Good stuff - definitely gets the nod!  Has a cool more spiritual element to it....

Vocals > Bono
Guitar < The Edge

Very cool, I like the diversity.  Keep it up RP!

Pleasantly weird; one of those tunes you wonder- would it be as interesting if it didn't mess with your memory of the original? I have to go listen to the original U2 album now, though. 

IMHO, superior to the U2 version.   Great song!   Love the spoken French parts and that Malian groove..

 Byronape wrote: 
I'm guessing that a whole lot of Africa never heard of U2, and is therefore not celebrating U2.  Seems to me they're probably too busy running from bloody revolutions, trying to stay on the good side of dictators and institutionalized corruption, or trying to find their next meal.  Don't have time to be celebrating U2 anyway.

But that's all speculation on my part.

Cool.  Comes at it from a completely different direction than the original.

I love the funky covers played here on RP...! 

 lootunes wrote: 
I agree with this.  Despite my general contempt for anything U2 (at least late 90's and up U2), this is an interesting cover.  I do take issue with the whole idea of all of Africa celebrating U2...  Kinda like all of China celebrating Angelina Jolie for adopting a kid.

To Derekd, sorry bro', but I say "Yes."

What??  Yes???  Yes, an affirmation of my enjoyment of this tune.  Bump to "8" on the rater scale.

The "ooh ooh ooohs" sound a bit... constipated....

Sorry.

It's like a screeching sour note in the middle of an orchestra... really distracts.

Interesting enough for me want to hear the rest of the album.  My ear caught the chorus and I'm happy to've heard this left of center cover!

This is a great version: I was enjoying the jam aspect, when I suddenly noticed it was a cover of Bullet the Blue Sky.  That's the best kind of cover:  the kind where you don't realize what song it is until you're well into it. 

This is really bad, at least its followed by a good U2 song

 Poacher wrote: 

Just speculating here ... this song may be too foreign for some ears. But who knows really, with an insightful and eloquent comment like "no"? Sigh.

I was thinking "cool cover."  Funny that "Cool" seems to be a common thread in the comments.  Cool.

This is awesome.

 derekd wrote: 
No? 

You mean 'no' it is too short? Is is 'no' to covers? Or 'no' to . . . oh I give up. Why is it some commenters even bother to click the link to make a comment? And for that matter do they think anyone even gives a fuck?

Just wondering.

:) 

Crazy sex music....very nice.

I don't like this.  But I kind of like this.  Can't decide.

I really love this cover! It's amazing how well the artist has added to this song. I actually just bought this album on Amazon, thanks RP!

No.

 zipper wrote: 

Yes, it is cool...but the original is The Kind

way cooler than the original.

this is so right. . .

LOVE IT!  Heard a country/bluegrass version of this last month, and LOVED IT!  (Come on, you know you do, too!  You already know all the words!)

The concept of "outside it's America" seems to transcend language and musical genre.

... and today Bill follows it with a U2 tune.  Oh baby, do it to my ears ...

WTF?

Eeew.

This is just wrong.