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  1. In my opinion, the Elevation chapter was one of the more interesting ones. Lot of stuff going on with Bono's father, plus their huge huge comeback.
  2. I have a few that were "slow burners" for me that are now white hot! (Love this topic by the way)

    Back in War days, I didn't understand why a rock band would do a song like Drowning Man, but oh, how I love that song now. That didn't really "click" for me until I read U2 by U2.

    If You Wear That Velvet Dress. I think the Popmart DVD did it for me there. The implied (maybe not implied, how about purposed?) restraint when Bono kicks in with the chorus: wow, really got to me.

    The live versions of Yahweh and Stay....

    I think I've developed a pattern here: while I like the studio versions, the live versions make me really love them!
  3. Originally posted by Bandrew:

    I think I've developed a pattern here: while I like the studio versions, the live versions make me really love them!


    I was the same way for UTEOTW. Achtung Baby was my second U2 album, when I was 16, and I really had no idea what i was listening to when I played it. When I heard that middle part with Edge's solo on UTEOTW, where the guitar swirls in, my first thought was "What were they on when they wrote this?" I didn't get into again until a couple years later when i bought Slane and saw it live. NOW I "get it"...

    Stay was probably the slowest burner for me. I couldn't stand it for the longest time because it lacked Edge's signautre chimes. Then about a few years ago, it suddenly began to click. I remember listening to the studio version one day and thinking, "Well, this song isn't that bad." Can't explain what made it click - maybe it was just putting it away for a long time and then listening to it with fresh ears.
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