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	U2
		The songs don't vary much in tone, mood, or tempo (this is U2, after all), but then again, neither does your average mass in your average Catholic church.
		However, the song's length and format do not give it a chance to develop, which leaves the magnum opus spot of the album open for 'Bad', an anti-drug song that somehow manages to turn something distinctly personal and intimate into a huge singalong anthem.
		Sure, U2 were on a major label and were heavily promoted (as well as heavily promot-ing themselves through the charity thing and suchlike), but the main thing is that they were, like, one of the three or four traditionally-oriented guitar-based bands relying on some kind of spontaneity and sincerity that was still in action.
	starling.rinet.ru /music/u2.htm (6341 words)

	R.E.M. Fan Forums - Your favourite U2 song
		I'm one of the guys who if asked "Do you think U2 ever made a perfet song?" says "Every U2 song is perfect".
		My favorite songs are Bad, Bullet the Blue Sky and Until the End of the World.
		My favourite U2, is probably 'Beautiful Day' because I want to do what Bono and co did on the runway (play music while a 747 comes down), I love the way it shakes when it does.
	www.myrem.com /showthread.php?t=8776 (791 words)

	Am I Right - Artist Summary U2
		There are additional U2 new song names available.
		I should have known Bono wouldn't have written such bad lyrics for a song, especially since 'The Sweetest Thing' is supposed to have a real meaning.
		UB40 combined with U2 This group would've formed when all band members in each band were at least 40.
	www.amiright.com /artists/u2.shtml (791 words)

	HellBored STORE - Just what you wanted to buy : Beautiful Day [Japan CD]
		THIS SONG, WHICH IS ANOTHER TRACK OFF OF U2'S MOST RECENT ALBUM, ''ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND'', IS ANOTHER EXCELLENT SONG.
		"Beautiful Day" is one of U2's best songs and certainly their best since the Achtung Baby era.
		While I do enjoy the album "All That You Can't Leave Behind," I have a serious problem with the song that became the album's hit single, "Beautiful Day." It's very simple, please give it a try - listen to the first minute or so or the song carefully with headphones on, twice.
	www.hellbored.com /store/index-item_id-B00005222S-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html (791 words)

	Amazon.com: These Boots are Made for Walking: Music: KMFDM
		With three tunes that shift from a heavy anthem, a synthesized playground of sound, and something in-between the two, they make the song something that is their own, much in the same right that Madonna's Justify my Love and U2's Mysterious Ways were found in their capable hands in some past life.
		The song really didn't do much for me. It wasn't bad, all I'm saying that the song wasn't one of the band's best songs that they have ever done.
		These songs are also available as high quality MP3s from the KMFDM store at KMFDM.com, so you may want to just buy the first two songs if you're not a completist.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005V91E?v=glance (1528 words)

	Articles - U2 (band)
		The centrepiece of the album is "Bad", a long, experimental song which, while never released as a single, provided the album's defining moment: a cathartic exploration on the theme of heroin dependency - a problem particularly prevalent in the Dublin of the mid-1980s.
		Though not regarded musically as one of the best U2 songs (they had yet to hit the musical heights that became their trademark later), it is generally regarded as one of the most fascinating examples of their linguistic abilities.
		The song received extensive airplay in the first week after its release and debuted at #18 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100, at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, and #5 on the Australian ARIAnet singles chart.
	www.suntik.com /articles/U2_(band) (1528 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Sing A Powerful Song
		As with most albums there are some songs that really impress and others that don't.I was quite impressed with the various styles,some have an almost U2 flavor and others are local Irish barband (best type).
		Their isn't a bad song on the album.
		Their songs manage to convey soulfulness and innocence simultaneously, as if they sang from the contemporary heart of their own land.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YTRW?v=glance (1528 words)

	Las Vegas City Life
		U2's "One" and Blur's "Song 2," School House Rock's "Three Is the Magic Number" and Soul Coughing's "4 out of 5": More fun than watching the Count on Sesame Street completely baked.
		Ryan Adams' "New York, New York" with Desaparecidos' "Greater Omaha," Public Image Limited's "Seattle" and Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.": As if geography class wasn't bad enough.
		Like turning pop music into a tasty twist cone, blending two seemingly opposite songs into one creamy treat, mash-ups (or bastard pop as it's known back in its U.K. homeland) find a way to make something, if not better, at least more interesting than the sum of its parts.
	www.lasvegascitylife.com /articles/2004/03/12/music/music01.txt (658 words)

	A Study of The Edge's Guitar Delay (U2)
		There may also be some room echo present in some of the studio recordings (especially 'Wire' and 'Bad' and other songs recorded in the castle for 'The Unforgettable Fire' -- the rooms they recorded in probably added a lot of echo).
		Ye, play the best of U2 is a great book special the one with the two CD's, there are others, but this one has the most songs in it, here's a list of the songs.
		Most of us won't ever play in a U2 tribute band or try to cover a U2 song in the studio, but discovering how The Edge uses his 'trademark' guitar delay is not limited to that.
	www.amnesta.net /edge_delay (15200 words)

	U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: Pitchfork Review
		Theoretically, Atomic Bomb weds classic U2 (echoing guitars, big sound, soaring vocals) with nu-U2 (experimental tweaks, electronic flourishes) but, high aspirations aside, the only marriage the record ultimately achieves is the union of good U2 and bad U2.
		Maybe the biggest problem with Atomic Bomb is just that it sounds so much like U2, and their semi-absurd, totally unparalleled ubiquity has left all of us just a tiny bit tired of listening to things that sound like U2.
		Despite a deliberately leading album title-- and one lone, overtly suggestive song title ("Love and Peace Or Else")-- How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is a curiously apolitical record, more about love and loyalty (and the 2001 death of Bono's father) than impending global doom.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/u/u2/how-to-dismantle-an-atomic-bomb.shtml (836 words)

	Wide Awake in America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The EP's centerpiece, "Bad", a song about heroin addiction, would become a staple of their live set, particularly after a remarkable extended performance at Live Aid in which Bono dances with a girl in the audience.
		It collects various B-sides from the era, which had only been available in the UK, along with a previously unreleased live performance of the song "Bad".
		Wide Awake in America is a four-track EP by the Irish rock band U2, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wide_Awake_in_America (501 words)

	A Study of The Edge's Guitar Delay (U2)
		Most of us won't ever play in a U2 tribute band or try to cover a U2 song in the studio, but discovering how The Edge uses his 'trademark' guitar delay is not limited to that.
		There may also be some room echo present in some of the studio recordings (especially 'Wire' and 'Bad' and other songs recorded in the castle for 'The Unforgettable Fire' -- the rooms they recorded in probably added a lot of echo).
		Incidentally, it is probably why many of the songs are in the key of D and many of the riffs are around a D chord - the D and A strings work best in that key.
	www.amnesta.net /edge_delay (14793 words)

	Vanessa Carlton Chat: View Topic
		Vanessa's version is incredible, yes, but it's a U2 song, and they do it even more amazingly than she does.
		But what Vanessa is trying to tell us is that only in a WORLD where the LOVE exists, there is no WAR, the WORD "BAD" does not exist, and you dont have to be SUFFERING EVERYDAY, its where the streets have no name.
		was a form that Vanessa relieve all the bad things that happen and continue with her life always smiling.
	www.vanessacarlton.com /bboard/forumname/viewtopic.asp?topicID=1537075 (773 words)

	NZ Musician
		Kerrison possesses a great voice that sits comfortably somewhere between James Dean Bradfield of The Manic Street Preachers and U2's Bono, not a bad place to be when you're pitching a new song to radio, while Skedden will be familiar as the clip-on live guitarist with the feelers.
		Sitting at a picnic table in the courtyard of his Ponsonby abode, Opshop singer, principle songwriter and self-confessed bad guitarist Jason Kerrison is poring over the recently arrived cover mock-ups for the Auckland-via-Christchurch five piece's debut album 'You Are Here'.
		Formed in mid-2002, Opshop as a band may be shaping up nicely, but it hasn't finished growing yet.
	www.nzmusician.co.nz /index.php/ps_pagename/articledetail/pi_articleid/350 (773 words)

	U2 Feedback - Classic Album Track: Until The End of the World*
		This week’s classic album track is fan favourite “Until the End of the World,” from the 1991 album “Achtung Baby.” Along with “The Unforgettable Fire's” “Bad,” this song is one of two firm fan favourites that incredibly were never released as singles.
		With its widely interpreted lyrical content and impact as a downright good rock song, it is likely that “Until the End of the World” will be cherished by U2 fans well into the future on the same level as other well-known classics from the band's wide repertoire.
		It would be a major surprise to most fans if “Until the End of the World” weren’t on regular rotation for U2’s upcoming tour.
	forum.interference.com /t93539.html (993 words)

	Ink 19 :: Matthew Ryan
		The opening "3rd of October" sounds like vintage Unforgettable Fire-era U2 (think "Bad") with chunky Edge-like guitar (think "Sunday Bloody Sunday") and even a Bono-like falsetto to go with Ryan's customary gravelly mumble.
		Ryan's voice is a limited instrument, but it is a voice with character and when it is surrounded with solid musicianship in service to a great song, it works like crazy.
		The song builds to a soaring, swirling climax as Ryan sings "I don't wanna lose myself/I don't wanna lose you/I don't wanna be humbled by the truth."
	www.ink19.com /issues/september2000/wetInk/musicPR/matthewRyan.html (373 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Keeper of the Flame
		The version of "Bad" from U2 is excellent as is the title song "Keeeper of the Flame".
		On the other hand "Dancing Queen" isn't really a Luka Bloom song and doesn't sound right.
		For those who have seen Luka live you'd recognise some of the songs and you can almost see him playing them.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050F5C (373 words)

	print.asp?id=113
		One of the reasons cited for U2's long-term success as a band is that they agreed when they were teenagers they would split all of the songwriting royalties equally, regardless of who wrote the songs (thus avoiding an imbalance of power and finances that has destroyed many other bands).
		Record agreements today routinely contain a waiver of the song length, meaning they can pay based on the cheapest rate no matter how long the particular song actually is. This only works when the songs are controlled compositions (click here for more information).
		Because recording for a record label is a bit like having a child -- and in many cases you will be connected to a label possibly for the rest of your life -- use your gut instincts and don't sign to a label you have a bad feeling about.
	www.starpolish.com /advice/print.asp?id=113 (19473 words)

	antiMUSIC - musicNEWS: U2 Top Grammy Nominations.
		Dave Grohl's bad vocal rendition, all because of his incompatibility of singing Metal stuff, actually lends a different taste to it.
		Billy's vocals are surprisingly, fitting for the song too.
		Yeah, I never said the vocals are the strength of the song.
	www.antimusic.com /news/2002/jan/item5.shtml (3042 words)

	antiMUSIC - musicNEWS: U2 Top Grammy Nominations.
		Dave Grohl's bad vocal rendition, all because of his incompatibility of singing Metal stuff, actually lends a different taste to it.
		Billy's vocals are surprisingly, fitting for the song too.
		Yeah, I never said the vocals are the strength of the song.
	www.antimusic.com /news/2002/jan/item5.shtml (3042 words)

	Coldplay Album Reviews
		They aren’t bad by any means, as “A Whisper” is the album’s most rocking song, and the title track (which reminds me of Grant Lee Buffalo) and “Amsterdam” (a dead ringer for U2) ambitiously tackle serious topics (war and death, respectively).
		The album starts on a high with “Politik.” Written the week of September 11th, 2001, the song shows a no longer naïve young band writing powerfully about politics.
		Parachutes was one of the most acclaimed and criticized albums of 2000.
	www.geocities.com /sfloman/coldplay.html (842 words)

	U2 Feedback - Classic Album Track: Until The End of the World*
		This week’s classic album track is fan favourite “Until the End of the World,” from the 1991 album “Achtung Baby.” Along with “The Unforgettable Fire's” “Bad,” this song is one of two firm fan favourites that incredibly were never released as singles.
		With its widely interpreted lyrical content and impact as a downright good rock song, it is likely that “Until the End of the World” will be cherished by U2 fans well into the future on the same level as other well-known classics from the band's wide repertoire.
		There are references to both prostitution and oral sex (“Surrounding me, going down on me; spilling over the brim”) but the key scene takes place in the Garden of Gethsemane, portraying the indescribable bond between Jesus and his betrayer (“I was in the garden playing the tart, I kissed your lips and broke your heart”).
	forum.interference.com /t93539.html (842 words)

	John Middleton
		U2 also touches on issues of drug use, in the song "Bad", a lament of a friend unable to break the chains of addiction.
		The album also boasts a lyrical developement, experimenting with free association in songs and stream of conscience writing, leaving a microphone on as Bono weaves images of summer into the musical backdrop crafted by Mullen, The Edge, and Clayton.
		Here's one example of the poetry found in the song "A Sort of Homecomming." I always play this one before returning back to King of Prussia, especialy now being an extra long way from home!
	za.msnusers.com /JohnMiddleton/music.msnw (842 words)

	Suits, Lawsuits, and Art: Negativland Takes On The Man
		Negativland pestered everyone concerned—especially U2 and their management—with so many phone calls, faxes, and letters that "what eventually happened was that it turned into so much bad press for them that they finally did kind of change their minds.
		Negativland has published a full-sized book called Fair Use, documenting their experience with corporate rock and U.S. copyright law—an experience that has left them deep in debt, thanks to U2, Island Records, and their own former label, self-proclaimed "anti-corporate rock" label SST.
		As raw media material, they took a then-current news story—about a Midwestern teen who murdered his parents with an axe—and distributed a press release claiming that "Federal Official Dick Jordan" forced the tour's cancellation because Negativland's song "Christianity is Stupid" (from the 1987 album Escape From Noise) was suspected to have influenced the young murderer.
	www.deuceofclubs.com /write/negativl.htm (2656 words)

	RUNAWAY BRIDE - DVD
		I was won over its machine-tooled pleasantness, and besides, any film that features U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" prominently on the soundtrack can't be all bad.
		Right' story, and granted all the weight of the Hall and Oates song "Maneater," which plays over an introductory scene.) It's also too long by several minutes, and, as usual, Gere looks like he's passing a stone whenever he cracks a joke.
		To Runaway Bride's credit, Ike's adjustment to rural life isn't dwelled upon--if you think about it, everybody knows his name in the big city by reputation, and everybody knows his name in Hale because gossip spreads quickly in these parts.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/runawaybride.htm (615 words)

	The Inside Scoop: Canadian Idol Questions Answered
		I'd probably sing something like Desperado by the Eagles or something by U2 or some other older rock ballad....I think you need to play to your strengths and I'm a rock singer by nature...a bad one but a rock singer.
		If you were going to audition for Canadian Idol...what song would you sing and why?
		We redefine Canadian television and are part of a huge national dialogue.
	channels.netscape.ca /entertainment/article.adp?id=20050530110809990015 (885 words)

	ELEVATION INTERNATIONAL U2 TRIBUTE SHOW
		George Stroumboulopoulos (former Much Music VJ who interviewed U2) has attended Elevation shows and had this to say: "I am normally a bitch about the song Bad if it isn't performed well, but you guys played it GREAT and I by the end I thought I was listening to the album".
		Elevation with LIZA FROMER from Toronto's most watched morning show,
	www.u2tributeband.com /celebs.html (885 words)

	U2 Feedback - Classic Track : "Running to Stand Still"
		Like so many other of their songs (try “Bad, for example), “Running to Stand Still” starts off slow, before ending with a roar.
		The song builds up to a climax when Bono screams that “she is raging, she is raging and the storm blows up in her eyes.” Then the instruments die down and, almost in a sympathetic whisper, he tells, “she will suffer the needle chill.
		The tracks are not songs that got the radio-play they merited, nor the single release they deserved.
	forum.interference.com /t73730.html (939 words)

	Amazon.ca: U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland: DVD
		The concert itself is from 2001, when U2 did two huge shows at Slane Castle, which is where they recorded their "Unforgettable Fire" album (thereby explaining why the documentary on that album and the recording of "Pride (In the Name of Love") is included on this DVD).
		You watch U2 in concert, or put on this DVD and turn up the sound because for some reason the music sounds better than on a CD, and it is hard not to agree they are not the best rock 'n' roll band in the world.
		What you get is the band performing in front of 80,000 adoring fans on their Elevation Tour (thereby explaining why it is the opening song), in their signature mix of high energy and absolute ease.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000TB05A (811 words)

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