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U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
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Achtung Baby (1991)
  1. I don't know what went down south by the time they got to the bridge (maybe Bono's lyric fuck up in the 2nd chorus) but it made for a UNIQUE version of Horses. Give it a listen

  2. the acoustic half has a Knocking on Heavens Door feel
  3. Maybe... probably... because it's got the same chord progression ( G > D > C ) and rhythm pattern I used to play Wild Horses in a medley with Knocking and it was great.
  4. Just going to +1 the thread as a whole - my favourite of favourites (as many of y'all know ), and there's tough competition let me tell you.

    If they bring it back for the next tour (they won't but IF...) I will die the happiest of humans.
  5. Funny, the worst song for me by far on Achtung Baby, but I still love it. I can't remember the bootleg from the Vertigo tour with it, but it sounded pretty good even though Bono's voice was shot the whole tour. Such fun times back then.
  6. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Maybe... probably... because it's got the same chord progression ( G > D > C ) and rhythm pattern I used to play Wild Horses in a medley with Knocking and it was great.
    Did U2 "borrow it" were they even aware of that fact?
  7. my fourth fav song by the band (UV, One Tree Hill, Homecoming), I love this song to death
  8. is just a snippet but to me one of the greatest versions of this song live... Bono sounded amazing
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Maybe... probably... because it's got the same chord progression ( G > D > C ) and rhythm pattern I used to play Wild Horses in a medley with Knocking and it was great.
    I always treat the verses as G>C - don't include a D because I like the swirling feeling made by the big chords on the album - and the chorus as G>Bm>C, but I feel it's one of the things I love about so many U2 songs - strip them down to the bare bones and they're so simple, but there's something special about how they put them together.
  11. No. A thousand million songs share that same chord pattern, Bob Dylan didn't invent it and it isn't copyrighted
  12. Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
    I always treat the verses as G>C - don't include a D because I like the swirling feeling made by the big chords on the album - and the chorus as G>Bm>C, but I feel it's one of the things I love about so many U2 songs - strip them down to the bare bones and they're so simple, but there's something special about how they put them together.
    I know, it really doesn't include a D (and in fact I almost wrote it as G ( > D) > C) but it helps when on the acoustic instead of the electric. That swirling effect of just doing huge sounding G and C (or Cadd9) chords ain't easy to achieve when playing a distortion-less acoustic
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