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Topic started 14 years ago by Jdrocker45 in General U2 talk. Since then 35 posts have been made by 25 users.

Yogi

13 years
eviltwin

13 years

nice heavy version of BTBS...

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

best One

and finally, does this count?
emiel

13 years

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

13 years

This is a cover of WOWY by Under a Blood Red Sky, the local Denver tribute band. They are the only U2 tribute band ever to play at Red Rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q6waEUs6aE
eviltwin

13 years

Originally posted by emiel:No the last one doesn't count because Bono and The Edge wrote this song for him ....

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:
Alvin

13 years
Alvin

13 years

Originally posted by eviltwin:nice heavy version of BTBS...

[YouTube Video]

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

I prefer this version too - great cover
eviltwin

13 years

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.
LikeASong

13 years

There ain't many decent Where The Streets Have No Name covers, but this is definitely one of them:
patou2

13 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:There ain't many decent Where The Streets Have No Name covers, but this is definitely one of them:

[YouTube Video]

6.5/10
patou2

9 years

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

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