It was hard to escape U2 in the late 1980s. Or 1990s. Or 2000s. Okay, it's hard to escape U2 in general, they seem to be constantly touring, putting out albums, having songs pop up in commercials, magically putting music on your iPod, etc. But there was a time when U2 was a scrappy young band teetering on the edge of stardom or collapse, and their 1983 …
