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The song is about unity, finding the commonality with people who might otherwise have nothing in common with, and having the opportunity to carry each other. It’s not that we have to carry each other, we get to carry each other. It’s an honor to be able to
I just buried my brother and this was his favourite song.... it's so beautiful and the wonderful thing about music is it crosses all boundaries and we can all take different meanings from a song... a song can be originally be written about something specific but we can all adapt words for our own feelings... a classic xxx
this song is a goddamn stone cold masterpiece, top 10 rock songs of all time period. This song made Axl Rose contemplate quitting music because he was so in awe of it
Deep lyrics and a haunting melody. U2 has always been beyond the ordinary. React to this same song with Mary J. Blige joining Bono and the boys. Mary J. kills it!
I heard this song for the first time in July 1993. I had been discharged from the army a few days ago and I was 21 years old and during the service, in the place where I was, I not had a chance to hear it. No spotify at the time, only used tapes passed from hand to hand and no radio in the barracks. When I heard it for the first time on July 7, 1993 at the Flaminio in Rome, I was completely amazed. Coming home that night, the whole train was full of boys and girls who goin home frome the gig singing this song incessantly. Just a month later I set off on an aimless tour of my country, Italy and, on a beautiful beach, I met the first true (and perhaps only) love of my life and we became One. Well, not forever sadly, but this song always brings me back to that summer in which I discovered so much. Bye.
Henry TheGreatAmerican I haven’t looked into this so my math may be wrong on it, but when I read your comment I thought that maybe in Ireland (where U2 are from) it was in the morning when MLK was shot due to the time differences- but as I say it was just a thought
Streets... their most overrated song, imo. I prefer literally (literally) everything on Unforgettable Fire and Achtung Baby, and everything else on Joshua Tree. Oh well, each to their own.
Been a U2 Fan since back in the day, ( one of my all time fave concerts was seeing them in 86) and I love this song, but I have to say...Mary J. takes us to Church when she does this. Damnation...that Girl can SING !! One of those people that was born with music in her DNA. So good !
My favorite band of all time Since I saw them at red rocks way back in the 8Os when I was 16 then have real lyrics and what a band and I don't have to say about Bono He's always tried to do what he can to make the world a little bit Better place to live .
I haven't seen Bono's eyes in ages. He's always wearing shades. I prefer to see eyes. "The eyes are the windows to the soul." His eyes are beautiful in this.
Thank you so much for playing this song, I have loved U2 since I first heard them, and its been way too long since I listened to them, this is one of their best, and the performance is fantastic.
From the album “Achtung Baby” (1991). I played this CD on a daily basis for several months, it’s probably in my top twenty albums, and this song is in my top one hundred songs.
There have been several meanings posited about the story behind the song: the band nearly breaking up, The Edge's marriage crumbling, the AIDS epidemic. The band were at a crossroads. The Joshua Tree launched them to legendary status, and they were the biggest band in the world. After three years of touring, they saw the need to evolve their sound, and so they went away to "dream it all up again", as Bono said in the last concert of the tour. They went to Hansa Studio in Berlin (where Bowie and Lou Reed had recorded previously), but struggled to get anything down. There was a lot of tension, which made them wonder if they should call it quits for the sake of preserving their friendships. As the band puts it, this song appeared out of nowhere, and was a turning point.
Damian Rice sang a beautiful version of this song. It's definitely my favorite U2 song. I was lucky enough to see them a number of years back, it was an incredible concert!! Great reaction!!
U2's 1987 album The Joshua Tree made them global superstars, but it also typecast them as the earnest, self-important street preachers of rock & roll. Very little of their playfulness, self-deprecating sense of humor, or punk rock willingness to test all boundaries came thru. The 1988 documentary/live album Rattle and Hum only reinforced this image. What audiences loved in these big emotional sound textures the critics often hated. By 1991, the band felt the need to reinvent themselves. They went to Berlin to record Achtung Baby, an album that was sonically and lyrically unlike anything they had done before. It had to be. The album's lead single, "One," was a powerful ballad about the band's relationship with each other. It was a critical and commercial success, and it helped U2 to shed their old image and emerge as a more modern, relevant band. I think Bono once said something like: "this song walked into the room and saved the band." It's got a lot of the heartbreak of Edge's at-the-time very recent divorce and the band's anxiety about what it would take to stay together. It's almost entirely about four headstrong Irishmen with spats that almost come to blows but friendships that win out in the end. It's wide open to romantic and spiritually transcendent interpretations because their songwriting had achieved an artful level of ambiguity by 1991, 15 or so years into their careers. They formed in '76 as teenagers. Had it together to record their first album by '81. The youthful, naive sketches of "Boy," (1981) are more sonically pleasing than lyrically sophisticated. The Joshua Tree is glorious but strident, bringing some fans along enraptured and leaving the pop music intelligentsia cold. Achtung Baby is their first mature masterpiece. It dares to paint with darker colors and it succeeds wildly.
Check out "In the Name of Love" and Sunday Bloody Sunday" . The last one do the Live at Red Rocks version. Early U2 and they were cutting edge at the time.
Sunday Bloody Sunday ( a song about the massacre in Northern Ireland ) will make your head itch. By the way, you get that itch because you are a creative person. Only about 25% of people get that itch, and it's mostly musicians, writers, artists etc. It's the way your brain is wired, and it's part of the reason you want to create. It's associated with pleasure receptors and some people get a high from it. I get that as well, and actually have gotten it at the same point in the songs that you have on new music that you've covered. Let me add that New Years Day was another one that has a great sound and is a classic as well.
I remember like it was yesterday sitting there watching him lay the vocal track down it was a tough tough stressful week for us I remember my eyes watered we almost ended the band that week this song is what saved us and made us come together.
This song reunited the band when they were distancing themselves while trying to record achtung baby LP. Back in 1991 . All four of U2 members are friends first ,band second.
This is actually a song about change in society. People living together as ONE. We get to “Harry each other, Harry each other” first verse, stating that we make it a point to make life difficult for each other. We get to “Carry each other, Carry each other” at the end, stating that we have the ability to be there for each other in times of sorrow and great need. All the injustices in the world, explained either as those suffering to find peace and love, or searching for forgiveness and asking for the healing from within.
Was immediately sold on U2 back in the early/mid 80's when I heard "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day". "Pride" (In the Name of Love) about M.L.K. is also a great song. They made so many great ones over the years.
It is very simple: One (people, human race); Not the same (some black, some white); Carry each other (you're in trouble I help you, I'm in trouble you help me).
Fine work as always sir. Eleven songs from U2 that are absolute must listens: Gloria, Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live at Red Rocks versions); The Unforgettable Fire; Pride (In the Name of Love); Where the Streets Have No Name; With or Without You; All I Want is You; Stay (Faraway So Close); Mysterious Ways; Even Better than the Real Thing; So Cruel. Enjoy!
To this day this is perhaps U2s most popular song (not best just most popular) and they still play it in concert and award shows and even at the Super Bowl half-time show. The song has taken on many meanings over the years, originally a love song it has also, in more resent years, been played as a rally song to bring people together as ONE. Definitely one of their greatest hits.
I bought this album when it was released. One of the best songs of all time in my opinion. To me, it’s never felt like a romantic song at all. “We’re one, but we’re not the same”. It’s about one race or country trying to oppress another… Spoken from the conscious awareness of the oppressed. U2 is from Ireland where there has been centuries of strife, conflict and violence with England.
One is a very beautiful song from U2 ... it comes from the 1990 Achtung baby album... This is what the song can be about: Maybe talks about how at some time someone or something was One alone in love, in life, the same blood... mentions claiming or demanding that despite being one, he have doubts that if he was not good enough for that someone or something. One is a song that talks about sentimental relationships About the guilt that a person feels when he leaves the love he had felt for another for a long time. You can also interpret the lyrics of the song as exalting the most important feeling for humans: love... We all want to love and be loved, but apparently love is not that simple, one must suffer at first to be happy. Here I leave you the lyrics of the song, so you can understand it better 😉: Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you now You got someone to blame You say One love One life When it's one need in the night One love We get to share it Leaves you baby if you don't care for it Did I disappoint you Or leave a bad taste in your mouth You act like you never had love And you want me to go without Well, it's Too late Tonight To drag the past out into the light We're one, but we're not the same We get to carry each other Carry each other One Have you come here for forgiveness Have you come to raise the dead Have you come here to play Jesus To the lepers in your head Did I ask too much More than a lot You gave me nothing Now it's all I got We're one but we're not the same Well we hurt each other Then we do it again You say Love is a temple Love a higher law Love is a temple Love the higher law You ask me to enter But then you make me crawl And I can't be holding on To what you got When all you got is hurt One love One blood One life You got to do what you should One life With each other Sisters Brothers One life But we're not the same We get to carry each other Carry each other One One
Saw them June 5th 1983 at Red Rocks Under a Blood Red Sky concert. One of my first favorite Irish punk groups I was 13 years old and my 22 year old bought the tickets surprised me. This song was released I think in 89 or 90.
After the huge success of their previous album The Joshua Tree, they went to Berlin to record a new album. It was not gong well at all until The Edge started playing the riff to One. The lyrics by Bono were about the band being one.
Hey u2 fan here and so I'm glad to see your perspective of this song. It is deep. The song is about from what Bono has quoted, it's about a father son relationship and the son coming out that he is gay. The song was inspired by A friend of Bonos who was going through this. However Bonos relationship with his father was off and on. His father and him were close but it is known that his headstrong father was abusive in his childhood . Bono comes from a strong religious background, So this line sinks deep with me "LOVE IS A TEMPLE, LOVE IS A HIGHER LAW YOU ASK ME TO ENTER BUT THEN YOU MAKE ME CRAWL AND I CAN'T KEEP HOLDING ON TO WHAT YOU GOt 'CAUSE ALL YOU GOT IS HURT" This can also be about a torn family and siblings that judge by Gods word yet forget their hearts. The video was a whim call Bono has said their was a model there at the set (something like that) and they were trying to decide what to do for the video. So the video displays the song as such in what you spoke. Also ONE is the song that saved u2 because during recording the album it was a disaster no band mate could agree until the drummer played the reel to ONE. And that was the eye awakening to stay together. They've been together sense they were in high school.
The line "We get to carry each other" always brings tears to my eyes. As if it's a privilege to be able to do that. And it should be, even if we don't treat it as such. I know some people will recommend the version with Mary J Blighe performing with them, and it's a good version. But this one, raw, simple, emotional, spare...this is the one that moves me most. Stripped bare.
I recall....in the 1990s when this album was released, my roommates and I had an 'Achtung Baby' release party in our house. We also had a new large "cd boombox" to christen. The first listen was great...we enjoyed the production and U2's creativity. It's funny ....we knew the songs were gonna get lots of airplay...but it was good to hear them fresh before they did. We even tried to do a lyric analysis too.
Bono’s lyrics are almost always open to interpretation. This song was inspired by “The Edge”’s (guitarist) bitter divorce. But it was also written while U2 were in Berlin in 1990,. This was right when the wall had fallen and Germany had to deal with trying to unify East Vs West Germany. Hence also why the song also has the unity message. “We’re one, but we’re not the same”.
You’ve GOT to do U2’s Pride (In the Name of Love). SO many cool “layers” in this song. One of my all time favorites to listen to as LOUD as it will go. I really think you’ll love it. ❤️
Another good reaction vid. This song was written while they were recording their album Achtung Bany in Berlinwhen the wall was going down. The band hit a road block and couldn’t agree and considered breaking up. This song brought them together. Bono later went on to say his wife Aly inspired some of the lyrics and the comment before me from the Last Iof the Rock Stars got it right too. Later the song became an anthem celebratory diversity and unity among all people.
U2 is a giant of the music industry. Bono is the lead singer and The Edge has developed his signature guitar sound. There is so much of their music book for you to explore.
The fuzz tone on the the lead riff Edge has when the rest of the band kicks in is very reminiscent of the lead guitar riff on The Guess Who's "No Time Left For You".
Which U2 album is the greatest is debatable, but to me The Joshua Tree was a complete masterpiece, that turned U2 from medium stars to megastars. Every cut is a classic, but take a listen to "Running To Stand Still" - a song about the devastation of drug abuse. Still chilling and haunting to this day.
Marvin Walker - god no. She absolutely ruins it by over singing. Johnny Cash’s version is a million times better than Blige’s (but the original is still the best!)
It’s about the band. They were going through a difficult time personally etc but they had this music so Bono wrote the lyrics and it brought the band back together
Check many of their early songs, as others have noted. U2, particularly Bono, have always had thoughtful lyrics, and he's been involved in philanthropic work for years. Very good stuff. They're become more mainstream over the years, but that early unrest, that need for change, still peeks out and at times, it's like their early days.
Eric Clapton ,,tears in heaven he wrote this when his son ran out of a window in a apartment and fell to his death he was young and was an accident sad story great song
IN the 60s you had many, many bands singing about the problems of the word.... that faded away in the 70s and it returned in the 80s with U2. This is a band from Ireland and this bad grew up right in the middle of severe political and social strife in Ireland. U2 has probably done more for people in the world than any band of the 80s. I was never a huge U2 fan, but there is no denying the relevance of this band.
VH1 did this top 100 songs of the 90s like 15 years ago, and my sister and I used to watch them when we were on the phone together. For five nights, we were arguing about whether One or Smells Like Teen Spirit was number one. I won’t ruin it because you can watch it on TH-cam. She swore One would be it, I swore it would be Smells Like Teen Spirit. Either way, those were definitely two incredible songs from that decade.
I had to Google the song... "One" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the third track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby, and it was released as the record's third single in February 1992. During the album's recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin, conflict arose between the band members over the direction of U2's sound and the quality of their material. Tensions almost prompted the band to break up until they achieved a breakthrough with the improvisation of "One"; the song was written after the band members were inspired by a chord progression that guitarist the Edge was playing in the studio. The lyrics, written by lead singer Bono, were inspired by the band members' fractured relationships and the German reunification
Love U2 and Bono....😄👍💘. One of those iconic voices. Great songwriter. How about some Sting? ( yes it is his stage name) original with group called police . .sting is same genre as Bono or Phil Collins etc...amazing talent.
U2 'When Love Comes To Town' or 'Love Rescue Me'. One is about our relationships as human beings. How we hurt each other, but we also carry each other.
Aw, I was looking at a reaction to this by another content creator when your's popped up, Nov 1, 2018. And now it's Oct 11, 2020 and you've been to the White House! Could you even imagine the roads your life would take? :))) No words to express how thrilled I am for you!
The song is about unity, finding the commonality with people who might otherwise have nothing in common with, and having the opportunity to carry each other. It’s not that we have to carry each other, we get to carry each other. It’s an honor to be able to
Here is what Bono said about One th-cam.com/video/soSCN6cGMxE/w-d-xo.htmlm43s
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@@emailalpha6437 - "Leper in my head". "Carry each other, carry each other". U2 songs are deep.
The Last Of The Rockstars
If you’ve ever been to one of their concerts you’ll see people of all ages and strata singing together. It’s beautiful.
Nobody wants to carry obese people...
I recall reading an interview with Axl Rose in which he said that he cried the first time he heard this song.
When I first heard it I was blown away. It really is a masterpiece
I still cry every time I hear this song. No shame brother.
I just buried my brother and this was his favourite song.... it's so beautiful and the wonderful thing about music is it crosses all boundaries and we can all take different meanings from a song... a song can be originally be written about something specific but we can all adapt words for our own feelings... a classic xxx
It's also stated in a U2 book call "At the end of the world".
Yes he did
this song is a goddamn stone cold masterpiece, top 10 rock songs of all time period. This song made Axl Rose contemplate quitting music because he was so in awe of it
This has to be my favourite U2 song.
U2 became huge for a reason...every album up to Achtung Baby is a masterpiece. They OWNED the 80s....
Love that album!
Love Achtung baby, though.
TwinRavens achtung is their best album easily and the best album ever
Ofcourse
Queen own the 80’s too
Deep lyrics and a haunting melody. U2 has always been beyond the ordinary.
React to this same song with Mary J. Blige joining Bono and the boys.
Mary J. kills it!
David Hapka WAIT ‼️ WHT ⁉️ WELL ID NOT BE WATCHN THIS . NO MARY NO ONE ‼️ DUH‼️
Yes, that version is dope. Mary J. Killed it!
I heard this song for the first time in July 1993. I had been discharged from the army a few days ago and I was 21 years old and during the service, in the place where I was, I not had a chance to hear it. No spotify at the time, only used tapes passed from hand to hand and no radio in the barracks. When I heard it for the first time on July 7, 1993 at the Flaminio in Rome, I was completely amazed. Coming home that night, the whole train was full of boys and girls who goin home frome the gig singing this song incessantly. Just a month later I set off on an aimless tour of my country, Italy and, on a beautiful beach, I met the first true (and perhaps only) love of my life and we became One.
Well, not forever sadly, but this song always brings me back to that summer in which I discovered so much.
Bye.
Pride! about MLK..... Still haven't found what I'm looking for! people hate on U2, but early U2 put out several masterpieces
Or their first big hit.... I WILL FOLLOW.
BosoxnationI972 word, still a great song
Henry TheGreatAmerican I haven’t looked into this so my math may be wrong on it, but when I read your comment I thought that maybe in Ireland (where U2 are from) it was in the morning when MLK was shot due to the time differences- but as I say it was just a thought
so cruel class
Also Where the streets have no name and Bad.
The BEST concert I've ever been to was U2 when Joshua Tree first came out. Bono took us to church!
Bono, lead singer of U2 has a great & unique voice...my favorite song by them...Thank you...
Where the Streets have no Name!
The Super Bowl version
A really good feel alive kind of song. Always made me think about heaven as well.
One of the best tracks ever!! Boston Live!
Streets... their most overrated song, imo. I prefer literally (literally) everything on Unforgettable Fire and Achtung Baby, and everything else on Joshua Tree. Oh well, each to their own.
Been a U2 Fan since back in the day, ( one of my all time fave concerts was seeing them in 86) and I love this song, but I have to say...Mary J. takes us to Church when she does this. Damnation...that Girl can SING !! One of those people that was born with music in her DNA. So good !
Interesting. I hate the Mary J version, but that's why we all are different I suppose.
I love the way this song builds as it goes.
“All I Want Is You” is another masterpiece on this level. Couldn’t count how many times I’ve listened to both these songs.
Pride in the name of love by U2, it's about Martin Luther King Jr.😁 & it's EXCELLENT!!!!
Just stopped by to say HI 👍🌹
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Well, "HI" right back at ya🙋
ROLL TIDE ROLL🐘🏈
Lol ROLL TIDE ROLL is right my dad's a big fan too he has a Paul Bryant hat🌹
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He has to be a good man😉
❤❤ Roll Tide y'all!! ❤❤
This was such a heart ❤️ felt song to me. Made me work to live life as ONE ☝️
With or without you -U2
One of their biggest hits. Has a similar feel to this one but I would argue it’s even better.
My favorite band of all time Since I saw them at red rocks way back in the 8Os when I was 16 then have real lyrics and what a band and I don't have to say about Bono He's always tried to do what he can to make the world a little bit Better place to live .
June 5th 1983. Under a blood red sky... I was there. My first concert still have my stub in a frame somewhere with my 13 year old self and Bono.
Couldn't agree more! I don't know why so many people hate on him. He's helped so many people throughout the world!
Well said. Bono for Sainthood!
I haven't heard or seen bono in forever. Brings childhood memories back
I haven't seen Bono's eyes in ages. He's always wearing shades. I prefer to see eyes. "The eyes are the windows to the soul." His eyes are beautiful in this.
@@melorafoy7109 the reason for the sunglasses is because he has glaucoma, bright light can really hurt his eyes
He's busy hugging trees and shit.
"I cant be holding on to what yo got, when all you got is hurt..." Lyrics on this song are so powerful.
Thank you so much for playing this song, I have loved U2 since I first heard them, and its been way too long since I listened to them, this is one of their best, and the performance is fantastic.
From the album “Achtung Baby” (1991). I played this CD on a daily basis for several months, it’s probably in my top twenty albums, and this song is in my top one hundred songs.
U2 were the biggest band in the world for a time back in the 80's. Fantastic
Still are
My favourite U2 song has to be, All I want is you.
I used an instrumental version of "All I Want is You" for my wedding processional. :)
Yes. Same here. It’s an underrated gem. You are now my best friend
Yes. As great as One & Bad are, I agree.
There have been several meanings posited about the story behind the song: the band nearly breaking up, The Edge's marriage crumbling, the AIDS epidemic. The band were at a crossroads. The Joshua Tree launched them to legendary status, and they were the biggest band in the world. After three years of touring, they saw the need to evolve their sound, and so they went away to "dream it all up again", as Bono said in the last concert of the tour. They went to Hansa Studio in Berlin (where Bowie and Lou Reed had recorded previously), but struggled to get anything down. There was a lot of tension, which made them wonder if they should call it quits for the sake of preserving their friendships. As the band puts it, this song appeared out of nowhere, and was a turning point.
U2, New Years Day, Hearts Beats as One.
Damian Rice sang a beautiful version of this song. It's definitely my favorite U2 song. I was lucky enough to see them a number of years back, it was an incredible concert!! Great reaction!!
U2's 1987 album The Joshua Tree made them global superstars, but it also typecast them as the earnest, self-important street preachers of rock & roll. Very little of their playfulness, self-deprecating sense of humor, or punk rock willingness to test all boundaries came thru. The 1988 documentary/live album Rattle and Hum only reinforced this image. What audiences loved in these big emotional sound textures the critics often hated. By 1991, the band felt the need to reinvent themselves. They went to Berlin to record Achtung Baby, an album that was sonically and lyrically unlike anything they had done before. It had to be. The album's lead single, "One," was a powerful ballad about the band's relationship with each other. It was a critical and commercial success, and it helped U2 to shed their old image and emerge as a more modern, relevant band. I think Bono once said something like: "this song walked into the room and saved the band." It's got a lot of the heartbreak of Edge's at-the-time very recent divorce and the band's anxiety about what it would take to stay together. It's almost entirely about four headstrong Irishmen with spats that almost come to blows but friendships that win out in the end. It's wide open to romantic and spiritually transcendent interpretations because their songwriting had achieved an artful level of ambiguity by 1991, 15 or so years into their careers. They formed in '76 as teenagers. Had it together to record their first album by '81. The youthful, naive sketches of "Boy," (1981) are more sonically pleasing than lyrically sophisticated. The Joshua Tree is glorious but strident, bringing some fans along enraptured and leaving the pop music intelligentsia cold. Achtung Baby is their first mature masterpiece. It dares to paint with darker colors and it succeeds wildly.
Check out "In the Name of Love" and Sunday Bloody Sunday" . The last one do the Live at Red Rocks version. Early U2 and they were cutting edge at the time.
Sunday Bloody Sunday ( a song about the massacre in Northern Ireland ) will make your head itch. By the way, you get that itch because you are a creative person. Only about 25% of people get that itch, and it's mostly musicians, writers, artists etc. It's the way your brain is wired, and it's part of the reason you want to create. It's associated with pleasure receptors and some people get a high from it. I get that as well, and actually have gotten it at the same point in the songs that you have on new music that you've covered. Let me add that New Years Day was another one that has a great sound and is a classic as well.
I remember like it was yesterday sitting there watching him lay the vocal track down it was a tough tough stressful week for us I remember my eyes watered we almost ended the band that week this song is what saved us and made us come together.
This song reunited the band when they were distancing themselves while trying to record achtung baby LP. Back in 1991 . All four of U2 members are friends first ,band second.
U2-(Walk On) is an awesome song!
You choose some pretty good requests. Keep em coming. I think you and a lot of your followers would like the song by Live called "Lightening Crashes"
Great tune.
Yes!
I can feel it
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own is another great U2 song. Bono who's the lead singer wrote it about his father.
This is actually a song about change in society. People living together as ONE. We get to “Harry each other, Harry each other” first verse, stating that we make it a point to make life difficult for each other. We get to “Carry each other, Carry each other” at the end, stating that we have the ability to be there for each other in times of sorrow and great need. All the injustices in the world, explained either as those suffering to find peace and love, or searching for forgiveness and asking for the healing from within.
Was immediately sold on U2 back in the early/mid 80's when I heard "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day".
"Pride" (In the Name of Love) about M.L.K. is also a great song. They made so many great ones over the years.
It is very simple: One (people, human race); Not the same (some black, some white); Carry each other (you're in trouble I help you, I'm in trouble you help me).
Fine work as always sir.
Eleven songs from U2 that are absolute must listens:
Gloria, Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live at Red Rocks versions); The Unforgettable Fire; Pride (In the Name of Love); Where the Streets Have No Name; With or Without You; All I Want is You; Stay (Faraway So Close); Mysterious Ways; Even Better than the Real Thing; So Cruel.
Enjoy!
Great song....Aucting Baby...one of the greatest Modern Rock albums!!
In many of U2's songs, there is a distinctly vulnerable quality to Bono's vocals. I like that.
To this day this is perhaps U2s most popular song (not best just most popular) and they still play it in concert and award shows and even at the Super Bowl half-time show. The song has taken on many meanings over the years, originally a love song it has also, in more resent years, been played as a rally song to bring people together as ONE. Definitely one of their greatest hits.
I bought this album when it was released. One of the best songs of all time in my opinion.
To me, it’s never felt like a romantic song at all. “We’re one, but we’re not the same”. It’s about one race or country trying to oppress another… Spoken from the conscious awareness of the oppressed. U2 is from Ireland where there has been centuries of strife, conflict and violence with England.
This song was basically about Bono's father and the cold relationship he had with him
Um no. Not even close. It was about how the band members fractured relationships and Germany coming back together.
@@jbw49 No. Gcf971 is dead right. Nothing to do with Edge's divorce.
@@jbw49 You know nothing about u2 obviously.
One is a very beautiful song from U2 ... it comes from the 1990 Achtung baby album... This is what the song can be about:
Maybe talks about how at some time someone or something was One alone in love, in life, the same blood... mentions claiming or demanding that despite being one, he have doubts that if he was not good enough for that someone or something. One is a song that talks about sentimental relationships About the guilt that a person feels when he leaves the love he had felt for another for a long time.
You can also interpret the lyrics of the song as exalting the most important feeling for humans: love...
We all want to love and be loved, but apparently love is not that simple, one must suffer at first to be happy.
Here I leave you the lyrics of the song, so you can understand it better 😉:
Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say
One love
One life
When it's one need in the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don't care for it
Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well, it's
Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one but we're not the same
Well we hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One
One
Saw them June 5th 1983 at Red Rocks Under a Blood Red Sky concert. One of my first favorite Irish punk groups I was 13 years old and my 22 year old bought the tickets surprised me. This song was released I think in 89 or 90.
After the huge success of their previous album The Joshua Tree, they went to Berlin to record a new album. It was not gong well at all until The Edge started playing the riff to One. The lyrics by Bono were about the band being one.
Hey u2 fan here and so I'm glad to see your perspective of this song. It is deep.
The song is about from what Bono has quoted, it's about a father son relationship and the son coming out that he is gay. The song was inspired by A friend of Bonos who was going through this.
However Bonos relationship with his father was off and on. His father and him were close but it is known that his headstrong father was abusive in his childhood . Bono comes from a strong religious background,
So this line sinks deep with me
"LOVE IS A TEMPLE,
LOVE IS A HIGHER LAW
YOU ASK ME TO ENTER BUT THEN YOU MAKE ME CRAWL
AND I CAN'T KEEP HOLDING ON
TO WHAT YOU GOt
'CAUSE ALL YOU GOT IS HURT"
This can also be about a torn family and siblings that judge by Gods word yet forget their hearts.
The video was a whim call Bono has said their was a model there at the set (something like that) and they were trying to decide what to do for the video. So the video displays the song as such in what you spoke.
Also ONE is the song that saved u2 because during recording the album it was a disaster no band mate could agree until the drummer played the reel to ONE. And that was the eye awakening to stay together. They've been together sense they were in high school.
The line "We get to carry each other" always brings tears to my eyes. As if it's a privilege to be able to do that. And it should be, even if we don't treat it as such. I know some people will recommend the version with Mary J Blighe performing with them, and it's a good version. But this one, raw, simple, emotional, spare...this is the one that moves me most. Stripped bare.
The U2 live super bowl halftime show in 2002 was epic. It was the first superbowl after 911 and they were the perfect band for it.
ONE ☝️ of my favorite songs .
I read in an interview that he wrote this song about the relationship he had with his father.
Oh ok, i had read somewhere it was about his wife, when he had a affa..maybe both?
I recall....in the 1990s when this album was released, my roommates and I had an 'Achtung Baby' release party in our house. We also had a new large "cd boombox" to christen. The first listen was great...we enjoyed the production and U2's creativity. It's funny ....we knew the songs were gonna get lots of airplay...but it was good to hear them fresh before they did. We even tried to do a lyric analysis too.
The song was written about the band, especially the Edge's relationship ending at the time.
Bono’s lyrics are almost always open to interpretation. This song was inspired by “The Edge”’s (guitarist) bitter divorce. But it was also written while U2 were in Berlin in 1990,. This was right when the wall had fallen and Germany had to deal with trying to unify East Vs West Germany. Hence also why the song also has the unity message. “We’re one, but we’re not the same”.
They had also done a duet with Mary J. Blige with this song.
You’ve GOT to do U2’s Pride (In the Name of Love). SO many cool “layers” in this song. One of my all time favorites to listen to as LOUD as it will go. I really think you’ll love it. ❤️
I love this one! So glad I raised my kids on a variety of music ,they turn me on to great stuff now.next lyric ,"We got to carry each other."
Huge selection of tunes from U2 you could select, my favourite is Bad, first saw them in '84, and numerous times since, love and respect from Ireland
Not too terribly long ago they sung at the half time at an nfl super bowl game. Was amazing!!
Another good reaction vid. This song was written while they were recording their album Achtung Bany in Berlinwhen the wall was going down. The band hit a road block and couldn’t agree and considered breaking up. This song brought them together. Bono later went on to say his wife Aly inspired some of the lyrics and the comment before me from the Last Iof the Rock Stars got it right too. Later the song became an anthem celebratory diversity and unity among all people.
U2 is a giant of the music industry. Bono is the lead singer and The Edge has developed his signature guitar sound.
There is so much of their music book for you to explore.
U2 are excellent! Irish band from the 80s. Sunday Bloody Sunday- (true event in Ireland. )and with or without you! X
The fuzz tone on the the lead riff Edge has when the rest of the band kicks in is very reminiscent of the lead guitar riff on The Guess Who's "No Time Left For You".
Which U2 album is the greatest is debatable, but to me The Joshua Tree was a complete masterpiece, that turned U2 from medium stars to megastars. Every cut is a classic, but take a listen to "Running To Stand Still" - a song about the devastation of drug abuse. Still chilling and haunting to this day.
You have to hear the version of this song that U2 did with Mary J. Blige
Marvin Walker - god no. She absolutely ruins it by over singing. Johnny Cash’s version is a million times better than Blige’s (but the original is still the best!)
It's amazing how music can bring you back to that emotional place you were in when it was popular. I miss those days.😏😊😉
It’s about the band. They were going through a difficult time personally etc but they had this music so Bono wrote the lyrics and it brought the band back together
Awesome song. I love Bono's voice. They have another video with this song featuring Mary J. Blige thats fantastic.
I love the video with Mary J. Blige my absolute favorite, He needs to check that one out.... ONE By U2 and Mary J. Blige
Check many of their early songs, as others have noted. U2, particularly Bono, have always had thoughtful lyrics, and he's been involved in philanthropic work for years. Very good stuff. They're become more mainstream over the years, but that early unrest, that need for change, still peeks out and at times, it's like their early days.
"You gave me nothing now that's all I got." Love it!
'You say: Love is a temple, love the higher law' ...and DOG walks in the room.
Eric Clapton ,,tears in heaven he wrote this when his son ran out of a window in a apartment and fell to his death he was young and was an accident sad story great song
"You ask me to enter and then you make me crawl. I can't keep holding on."
IN the 60s you had many, many bands singing about the problems of the word.... that faded away in the 70s and it returned in the 80s with U2. This is a band from Ireland and this bad grew up right in the middle of severe political and social strife in Ireland. U2 has probably done more for people in the world than any band of the 80s. I was never a huge U2 fan, but there is no denying the relevance of this band.
VH1 did this top 100 songs of the 90s like 15 years ago, and my sister and I used to watch them when we were on the phone together. For five nights, we were arguing about whether One or Smells Like Teen Spirit was number one. I won’t ruin it because you can watch it on TH-cam. She swore One would be it, I swore it would be Smells Like Teen Spirit. Either way, those were definitely two incredible songs from that decade.
I had to Google the song... "One" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the third track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby, and it was released as the record's third single in February 1992. During the album's recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin, conflict arose between the band members over the direction of U2's sound and the quality of their material. Tensions almost prompted the band to break up until they achieved a breakthrough with the improvisation of "One"; the song was written after the band members were inspired by a chord progression that guitarist the Edge was playing in the studio. The lyrics, written by lead singer Bono, were inspired by the band members' fractured relationships and the German reunification
Love U2 and Bono....😄👍💘. One of those iconic voices. Great songwriter. How about some Sting? ( yes it is his stage name) original with group called police . .sting is same genre as Bono or Phil Collins etc...amazing talent.
If you are in the groove it’s the nicest song to play along with on acoustic guitar- therapy.
My favorite song from their Achtung Baby album. The lyrics are powerful and I love the build-up.
In The Name Of Love excellent, they were an Irish group and sang a lot about the wars of the Catholic and Protestant
I adore this song but the one I have on my playlist right now is U2 & Mary J Blige singing this....so so GOOD!!
This is a guy who loves music...Good on you brother.
U2 'When Love Comes To Town' or 'Love Rescue Me'. One is about our relationships as human beings. How we hurt each other, but we also carry each other.
Irish have a way with words, emotionally & musically.
U2's Angel of Harlem is another song you need to listen to!---WONDERFUL!!
One of my very favorite songs of all time
Totally off the subject but I love the dog coming in at 3:45 and trying to get into the video (at least his tail made it) :)
Song is about coming to grips with something wonderful ending
One of the greatest songs ever written!
My Mama and me shared the love of U2
I think this was written at the time the guitarist, the Edge and his wife were falling apart. This song feels like a broken heart determined to mend.
U2 greatest new wave/rock band to come out of Ireland. They just as good live or studio!
My all time favorite U2 song!
Aw, I was looking at a reaction to this by another content creator when your's popped up, Nov 1, 2018. And now it's Oct 11, 2020 and you've been to the White House! Could you even imagine the roads your life would take? :))) No words to express how thrilled I am for you!
This song / duet with Bone and Mary J Blidge
We are not the same. We got carry each carry each other. Humanity
A Reason why they are the greatest rock band & export from my country 🇮🇪
Peace on Earth has a heartbreaking line. "She never got to say goodbye, to see the colour in his eyes, now he's in the dirt. Peace on Earth."
This is an incredibly powerful song............................................it carries a lot of water.
Bro, I have never seen another man resist crying in all my life...let it out...it will only make you stronger!....peace be with you!
huh? wasnt even close to crying. you wint see one video where im even phased by it.