Playlists no U2.com

[followerU2]

Amigos, não vi esse material disponibilizado aqui ainda, mas se já foi por favor me avisem, okay?

Na área de assinantes pagos do U2.com estão sendo divulgadas as My U2 Playlists, criadas por colaboradores da banda, como Jacknife Lee e Catherine Owens, por enquanto. Eles foram convidados a montarem sua playlist com as músicas do U2 que mais gostam, e explicam o porquê de suas escolhas. Vou copiar pra cá esse material porque achei bem interessante. Se alguém não entender alguma coisa sempre se pode tentar ajudar. Aí vai:

Playlist do Jacknife Lee:

Jacknife Lee, who produced the last two Snow Patrol albums and the latest from Bloc Party, is best known to U2 fans for his work in the studio on How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Here's his U2 Playlist.

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1. The Electric Co. (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=21&album=3',380,356);) - Boy (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=3&type=lp)
I was very young when this came out and a fan from listening to them on the Fanning show. I vaguely remember a phone-in picking the A-side for the U2/3 EP. I picked the wrong one. Still do. The electric co. was astoundingly good on the Vertigo Tour. Hasn't dated at all. Still urgent and brilliant.

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2. Trash, Trampoline and The Party Girl (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=24&type=all_singles) - B-Side / Celebration Single
I love the sound of Bono's voice on this. It's raw and beautiful. A spontaneous and playful recording. Fast cars from HTDAAB has echoes of this. I played this on my battered acoustic when I was a kid. I think I may have listened to the A-side once. A wonderful noise.

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3. Like a Song (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=26&album=4',380,356);) - War (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=4&type=lp)
I don't remember loving this when it came out. I was in a bar in New York a few years back and the DJ put this on. It sounded so fresh and blew me away. Fucking brilliant!! You can hear it's influence everywhere now. The Killers, the Walkmen, Bloc Party etc. Larry Mullen is one of the greatest drummers ever. He's inventive and very powerful. The last minute or so of this is superb. If this was released now by a new band folks would be creaming themselves.

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4. Bad (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=47&album=6',380,356);) - The Unforgettable Fire (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=6&type=lp)
From the off you know something special is going to happen. Hymnal, honest, earnest, roofless, a band liberated from a need to be cool, sonically superb, undeniably excellent the song still packs a punch now.

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5. All I Want is You (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=78&album=8',380,356);) - Rattle and Hum (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=8&type=lp)
You can detect the Springsteen influence here. Aside from one of the most incredible string arrangements ever, this song is a delicious treat. Follows the same topography as Bad. Has all the hallmarks of the U2 sound – seemingly simple yet complex guitar lines, bass doing its own thing. The biblically lyrical references and the drums tastefully providing the backbone but in a subtle, intelligent way. The strings remind me of my favourite song ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ by Billie Joe Spears and I don’t know why.

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6. Zoo Station (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=79&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
One of the best intros ever. Flood’s brain in hyperdrive. The song sounds like the inside of a gurgling Geiger organic robot during orgasm. There is nothing wrong with this track at all. Fucking brilliant! Bands trying to find their experimental side now seem to just copy this formula. Machine and band fused. Edge has an incredible voice. You hear it every so often and it’s a treat. An amazing start to U2 version 3.0.

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7. Stay (faraway, so close) (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=95&album=10',380,356);) - Zooropa (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=10&type=lp)
An intimate band recording with a stunning vocal performance from Bono. I don't know why I like the names of cities listed in songs but I do. An underrated album. Why? The 90s was an incredible decade for U2. Simply lovely.

8. Miss Sarajevo - Passengers
I love this album. Eno and U2 is always special. My friend Howie B worked on this. Howie has a unique mind. The lyics in this song are some of Bono's best. The East 17 line is so emotive. Nice to hear this on the Vertigo Tour too.

9. Beach Sequence - Passengers
Some wonderful melodic moments here. The voice drifting in and out breaks up the track like seeds do in a mouthful of watermelon. Underdone and all the better for it.

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10. Mofo (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=103&album=11',380,356);) - Pop (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
Bono's voice sounds great here. Fantastic groove. Dynamically very interesting. A hugely ambitious sound finely executed. Dense and deep. I like to delve and find things over a period of time and there is lots to discover in this song. Shame about the fade out. I dislike fading out. It's better to burn out than to fade away. I only agree with this line when it has to do with recordings.

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11. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=127&album=13',380,356);) - ATYCLB (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp)
I had kind of forgotten about U2 at this point. My wife has always been a huge fan. We had our first baby and had both been out work for quite a while. We had no money but everything was perfect and we were happy. Melissa bought the album and we listened to it on repeat while we painted the new baby’s room. I fell in love with U2 again. And then I did the Snow Patrol album and then U2 called me and then we had had another baby. This song is brilliant (despite the weird synthetic brass thing going on at the end).

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12. Miracle Drug (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=448&album=68',380,356);) - HTDAAB (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=68&type=lp)
One of the first songs I worked on. Bono's voice has arrived at a magnificent area. It has weight, soulfulness, experience and credibility. The lyrics are some of their best: "there is no failure here sweetheart"; "freedom has a scent like the top of a new born baby's head". A euphoric moment live. Uplifting and dare I say inspirational. An instant classic. Edge sings, Larry sings! Exceptional and effortless U2. They are at one of the best points in their career now. Comfortable in their own skin with nothing to lose and playing like motherfuckers. HTDAAB is one of their best yet.

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13. A Man and a Woman (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=453&album=68',380,356);) - HTDAAB (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=68&type=lp)
A very underrated song. Again an exceptional performance by Bono. Boy, Edge can sing high, listen to the middle eight. Sultry and sticky.....a fine fine song about the odd mysteries of love. Which leads nicely too.

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14. She's a Mystery to Me - B-Side/ All Because of You (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=77&type=all_singles)
What is there to say ? I do love the Orbison version and it's difficult to hear this without his voice haunting the recording. A simple and brilliant song... ".


MT

[followerU2]

Catherine Owens


Catherine Owens, New York-based painter and U2's 'Tour Visuals Artist' brings us her U2 Playlist.


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1. Shadows and Tall Trees (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=22&album=3',380,356);) - Boy (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=3&type=lp)
This is probably my all time favorite U2 song, there is something about this song that to this day excites me. Funny really as it is so simple. I came straight out of punk (well post-Donny Osmond and David Cassidy!) and I loved The Jam, 999, The Lurkers, Xray Specs, The Adverts The Only Ones, Magazine etc. I always felt this song came from that place - the three chord wonder department. On another level this song contains all the sentiments and imagery that have made U2 great. Ambition, grandeur, everyday life, secret knowledge, the future, dreams, spirituality, healing and a hint at the ‘journey’. The drumming, bass and guitar, especially towards the end of the song, touches on some early bowie-esque mystery. Just the words ‘Shadows and Tall Trees’ evoked such beautiful haunting images for me then…. and still do!

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2. Stories For Boys (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=17&album=3',380,356);) - Boy (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=3&type=lp)
I’ve always liked the intention behind this song, or at least my interpretation of the intention! When I first heard this song (probably live at McGonagles or in some other Dublin cave ) it felt like a trip into my mind, Bono delving into the imagination, and being swept away by Edge’s guitar and Larry’s drum sounds. It never really dawned on me that he may have been singing for or about boys, I was caught up in the whirl of the imagination, which is where I tend to live, so this idea about getting lost in media, TV, magazines, radio, music, (an alternative reality) was very appealing to me. As a child I loved to have stories read to me so song lyrics is another version of this love, except the person is singing the story…. images are stirred, places, emotions and color are suggested. U2 are masters of this way of telling a story through emotion.

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3. Sweetest Thing (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=122&album=12',380,356);) - Best of 1980-1990 (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=12&type=lp)
Love this song. Love Edge’s intro and the throwaway pop feel of it. I am a big fan of U2’s soft sweet songs… Party Girl, Mysterious Ways, Original Of the Species, Miss Sarajevo etc. I like when they sing directly about women, the women they love who are part of their world. They have no fear of singing about the joyful, complex, silly, serious, full of promise stuff that girls are made of! This song and others like it remind me of how I as a woman like to be perceived, you know fun, easy, enticing ( cough cough!). Seriously what this song does on a simple level is reaffirm how women like to feel every now and again, sweetly serenaded.

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4. One Tree Hill (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=59&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
This song still makes me cry, it’s still hard not be sad for the loss of the beautiful Greg Carroll to this world, what a memory this song stirs. I can still see his amazing face right in front of me, smile a mile wide, big big eyes, long skinny legs, his style, his generosity of spirit. The many days and nights of laughter we all had with Greg, a man for whom nothing was too much to ask. What is so truly amazing about this song is that it is Greg, or the loss of Greg. Anyone who has ever mourned a true spirit will find comfort here.

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5. Discotheque (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=101&album=11',380,356);) - Pop (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
When I first heard it I was gobsmacked, I challenge anyone to sit still while listening. In fact Pop is one of my favourite U2 albums, born before it’s time and as a result hard for a lot of critics to get behind. But when I listen to the songs on this album, there is hardly a track that I do not think is pretty fab. As screen-visual content provider for U2’s tours, this tour holds special memories - the birth of our giant LED screen. You can’t imagine how much fun it was commissioning and making imagery for many of these songs.

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6. Please (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=111&album=11',380,356);) - Pop (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
As an artist and a painter, this is one of U2’s most evocative songs for me. It almost smells of its sentiment, like a water color painting, a wash of innuendos, like a message in a bottle thrown out to a sea of fans - with half the information trapped inside and the other half to be guessed at upon retrieval.

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7. If You Wear That Velvet Dress (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=110&album=11',380,356);) - Pop (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
Now for all of you who have not heard it before, here is a song that might be good for the iPod: it’s exquisite, really should have been a soundtrack in some fabulous sensual film. Very moody and dark, another one for the girls.

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8. Fly (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=85&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
Well, some of my choices really are related to tour visuals so you’ll have to forgive me here but The Fly warrants special mention, as the great Mark Pellington (who directed this for the original ZOO TV show) gave us a spellbinder new version of his text for the Vertigo Tour. When I was first asked to suggest some video makers to make work for ZOO TV I suggested Mark as I had seen his groundbreaking ‘Buzz Clip’ work on MTV. We gave him a couple of tracks to work on, The Fly being one of them. This song is just slamming, touching on a subject that U2 cover with such skill, the fucked up world we live in.

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9. Walk On (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=129&album=13',380,356);) - ATYCLB (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp)
One of the most uplifting songs written by anyone ever: U2 at their very best, beautiful melodies, wonderful weaving together of each instrument with thoughtful lyrics. This song exemplifies why U2 are crucial at this time - they notice stuff! Their eyes are open, they live in the present conscious of injustice and not afraid to speak up for those who struggle against it. In this case the Burmese leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest years after her party won a democratic election. One small woman who has sacrificed her whole life for the freedom of others. Close your eyes for one moment, take a deep breath and imagine giving up everything you have come to know - friends, family, material possessions - because you believe the people you love, the people of your country, should be free. ‘A singing bird in an open cage who will only fly for freedom.’

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10. Original Of The Species (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=456&album=68',380,356);) - HTDAAB (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=68&type=lp)
OK so I am totally biased here, having directed the video for this song, but even before the video came into being, while working on the tour visual version, I fell completely in love with the intention underlying the song. I have always thought of U2 as a rather sexy, sensual band and I am sure lots of you will agree with me on this point. There were and still are times when I thought Adam was the sexiest, then there were times when I thought Edge was the sexiest, then of course there were times when it was Larry’s turn to be the sexiest. Bono ? Well he was always the sexiest. And together that’s a lot of collective sensual energy going into any one song. This song reveals a different kind of sensuality, here a man cares for a woman, not as an object of desire, but as an intoxicating essence of the soul, she is a quiet answer, wisdom and the future. He wants her to know her power and wants her to remain true to this - she is daughter, mother, friend. He asks both men and women to celebrate the life, ‘You are the first one of your kind’.



Não sei porque me identifiquei bastante com essa playlist da Catherine Owens...:P

MT

[Mirrorball]

Não sei porque me identifiquei bastante com essa playlist da Catherine Owens...:P
Quando eu li Shadows and Tall Trees, pensei a mesma coisa, mas depois eu já escolheria outras músicas diferentes. E do Jacknife Lee, gostei de Beach Sequence. :aprovado: Bem interessante, obrigada por ter colocado este material!

[followerU2]

Legal Carol :). Eu adorei o que a Catherine Owens disse sobre as músicas do Pop, e também sobre Original of the Species...muito observadora a moça :P
E sobre Stories for Boys...ela parece ter presenciado um dos lendários shows no McGonagles! Não é incrível isso? Essas long term relationships que envolvem o U2 sempre me fascinam :sim:

MT

[Mirrorball]

Eu adorei o que a Catherine Owens disse sobre as músicas do Pop
Espero que o próprio U2 tenha lido o que ela escreveu. :P

[Mysterious girl]

Legal Carol :). Eu adorei o que a Catherine Owens disse sobre as músicas do Pop, e também sobre Original of the Species...muito observadora a moça :P

MT

Realmente! :aprovado: Tb gostei dos comentários.

E obrigada MT por disponibilizar esse material! :P

[followerU2]

Playlist do Robbie Adams, engenheiro de som...que por incrível que pareça assistiu aos shows deles no Dandelion Market. Aí vai:


Out of Control


Robbie Adams, sound engineer and producer whose credits stretch from Smashing Pumpkins to Beck, is a longtime member of U2's sound department - and often to be found somewhere under the stage recording their shows on tour. Most recently he recorded the audio for the upcoming 'U23D' movie.


Here's Robbie's U2 Playlist.

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1. Out of Control (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=16&album=3',380,356);) - Boy (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=3&type=lp)
Number one has to be "Out of Control" from the Boy album. It was on their first single and I rushed out to buy it in the Dandelion Market in Dublin as soon as it came out. I had been a regular at their afternoon shows at the market and needed something to get me through the week.

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2. I will Follow (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=12&album=3',380,356);) - Boy (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=3&type=lp)
"I will Follow" starts off with someone (It sounds like the Edge) counting 1,2,3,4. I love this because it strikes me that he's counting off so much more than just this song, it feels like he's counting off a moment that changed everything, for me anyway. Oh yeah, it's also a great pop song.

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3. New Year's Day (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=25&album=4',380,356);) - War (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=4&type=lp)
"New Years Day" marked a change in the way U2 wrote songs. It seemed as though they had really figured out how to make 4 people sound like one. Not as easy as it sounds, believe me.

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4. Where The Streets Have No Name (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=51&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
When "Where the Streets have no Name" began playing out through every record store window in Dublin I knew something was going on. I had stopped paying attention to u2 for a few years, exploring other musical avenues.... and haircuts. With this song, and of course the whole Joshua Tree album, the Irish music scene became energized and the world took notice. A&R people signed up everyone with a guitar and even the occasional violin player got noticed. Thanks guys, I'm still living off that energy.

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5. So Cruel (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=84&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
Skip ahead to 4 years later and I'm in Elsinore working with the guys on Achtung Baby! Lots of favorite songs here with some great memories. I love that song "So Cruel", Flood just went to town with the effects and I think he created an incredible sense of weightlessness and stretchiness (yes stretchiness). This song was conceived and recorded in one magical afternoon.

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6. Even Better Than The Real Thing (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=80&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
The first song I worked on with u2 was "Even Better than the Real Thing". I recorded the slide solo in Edge's home studio, and then at the end I got to mix the song with Steve Lillywhite. Still gives me the chills thinking about it.

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7. Until The End of the World (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=82&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
When Bono returned from a lyric writing break in New York he had a couple of pieces of paper with the lyrics to "Until the end of the World" written in several different colors of ink and some pencil. He asked for a mic so he could sing them for Dan Lanois but told me not to bother recording his vocal. Of course I just recorded him anyway, and I'm glad I did, that's the version that ended up on the record, I love that vocal, the first take is often the best.

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8. One (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=81&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
What can you say ?

9. Your Blue Room - Passengers
"Your Blue Room" on the "Passengers soundtracks" album is such a great Eno-U2 collaboration, the atmosphere it creates is so visible. This whole album is so unique, a great body of work.

10. Miss Sarajevo - Passengers
Miss Sarajevo from the Passengers album. These collaborations don't always work, often the styles are so different that it just comes across as a gimmick and everyone just hopes they'll fade away into obscurity. Miss Sarajevo however is not one of those, I got the chance to record a live version of this song with Pavarotti and it remains one of the higlights of my career.



Gostei da inclusão de So Cruel :sim:

MT

[Su Scout]

Your Blue Room :D

A voz do Bono é indescritível nesta música. Me apaixonei na primeira 'ouvida'.:P

[LadyCygnus]

Embora o playlist do Robbie Adams seja o que soe perfeitamente aos meus ouvidos, o da Catherine Owens consegue expressar tudo o que eu amo no U2.
Pop, Achtung, Boy...
É simplesmente perfeito! :)

[Mirrorball]

Com certeza o da Catherine Owens foi o melhor até agora. Aliás acho que o Robbie Adams não escolheu nenhuma das minhas favoritas.

[jorgefilipe_u2]

Me identifiquei mais com a do Jacknife Lee :)

[followerU2]

Your Blue Room :D

A voz do Bono é indescritível nesta música. Me apaixonei na primeira 'ouvida'.:P

Voz e interpretação mais que perfeitas. Ele usa todo o arsenal de sedução vocal dele nessa música, do grave sussurrado ao falsete, um perigo. Ele se multiplica, às vezes parece que há mais de um ser cantando...e não estou falando do Adam :P E pra completar a guitarra totalmente viajante do Edge no final. Definitivamente uma das músicas mais sensuais do U2...ou Passengers...whatever. Eu adoro :sim:

MT

[matsimon]

a q mais me agradou foi a do robbie adams... une Boy, War, Joshua Tree e Achtung Baby...meus preferidos...só faltou alguma do Rattle And Hum pra fkar perfeito...

[Bonolocks]

a q mais me agradou foi a do robbie adams... une Boy, War, Joshua Tree e Achtung Baby...meus preferidos...só faltou alguma do Rattle And Hum pra fkar perfeito...
De acordo!:aprovado:

[Su Scout]

Voz e interpretação mais que perfeitas. Ele usa todo o arsenal de sedução vocal dele nessa música, do grave sussurrado ao falsete, um perigo. Ele se multiplica, às vezes parece que há mais de um ser cantando...e não estou falando do Adam :P E pra completar a guitarra totalmente viajante do Edge no final. Definitivamente uma das músicas mais sensuais do U2...ou Passengers...whatever. Eu adoro :sim:

MT

É isso mesmo. Engraçado que minha mãe sempre achou que havia mais vozes que a do Bono nesta música. Quando eu falei que aquilo tudo é o Bono mesmo, ela ficou ainda mais admirada pela música, e por ele, claro.:lol:

É legal quando alguém cita o Passengers, ele não costuma ser lembrado. É uma pena, porque ele é maravilhoso.

Eu acho que vou fazer minha playlist, parece divertido.:D

[angel of dublin]

obrigada MT por colocar isso aqui!
mta gente n tem acesso a essa area do site.
eu tb n vou pagar 40 dolares por ano...;)

gostei bastante do da Catherine Owens...

soh uma duvida..
qm eh o Greg Carroll qe morreu, a qm ela se refere na justificativa de One Tree Hill?

[Tchela]

Greg Caroll era um cara da Nova Zelândia... ele era ajudante de palco do U2, e cuidava, especificamente, do Bono. Qdo ele teimava em se jogar no público, subir em andaimes, ou andar de um lado para o outro, era o Greg q ficava lá, dando um apoio!!! Eles eram mto ligados ao Greg, e ele morreu em Dublin num acidente de moto. A música One Tree Hill foi feita para ele.

[ntrevia]

obrigada MT por colocar isso aqui!
mta gente n tem acesso a essa area do site.
eu tb n vou pagar 40 dolares por ano...;)

gostei bastante do da Catherine Owens...

soh uma duvida..
qm eh o Greg Carroll qe morreu, a qm ela se refere na justificativa de One Tree Hill?

Greg Caroll era um cara da Nova Zelândia... ele era ajudante de palco do U2, e cuidava, especificamente, do Bono. Qdo ele teimava em se jogar no público, subir em andaimes, ou andar de um lado para o outro, era o Greg q ficava lá, dando um apoio!!! Eles eram mto ligados ao Greg, e ele morreu em Dublin num acidente de moto. A música One Tree Hill foi feita para ele.

Tem uma grande referência ao Greg no U2 by U2...vô procurar qual é a página especificamente e depois te digo. Podes ir confirir lá no tópico do U2 by U2 em português. ;)

[Tchela]

Tem uma grande referência ao Greg no U2 by U2...vô procurar qual é a página especificamente e depois te digo. Podes ir confirir lá no tópico do U2 by U2 em português. ;)

Foi lá mesmo que eu li sobre o Greg... ;)

[ntrevia]

soh uma duvida..
qm eh o Greg Carroll qe morreu, a qm ela se refere na justificativa de One Tree Hill?

Aqui ó:
http://www.ultraviolet-u2.com/foruns/showthread.php?t=6193&page=16
http://www.ultraviolet-u2.com/foruns/showthread.php?t=6193&page=14

Nessas duas páginas eles fazem referência sobre como conheceram o Greg, como foi trabalhar com ele e como foi quando ele morreu em um acidente de moto em Dublin... ;)

[angel of dublin]

oobrigada!!

nossa, que pena...

já to indo lá ver...

beijão!

[ntrevia]

Fazendo um up no tópico...
Playlist do Willie Williams :aprovado: :aprovado:


‘I Fall Down…’
‘So much angst in men so young…’ Willie Williams brings us his U2Playlist, from Drowning Man to Desire.


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1. Drowning Man (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=27&album=4',380,356);) - War (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=4&type=lp)
On the War Tour we often talked about opening the show with this tune, probably with flags billowing and clouds of fog wafting about. We never did it, which is a shame, or maybe just as well. It’s a beautiful piece all the same and still waiting for its live performance debut.

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2. An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=14&album=3',380,356);) - Boy (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=3&type=lp)
I fell in love with this track whilst having a bath in Israel in1981 and its no secret that this is the one I’d be most likely to take to the desert island. The perfect, yearning sparseness of the instrumental passage is so much greater than the sum of its parts. It was sheer delight to hear it played live so often on the ‘Vertigo Tour year, though the performance I remember most vividly was at the Palladium in New York on the War Tour. Nobody in the room drew breath for 8 minutes.

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3. Beautiful Day (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=126&album=13',380,356);) - All That you Can’t Leave Behind (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp)
If the sun made a noise when it came out from behind a cloud, it would sound like the opening sequence of this song. To me its also always felt like the anti-particle partner of An Cat Dubh, though I can’t really explain what I mean by that.

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4. I Fall Down (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=3&album=1',380,356);) - October (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=1&type=lp)
So much angst in men so young. I love the emptiness of this whole album, with its atmospheric fragments, “Scarlet”, “Stranger in a Strange Land”, etc. No wonder they got on so well with Brian Eno.

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5. The Unforgettable Fire (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=44&album=6',380,356);) - The Unforgettable Fire (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=6&type=lp)
There was a sharp intake of breath from family and fan-base alike as the all-new ambient U2 sound began to take shape. It was a bold experiment but the creative rewards were enormous, typified by this track which kind of sums up the whole album with its stumbling, intoxicated lyrics. It’s hard to imagine who else could have had UK top ten single with this. As they said at the time, “you can’t hum it…”

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6. Exit (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=60&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
I hope I live long enough to witness this being played live again, though I suspect it might prove prohibitively expensive to employ the tour exorcist it would require to deal with Bono after the performance. This was one of his first lyrical ventures into an entirely alien psycho personality and there were some nights on the Joshua Tree Tour we really weren’t sure if he was ever going to make it back.

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7. Where The Streets Have No Name (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=51&album=7',380,356);)- The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
It’s almost a cliché to include this track, but night after night after night every hair still stands on end. Edge’s opening riff has the unique property of conjouring up anticipation and payoff at the same time, which in dramatic terms I don’t think is technically possible. Still it happens…night after night after night…


8. Baby Please Come Home - (A Very Special Christmas, compilation album)
From the sublime to the ridiculous. Performing other people’s songs hasn’t ever been U2’s strongest suit, but they nailed this one. I love U2 when they’re just being silly, and it doesn’t get much sillier than this.

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9. Lady With A Spinning Head (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=220&album=40',380,356);) - B-Side, Even Better Than The Real Thing (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=40&type=all_singles)
I heard an early version of this in Tenerife, whilst the band was making its initial foray into cross-dressing. Then it was just titled “69” and was the first thing I heard from the Achtung Baby sessions. I practically wet myself and must have listened to it a hundred times over the weekend. The song eventually split into two and became both The Fly and Ultraviolet, but with all four players at full throttle it’s the unbridled confidence of the performance that make this a masterpiece just as it stands, as well as being U2’s first true jazz odyssey.

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10. When I Look at the World (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=134&album=13',380,356);) - All That You Can’t Leave Behind (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp)
This is a quiet little gem from ATYCLB which, mood-wise, feels like the missing track from Achtung Baby. Guitar, bass, drums, lyrics and everything that slips through in between.

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11. Bad (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=47&album=6',380,356);) - The Unforgettable Fire (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=6&type=lp)
Like ‘Streets’ this song is so emotionally enormous that when performed live its position in the set list requires some strategy so as not to destabilise the whole gig. By contrast, the album version sounds remarkably fragile, delicate and understated. I love the brokenness of it and for iPod recreational listening would chose this over the live experience.

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12. Acrobat (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=89&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
Another song waiting for its live debut. We rehearsed a version of “Zoo TV” that opened with Acrobat and was extremely dramatic, though in a stadium situation it could be argued that it might have the same dramatic impact as walking out on stage and telling the audience to fuck off. I think U2 might well perform it some day, but till then this astonishing recording will have to do.

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13. The Fly (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=85&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp) (Live in Buenos Aires, hopefully to be released at some point).
I almost didn’t include this, as in spirit it’s already included in the playlist within ‘Lady With the Spinning Head’. In the end, the memories of the nightly aural and visual assault demand that it be added in its own right. The Fly was fabulous on the ZooTV tour, but outdoors on this last Vertigo run it really scaled new heights, like staring into a strobe light with a jet engine in each ear. Only louder and brighter.

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14. Desire (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=64&album=8',380,356);) - Rattle and Hum (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=8&type=lp) (Live in Rotterdam on the opening night of the Zooropa tour, not commercially available)
I loved the way ‘Desire’ made its quiet quantum leap from the rootsy backbeat-skiffle of Rattle and Hum to ZooTV’s cowboy preacher in a mirrorball costume. Folkways to Vegas in 60 seconds or less. When we got Europe to start Zooropa, the wheels really came off as Mr. MacPhisto took over the leading role for the song. On opening night in Rotterdam a huge thunder and lightning storm struck as ‘Desire’ kicked off the encore, which I think gave Bono the required courage to face down his public dressed as a drag-devil Laurence Olivier in gold platforms. Its always fun to watch 60,000 people go “what the f….?”

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15. Take Me to the Clouds Above - (LMC vs U2, single)
This has always felt less like a pop song than a kind of Eric Satie style mathematical construction. It could have been written by a computer finding random permutations of two lines from Whitney Houston’s ‘How Will I Know’, one phrase each by Edge and Adam from ‘With or Without You’ and a very cheesy sounding drum machine. I can’t imagine why I find it so moving – perhaps it’s my teen angst communing with its inner disco bunny.
On the Vertigo Tour I tried to persuade Bono to sing the Whitney Houston refrain over the end of ‘With or Without You’ live. After months of nagging, he finally did it for me in Manchester. I loved it, The Edge was appalled and it never happened again.

[followerU2]

An Cat Dubh / Exit / Lady With the Spinning Head...o cara tem bom gosto, definitivamente. Genial o que ele falou sobre Exit, muito bom.

MT

[matsimon]

An Cat Dubh / Exit / Lady With the Spinning Head...o cara tem bom gosto, definitivamente. Genial o que ele falou sobre Exit, muito bom.

MT


realmente mto boa lista!! foi a q mais gostei até agora...

[jorgefilipe_u2]

quero ver uma lista do Paul McGuiness :aprovado:

[Mysterious girl]

An Cat Dubh / Exit / Lady With the Spinning Head...o cara tem bom gosto, definitivamente. Genial o que ele falou sobre Exit, muito bom.

MT

Tb foi a que mais gostei até agora... além disso tem Acrobat / TUF / Bad..

:aprovado:

[carol]

Amei a descrição de acrobat

e como disse a MT, o q ele falou de exit foi simplesmente genial

[followerU2]

Okay, mais uma playlist liberada, dessa vez do Daniel Lanois:

'Spontaneous Combustion'


Daniel Lanois, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer extraordinaire, has been in the studio with U2 on several of their albums since The Unforgettable Fire in 1984 - and he's working with them on the latest. He looked back on some of those albums to come up with his U2 Playlist.


Here's Danny's U2 Playlist.

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1. PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE) (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=42&album=6',380,356);) - The Unforgettable Fire (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=6&type=lp)
Now this holds a special place in my heart given that we must have recorded it at least twenty times! We tried it in the Castle and that didn’t seem to work. If I remember right Bono wanted the drum roll that springboards into the chorus to go a certain way - he had a memory relating to rehearsals - so we found ourselves in the mixing room at Windmill Lane and we still did not have the version of Pride that would satisfy our wannabe drummer. At Windmill they didn’t have a drum sound that I liked and so I insisted that we build a cement wall behind Larry’s kit so we could get that sort of stone-wall sound. Sure enough the crew came in and built a wall of cement blocks behind Larry’s kit and that sound satisfied me - a great performance by Larry - so we cut the version that ended up on the record. Drum sounds aside I think what probably delivers the song in such a big way is Bono hitting the top notes.

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2. MLK (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=50&album=6',380,356);) - The Unforgettable Fire (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=6&type=lp)
This song has a sweetness to it that appeals to me. I used this beautiful Sony microphone called a C500 which has this velvety top end that sounds really nice for Bono’s voice and it’s one of those little moments you want to keep coming back to.

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3. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=52&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
The story has been told before but its worth telling again: the drums, another very fine performance from Larry, were from another song, that I didn’t want to lose and Larry’s drums inspired Edge to come up with a lovely acoustic guitar chord sequence, which itself seemed to spawn some good R’n’B melodies from Bono. But we still didn’t have a chorus: that came one morning when The Edge came in from home with the line ‘but I still haven’t found what I’m looking for’. So the song had found its identity which fuelled some very lovely bass from Adam who must have played it a dozen different times to accomodate the never ending chord changes. The background vocal is Edge, Eno and myself singing at the top of our lungs with a lot of fire. The song has such a lot of feeling in it that it sustains me even now.

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4. Exit (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=60&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
This was a lovely gift from the band room: U2 have the capacity to have spontaneous combustions and this song is a fine example of that kind of work where you never know what is going to happen when you huddle up with them in the band room. We call it the room of shattered metal and glass! Exit was in fact an extract from a very long jam, the shining gem of that jam, and I remember some long nights chopping the tape to pull out the best bits.

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5. Mothers Of The Disappeared (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=61&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
I love that piece of music as it’s a marriage of human playing of instruments and of technology. Eno came up with some great kind of machine gun and bomb sounds, almost like a soundtrack piece of music, and painting such a strong picture. It’s a subject matter that should be looked at all the time – a strong force going into a small community and pushing it around to serve its own needs, even if the expense is people going missing.

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6. One (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=81&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
What an incredible journey Achtung Baby was. The guys had it in their mind that they wanted to make a rock’n’roll European record so they went into Hansa Studios in Berlin where Iggy Pop and Bowie and Eno had worked - Eno found himself sitting in the same chair that he sat in the seventies and it was a great place of innovation. That wonderful old orchestra room spawned the song One, a favourite of mine. That song started with a chord sequence from The Edge who then came up with a second chord sequence, and when I suggested a blend of the two that slight twist allowed Bono to come up with his melody. It was a song built through several chapters. As I remember right after a Christmas break, Eno and I turned up at Hansa before the band had arrived, and I had this Les Paul part which I call the mantra and Eno doubled it up on the synth so that was a little surprise for the guys when they walked in. That’s a nice thing to do for Bono, to juice him up with some sonics, that way he usually goes off to the microphone and comes up with something new and that was the case with this.

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7. Until The End of the World (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=82&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
Flood came up with a great mix here, I was his cheerleader. There was something on the equalisers on the console we used that allowed us to have a kind of sweeping effect on the guitar, almost like a wah wah peddle being performed on the consol. I love the vitality and speed of this song.

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8. You're So Cruel (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=84&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=9&type=lp)
One of my favourite grooves from Larry, about as close as we’ve ever gotten to a Motown or Sun Studios performance and such a simplicity and clarity, that it’s always fun for me to listen to.

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9. Love is Blindness (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=90&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
I love the darkness of this, we hit on something there sonically.

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10. Beautiful Day (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=126&album=13',380,356);) - All That You Can't Leave Behind (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp)
There’s a song that got bashed around pretty well in the studio and went through many versions. Chord sequence by Bono I believe and kind of rooted in the tradition of what I call the Bo Diddley riff. It never quite grew out of bar room territory. We didn’t really know what to do with it, then Eno dialled up a little drum beat, and a piano part and a string part, kind of as a loop and I played a telecaster part in harmony with that which provided a lot of encouragement to the room and so a big jam took place and in the middle of that session Bono yelled ‘It’s a beautiful day!’. And then we went for lunch! When we came back we realised that that had been a special moment and so we transferred that beautiful day idea to an earlier part of the song, creating a chorus, and it went on from there. Background singing is by Edge and myself, processed by Mr Eno who made us sound like a choir.

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11. Grace (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=136&album=13',380,356);) - All That You Can't Leave Behind (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp)
I love this piece, another one of those quiet numbers that I like to hear on records, you are hearing a nice blend of spontaneous U2 track, grown by the Eno and Lanois production team.

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12. Where The Streets Have No Name (javascript:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=61&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
Another track that we struggled with but there was always something in the symphonic beginning which appealed to everybody and that had come from a demo Edge had made at home. It has a strange time signature which really screwed up the rhythm section, a very anti-rock’n’roll thing to do. I can remember myself like a science teacher pointing people through the chord changes. In the end it has this great uplifting feel and maybe it is the closest thing U2 have ever come to a dance song.


Adorei os comentários dele. Acho fascinante saber esses detalhes sobre as músicas chegaram a sua forma acabada.

Estranho que deixaram o nome de So Cruel errado nesse artigo. Ou será que pra ele esse seria o nome certo? :P

MT

[followerU2]

Sorry. Depois que copiei pra cá a matéria do U2.com, vi que o Cris já havia aberto outro tópico. Não ando acompanhando o fórum com muita frequência depois de alguns problemas que tive há uns meses atrás. Enfim, fica o original pra quem quiser conferir. Esse material é da área de assinantes pagos do U2.com, sei que muitos não têm acesso.

MT

[Su Scout]

Não há dúvidas sobre qual é o álbum preferido dele.:P

[Samuel Melo]

É realmente muito curioso todo o processo por qual passou Where The Streets Have No Name antes de virar o grande hino do U2, o documentário dos Classic Albums deixa isso bem claro. E pensar que ela quase parou na lixeira!

[followerU2]

Mais uma playlist divulgada no U2.com, dessa vez de Cheryl Engels. Ela é responsável pela pós-produção e pela qualidade de áudio dos discos do U2. Comentei sobre ela e fiz uma versão do artigo dela no livro U2 Show aqui:
http://www.ultraviolet-u2.com/foruns/showpost.php?p=280240&postcount=56

Aí vai a playlist dela, pra quem não tem acesso ao U2.com:

‘Terrific Universal Songwriting’


Look at the credits on your U2 albums and you’ll notice that Cheryl Engels gets more mentions than most, usually for something mysteriously entitled ‘audio post-production’ Most recently she has been working with Edge on the remastering of the band’s first three albums, Boy, October and War. We asked Cheryl to listen back through the band’s albums to come up with her U2 Playlist.


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1. An Cat Dubh (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=14&album=3',380,356);) - Boy (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=3&type=lp)
Bono has said he was probably the cat in this song, although it is a female kitty in the lyrics. I’m ashamed to say I relate to this feline, having played the role in at least one relationship that was over long before I actually exited – instead dragging it out because I dreaded hurting the guy by telling him it was done – which, of course, created way more seemingly endless pain – sort of like shaking around the poor little half eaten birdie in this tune. I love the mix balance, and the fluidity of the instrumental segue to ‘Into The Heart’ – just lovely music; how could this have come out of a bunch of teenaged boys?

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2. I Threw A Brick Through A Window (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=4&album=1',380,356);) - October (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=1&type=lp)
I remember the moment I knew I had outgrown my hometown, or my hometown had outgrown me, and, well, I had to get out of there; this song reminds me of that time, when Life’s Journey was in pause for a plethora of reasons. Plus, Larry gets a solo and Adam is featured. What more could you ask for? Oh, perhaps Edge on bottleneck guitar? In addition, how about lyrics like “no one is blinder than he who will not see?” Who doesn’t relate to that line? This is a song that shone in live performances; check out the live versions on the remastered ‘Boy’ deluxe box set bonus CD.

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3. Tomorrow (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=7&album=1',380,356);) - October (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=1&type=lp)
Poignant uilleann pipes provide a brilliant foundation for this straight-from-the-soul song. Missing a Loved One, missing God, missing Peace. Frustration, loss, & fear are underscored in the arrangement of the second half of the song where the full band comes in. A more spare and traditionally Irish view, featuring Adam and Bono, is on display in the mix done in 1997 for the album, ‘Common Ground’. I recently heard a recording of ‘Tomorrow’ from a 1983 gig in Glasgow, complete with a piper, which brought me to tears; I so wish I had been in that audience.

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4. Seconds (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=24&album=4',380,356);) - War (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=4&type=lp)
A journalist once described this track as “U2 boogies along to the Apocalypse,” and that is how I have always heard it. I am from the generation that was taught to ‘duck and cover’. Not much has changed in the years since I was a kid; we all still live with the possibility of total annihilation at the touch of a button. U2 are ahead of the times – this song even includes a sample. Edge is the groove-meister here, even contributing lead vocals in the first verse, and I love Adam’s funky bass line. You should check out the live version on the upcoming Red Rocks DVD.

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5. Bad (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=47&album=6',380,356);) - The Unforgettable Fire (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=6&type=lp)
(Thinking about both ‘Bad’ and ‘Wire’) In ‘Wire’ the band rock so much you can almost hear the walls of Slane Castle cracking from the volume. This intense track is one of the most fascinating productions ever by Eno and Lanois. In ‘Bad’, the rhythm section breaks new ground. I love the ambiguity of the lyrics in both songs, which directly, or indirectly, address serious drug addiction – they have been called incomplete sketches, but who cares? Clearly a case of musical alchemy – individual ingredients collide to create a completely new, rare, and priceless element.

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6. Mothers of the Disappeared (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=61&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
Missing husbands, sons, and fathers throughout Latin America were a shocking theme in 1987. Sting released ‘They Dance Alone’ that same year, which was about the wives, mothers, and daughters of the missing in Chile. U2’s ‘Mothers’ was a lament for Argentina’s Disappeared. Desolate and heartrending. I was working at A&M Recording Studios when U2 was in mixing the ‘Rattle & Hum’ album and film score in 1988. At A&M, whenever a session needed a large group of voices, all the studio employees would be summoned to provide whatever was needed. I can hear myself on many iconic records – I’m killer on handclaps. ‘Mothers’ was being worked on for inclusion in the film, and Jimmy Iovine must have wanted more audience in the response sections, because a group of studio staff was lined up in Studio A to record vocals. I got there late, or someone mistakenly assumed everyone would already know the Spanish lyrics, “El pueblo vencera” we were meant to sing. Anyhow, no one told me what to sing; I don’t speak Spanish, and I erroneously thought everyone was singing something like, “Del puebla que sera sera.” And because I really wanted to help, I was singing quite loudly. It was years before I discovered the chant wasn’t about “what will be will be.” The song didn’t make it into the film. Our overdubs exist on a tape somewhere, and someday I’m going to find that tape.

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7. Bullet the Blue Sky (Live) (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=54&album=7',380,356);) - The Joshua Tree (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=7&type=lp)
A song about dichotomy – I am an American, a fact that makes me feel simultaneously proud and ashamed – the best and the worst of man. That’s what this song is about to me. In 2006, Dave Stewart interviewed Bono and Edge for his HBO TV series, “Off the Record.” In the interview Bono talked about what he saw and heard, and his feelings of anger and fear, during a firebombing he witnessed when he first visited El Salvador. Bono said he related his experiences to Edge and asked him to put those stories through his amplifier. Which he did. And that is ‘Bullet The Blue Sky’.

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8. Van Diemen’s Land (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=63&album=8',380,356);) - Rattle and Hum (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=8&type=lp)
I’m a fan of anything that has Edge on vocals. The opening title credit roll for Phil Joanou’s ‘Rattle and Hum’ film is an aerial montage of Irish landscapes, Dublin cityscapes, and images of the band in rehearsal in Dublin, all scored to ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ – it is a such a poetic moment – a perfect opening for the film.

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9. Love is Blindness (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=90&album=9',380,356);) - Achtung Baby (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
(Thinking about ‘Love is Blindness’ and ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’ (Temple Bar Mix)’. ‘Love is Blindness’ is a desperate, moody, heart of darkness, sensual song. My favorite version of the track appears on the ‘Zoo TV Live from Sydney’ DVD. ‘Wild Horses’, to me, deals with similar topics. When this album was being mastered, I was in a relationship that was spiralling out of control and unraveling before my eyes. The arrangement and lyrics of ‘Horses’ and ‘Blindness’ spoke directly to my situation. “You’re an accident waiting to happen; a piece of glass left there on the beach.” Playing these songs back-to-back, I had to wonder if someone was reading my diary – but no, merely a mark of terrific universal song writing.

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10. Numb (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=93&album=10',380,356);) - Zooropa (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=10&type=lp)
Reasons for appearance include but are not limited to:
1. Larry on backing vocals
2. The Video Single
3. Edge’s performance at 1993 MTV Video Awards
4. Soul Assassins Remix
5. The way it sets up ‘Lemon’ so perfectly on the album
6. Bono’s falsetto vocals
7. Gimme Some More Dignity Remix
8. The ‘Zoo TV Live from Sydney’ DVD performance, complete with Emergency Broadcast Network imagery & sound effects
9. Those blue uniforms

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11. Velvet Dress (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=110&album=11',380,356);) - Pop (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=11&type=lp)
I first heard this track when it arrived at Masterdisc in NYC for mastering of the POP album. I remember listening to the album in a candlelit studio with Flood and the mastering engineer the evening it arrived, and instantly falling in love with this sexy song for the ladies. A couple of days later the band came in, and everyone was sitting together in the studio playing back tracks. I was walking across the room and when I passed Bono, he jumped out of his seat, drew me into a tight embrace, and we slow danced cheek to cheek around the studio, while everyone else sat and stared (or at least that was how it felt). I’m a little on the self-conscious side to begin with, so the entire event embarrassed me tremendously. I think he was experimenting to see how the song would play on tour – could he use it to bring girls up out of the audience for a slow dance? Obviously he thought it worked, and, subsequently, each time I see him slow dance with an audience member during ‘Velvet Dress’, I remember that day – of course time has softened the moment into a fuzzy warm memory.

12. Miss Sarajevo
I have been an ardent admirer of Luciano Pavarotti since the late 70s, when Public TV in the USA broadcast a series of master classes he conducted for young singers. He was well known in the classical world at the time, but this was well before the Three Tenors had even been thought of, and he wasn’t a household name in pop circles. I fancied him my ‘secret discovery’. I loved the tender manner in which he addressed the young talent in his classes – just watching his face as he listened to them singing was transporting. When ‘Miss Sarajevo’ came along, I could not believe I was going to have a hand in EQing the master’s vocals. This was sacred territory to me – and today I still can’t believe I worked on this song. The video remains one of my favorite U2 visuals. Bono’s vocals on this song during the Vertigo tour were just remarkable.

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13. Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of (Radio Edit) (http://javascript<b></b>:go('/av/aplayer.php?song=127&album=13',380,356);) - All That You Can't Leave Behind (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp)
This is a ‘fell in love at first listen’ tune for me. I love the gospel chorus at the end, and the lyrics are amongst my favorites from U2. When the single came along, we needed a version for radio; many ideas were tried over a number of days, but the band wasn’t satisfied with any of the results. Eventually we ran past the deadline for delivery, but still no mix. Higher powers advised a decision had to be made on a particular date, also the day of one of the Paris shows on the Elevation tour. Before the show, Edge phoned in instructions, and my editor and I frantically put together many edit variations in a studio in LA.
Following the show, the band was whisked away to a party hosted by the label in a small Parisian boite. Upon arrival at the party, Sheila Roche escorted Edge into the men’s room (or perhaps the ladies room), shoved a phone in his hand, and told him to listen to our edits until he could settle upon one. She stood guard outside the door of the lavatory for the next half hour, while we played mixes down the phone and made more tweaks on the fly (the epitome of high tech engineering). I heard from someone at the label how inconvenienced many guests were during that half hour, but bladders be damned, we got our radio edit that night.

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14. ‘Kite’ (Live from Sydney, Nov, 2006) - All That You Can't Leave Behind (http://www.u2.com/music/index.php?album_id=13&type=lp) (Thinking about this with ‘Tower Of Song’ (from the film ‘Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man’)
Honorable mention has to go to these two B-Sides off the ‘Window In The Skies’ single. ‘Kite’ comes replete with didgeridoo, a glorious guitar solo from Edge, and a dedication to Cate Blanchette (one of God’s wonders). Bono’s vocals are something to write home about. A perfect live experience -- I believe there was even a real kite soaring high in the Sydney sky that night. U2 has collaborated on live performances with many artists: ‘Tower Of Song’ is one, and is an understated masterpiece – what a delectable song by Leonard Cohen – Edge’s guitar is so tasty -- there is a video, which just adds another layer to this rich slice of chocolate cake. “I said to Hank Williams, ‘How lonely does it get?’ Hank Williams hasn’t answered me yet, but I hear him coughing all night long, a hundred floors above me, in the tower of song.”


MT

PS.: a versão ao vivo de Tomorrow em Glasgow que ela menciona é a que rodamos no podcast Bono - Parte I :sim:

[Shy]

Só para deixar meu comentário aqui, sobre um assunto legal. Eu gostei muito desse set list, e fico imaginando os testes que o Bono faz com certas músicas para saber o efeito delas Ao Vivo :D
Fico feliz em ver que a maioria das músicas que eu gosto estão nesse playlist, atualmente eu ando ouvindo muito a Love is Blindness, e não era uma das minhas favoritas.
A Stuck tb, foi por causa dela no Go Home que eu comprei o Live in Boston. Ahh, eu gosto de todas :)