U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

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"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" is the fifth song from U2's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon. The song was released as the album's third single in a digital format on 25 August 2009 and in a physical version released on 7 September 2009. Two music videos were made, one directed by David O'Reilly, and one by Alex Courtes.

Writing and recording

The band collaborated with will.i.am in the creation of the track. It was first developed by Brian Eno under the title "Diorama" during a break in the recording sessions. The band reworked the track under the new title of "Crazy Tonight" before retitling it again as "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight". Several of the song's lyrics were influenced by Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Bono stated to Q magazine that the lyrics "[sound] like a T-shirt slogan to me", also noting that it was No Line on the Horizon's equivalent to "Beautiful Day".
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Live performances

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" was first played on 4 March 2009 on the Late Show with David Letterman, one of three performances of the song during No Line on the Horizon promotional appearances.

Redanka's "Kick the Darkness" remix arrangement of the song was played throughout the U2 360° Tour. Club feel lighting accompanied the song, while Larry Mullen, Jr. walked around the outer stage playing a djembe.The performance in this unfamiliar style was intended to disorient the audience as the band moved from the "personal" first half of the concert into the "political" second half. (The only time the album version was performed during the tour was during the second show of the 360 Tour° in Barcelona where it was performed two times. For the first time the band played the remix and, then, as one of the encores, the album version was performed for a video shoot.)
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An image that looks through the windshield of a brown car. On the left is a girl; she has short dark hair with a fringe that hangs just above her eyes, and is wearing a dark red shirt. Several scratches are visible on her face. On the right is a blond-haired woman with a pink and white shirt. She is reaching out a hand to touch the scratches and see how bad they are.
The nurse examines the scratches on the runaway girl's face in the first music video.

The first music video received its world premiere on 17 July 2009 through U2's YouTube channel. Directed by David O'Reilly and designed by Jon Klassen, it is the band's first animated music video since 1995's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", and is one of the few not to feature the band. It depicts several people in a city undergoing hardships, and the events that interconnect them and bring them happiness as they decide to make changes in their lives. The video was entered in the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival.

The second music video was directed by Alex Courtes and produced by Malachy Mcanenny. While the O'Reilly video plays over the studio version of the song, the Courtes version is the single edit. It consists of a live performance taken from the U2 360° Tour, filmed at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, on 2 July 2009.

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U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

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"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" is a 1995 single by U2 from the Batman Forever soundtrack album. It reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100, and number one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts. The song was a worldwide hit, being nominated for an MTV Movie Award.
History
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" has its origins in the sessions for the band's 1993 album, Zooropa. It was played to BP Fallon, who wrote about it in his book "U2 Faraway So Close". The song's title comes from a play on the classic song "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" and is actually visible (along with the titles of other discarded demos) on the cover of Zooropa in purple text. The song was played on every show of the PopMart Tour as part of the encore, and has not been played live since.
Music video
The animated music video to the song (interspersed with clips from the film) featured the band performing in Gotham City, with Bono battling between two of his alter-egos from the Zoo TV Tour: "The Fly" and "MacPhisto". This was intended to parallel the conflict between Bruce Wayne's ordinary playboy persona and his crime-fighting Batman persona. The band also chases the Batwing, using a yellow supercar and their guitars as flamethrowers.
At one brief point of the video, a neon sign can be seen that reads "Mister Pussey's". An edited version of the video from Universal Music Group uses the words "Mister Swampy's" for the same sign. In another scene, the band is walking down the street when Bono is run over by a car (driven by Elvis) while reading C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. The video ends with an orchestra of Batmen playing the outro on strings. It was directed by Kevin Godley and Maurice Linnane.
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R.E.M & U2 - ONE Live MTV Umplugged

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R.E.M & U2 - ONE Live MTV Umplugged
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Gloria

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"Gloria" is a song by U2. It is the opening track and second single from the band's 1981 album, October.

It features a chorus in Latin, from the liturgical "Gloria in Excelsis Deo." It was one of their lowest-charting singles, peaking at #55 on the UK singles chart.

Composition

"Gloria" highlights bassist Adam Clayton as it features three styles of playing in one song (using a pick for the most part, playing with fingers during the slide guitar by The Edge, then a "slap & pop" solo towards the end).

The chorus "Gloria in te Domine / Gloria exultate" translates to "Glory in you, Lord / Glory, exalt [him]" with "exalt" in the imperative mood, a reference to Psalm 30:2 (in te Domine, speravi). The song also contains references to Colossians 2:9-10 ("Only in You I'm complete") and James 5:7-9 ("The door is open / You're standing there").

Music video

The "Gloria" video, written and directed by Meiert Avis, was filmed in October 1981 on a barge in Grand Canal Basin in Dublin, near Windmill Lane. "Gloria" was the first U2 music video that received heavy airplay on MTV. The video featured U2 playing on a barge while a crowd of onlookers danced. Neither the song or video has been included in any of the band's compilations.

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Frank Sinatra & Bono Vox - (I've Got You) Under My Skin

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Frank Sinatra & Bono Vox - (I've Got You) Under My Skin
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U2 & Johnny Cash - The Wanderer

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"The Wanderer" is the tenth and final track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa. It features country legend Johnny Cash on lead vocals. It is one of the few U2 songs not to feature Bono on lead vocals at any point. The Edge provides harmonising backing-vocals throughout the song, as well as the country style howl that is often mistaken for Bono at the end.
The lyrics describe a man searching for God in a post-Apocalyptic world. Although neither U2 nor Cash ever performed it live in concert until U2's latest tour, U2 played it in a television special entitled I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash, following Cash's death in 2003. The special performance of the song featured The Edge adding dramatic falsetto background vocals.
As there is no guitar riff, Adam Clayton's synthesized bassline is the prominent musical sound throughout the song, although Larry Mullen's drumbeats can be heard clearly in the background.
The song is followed on the album by about twenty seconds of a constant siren sound that represents the feedback that disc jockeys hear after a record is removed from a turntable.
An extended version of the song featuring an extra verse is included on the soundtrack to the film Faraway, So Close! The extended version is 5:16 in length.
The song was included on the Johnny Cash compilations, The Essential Johnny Cash (Legacy/Columbia, 2003) and The Legend of Johnny Cash (American/Island, 2005) and The Legend.
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Mission Impossible - Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen

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Mission Impossible - Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen
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Window in the Skies

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"Window in the Skies" is a song by rock band U2 and is one of two new songs featured on their 2006 compilation album U218 Singles. It was released on 1 January 2007 as the album's second single. It was recorded in September 2006 at Abbey Road Studios in London and produced by Rick Rubin.
The song reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart and Dutch Top 40, replacing U2's previous single "The Saints Are Coming" (with Green Day) at the top in both charts.
Videos
U2 released the first music video for "Window in the Skies" on 20 November 2006, after the completion of their Australian leg of the Vertigo tour. A second version of the video was released a few weeks later.
The first video, directed by Gary Koepke, is a montage that includes nearly 100 clips taken from footage from the previous 50 years of other famous musicians performing in concert. The clips were selected and edited together so that either the lip movements or the finger movements of the musicians, who actually were performing other songs, match up with either the lyrics or the music of the U2 song.
The only confirmed location of the video is the Corner Hotel in Richmond in Melbourne, Australia. The band is featured only very briefly in the crowds as fans .
The second video, directed by Jonas Odell, is another montage. The camera flies through a surreal landscape with floating buildings and still images, mostly of the band from their U2 By U2 autobiography, morphing into each other.

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Miss Sarajevo

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"Miss Sarajevo" is the only single from the 1995 album Original Soundtracks 1 by U2 and Brian Eno, under the pseudonym Passengers. Luciano Pavarotti makes a guest vocal appearance, singing the opera solo. It also appears on U2's compilation, The Best of 1990-2000, and was covered by George Michael on his album, Songs from the Last Century. While the song did not reach the Billboard Hot 100, it reached #6 on the UK Singles Chart and was a top-ten hit in many other European countries. Bono cites "Miss Sarajevo" as his favourite U2 song.
History
Original Soundtracks 1 is an album of songs based mostly on non-existent films; however, "Miss Sarajevo" is one of four tracks from the album that are based on real films. The film Miss Sarajevo is a documentary by Bill Carter about a beauty pageant held in the midst of war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia. The winner was a 17-year-old blonde named Inela Nogić. Carter traveled to Sarajevo in the winter of 1993 to offer humanitarian aid and quickly found himself in the heart of the conflict. He lived for six months in a burnt-out office building, subsisting on baby food and whatever water he could find in the rivers and sewers and delivering food and medicine to those in need.
Carter originally contacted U2 while they were on their Zoo TV Tour to show audiences the real people involved, feeling that the western media were ignoring the human aspect of the war. The band arranged for several satellite link-ups where Carter gave the locals—who had been cut off from communication with the rest of Europe for about a year and a half at this point—an opportunity to be heard before stadiums of thousands. The link-ups were brief and unedited.
"The idea was simple, instead of doing what the news does, which is entertain you, I wanted to do something that the news rarely does, make a person care about the issue...I wanted young people in Europe to see the people in the war, I didn't want them to see politicians or religious leaders or military spokesmen."
—Bill Carter,
Carter had his camera sent to him from his home in California so he could film the documentary (which was produced by Bono) with the same goal of exposing people to the individuals living through the war. "The war is just a backdrop, it could be any war, the point is the vitality of the human spirit to survive, [to] laugh, to love, and to move on, that is something we will be addressing always."
The song protests the war in Bosnia, criticizing the international community for its inability to stop the war or help those affected by it. It was the only single released from the album. Its video combines clips from Bill Carter's documentary with footage from the Passengers' first performance of the song at the 1995 "Pavarotti and Friends" concert in Modena. Clips from the documentary contain striking imagery, such as a shot of beauty pageant contestants holding up a banner with the words "DON'T LET THEM KILL US," as seen on the single's artwork.

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In God's Country

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"In God's Country" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the seventh track from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the album's fourth single in November 1987. Bono has stated that he originally didn't know whether the song was about Ireland or America, but eventually dedicated it to the Statue of Liberty.
Release
"In God's Country" was released as a single in Canada and the U.S. It charted in the United Kingdom as an import. The single's video appears on Outside it's America, a documentary tracking the band's first few weeks on tour through the American southwest in 1987. Sales of the single may have been hampered by the fact that its b-sides were two tracks from The Joshua Tree album instead of the usual non-album tracks.
The song appears in the U2 rockumentary Rattle and Hum with one verse edited out. It is also used in the closing credits of the movie Three Kings.
The Canadian release was available on 7", 12" and cassette, while the US release was limited to 7" only. The B-sides and cover art are identical to the New Zealand-only single release of "One Tree Hill".

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The Ground Beneath Her Feet

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"The Ground Beneath Her Feet" is a song by U2 from the film, The Million Dollar Hotel, and featured on the film's soundtrack, The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture. The song was recorded with Daniel Lanois on the pedal steel guitar for the film. However, a different mix than the one heard in the film appears on the soundtrack. The song credits author Salman Rushdie as its writer because the lyrics are taken from his book of the same name.
Composition
U2 singer, Bono, came up with the idea for the song after reading a manuscript of Rushdie's novel. In the novel, the fictional character Ormus Cama writes the lyrics as a lamentation for his lover, Vina Apsara, who had died recently. U2 uses these lyrics almost word for word, however omitting the following line:
She was my ground, my favorite sound, my country road, my city street, my sky above, my only love, and the ground beneath my feet.
Rushdie, himself, was very pleased with the song, claiming it had "some of the most beautiful melodies [Bono] had ever come up with." In reference to the song, Rushdie said, "So I always knew, you know, that it wasn't going to be an uptempo foot-tapper, because it's a sad song. I think it sounds like, I hope, one of those big U2 ballads for which Bono's voice, actually, is beautifully well suited."
Promotion and releases
"The Ground Beneath Her Feet" was originally intended to be a single, therefore a music video was created for the song's release. However, Interscope Records declined to give the song a single release because U2 were on the verge of completing their new album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and record executives did not want to confuse fans by releasing a non-album single. Instead, a promotional single was released to media sources, but it received very little airplay on both radio and television. After the song's release on the film's soundtrack, U2 hoped to feature the song on their newest album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, but instead the song was only released as a bonus track on UK, Australian and Japanese releases of the album.

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I Will Follow

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"I Will Follow" is the opening track from U2's debut album, Boy. The song was released as the album's second single in October 1980. Bono wrote the lyrics to "I Will Follow" in tribute to his mother who died when he was 14 years old.
Until the 2009 U2360 Tour on which the song wasn't played, "I Will Follow" was the only song that U2 performed on every tour since they released their first album. The song was U2's first music video, directed by Meiert Avis in Dublin, Ireland.
Composition and releases
"I Will Follow" was written three weeks before U2 began recording Boy. U2 singer Bono has said that he wrote the song from his mother's perspective and that it was about the unconditional love a mother has for her child. His mother died following her own father's funeral when Bono was fourteen, which the singer says plunged him into emotional turmoil for the next few years. The song features the lyrics "his mother takes him by his hand" and "If you walk away, I will follow". Throughout the song, Boy producer, Steve Lillywhite plays a glockenspiel.
"I Will Follow" had a second single release as a live version in the Netherlands and Germany in 1981, and a third release in the U.S., lifted from the Under a Blood Red Sky album, in 1983. It appeared on both the compilation album and video collection The Best of 1980-1990, and in some countries, on the U218 Singles compilation.

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Zoo Station

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Live From Chicago


"Zoo Station" is a song by rock band U2. It is the opening track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby. As the opening track, "Zoo Station" announces the band's musical reinvention and gives the listener an introduction to the band's new sound. The song features industrial-influenced percussion and several layers of distorted guitars and vocals, along with lyrics suggesting new intents and anticipations. The song's distinctive introduction, which features an "explosion" of percussion and the song's hook, a descending glissando played on guitar, was meant to make the listener think the album was mistakenly not U2's latest record or that their music player was broken.
During the Zoo TV Tour, "Zoo Station" opened every concert except for one. The song title refers to the Bahnhof Zoo (the official name is Berlin Zoologischer Garten) station in Berlin. Coincidentally, the station has been on the U2 line of the Berlin metro since 1993; however, at the time the song was recorded this part of the Berlin metro was served by the U1 line. The song received positive reviews from critics.
Writing and recording
After troublesome recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin in late 1990, U2 returned to Dublin in 1991 for the second phase of the recording sessions for Achtung Baby. One song, later released as the B-side "Lady With the Spinning Head", proved troublesome, but it would inspire portions of three separate songs, "Zoo Station" being one of them, and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" and "The Fly" the other two. The band ultimately decided to take "Zoo Station" in a more industrial direction than "Lady With the Spinning Head".
We're at a point where production has gotten so slick that people don't trust it anymore... We were starting to lose trust in the conventional sound or rock & roll - the conventional sound of the guitar, in particular - and, you know, those big reverb-laden drum sounds of the 80s or those big, beautiful, pristine vocal sounds with all this lush ambience and reverb. So we found ourselves searching for other sounds that had more life and more freshness.
—The Edge, explaining the band's motivation for seeking a new sound
"Zoo Station" came together near the end of the recording sessions when producer Flood was mixing the song and introduced heavy distortion to the drums. The song's direction was largely influenced by the production team of Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, and Flood. Lead vocalist Bono had been disappointed with his vocal performances in early recording sessions for the album and told the production team, "Let's just try something that's gonna put me in a completely different place". After they distorted his voice to make it sound as if it were coming from a megaphone, Bono was inspired to sing in a persona, as the effect gave his vocals a different "emotional feel".
The song's lyrics were originally inspired by a story that Bono heard of Berlin during World War II, in which animals escaped the city's zoo after it was damaged in overnight bombing. Rhinoceri, pelicans and flamingoes wandered around the next morning while people were sifting through the rubble. Bono was also influenced when he learned of a subway station in Berlin called Zoo Station, since it stopped at the zoo. He compared the song to the actual subway station, saying "it was written as an opening track, the beasts breaking out of their cages." Bono took further inspiration from the subway station representing Europe at a crossroads, as people of many different walks of life had descended upon a reunified Berlin after the Berlin Wall was opened in 1989.

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Stay (Faraway, So Close!)

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"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" is the fifth track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa, and was released as the album's third single on 22 November 1993. It achieved notable success in the UK, where it reached number four, but had a very short chart run, and also Australia, where it reached number five.
Recording and composition.
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" was a song that Bono and The Edge had been working on for a while, prior to its recording. The song was inspired by Frank Sinatra's music - its working title while still in development was actually "Sinatra". The verse melody originated from the band's sessions for Achtung Baby in Berlin, but it was after the band heard that Wim Wenders was looking for a song for his new movie Faraway, So Close! that they decided to complete the song. The Edge proceeded to play around on the piano improvising some "old-school chord progressions, trying to summon up the spirit of Frank Sinatra." The single's B-side featured the song "I've Got You Under My Skin", as a duet between Bono and Sinatra, which was originally released on Sinatra's Duets album.
This song, in a version with heavier guitar and drums, was released on the soundtrack to Wenders' Faraway, So Close!, along with an extended version of "The Wanderer". In a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone, Bono cited "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" as one of his personal favorite U2 songs and perhaps their most underrated. This version, released on the film soundtrack, runs 1 minute and 48 seconds longer.
The single was released on 22 November 1993 in the UK and on 1 June 1994 in the rest of Europe.
Music video
The music video for the song, directed by Wenders and Mark Neale, features the Statue of Victoria, the golden monument that sits atop the Berlin Victory Column, and is heavily based on the film from which it takes its name, as it includes images taken directly from the film (some just recreated) and shows angels falling to Earth. German avant-garde artist Meret Becker, stepdaughter of the movie's lead Otto Sander, portrays the female singer.

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"40"

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Vertigo tour, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 20/02/2006.

"40", also known as "40 (How Long)", is the tenth and final track from U2's 1983 album, War. The song is noted for its live performances, often involving the audience singing along for minutes after the band has left the stage. The lyrics are a modification of the Bible's Psalm 40.
The song did not get a commercial release. It was, however released as a promotional single only in Germany, simply to promote U2's appearance at the Loreley Festival in 1983. The single was released on a 7" gramophone record with a B-side of the album version of "Two Hearts Beat as One". Since its live debut on February 26, 1983, in Dundee, "40" has been a staple of U2's live concerts, having been performed over 300 times.
Recording
The song was recorded right at the end of the recording sessions for War. Bassist Adam Clayton had already left the studio, and the three remaining band members decided they didn't have a good song to end the album. Bono, The Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. quickly recorded the song with The Edge switching off to both the electric and bass guitar. Bono called the song "40" as he based the lyrics on Psalm 40.
When we were making our third record, the War LP, we were being thrown out of the studio by the studio manager because we had overrun or something and we had one more song to do. We wrote this song in about ten minutes, we recorded it in about ten minutes, we mixed it in about ten minutes and we played it, then, for another ten minutes and that's nothing to do with why it's called '40'.
—Bono , Concert April 29, 1987
The first verse of the song is based on Psalm 40:1-2, and second verse of the song is based on Psalm 40:2-3. The chorus is loosely based on the first two verses of Psalm 40:3, which reads "He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God..."

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"40"