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| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Feb 18, 2012 - 09:50 Good stuff - definitely gets the nod! Has a cool more spiritual element to it.... |
| OCDHG (High on a mountain) | Posted: Jan 17, 2012 - 15:52 Vocals > Bono Guitar < The Edge |
| TuneAgeWhereWoof | Posted: Jan 17, 2012 - 15:51 Very cool, I like the diversity. Keep it up RP! |
| lee_sf (sea level) | Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 23:05 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. |
| woodchuk (Lunar Lagrange point L1) | Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 03:34 IMHO, superior to the U2 version. Great song! Love the spoken French parts and that Malian groove.. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 18:45 Byronape wrote: ... 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. 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. |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 09:47 Cool. Comes at it from a completely different direction than the original. |
| sfearll (Sunny SoCal) | Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 12:25 I love the funky covers played here on RP...! |
| Byronape (Purgatory) | Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 12:24 lootunes wrote: I don't like this. But I kind of like this. Can't decide. 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. |
| S-curvy (Lovely Alameda, the Isle of Style) | Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 09:35 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. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 09:32 The "ooh ooh ooohs" sound a bit... constipated.... Sorry. It's like a screeching sour note in the middle of an orchestra... really distracts. |
| pcicatar (Portland, OR) | Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 09:28 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! |
| Nerubo (Denver, CO) | Posted: Oct 01, 2010 - 11:26 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. |
| jlind (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 11:33 This is really bad, at least its followed by a good U2 song |
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: Jul 29, 2010 - 11:37 Poacher 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. :) 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. |
| Webfoot (Eugene, Oregon) | Posted: Jul 29, 2010 - 11:36 I was thinking "cool cover." Funny that "Cool" seems to be a common thread in the comments. Cool. |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Jul 29, 2010 - 11:34 This is awesome. |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Mar 24, 2010 - 10:26 derekd wrote: No. 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. :) |
| EssexTex (Gitche Gumee) | Posted: Mar 24, 2010 - 10:25 Crazy sex music....very nice. |
| lootunes | Posted: Mar 24, 2010 - 10:24 I don't like this. But I kind of like this. Can't decide. |
| rssarma | Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 10:33 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! |
| derekd (Just Visiting This Planet) | Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 10:30 No. |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Nov 18, 2009 - 14:37 zipper wrote: way cooler than the original.  |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 14:30 Yes, it is cool...but the original is The Kind |
| zipper | Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 14:23 way cooler than the original. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 14:22 this is so right. . . |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 14:22 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 ... |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 14:20 WTF? |
| LastChance | Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 14:20 Eeew. |
| LastChance | Posted: Jul 15, 2009 - 11:27 This is just wrong. |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jul 15, 2009 - 11:26 This one has grown on me.  |
| YourNameHere (Los Angeles) | Posted: Jun 13, 2009 - 15:30 I prefer their cover of U2's "I Will Follow" |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: Apr 11, 2009 - 07:33 I guess by the posts below it's been getting a lot of play, but I've been gone, so I'm digging it a lot. 8 |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Feb 15, 2009 - 21:29 peter_james_bond wrote: I used to wonder why this song was getting played so often on RP and then Bill disclosed his love of oddball covers...now it makes sense. Years ago I used to listen to a late night weekend radio program on the CBC called Nightlines. The Host would play some great and some really crazy stuff. That's where I first heard Dread Zeppelin. I don't know if they are still around but Dread Zeppelin used to play Led Zeppelin covers in a Reggae style with an Elvis impersonator as the singer. I know it sounds bizarre and it was but it also worked pretty well. Bill you should check them out. Immigrant Song in the RP Library.  |
| ScopArch (Berlin, Baby) | Posted: Feb 13, 2009 - 05:00 again |
| fuh2 (salmon land) | Posted: Jan 31, 2009 - 12:54 SUPERB! |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 16:38 I used to wonder why this song was getting played so often on RP and then Bill disclosed his love of oddball covers...now it makes sense. Years ago I used to listen to a late night weekend radio program on the CBC called Nightlines. The Host would play some great and some really crazy stuff. That's where I first heard Dread Zeppelin. I don't know if they are still around but Dread Zeppelin used to play Led Zeppelin covers in a Reggae style with an Elvis impersonator as the singer. I know it sounds bizarre and it was but it also worked pretty well. Bill you should check them out. |
| HombreDeMezcal (Aztlán) | Posted: Jan 23, 2009 - 22:38 AGAIN?????  |
| notremotely | Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 12:15 VicEdee wrote: you play this MUCH TOO MUCH...............! ( for what it is - a novelty ) Gets worse and worse for me with each listen...and frankly, my rating of it started out bad. So if we had a number line, we'd be in the negatives with this. |
| graemea | Posted: Jan 15, 2009 - 04:47 ryuujin23 wrote: This is a pretty cool cover. What kills me about Bono, Oprah and their (red) products concept is that for relatively intelligent people they really have no idea how to help the African people. Curing diseases is a grand cause and all, but it won't help them get out of their cycle of poverty. The oppressive governments need to be squashed and replaced with a government that is focused on helping the people. The people need education. The countries need better infrastructure. But who really wants to support that when we can consume (red) iPods, (red) Converse sneakers, (red) Dell laptops and (red) Gap t-shirts. Nevermind that only a portion of the money gained from (red) sales actually goes to the charities. Afterall the companies participating in (red) still need their profits (and I'm not talking about Bono or Oprah). To be fair, the issue is massively complex of which poor governance is just one part. For instance, many countries have debts to pay off and as conditions of debt, farmers have to produce cash crops for export rather than producing food for local folk. Added to that, those same folk are flooded with produce from massively subsidised farms in the US and Europe, undercutting their local farms, making the governments dependent on imports, forcing farms to produce for export, making it necessary to buy all the fertilisers, pesticides etc, generating debt, which then must be paid, which means more farming for export and around and around it goes. I get Bono's and the Red folk's point: if your society is losing significant percentages of its 20-40-year-olds, you've got no chance. The Cold War scramble during the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s with attendant civil wars also didn't help, as the global scramble for multinational resources (Coltan in DR Congo for instance) is also threatening. And, a lot of 'leader replacement' helped get much of the continent to where it is in the first place. Mobuto Sesse Seko (pardon my spelling) and Idi Amin are among those blessed by the UK/USA. Not saying they're doing enough, considering their fabulous wealth, but I reckon (Red)'s not a bad idea in principle (don't know of any audits and how much help's reaching the ground). Poor governance is a big problem for a great swathe of Africa, but it really is just one of many. |
| Candela (Trondheim, Norway) | Posted: Jan 15, 2009 - 04:28 Artist: good,.but there are better songs than right this one... |
| Fourdawg (South Africa) | Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 12:36 ryuujin23 wrote: This is a pretty cool cover. What kills me about Bono, Oprah and their (red) products concept is that for relatively intelligent people they really have no idea how to help the African people. Curing diseases is a grand cause and all, but it won't help them get out of their cycle of poverty. The oppressive governments need to be squashed and replaced with a government that is focused on helping the people. The people need education. The countries need better infrastructure. But who really wants to support that when we can consume (red) iPods, (red) Converse sneakers, (red) Dell laptops and (red) Gap t-shirts. Nevermind that only a portion of the money gained from (red) sales actually goes to the charities. Afterall the companies participating in (red) still need their profits (and I'm not talking about Bono or Oprah). Indeed... But the reality is that nobody is willing and/or able to go into these countries and do what needs to be done. Thus the cycle repeats itself... |
| VicEdee (New York City) | Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 12:35 you play this MUCH TOO MUCH...............! ( for what it is - a novelty ) |
| drife (Golden, CO) | Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 12:33 Sounds like drunken babbling. Yes, I'm smart enough to realize he's not singing in English. It just sounds like drunken babbling to me. |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Jan 06, 2009 - 18:06 I love African music and Farka Toure, but this cover is pretty lame. |
| The_Enemy (The Sewer) | Posted: Jan 06, 2009 - 13:47 ryuujin23 wrote: This is a pretty cool cover. What kills me about Bono, Oprah and their (red) products concept is that for relatively intelligent people they really have no idea how to help the African people. Curing diseases is a grand cause and all, but it won't help them get out of their cycle of poverty. The oppressive governments need to be squashed and replaced with a government that is focused on helping the people. The people need education. The countries need better infrastructure. But who really wants to support that when we can consume (red) iPods, (red) Converse sneakers, (red) Dell laptops and (red) Gap t-shirts. Nevermind that only a portion of the money gained from (red) sales actually goes to the charities. Afterall the companies participating in (red) still need their profits (and I'm not talking about Bono or Oprah). The nasty reality is that there isn't an incentive for anyone to squash those gov'ts. The countries that have oil pretty much already let the oil companies inside. At some point in the future, someone will get tired of China and their high wages. The best way to undercut the Chinese is to get a stable region in Africa and pay the locals 1/10 of what the Chinese factory workers make. That might be worth squashing a gov't for. I'm not saying I personally approve of any of this. I'm just injecting a little reality into the conversation. What's the return on investment for some organization(s) with the amounts of cash necessary to make the change or even a dent? |
| VicEdee (New York City) | Posted: Jan 06, 2009 - 13:32 getting really sick of this song - OVERPLAYED on RP......! |
| fuh2 (I think I'm in the USA) | Posted: Jan 06, 2009 - 13:31 Brilliant!! Kind of clears the cultural cobwebs from my brain. |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Jan 06, 2009 - 13:31 jfichtenkort wrote: Nice guitar work. And the whole song has a nice vibe. Thanks. The guitar is wild, but what grabbed me was the Chicago-style harp playing in this context, ala Leonard Chess in Africa. |
| echoes (Danbury, CT) | Posted: Jan 06, 2009 - 13:27 uh...no. |