This album has really grown on me. However, this song seems to me to be one of the weaker offerings.

ok bono, jump on the peace wagon, we get it. peace sells, but not enough buyers.

First a 7, now a 9....love the driving groove behind it!

One of my favorites from an otherwise lackluster album (Vertigo notwithstanding).

Fast Cars is also a dynamite track, included on international versions of the album, regrettably not on the US version.

:nodhead: :nodhead:
BONO the first, i like it!!!

rp why pick the worst track on this cd to play and torture your listeners??
the rest of cd is really quite good! honestly!!!
pick some other tunes from this cd!

call me selfish but I want U2 to break up. actually, I wish they'd broken up 10+ years ago after Zooropa, the last album they made that I feel is worth owning. the latest issue of Rolling Stone is saturated with Bono coverage and I was quite disappointed to read his quote that goes (more or less) like this: "we are greedy for our fans, our music, our future"

since the World Bank post didn't pan out for Bono, I wonder if his name is on the short list for Pope?

Trustocity wrote:

I hate sting because he's convinced he can open people's minds with trite ramblings loosely set to inept imitations of music.

I now hate bono because he's convinced he can save the world with trite ramblings loosely set to inept imitations of music.

diane wrote:

Darlington wrote:

I agree on a couple of things......REM/U2/...two of my favorites....this new album by U2 is somewhat unlistenable.......but ya gots' to remember that radio/media/etc.... poisons us every day. If I see Bono's face one more time on TV I'm gonna scream........"we just don't want to be a crappy band"........they should listen to "Boy" themselves and remember!!!!

Tony wrote: I agree....maybe they have mellowed with age, like fine wine?

flandersdog wrote:

100% concur.

Interestingly, I've been reading up on Bono recently, and I think he's magnificent as human beings go. But I still hate this album.

This simply can't be by the band that created Joshua Tree and other marvels up to the Zoocrapolla.
WHERE, OH WHERE HAS MY LITTLE U2 GONE?
OH WHERE, OH WHERE CAN THEY BE???

U2 - You can say what you want about the politics but who gives a rats a*s - they have cranked out some excellent music over the past 25 years

I wish U2 had broken up ten or twelve years ago so that I could remember them fondly...

I am so tired of this group.....

I've been a big U2 fan dating back to the early 80's and, for the most part, there has never been a U2 album that I absolutely never listen to until this one. Like many of the other posters, I have to say that it does absolutely nothing for me. Having said that, this album is worlds better than the egg laid last year by another one of my favorite bands, REM.

Despite all that, this song is passable, though.

stornoway wrote:

:-k

Your "location" states England, not Ireland.

For what it's worth. O:)

U2 are one our our most successful exports to the US. Good riddance.

As with some other posters, I aggree that U2 peaked earlier, and the new work has been lacking in some depth. This being said, this is definitely one of my favourites from the new album. The end of this song really reminds me of 'The end' by the doors, especially as seen in 'Apocalypse Now'

madtowner11 wrote:

(sort of)
Thanks for confirming that I have become predictable....(is that a good thing?) But my comment was actually stream of consciousness from the previous tune. Became a joke about CHEESE...Meunster...I know what he says is 'MONSTER', but thought it was worth the shot. Not familiar with the IPOD ref. Be honest. Is it because ALL my U2's are 10's?

Bono is political? Gee, I wouldn't know since I stopped listening to his empty suit blatherings years ago. Whatever he says is just mildly amusing to me now. When he opens his mouth, I hear "blah, blah, blah...blah, blah...."

Saying that Bono is political gives him too much credit for having actual intelligent thought.

I enjoy U2 music, and always have. I don't waste my time thinking about their politics, because in my mind it is just as pointless as pondering whether fish like Mozart.....

physicsgenius wrote:

I can only assume that this is another attempt at TROLLing by physicsgenius. There are no lyrics that even suggest anti-semitism in this song. THe only ones that even come close are below.

We need
Love and peace
Love and peace

Lay down
Lay down your guns
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons

Now how does the suggestion of laying down guns and embracing peace and love get turned into anti-semitism?

jdolbow wrote:

Wouldn't they have missed their quota of albums? Aren't bands obligated to come up with a ceratin amount of records, after they sign with a specific label (and cash the seven-figure checks derived from it)? If true, this would explain a lot of the less-inspired tracks from groups such as U2.

I was going to diss this song for being anti-semitic but I see it's by U2 so that's enough dissing right there.

trekhead wrote:

Without even looking at the poster's name, I knew it was Trekhead.

This is one of my favorite songs off the new U2 album. I guess Vertigo is my fave, but they had to go ruin it by making me associate it with a stupid iPod commercial.

jadewahoo wrote:

I don't hate Bono's politics; I agree with most of them. I don't hate U2; their earlier albums are genius. I don't hate Bono's egotism; rock stars deserve to be megalomaniacs, that's how it works.

I just hate that they keep saying the same thing in the same way. Rev. 3:16 -- there's no such thing as lukewarm, just stuff that gravitates to cold and the rest that keeps warm. By staying the same, U2 grows cold. At least Salinger had the good sense to go into hiding after he created his masterpiece. What, is Bono too good to recluse?