![]() ![]() And then, one day, Lanois suggested to the Edge that he combine two separate guitar parts. Every single member of U2 was convinced at one moment or another in the early days at Hansa Studios - the same place that David Bowie, Iggy Pop and others had gone to find magic, or at least inspiration - that this was the end of U2. In the search for that dream, Bono decided that if U2 decamped to Berlin with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, something had to happen. It took tremendous foresight for U2 to take a break and a fair amount of fortitude to stand onstage and inform your audience that “… this is the end of something for U2 … We have to go away and … and dream it all up again.” ![]() Record companies certainly want bands to keep doing the thing, over and over again, that made them all that money. And even after achieving international fame and fortune with The Joshua Tree, their fifth album, back in 1987, they came crashing back to earth with its follow-up, Rattle and Hum, which every rock critic in the world interpreted as U2 trying to teach America about American music.īy the end of the ’80s, U2 could have just kept moving forward with their existing formula and maybe eked out another few years with that pattern. ![]() No record label still in business today would have let them release a third album after the battles around the second one. The traditional path to success in the music industry pretty much no longer exists, and if it did, a band like U2 never would have gotten the creative control they asked for - and received. Yes, they own houses in the south of France and show up in the occasional gossip column and Bono jets off to Davos every year, but they are still very much a band, and there’s something remarkable in the fact that they continue to remain a going concern. U2 are, at this point, the only rock band of their stature that still has the original lineup: No one’s overdosed, no one’s been fired, no one’s left the group in pursuit of a solo career. put up a notice at Mount Temple Comprehensive School: “Drummer seeks musicians to form band.” This is how the members of U2 met, a moment specifically commemorated in Bono’s new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (out November 1). “Started a landslide in my ego” is a line that pops into my head regularly, either when I hear certain trigger words (like landslide) or I hear the title of A Day Without Me.In 1976, a student named Larry Mullen Jr. I enjoy thinking that line, and I enjoy this song. And yes I recognize that I get the quote wrong.įrom Boy, so it is very early U2 and therefore simple musically and lyrically, but that isn’t a bad thing. This is one of the better songs on the album really, in terms of the music, because it shows each part of the band working both separately and together. There are parts within the song where one of them comes out in front, it is mostly Edge of course, but there are distinct parts for both Larry and Adam as well. But then they all seem to flow back in together and are working well. It is definitely a harbinger of things to come for the band, which we see as they create album after album, that they clearly grow as a band as they mature. The lyrics are relatively simple, repetitive a little, and of course they had no idea how to end the song, so they end up with a whole bunch of bah bah bah at the end, which is a bit of a waste. I can’t tell them how they should have done it better, but perhaps nothing lyrically would have been a better choice. One of the things that is noticeable about the song is that the lyrics are much less than they appear to be when you listen. ![]()
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