This is my favorite U2 song. “Call out your name, call out in pain, call out in shame.” Was a heavy song for my adolescence. The Edges guitar screams, a sonic archetype for melancholy. I see the joy division in this
Song that I would have killed to hear live, but alas, my only opportunity as an adult, I was married to a prick who manipulated my life, and threatened to kick me out for showing my autonomy. And be taken away from my kids.....it was either my love for U2 or my children...
I love it. The guitar sounds as if it’s crying. And the version they did at red rocks incorporated “hold on, hold on tightly” chorus from Drowning Man.
Yeah.. it's mind boggling how horrible that crowd is. They were troopers though and plowed right through like they were playing to the Red Rocks crowd.
Ha, thought the same about the crowd, a bunch of stuffed shirts. They apparently had no idea they were watching what was going to be one of the greatest rock bands in the world very soon.
They were really on fire back then. Post punk geniuses. I've listened to Boy/October/War countless times since the 80's and they never cease to impress me. The songwriting and execution during this phase was just brilliant. Thank you for this video I love it.
The three you mentioned, plus "Unforgettable Fire", make their best career records list. Much as you, I've been listening to those records since the eighties and they are pretty much all U2 you need to listen to.
Twilight, 11 Oclock Tick Tock, I Will Follow, An Cat Dubh, Gloria, Tomorrow, Seconds, Surrender, New Years Day, Two Hearts Beat as One, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Drowning Man, what a collection of songs for your first three albums, a wonderful trilogy.
I saw U2 for the first time, in 1983 in Ft. Lauderdale as a 15-year-old kid for the WAR tour. The Alarm opened up for them and I had second row seats, my ears were ringing the entire next day. Concert ticket - $13.00, concert tee shirt - $10.00, unbelievable. I have seen every concert tour since that time with the exception of Discotheque.
And now U2 barley plays 11 o'clock tick tock if at all- Bono can't reach those high notes anymore its just that soooo much time has passed- they were children then.
My 2nd favorite song of all time. When I first heard this song on Under a Blood Red Sky I got goosebumps bumps and I still do. I can't get enough of this sing. My No. 1 favorite song of all time is New Years Day. All my top 10 favorite songs of all time are from U2.
What's really ironic about this song and its meaning is when life imitates art. In this song, Bono is looking for something outside his bubble. He was inspired to write the lyric after watching an atmospheric performance by the rockabilly/punk band The Cramps. "This was the peak of Goth and the gig was filled with candles," he recalled in the book "U2" by U2. "Voodoo was the order of the day, there was the atmosphere of Black Mass, and I was thinking it was the night of the tragically hip. There was a lostness in the looks on their faces. It was that sepulchral make-up, white face, dark eyes, stuff my mates in the Virgin Prunes were up to their painted eyebrows in. But it felt like the end of the world. To a very young boy, 19 years old, from the suburbs of Dublin, it seemed there was no life here at all. There might have been more humor than I was capable of spotting at the time." - Bono Vox
What a Boring crowd!! Sitting there like bumps on logs, unbelievable!! I love this song so much, I can’t sit still to this brilliant performance, no way!!!! Absolutely mesmerizing and magical. That amazing guitar, Bono’s passionate voice, the drums, takes me to another stratosphere. Wish I could have seen them then, been a fan since I first heard Boy in 1980. Love this song so much, this melody is so addictive…❤️
Es parte de la historia , las buenas bandas ( depeche por ej) tuvieron q pasar por lo mismo, no es solo el publico sueco casi todos los programas de tv en el mundo traian bandas a shows de tv con gente como aburrida, era la puesta en escena de la tv en aquellos años, a las bandas les servía para darse a conocer mucho mas, era una buena estrategia.
Huge props need to be given to the boys here - they all maintained amazing energy on stage in front of an absolutely dead crowd. That isn't easy to do, but to see them you'd never know if they were playing to that sleepy group or a theatre of 10000. Incredible stuff.
The amazing thing about history is that you don't realise you're witnessing it until it's after the fact. Which is absolutely prudent in the audiences reaction to this magical performance
Damn… remember cranking this shit up high in my college dorm room on them technique speakers on Friday nights with the burning of incense in a dim lit room with Xmas lites strung up all over the place & band posters plastered on the walls while I sit there with my buddies pulling on that 2 foot bong giggling our way into the morning hours. Them were the days
Strepitosi. Amo questa canzone. E se possibile in questa versione live e’ ancora piu bella. The Edge gia’ allora da ragazzino sapeva suonare con un feeling tempo suono e gusto come nessun altro dei suoi tempi. Grandissimi U2❤
Needed something to prod them into moving. Not guessing that they were lucky to see what would become one of the best bands in the 80's and so forth. Kicking themselves afterwards, damn I saw U2 in their infancy, and didn't appreciate them...I try to at least listen to new bands when I first listen to them, and later have gone to say "I remember when so and so first started or played in so and so place." And they went on to be famous....
There were Great live even back in the day remember listening to this song on the old grey whistle test and yes amazing...I also love the song Spanish eyes...I lost all my vinyl in a fire in my flat 5 months back with lots of u2 recordings in there gutted... great upload....
Ces jeunes rockers débordants d énergie et de talent face a un public assis dans une sorte de salle des fêtes 😅. Bien sûr, ils étaient tout jeunes en début de carrière
Gee honey, let's go see the biggest band of the last 40 years before no one has heard of them. But don't worry, you won't have to dance, cheer or show any emotion.
I've always loved this song, Edge's lead break is great and Bono coming back in after that is awesome - they really go all out here and the Swede's sit like there like a fucking collection of mannequins.
When I loved U@ the most... I actually started not liking as much when Joshua Tree came out... But its a great album for sure... I liked their raw more up tempo sounds.. Unforgettable Fire was also one of my favourite albums. Bad...is so good!
I would like to think that the Swedes in the audience were just “cool, calm, & collected”….they had no idea what they were witnessing & hid their “eargasms”. Long live U2!
Great performance...esspec the edge...the sound just resonates in your head still...crowd are not used to this stuff... prefer meatballs,yoddle and Ikea its seems?
Remarkable song and performance before a incredibly comatose audience. Little did Bono, Edge Adam and Larry know that the song was indeed an warning of the coming apocalypse most of the world didn't realize was and now has long ago occurred.
