Good song, although I prefer Bad from this album.

 dwlangham wrote: 
One of the best B-sides they ever had.

Soooooo goood.

I am bit of a u2 fan... But this song is a favourite...lovely guitar and soft intimate vocals...

 Bosami wrote: 
Funny, not at all obscure to me, played this album to death, along with most of their other stuff.  Obscure and good U2 to me would be something like Stories for boys... 

Quite simply my favorite U2 song. I don't have many...so this is a good thing.

 johnjconn wrote: 
Livin' on a prayer, DUHHH.

one of my favs from the day - never heard it before outside of my own CD/cassette tape/turntable ...

trissi wrote: 

 johnjconn wrote: 
It's not a matter of who you (or I) prefer, or who's carrying someone's guitar picks, Bon Jovi sold more records during the 1980s than U2 did; they had four number-one hits during that decade.  Since then, of course, U2 has sold many more records and (in 2011) averaged over $6.5 million per live performance, while Bon Jovi only averaged a paltry $2.8 million per show.

 shakitten wrote: 
Exactly

Great tune from a period in-between the experimentel phase of Unforgettable Fire to the more anthem-like songs of The Joshia Tree. Adams straight bass makes the foundation on which the layers of Edge's guitar can modulate. Bonos voice tumbles on top.
The Three Sunrises from Wide Awake is also great!

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

Here it is, the very first time I totally enjoy a U2 song. Never thought it was going to happened 

 Bosami wrote: 
     ^^^^^^^^^^ uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, da, da, da . . .

This is simply AWFUL!

The ending of this song is brilliant - it tumbles and tumbles...

this song has everything i hate about most U2-songs. a perfect "1 point" - no, it´s not even ho-hum, it´s 100% crap. 

the only Greatest Band In The World ever to IMPROVE over time...

 robbeek wrote: 

OMG—-THANK you!   They started out as teenagers for cripe's sake—-they are bound to want to try new things, musically, as time goes on. Only hardcore fans can appreciate the evolution. Their spirit/passion for music is still the same. People need only see them live to understand that. I know...I'm preaching to the choir with you....

 shakitten wrote: 
They still are...deal with it.

simple minds

 sarahbean26 wrote: 
Have you listened to No Line On the Horizons - other than the "Get Off Your Boots" single.

Much of the new record has a similar tone to songs like  Love Comes Tumbling.

I agree completely with AMG, when they say:

No Line on the Horizon is all austere grey tones and midtempo meditation. It's a record that yearns to be intimate but U2 don't do intimate, they only do majestic, or as Bono sings on one of the albums best tracks, they do "Magnificent." Here, as on "No Line on the Horizon" and "Breathe," U2 strike that unmistakable blend of soaring, widescreen sonics and unflinching openhearted emotion that's been their trademark, turning the intimate into something hauntingly universal. These songs resonate deeper and longer than anything on Atomic Bomb, their grandeur almost seeming effortless. It's the rest of the record that illustrates how difficult it is to sound so magnificent. With the exception of that strained middle triptych, the rest of the album is in the vein of "No Line on the Horizon", "Magnificent" and "Breathe," only quieter and unfocused, with its ideas drifting instead of gelling. Too often, the album whispers in a murmur so quiet it's quite easy to ignore - "White as Snow," an adaptation of a traditional folk tune, and "Cedars of Lebanon," its verses not much more than a recitation, simmer so slowly they seem to evaporate - but at least these poorly defined subtleties sustain the hazily melancholy mood of No Line on the Horizon.

 Sasha2001 wrote: 

All this talk of U2 vs Beatles is fine.   But to say Bon Jovi was bigger in the 80's than U2,,,  huh??????
I can easily see the Springsteen argument, both were huge in the 80's.

But Bon Jovi,,,,not sure where you were living in the 80's ( maybe bong land) but Bon Jovi couldn't carry the Edge's guitar pick.

Wonderful song from a great EP.

Sasha2001 wrote:  
Droidac wrote:  Yes, actually, I was talking about album sales and and also U2's influence, not only in the 80's but in the decades following as well.

And the apology was not for the comparison to the Beatles, but to any repetition of comment I made on other postings. I never implied that they were as good as the Beatles (very few bands were) but I don't think it's too far of a stretch to say that U2 were excellent in their heyday.