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  1. All of POP until I heard them live. There are a few others, Numb and Babyface from Zooropa but Wild Honey from ATYCLB in particular makes me want to throw up.
  2. Cover of Beatles' "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong[..]

    We're talking 'bout Tryin' To Throw... The song is written for the women whom stay at home while the husband gets drunk in a pub, and they often beat their wifes when get back home.


    I don't think it's about that at all. I think it's about the whole shift U2 went through in the `90's/making over their image of supposed stoicness, zealotry and media overexposure (Rattle And Hum), and Bono was saying then, `Hey, let's look inward. If we keep pouring ourselves out like this, it might kill us, (commercially, not to mention our marriages, etc.)' As he admitted in, "U2: The Videos, the Cameos, and a Whole Lot of Interference from ZooTv," this was a con though. Their heart's remained ever in their music, and's come full-cycle now to unashamedly be shone again.
  4. Originally posted by stattic6I didn't like "New York", for one. Or the whole religious bit in "Yahweh", which is otherwise one of my all-time favorite songs.


    Yahweh: The ancient Hebrew name for God acknowledged by at least half of the world's inhabitants: Christian, Jewish and Muslim; even Bob Marley, and the Rostafarians (sp?): "Jah", some Native Americans? -Yawehu?

    We all have our tastes, and people've a right not to like "religion," or like God. I think you're right, in a sense, though I'd use the word relationship to describe this song, which I think is Bono's conversation with God. A similar theme to, "Until The End Of the World," (in my opinion) he's asking God, how long `til things turn around, in the world, Christ (the "child" being born) comes back, ultimately, and sets things aright? (He can see the tide starting to shift, with One Campaign, AIDS Relief for Africa) ("The sun is coming up") and in the mean time he (Bono's) trying to concern himself with the Works of Mercy, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, etc. the Beatitudes/peacefulness with men/Sermon on the Mount, etc.. which the Lord (Yahweh) told Christians to be about in Matthew Chapters 25 & 5-7, that those who do such things would be the ones He'd recognize as His, when He came back.
  5. To the person not liking Yahweh for the 'religious' bit...

    The name/title itself is the Hebrew name for G-d. So I can't understand one having an issue with the religious bit. Bono was clear as to what the name of the song was and where it was derived in all of the HTDAAB interviews and magazine articles.

    But to each there own.




    There is only one U2 song that I do not like. That would be Red Light, from War. I'd say that New York, from ATYCLB is my second least favorite. Live it was far better than the ATYCLB album version.
  6. I quite like New York. How's about Peace on Earth and Grace...? They're not *too* bad in the end, though they're not that great neither (I would say).

  7. "Peace on Earth" is a great christmas song to me. "Grace" could indeed need a rewriting and a rerecording. The basic idea is good, but they should have kept working on it a little longer.

    Alex
  8. The worst studio tracks come off of POP and October as far as I'm concerned. "Miami," "If You Wear That Velvet Dress," "Mofo," "With A Shout," and "Fire" are particularly bad. There's a few elsewhere, like "Wild Honey" and "Wire," but those two albums provide the most by far.

    Live songs are a completely different story. The electric version of "Staring at the Sun," and the normal live versions of "Do You Feel Loved," and "Babyface" just aren't meant for the stage, even though I think their record versions are terrific.
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  10. has to be Numb.
    bloody awful.
    and they played it loads of times live!
  11. Originally posted by robbie07has to be Numb.
    bloody awful.
    and they played it loads of times live!



    i disagree, i think its hypnotic...

    HYPNOTICALLY GOOD!
  12. Originally posted by Christdied4U2live[..]

    Yahweh: The ancient Hebrew name for God acknowledged by at least half of the world's inhabitants: Christian, Jewish and Muslim; even Bob Marley, and the Rostafarians (sp?): "Jah", some Native Americans? -Yawehu?

    We all have our tastes, and people've a right not to like "religion," or like God. I think you're right, in a sense, though I'd use the word relationship to describe this song, which I think is Bono's conversation with God. A similar theme to, "Until The End Of the World," (in my opinion) he's asking God, how long `til things turn around, in the world, Christ (the "child" being born) comes back, ultimately, and sets things aright? (He can see the tide starting to shift, with One Campaign, AIDS Relief for Africa) ("The sun is coming up") and in the mean time he (Bono's) trying to concern himself with the Works of Mercy, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, etc. the Beatitudes/peacefulness with men/Sermon on the Mount, etc.. which the Lord (Yahweh) told Christians to be about in Matthew Chapters 25 & 5-7, that those who do such things would be the ones He'd recognize as His, when He came back.


    The Master
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