural society in Hungary under the collective farm regime. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | United Colors of Plutonium | BBB | Cinema | Movies | |||||||
United Colors of Plutonium Horror comedy about an advertising executive that falls asleep on a bullet train. Mentioned in the album's liner notes. The album is supposedly a collection of songs written for movies, but most of the movies do not exist. | |||||||||||
3 | Zoo Station | BBB | Radio | Radio Stations | |||||||
Zoo Station "Just down the line, Zoo Station, got to make it on time, oh, Zoo Station." | |||||||||||
FICTITIOUS TIMELINE | |||||||||||
4 | January 1 | Dates | No Year | Events | |||||||
January 1 All is quiet on New Year's Day, a world in white gets underway. I want to be with you, be with you, night and day. Nothing changes on New Year's Day. | |||||||||||
MAKE BELIEVE MAP | |||||||||||
3 | One Tree Hill | Map | Nature | Hills | |||||||
One Tree Hill "The moon is up and over One Tree Hill, ee see the sun go down in your eyes." | |||||||||||
4 | Red Hill | Map | Urban Areas | Cities | |||||||
Red Hill "Yeah, you keep me holding on in Red Hill town, see the lights go down on, I'm hanging on, You're all that's left to hold on to." | |||||||||||
5 | Where the Streets Have No Name | Map | Worlds | Miscellaneous Places | |||||||
Where the Streets Have No Name "I wanna feel sunlight on my face, I see that dust cloud disappear without a trace, I wanna take shelter from the poison rain where the streets have no name." | |||||||||||
6 | Zooropa | Map | Urban Areas | Cities | |||||||
Zooropa Futuristic version of European society. | |||||||||||
OTHER | |||||||||||
7 | Bono | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Bono Bono: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. | |||||||||||
8 | Bono | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Bono Bono: Dies irae, dies illa, dies irae, dies illa, tuba mirum spargens sonum, decet in inferno, dies illa, dies illa. | |||||||||||
9 | Bono | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Bono Bono: A day of wrath, that day, a day of wrath, that day, the amazing sound scattering from the trumpet, as is fitting for hell, a day of wrath, that day. | |||||||||||
10 | Bono | Other | Quotes | Quotes | |||||||
Bono Bono: Don't let the bastards grind you down. | |||||||||||
11 | Swimming Pool Blue | Other | Matter | Colors | |||||||
Swimming Pool Blue "Her eyes all swimming pool blue." | |||||||||||
12 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Sin City | |||||||
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13 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Wall v2, The | |||||||
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14 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Mouth of Madness | |||||||
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15 | Untitled | Other | Themes | Dark Shadows | |||||||
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