This album is amazing no doubt!

oscar_driver wrote:

I was wondering the same thing...

Remy Zero - Hermes Bird
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U2 - Red Hill Mining Town

IS that a joke?

Love this album.....but who doesn't!!!

Oh, pretty much all the tracks on the Joshua Tree rate an eight (or better). Seriously.

Jesh! I just like the way the strings sound when Edge changes frets. Ziiiippp!

elizabethnyc wrote:

R.E.M.

regardless of what everyone thinks of Bono and his non-musical aspirations, this song is very good, as is the rest of the album...enough so that it made me look up from my terminal and enjoy the song...thank goodness!

You know, some albums are considered stronger than others, depending on your own taste. We all wouldn't pick the same ones-- they probably wouldn't like all of their own songs and albums if you asked them. But name another band from an "indy" background that has made as consistently strong and evolving albums for so many years. There isn't one where I don't love at least one track.

siandbeth wrote:Too bad he like demanding higher taxes to help the disadvantaged in Ireland then moves his publishing company to a lower tax nation to avoid the taxes he demands. Wanna help Africa? Stop giving money to corrupt polititians and clean out the trash that is passing for legit government in pretty much the hole continent. Aid like Bono wants for Africa kills more than it saves. Too many Bobs and Bobwannabes in Africa

Gosh, that darn Bono is saving countless lives in Africa but I wish he would spend more time writing songs so I can load them on my Ipod while sippin on my mocha iced latte frappe soya grande toodling along on my vespa with baggy pants and still no hope of a girlfriend. Plus for all those U2 dislikers, wouldn't you rather he spend his time with Warren Buffett trying to get things in better shape internationally than writing another song?

fireboydan wrote:

Heard Bono on All Things Considered the other day and was painfully thankful that he sounded like a normal dude who hasn't let deification go to his head - I too gave up on them when the rockstar thing overshadowed the music and the message. It was as balm to my ailing soul to hear him speak as he used to.

Plus they busted him on the colored glasses. Heh!

smadanayr wrote:

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healyf52 wrote:

Why do so many people hate on Bono, so he is in the public talking to world leaders. I for one think that it is great that he brings out awareness to the public. Bono has been doing this for a long time. so many people did not have a clue about was/is happenning in many parts of the world. and no offense to Bob, but that would still be going on if it was not for Bono.

I'm grown up with U2, I started listening to them exactly with this the joshua tree when I was only a 14yo...now it really hurts to read all that bad comments about how an egocentric superstar bono become all over the years....but the fact is.... it's true! I can't honestly deny it.... I can feel through my skin how honest he was in this song and how he's not listening to vertigo now....just a sad thing to admit that time changes everybody....

This is one of my favorite U2 songs. Definitely my favorite album by them. Back before the big sunglasses bigger tours and biggest ego.

healyf52 wrote:

I agree with you 100% but many listeners can't understand how I can detest U2 and I can never understand someone feeling that way about SD.

Magnus wrote:

Steely Dan routinely 'schools' other musical acts in the sweet science of song writing and musicianship. When you are as good as SD has been, it's bound to stir up some jealousy and hatred. Think about the poor guitarist, who after hearing SD realizes that, muscially, he's just a 'toddler' - what a blow to the ego that must be..

Unlike Bob Geldoff who shuns the spotlight, Bono seems to seize every opportunity he can to appear with some world leader while sporting, yet again, another pair of those hideously expensive glasses with the colored lenses.

I can't deny that U2 is one of the great pop acts of all time, but Bono can be such a load..

I can't stand these guys as much as all those haters who shred on Steely Dan and I love Steely Dan but can never understand why people hate them.

Bringing me back to the good 'ol days! --Thanks!

I just registered now to say thanks for this tune! I dont even like u2 but this is one of my most favorite songs of all time. its so emotional, and one of the very few times where i feel bono is not pretentious.

I do love this song.

something has gone horribly wrong here!! Are there two songs playing at once.... one (U2) good.. and the other is um... er.. crap. ouch

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Love the song... and the album.. yes, I own the vinyl.

conceited, but back then they weren't talkin so much. I wish they would shut up and play. They have great talent.

Ho Hum......I'd rather see him call up the president in the middle of a concert....and really, who the F cares to see that when ya spend over $100 bucks a ticket to see this conceited fools......psst....I know, we're all fools, I just never dug U2....

siloco wrote:
Me too. This is probably one of my top 5 favorite U2 songs.

There is no adequate way to describe this. It surpasses all!
Oh sure, they do have their detractors...One way you could not like this is to be over-awed and intimidated by its incredibly building power and intentionally deep mystery. I admit, when I first let this record roll by me when it just came out I felt disappointed and confused, having seen their manic stage shows live at Red Rocks (cut short by rain and their near-electrocution) and the next night at CU Event Center in June of '83...I was even "off" of them for awhile; like I felt betrayed, like they hadn't evolved in directions I'd expected, maybe...
But over time I began to realize just what this record was: nothing short of a masterpiece, a miracle captured in sound. Like a rising spirit on its way heavenward, it soars! And indeed, over their amazingly long-lived career still with their original unchanged lineup, U2 have defied everyone's expectations and tastes at one time or another, or every time, and hey, as a group, could anyone else say the same? SOAR!

Bah, U2. Most of their songs are vastly overrated, or at the very least overplayed on the radio.

Wow, how'd you know I'd been thinking about this song Bill? For some reason these lyrics have been in my head a lot recently...something about this song moves me in a very good way. Thanks for the fix!