The most emotionally raw song on the album, “Iris” confronts Bono’s loss of his mother, who passed away after collapsing at his grandfather’s funeral when he was only 14. Produced by: Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder “And if there is a light, don’t let it go out.” “Song For Someone” begins with gentle acoustic guitars before gradually building into a “Walk On”-style crescendo. If there is a kiss I stole from your mouth,” he sings. “I’ve seen for myself/There’s no end to grief.”Ī tender song of awkward first love that sounds like it’s about Bono’s wife Ali the couple first met when Bono was 13 and Ali was 12. “California, blood orange sunset brings you to your knees,” Bono sings. It’s about the group’s first trip to California in the early 1980s. Produced by: Declan Gaffney, Paul Epworth and Danger MouseĪ bright, mid tempo anthem that begins with layered backing vocals that sound like a homage to the Beach Boys. “The most beautiful sound I ever heard…We were pilgrims on our way.” It sounds like the band are very purposefully not trying to sound like the Ramones here, though – instead, the track starts with powerful, almost “Mysterious Ways”-like burst of guitar from the Edge, and is driven by a lilting Bono melody and an overdubbed vocal refrain.
“Everything I’ve ever lost now has been returned,” Bono sings. The first song captures the big bang of Bono’s musical awakening: the first time he heard the Ramones. More than any U2 album before it, Songs of Innocence goes deep into Bono and the rest of bandmembers’ teenage years in Dublin in the Seventies. Produced by: Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder
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The album, which was delivered free to all of Apple’s iTunes users (a half billion of them), is “very personal,” Bono tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview. A brand new song format as well as another song where the protagonist is not at the centre of the action… ‘Now I know she ain’t you, but she’s here, and she’s got that dark rhythm in her soul’.U2 took the stage at Apple’s product-launch press conference in Cupertino today and surprise-released their new album Songs of Innocence with a mere five seconds of warning. In an open letter to Dylan, Bono mentioned the track, stating: “It could be ‘Brownsville Girl’ with Sam Shepard. I was with some atheists that night at the Olympia who thanked God for you and your music – as I do.”īob Dylan’s ‘Brownsville Girl, which is notably over 11-minutes long and featured on the songwriter’s 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded, also made the list. Well in a world of war, greed and suffering, all I could hear was a higher form of sanity. Bono recalled first watching the band in Dublin, and his memory of that night is still etched on his mind, reflecting: “Years ago I remember someone using the word ‘mad’ to describe what you were on about. The Verve are another band that feature on both lists, with Bono stating that he wishes he wrote ‘Lucky Man’, although ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ makes his birthday playlist. I love the singing and the playing and the lyric and Liam and Noel and Tony and the two Pauls… I love it all… and now I don’t need to live forever as much.”
The last gang in town versus the man alone. And it’s us against the world…a very different feeling from me against the world. He continued: “Cause whatever you say, this song is about being in a band.
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