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  2. nice heavy version of BTBS...



    not as heavy as Sepultura's version though...

    best One



    and finally, does this count?

  3. No the last one doesn't count because Bono and The Edge wrote this song for him ....


  5. My remark was slightly tongue in cheek, but look at the video...Bono explains that he didn't originally write the song for Roy, he thought it was already an Orbison song!

    It was a chance meeting that prompted him to offer the song to Roy (Roy asked for a song, Bono had one ready), Call it perfect timing, call it synchronicity, call it coincidence.

    But seriously, to me Goldeneye, Two shots, Mystery Girl etc. are U2 songs first and foremost. Had Roy Orbison not shown up backstage at a U2 concert it would've remained a U2 song, though he could still have covered it obviously. If U2 (or Bono/Edge) write a song and somebody else performs it, that version is a cover.

    Yes, they were written with another artist in mind, even specifically to be performed by that artist, as was Love Rescue Me for example, but when U2 perform Mystery Girl in concert it's their song, same when you hear Bono's (McPhisto) vocal demo for Goldeneye, it's clearly a U2 song, so Tina's version counts as a cover, IMO:Y

    ...anyway, in the howlin' wind comes a swingin' rain:





  8. you might also like this (10min!) version from the ever awesome Queensrÿche:



    Geoff Tate adds a long talking section to Bono''s "pealing off"-speech, and another to the outro "running"-section.
  9. There ain't many decent Where The Streets Have No Name covers, but this is definitely one of them:




  11. This is stronger that U2´s version from 2005 to the day
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