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Killer song!!! One of U2's best. Check out their songs "One"or "New Year's Day".
"One" is simply amazing
One Tree Hill has been my favorite for a long time now, originally when this album came out this was my song, but when I found out U2/ Bono wrote one tree hill about a roadie who have been with them many years and was a Kiwi and One Tree hill is a famous
And landmark in NZ and in Auckland, it has much controversy but in the end it is for all New Zealanders and visitors alike, unfortunately activists vandalised it to the point it’s now gone, replaced by an Obelisk,the very thing the activists protest about they themselves destroyed the one thing that brought unity, so often the case by selfish ignorant and and narcissistic people. Greg Carrol who was that roadie was of Māori decent he took Bono to that hill, I always wondered how he’d have felt about this. Song is usually only played in NZ and Aus in concerts a fav here.
New Years Day my favorite.
I luv "ONE" with the amazing Mary J Blidge!!!!
Bono is one of the best emoters ever. You can feel everything he sings. There are sooo many hits and not a bad song in the bunch. I hope you go down the U2 rabbit hole.
He's like a polished version of Thom Yorke.
@@Guy_de_Loimbard I wouldn't say polished because bono his singing was very raw in their early years. But in understand what you're saying.
I doubt he feels anything. The listener might feel but the singer def does not.
From the album "The Joshua Tree" -- U2's best album and one of the best rock albums ever (IMHO)!
I totally agree!
Absolutely 💯!!! 👐👐👐
Can’t argue with that🤘🍻
There are a few bands who managed to create a masterpiece of an entire album. Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam to name a few. U2’s “The Joshua Tree” album is one of those albums. Much love, fam!
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There's an American band in your list - they don't belong in that company
Yep. And U2's "Achtung Baby" (1991) is another.
Agreed. And Achtung Baby is even better!
I'm throwing nirvana in utero and stereophonics word gets around in there as well. Totally agree
Asia & BJ, you'll love their "Pride (In The Name Of Love)", "Two Hearts Beat As One" and "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".
Excellent choices, especially for hearing Bono's vocal range! 🙌
U2 fan since the early 80's, heard this song over and over and over... still to this day gives me goosebumps!
Same here bro... One of the best albums of 87, and my all time favorite U2 album. The sonic atmosphere of this song is unreal, the crescendo in the sound, Adam's thumping hypnotic bass, The Edge's e.bow guitar tone and delayed riffs, Larry's drums,and Bono's fantastic vocals....
@@conan5885 For me it's Achtung Baby
Same here
Bono wrote this from his own perspective. He was a married man with his childhood sweetheart ( who he is still with being married to for 40 years ) but he was also fronting the biggest band in the world and all the temptations that comes with it.
It was the struggle of being a husband and the worlds biggest rockstar. Staying loyal to his wife regardless of the temptations.
A story about the clashing and juggling of being Bono the worlds famous rockstar and Bono the husband.
One of U2’s greatest songs.
You should check out U2 "The sweetest thing" he wrote for his wife after missing her birthday while recording an album.
Oh, that’s a totally charming song! It seems rather unknown, which is a pity. I love how Edge uses a kind of “rollicking” guitar rhythm.
That’s one that must include the video! it’s just too cute. Especially since he got his wife Ali to at least briefly step in front of the camera if only for a moment, playing herself... and looking rather annoyed. 😂
The brilliance of this song is how it takes you on such a journey while NEVER leaving the same 4 chord progression. It's all different variations and dynamics on top of the same thing. Love this one.
Absolutely. They are absolute geniuses of minimalism. Every single member is committed to the emotion of the song above and beyond their own instrument, etc.
They play every song like they mean it. Every time. For decades. It’s unreal.
My fav u2 song indeed
Omg we’re on to U2 now …. Yes U2 is wicked to see LIVE!!! Love love this song!love you guys most bands & singers you have reacted to are all on my playlist for years….thanks guys for your views & time … this song always reminds me of Bono beautiful wife Ali, much love from NZ 🇳🇿
My favourite U2 song along with One.
Love from UK
The Edge is such an underrated guitarist. Unbelievable talent and ear for music.
His playing is the most distinct to my ears. I am not a musician, but I know that jangly guitar right away.
That the Edge is not a traditional lead guitarist goes without saying . Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen set up this perfect musical canvas that The Edge gets to Color in , in such a beautiful way .
The Edge is a sonic God- and U2 as a whole are simply magical
@@pisces228 that is exactly what I would say- almost Word for Word! I’m not a musician either but I have an ear for music (i’m a former dancer). He does have a very distinctive sound...and part of it, I have literally used the word “jangly” to describe it! As well as the times when it sounds like the guitar is “keening,” crying. Very pronounced in (“With Or Without You.”)
The Edge is the master of using delay effects!
"The Joshua Tree" album is a masterpiece from start to finish.
U2 uses a lot of Christian imagery in its lyrics, including this song ("thorn twist in your side," "you give it all"). Is he talking about his wife, or Jesus/God/The Holy Spirit? The song could be interpreted in multiple ways.
I personally think that’s their very best. Bono has a voice that can move you to tears. You can feel the heartbreak 💔
A lot of Irish singers have this ability
@@nicolek1676ma lui di più....
Smooth but very deep. Most U2 songs are. Thanks guy's!!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😃
1987, this was when U2 became the biggest band in the world.
This is a great song..still gives me chills… They had several classic albums - unforgettable fire, Joshua tree, achtung baby.. please do the songs - one, bad, all I want is you, New Year’s Day, Gloria,
This is my all time favourite song. I saw them front row at Wembley stadium in 1993. Amazing live, love Edge. best wedding and funeral song!
I love your show and your opinions, you guys have great taste in music ❤️
There is a live version where Bono sings this song laying on his back on stage with a fan wrapped in his arms. I cry each time!
What an amazing array of talent and music we were so fortunate to experience… aah the 80’s nothing today compares.
Elevation Live from Boston, 2001
The official video for this song, as well as the entire album, are hauntingly, stunningly beautiful
“The Joshua Tree” (the album this song is on) in my opinion is the single greatest album ever made…period!!! The definition of “vibe” music. I’ve worn this album out several times over. You can’t go wrong with a single tune on this album. Let’s go, I’m here for it!!!!
"One" live at the Grammys with Mary J Blige! Mary GOES TO ANOTHER LEVEL with the intensity & emotion of her performance. Watch it. I cry every time. ❤
My favorite U2 song off of my favorite U2 Album, The Joshua Tree.
This Album took U2 from Arenas to Stadiums
The first time I heard this song it was being presented as someone losing a loved one. Since then every time I hear it, the chorus stands out, presenting the thought there is someone you care about that you can no longer be with ("I can't live with, or without you" ). That's just my own experience of the song, however.
Bono's voice on this track is just incredible. Please check out "Zoo Station" from 'Achtung Baby', U2's follow-up to this record. It wasn't a big hit, but it was the perfect opening to a completely different sound.
Love zooropa
Nobody sounds like them. So atmospheric and spiritual.
Love U2.
Check out PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE), U2’s powerful tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great song. An absolute must.
Beautiful. For another side of U2, check out the live acoustic performance of Ordinary Love on The Tonight Show with Fallon.
A lot of struggle with love, spirituality and injustices in early U2 songs. Love the passion! Thanks😍
And BTW, the drumming and guitar sounds were pretty unique at the time. Love em or hate em...they have had a HUGE impact on pop music. Thanks again😍
U2, no one sounds just like them. Love one of their early ones also "New Years Day". Also Mary J Blige performing "One" with U2, great version
Other great U2 ballads - STUCK IN A MOMENT, RUNNING TO STAND STILL & ONE.
+1 for Running To Stand Still!!
Still ALWAYS love the song "BAD" the most of all songs by U2..... yet there are pleeeenty of great songs. But how the drummer and voice build up that song + lysics ..... oh man.... LOVE IT ;))))
Running to standstill is a heartbreaking song.
Agree. BAD (live version) is one my top 3 all time, stuck-on-a-deserted-island songs. Have to react to either the live version off “Under a Blood Red Sky” or the famous Live Aid version.
♥ This song hits hard right in the feels. Head down the U2 rabbit hole!
I love that U2 has such an iconic instrumental. You hear Edge on the guitar, and straight away you’re like “U2!”
When this album hit in 1987 they become the most popular band on the planet.
U2 was THE band in the early 80s. Where the Streets Have No Name is another GREAT song of thiers!
This song was from the first u2 album I owned the Joshua tree which i had on cassette and played on repeat.you just close your eyes and let the music take you where it wants.
The production on this was fantastic...
If you wanna see a really good Mary J Blige performance check her out singing one love with u2 the official video....really good.
great band. Gotta do "One' and "All I Want is You" Amazing, emotional tear jerking songs!
The Edge created that completely unique stadium rock guitar sound: compressed, clean, reverb and with a tightly measured slab back delay. Beautiful stuff and i’m not even a U2 fan!
No disrespect, but I thought you had a carrot sticking out of your mouth, lol. I really liked how you described The Edge's sound. Either you're a musician, or you studied music theory, or perhaps both...
Back in the day my friends would use this song to test speakers. The intro with the low, rumbling bass and the high guitar notes was awesome for testing range and quality.
The entire Joshua Tree album/CD that this song is from is brilliant work. This CD is one of a few that I can listen to without skipping a song...its a great piece of music songwriting. It won two Grammy awards including one for Album of the Year.
"The unforgettable fire", one of the best songs ever written.
Of all U2 songs, this is the one I really wanted y’all to listen to. The song is an experience.
I love watching reactions to what I’ve been enjoying for years.
Quite simply one of the best vocal performances of all time right there.
Seriously, one of the greatest pop/rock songs of all time. It gets me every effin time. It's the chords and the buildup and the conviction, I think. Like he truly means what he's singing. ONE is another one by U2, maybe even better than this song, that always gets my sentimental ass.
It got to number 1 in America this song with or without you
Credit where it’s due. The simplistic bass line is outrageously perfect. Gwan Adam!
King and Queen, we live in a time where music is bought one song at a time.
Back in the day, you bought an entire CD/album made up of 10-12 songs.
The artists would make "concept" albums full of great songs under a certain theme or vein of experience.
These albums were treasure troves for their fans. The songs were somehow intentionally or unintentionally sonically connected to each other which in turn connected to their listeners.
Music is divine worship. Great music in any genre is an expression of a human heart towards a larger life-force. A life-force that every human shares.
A life-force that can resurrect an old song from days of yore but when played in the present, still has impacting, heart stirring vitality and sonic truth.
I'm just saying y'all...
U2 drummer doesnt get enough credit. Guitars and vocals obvs 🔥 but mans drumming gets ignored.
Absolutely. Larry Mullen Jr is legit an incredibly talented drummers whose unique beats were critical to U2 becoming worldwide superstars. And he started the band. No Larry, no U2.
I mean, SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY…BULLET THE BLUE SKY…A SORT OF HOMECOMING…or…HAWKMOON 269
Hes pretty good lookin' also. ☺️
He started U2 .
Thanx Larry ✌
Larry Mullen
He literally created the band
A U2 classic !
This is such a beautiful song. Full of haunting love without boundaries. Bono's build up vocally is great, Edge plays just the right amount at the right time. Adam and Larry are their usual great rhythm self. Thanks for covering a classic. I was a freshman in college when this came out...powerful memories.
One of my favourite bands, one of their best, IMHO, is the song "One", they also do this with Mary J Blige it is a good version to, for something on the fun side from them, "The sweetest thing".
Wonderful song!
"Bono wrote the lyrics during his first night visiting the Côte d'Azur in 1986,[12] while struggling to reconcile his responsibilities as both a married man and a musician.[6] His wanderlust in belonging to a musical act was often at odds with his domestic life.[6] While writing the lyrics, he realised that neither facet of his life defined him, but rather the tension between the two did. He explained that the final lyric is about torment and how repressing desires only makes them stronger.[6]"
This song integrated the work of two producers with very different visions. The first producer was Daniel Lanois, who wanted an etheral, moody sound with minimal percussion. When U2 was mixing the song, they brought in Steve Lillywhite, the producer of their early albums. His first reaction was, "Where are the drums?" So he amped up the power and told Larry Mullen to pound the drums. These two competing visions blended into one incredible sound.
I often wonder if those two guys behind the curtain are a big part of the reason we all love U2 so much.
That album is just insanely good. It came out when I was in Jr high school, and it still blows my mind.
The Joshua Tree is a top 5 album of the 1980s along side Thriller, Purple Rain, Born in the USA and Appetite for destruction.
Watch the half time show 2002 with U2 singing "the streets have no name" best half time show ever...
Classic. You have to see a live performance of this. U2 From Boston... recommend.
This was the last song at every middle school dance I ever attended. Then in high school, it competed with Stairway To Heaven for last song status. It’s amazing how hearing a song puts you back in time like that! P.s. it’s NOT the love song everyone thinks it is
My favourite song of theirs. I love when the bass kicks in at the end so, so, much
One of my top 5 fav. On every play list!!! So good...
In one Live version, Bono changed from Can't live to Can live in the final phrase. 1987
The crescendo of this song...tough to beat. And live (Rattle & Hum anyone?) is just phenomenal.
My favorite song of all time. Be nice guys 😊
November 1987. Took my lunch hour as usual from my boring office job in San Francisco. Headed toward the park around the corner for some fresh air. Music in the air. U2 was giving a surprise concert at Justin Herman Plaza. No one in that happy crowd made it back to work on time.
U2, seen them when they just began, US FESTIVAL 1983, I was 17, Stood days out in SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY CALIFORNIA…. 4days of BANDS, INCS was pretty new, OZZY, DAVID BOWIE…. VAN HALEN was it for me as well. SAW U2 3 more times. Check out the U2movie. RATTLE AND HUM…. It has them jamming with BB KING. CLASSIC 💙🤗🧚🏽👍🏽
The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" & "Do You Realize"
This song is amazing and timeless. It sounds like something that could come out tomorrow, but this was release in 1987.
My U2 recommendation is to listen to their entire discography...and most importantly, SEE THEM LIVE
Amazing Album, Joshua Tree...totally luuuuv this song...probably my #1fav of their music...
This on the halftime show. Was thee best tribute ever .👏👏👏👏💜💜💜💜🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
They played this at my wedding reception back in the day.
Through the 80s and well into the 90s, Bono had a world-class set of lungs on him. Not a lot of guys could hit those notes or sustain them... In his prime, Bono was one of the best frontmen in rock & roll history.
Absolutely my favorite U2 song because most people can relate to it!
Think for a while U2 were the biggest rock band on the planet. They made some pretty great songs and they still do tour.
Final song in final episode of The Americans. Such a haunting finale, and this Choice was perfect.
My favourite U2 song.
The ultimate live version of a couple of their songs… “Bad” from Rattle and Hum (the movie version) and “Where the Streets Have No Name” again from the Rattle and Hum movie… not only a great sound and version of the songs but visually stunning.
Pure magic!☮️❤️
One of my U2 favorites also check out New Years Day.
Beautiful day. One. Sweetest thing. When Love comes to town. Sunday bloody Sunday.
My favorite U2 song. A masterpiece!
Another great choice of band and song. I understand why you watch the videos with the lyrics since most of these songs are new to you. That said, you would be blown away by live performances by all the legendary bands you are discovering. This tune live in Boston is a must. There are so many U2 songs that are a must.
On another note, how is it possible that you have not done Queen and Live Aid yet? The greatest 20 minutes in Rock n Roll history. Thanks for the great video.
Love you two
Without a lie this song has always been on my list of most beautiful songs ever!
Goood one. I remember blasting that on my car radio when this song was new.
Probably my favourite U2 song. Brings back memories of growing up in 80's and hearing this song on radio for first time. Absolute classic.
A classic! One of my favorites that I love singing along with!
Look up the live version of this song at the BBC Abbey Road Studios in 2017. Thirty years later and still solid gold.
Asia said its been a minute. I never heard that until an Alabama girl said it. NYer now in Fl
Yes!!!
Live Aid set is worth a few minutes of your day if you wanna check it out.
Who in love hasn't felt like this at some point? this album was one i slept on when it came out i later found it and it is iconic and you cant play this song too loud . you guys will be a music knowledge bank from hearing all of these I love and appreciate your reactions and I think you, like me understand good music is were you find it it can be produced or independent mainstream or underground . so many talented musicians and artist out there . Check out Tash Sultana welcome to the jungle she was a street performer .
One of my best concerts: their Zoo Tour, 10-21-1992 , Denver's Mile High Stadium, with Michael (who I wish I'd stayed with longer).
Love to see youngins love this,U2 are great , lots and lots of good listening
Love you guys, keep doin that thing that thing that thing
One of the greatest bass lines of a song period.
Loving your reactions guys! You might have missed the shrouded meaning of this song though. Like most of the songs on the album it came from (Joshua Tree), it's really about a person struggling with their faith (in this case catholicism). Bono sings about a thorn in your side which is a small nod towards Jesus and also later on about how 'you gave it all but I want more' referring to Jesus sacrifice. Admittedly these are not overly explicit and he does refer to a woman which I think is a deliberate way to give the song a multiple meaning. Ultimately the person Bono can't live with or without is Jesus / God. Bono explores this idea more fully in another song off the Joshua Tree album 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for' which I think would be another great U2 song for you to react to. Peace and Love from across the pond.