You too?

Chris Montgomery got me a U2 cassette for my birthday one year. I want to say it was 4th or 5th grade which would put that around 1981-82 I think? Anyway I always thought it was The Joshua Tree but that apparently can't be true because the release date for that album, it turns out, was in 1987. So, which one did I get? I remember not liking it. I did not like U2 as a 5th grader. Now? I really like U2. Not love, but a strong like. I'm listening to the whole album of the Joshua Tree today and it's really good. I haven't listened to the whole album of anything very much lately. With the whole itunes/mp3/ipod revolution I kinda pick and choose the best from each album which is great, but albums used to be made to be listened to as a whole. There's an ebb and a flow to them that we tend to take for granted. Ah, the *good* old days.