What Makes This Song Great? Ep.102 U2 "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

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In this episode of What Makes This Song Great? I break down "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" from U2's iconic Joshua Tree album. The song was the second #1 single from Joshua Tree and is one of the greatest rock songs of all-time.
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@rustyrobots426 3 года назад

Honestly Rick do not worry about going a little deeper on a certain aspect. Most of these videos could stand to be a little longer, your passion is what makes *these videos* great!

@scizmeli 3 года назад

Absolutely. Give us more drums, more of every detail.

@pandacrew1975 3 года назад

Agreed. This has been one of my favourites so far.

@angelomalig1082 3 года назад

On point! Longer videos!

@DanielReedyoutubepage 3 года назад

On point. Longer videos.

@stuksy4321 3 года назад

concurrence

@pantheonrockstar 3 года назад

This is the most important music channel on RU-vid .

@h-lorolltide92 3 года назад

he is so educational. BRILLIANT!

@KSeguraR 3 года назад

Absolutely right!

@MrPablo616 3 года назад

Absolutely

@jsalvatori 3 года назад

one of*

@CraigKostelecky 3 года назад

He needs to be exempt from all of the copyright bots.

@nadavegan 3 года назад

In college I was always "meh" toward U2. Then one summer I was working in Yellowstone National Park, and some of us were driving over to Red Lodge, Montana. No radio reception of any kind out there, and someone dug the Joshua Tree out of a backpack so we threw it on. Driving up over the Beartooth Highway, which feels like the roof of the world, with this song and "Where The Streets Have No Name".....I finally GOT U2. It was a conversion experience of sorts.

@matturner6890 3 года назад

No one can deny the power of that intro.

@ChrisCelada 3 года назад

The Gospel influence is definitely the conversion part of it, yes it does driving a much better experience, I'm smiling thinking of all the day trips with my girlfriend now wife.

@matturner6890 3 года назад

I didn't like them 'til I heard U2 warming up for their gig in my local stadium. I was in a park across from it and I heard 'that' organ start up. Then I heard Bono singing it just like the record. And it was SO LOUD, even from a good half-kilometer away! After hearing it how it was meant to be heard, I was officially converted. I was humming it the whole rest of the day.

@karterestill 3 года назад

Hello from Billings 😁😂

@laceyinnewyork4040 3 года назад

I had the same experience listening to the Joshua Tree album driving around Palm Desert, Joshua Tree National Park area... "I'll show you a place ... high on a desert plain". I remember my husband and I were listening to "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and seeing the Joshua Trees pop up in greater numbers along the sides of the highway ...epic!

@mikethegrunty5968 Год назад

Edge, to me, is a master of playing the song as opposed to playing the instrument. He may not be to most technical or flashy player, but he always gives the song exactly what it needs

@sdalt001 Год назад

He's a masterclass in being a guitar minimalist.

@mikethegrunty5968 Год назад

@@sdalt001 he really is

@declanoneill1192 Год назад

And yet there is the solo on Bullet the Blue Sky on the Zoo TV concert from Sydney. Very intricate, very not-Edge, but he's brilliant at it. I used have a girlfriend who thought he was pretty basic. I gave her a listen to that. She changed her mind.

@johnnyxmusic Год назад

I’m starting to feel that way about Larry Mullen, Jr., too… Some very oblique connection to the style of Keith moon. If Keith Moon could keep time.

@sdalt001 Год назад

@johnnyxmusic LOL...Musical quote of the year: "If Keith Moon could keep time."

@SeanVedell 3 года назад

The Larry Mullen Jr. sidebar was well deserved. The guy doesn’t get enough credit for giving so many U2 songs their signature sound. The contributions of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois can’t be ignored either. They sculpted all those parts into the symphony that this song truly is.

@dirfrops 3 года назад

I’m a vocalist and I didn’t even get that until Rick pointed it out and holy crap, the groove is in the pocket so hard you could fit an entire pool table in there.

@SeanVedell 3 года назад

@@dirfrops I’m listening to the whole album in my new Ultimate Ears in-ears and I’d forgotten just how buttoned down this band was/is. Eight ball in the corner pocket, for dammed sure.

@SeanVedell 3 года назад

@@dirfrops Adam Clayton holds down the fort too. No fuss, no showing off, just grooving along.

@mightyV444 3 года назад

@Sean Vedell - I agree! Laz' may not be the most technically skilled drummer, but he's got a knack for coming up with interesting and unusual rhythms 🙂 He was once saying he wished he'd played something different and "better" on 'New Year's Day', but I'm glad he didn't; He plays the exact right part, as usual 🙂

@patrickpostlewait8453 3 года назад

Agreed. To me Larry's approach feel ancestral or tribal in a way. Very soulful and hypnotic, yet still impactful in a rock'n'roll way. I guess you could say that about the whole sound of the band too, especially on this album. Like a feeling from an old time but with a new sound palette. I definitely give Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois fair credit for that too. I am a big fan of Steve Lilywhite, but it's definitely worth listening to his alternate mixes. Perfectly good technically, but not the atmosphere of the final album version at all. It was even missing the central guitar part that defines this song for me. But that's the fascinating part, to hear what it was missing. There are a lot of half baked songs these days because people aren't patient enough to work the songs until they find the magic.

@markweaver8529 3 года назад

One of the greatest albums of all time. A masterpiece from start to finish. Red Hill mining town,one tree hill,exit,streets. All absolute masterpieces. Every song 10/10.

@evasenechal8735 3 года назад

I totally second that!

@rafaelspechts 3 года назад

I'm so glad that Joshua Tree celebration tour happened and there are so many good versions of Red Hill Mining Town these days!

@augustearth 3 года назад

One of the few albums from that era that I still listen to front to back.

@zingleraster9124 3 года назад

@@augustearth back when albums were albums, you put them on the turntable & listened right through on both sides whilst admiring the album cover artwork. Joshua Tree is art.

@MM33003 3 года назад

@@rafaelspechts It’s such a shame that there was never a live version of Red Hill Mining Town in U2’s prime. What I would’ve paid to hear that.

@NathanielMiller94 3 года назад

I have no idea what he's talking about half the time, but watching how enthusiastic he is about these songs makes me appreciate every little part more.

@msponsler1 2 года назад

Ditto!!

@michellebickers8495 2 года назад

Hahaha! Agreed! I love the music equally as much, I just never knew there were names for what I was hearing! Rick’s passion for the art is contagious.

@roddaman7545 2 года назад

That’s me too. I know just enough to appreciate that what he’s saying explains the composition, but do I GET it? Naaah. Seriously pick dimpling?

@thomasdefrancesco7817 2 года назад

If you don’t care about the messages in U2s lyrics , then the songs are meaningless. They become no different than most of the music today , in other words , commercially viable but no meaning . I love the music in U2s songs but with those commentaries on society along with their creativity and technical skills and innovation the complete package is greater than the sum of their parts , which is to say they are the amazingly great .

@sirmadrigal6427 3 года назад

It’s amazing just how good Joshua Tree still sounds today. Absolutely timeless, in an era of dated sounding records.

@michaelanderson2881 2 года назад

I thought The Unforgettable Fire was in the same class, aurally, as it would be with Eno and Lanois at the controls. Completely off topic, but if you want to go back further, The Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk is one of the most unbelievably well-mixed and mastered albums you will ever hear. Lots of 80s records are so dated, but not that one (or actually it is, but in the best possible way).

@spectral1um397 2 года назад

@@michaelanderson2881 Holy heck, yes! I discovered The Colour of Spring in January 2021. It was *the* discovery of 2021 for me, and I spent the next 11 months searching for records with a similar aesthetic, production value, or some other less tangible quality. David Sylvian and Kate Bush had some well produced records at around the same time. Tears For Fears had a similar aesthetic to Talk Talk, but I think that the production of their records hasn't stood the test of time. I'd love to see a "What Makes This Song Great Episode 1**... the band is Talk Talk... the song is..." Ideally it could be Living In Another World- there's so much to unpick in that song. I'd love to know how the bass line in the second section interacts with the chords from a music theory standpoint. And about the chord change from the second section to the chorus.

@michaelanderson2881 2 года назад

I'd pick Life's What You Make It, since I think it was also used in a Budweiser commercial.

@PaulGreeneofficial 2 года назад

Agreed

@petervanherp7871 Год назад

That's exactly true! I will even go further: the last two (not very good, to say the least) records (not including the most recent total useless 're-imagening' album) of them already sounds dated. And they are from 2014 and '17! Not so with TJS. It's a timeless masterpiece.

@limitinfinity 3 года назад

There is a reason you have over 2 and a quarter million subscribers Rick, the world is full of people who appreciate great music. The way you break it down is priceless, and I appreciate every single moment you spend on these songs. Thank you, and please don't give the length of your WMTSG breakdowns a second thought, we are all fine with it!

@scizmeli 3 года назад

Yes yes yes

@normanleroy1874 3 года назад

Yes, I love that he goes deep. Time has never been an issue with these at all.

@bostonphotographer20 3 года назад

His love of music is infectious. I’m not a musician so much of what he says is over my head, but these are still so entertaining

@spiritmatter1553 2 года назад

@@bostonphotographer20 I envy his musical knowledge. I’m grateful that I have what little understanding I have, due to having grown up in an era when kids were encouraged to learn how to play a musical instrument. (The violin in my case, and the titles of some of the pieces I learned would now be considered terribly politically incorrect!)

@bobbygotsch 3 года назад

Rick, that fact about the Herdim pick is probably the nerdiest and most fascinating thing I've learned on RU-vid.

@JoeMama2112 3 года назад

Same. It blew my mind when Rick demonstrated it. I have always wondered how Edge got that trademark chime sound in his guitar notes. It was that simple all this time, and I never knew it.

@dougrobinson8602 3 года назад

That pick looks killer. No more drops. I'm going to look for some.....

@TheKennyboy92 3 года назад

Edge's guitar tech spoke about it when he did a rig rundown.

@epremeaux 3 года назад

yeah as a non-musician, that kind of little detail is fascinating. Without it, ok its a great lick. But that textured pick and suddenly its like you are in a completely different room.

@olliem4501 3 года назад

I found out by playing their song ‘bad’ and I accidentally had the pic the wrong way round (don’t ask me how) and I did it the way edge did it, and all the colours bled into one. I was like wow this is great

@nadavegan 3 года назад

That bit about the scratchiness of the pick has officially blown my mind.

@stephenhensley5631 3 года назад

I'm getting that pick right now !

@khazan99 3 года назад

Totally...playing this song, I'd just try and approximate it with gain or something. JFC the magic of a plectrum! lol

@FredericoRoberto 3 года назад

if you're a hardcore u2 fan, you know this particular detail. It really is as genius as it is silly.

@voodooturbo 3 года назад

I've been studying and playing Edge's stuff since the 90s, and prior to the interwebz I had no idea about the Herdim pick. I finally learned of them and bought some, and it suddenly I had Edge's guitar in my living room. Stupid little pick finally solved a longtime mystery!

@jeffreymcalack 3 года назад

The dimpled pick is my main takeaway from this video.

@hobbesthecat6868 Год назад

The thing I have always appreciated about U2 is they are a complete band. Each member brings an important sound to each song and it is why they have been together for so long. They truly love to create with each other.

@AndTheRoadGoesEverOn Год назад

Very well said. I completely agree.

@mymai5859 Год назад

Yes...& unlike some high profile bands each member of U2 gets an equal cut of royalties & profits whether they wrote a song or not. That's why there's no rift. Sadly certain members of The Smiths, The Beatles & Police had giant egos as well as talent, where only the song writers got royalties...or were seen as higher than their drummer & sometimes bass player.

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia 9 месяцев назад

To me that was most visible on the album "War". You had songs where Adam Clayton was more prominent - "Two Hearts Beat As One" - others where you could not escape the drumming of Larry Mullen Jr. (Surrender, Sunday Bloody Sunday). Ditto for the other 2 members.

@JiggerPick 3 года назад

True story: Lying in a hospital bed, shattered pelvis, three broken bones in my spine and the morphine not cutting it - and it was this band's music, played at high volume through my compact disc player earphones, that took my pain away. I've loved them ever since!

@scizmeli 3 года назад

Gush reheat k what am inspiring story

@stanleeikki 3 года назад

Amazing story. I hope you have fully recovered. God bless.

@michaelscott1199 3 года назад

The power of great music. Still have a close relationship with this album also. Helped me through some tough times also...

@Pulse2AM 3 года назад

How the hell did that happen!?! Hope you recovered, I went through the windshield of a car after being hit on my mountain bike, I know pain too! :D

@thetalantonx 3 года назад

Hey there brother in pain, I feel ya and I use music the same way. Dealing with a failed fusion surgery, and U2 as well as other compelling bands can pull me out of myself. And having something to focus on like these videos helps keep my brain and heart functioning even through the meds. I hope you have recovered well and fully and I thank you for sharing your story.

@TriTones_Music 3 года назад

I was raised on this album, liked it as a kid, hated it as a teen and love it as grown man. Thanks for this. Very humbling. Joshua Tree didn’t leave my dads tape deck for many many years. I never got it, until I got it, and now that I understand it I can also feel it. Music is a beautiful thing. Wish anyone still reading something positive to happen today.

@funnylookingfoetus 3 года назад

I wish you the same!

@stillben 3 года назад

I had a good BM

@asharpbflat7179 3 года назад

Thanks for the beautiful comment! RU-vid could be like that!

@ziggynaki6708 3 года назад

Ahh, tape decks. Great days!

@TriTones_Music 3 года назад

@@funnylookingfoetus thank you!

@scottabeneguitar 3 года назад

"You actually have to have it played by humans and not corrected" HELL YES!!!

@A-Goose 3 года назад

One of the many reasons U2’s music is so great IS the simplicity. It’s designed to engage the “common man” because each song is a story about human existence. The tunes and melodies are simple and the words are easy to hear so we can sing along and connect with them. The band might be mega stars and millionaires now, but they were always musicians of and FOR the people.

@albanana683 2 года назад

They may have started like that, but Bono turned into a complete arse somewhere along the way.

@daspedras1 2 года назад

I loved your comment!!!

@MrPhillie Год назад

Yes…and in general, I never understood why some people think a song has to have a million chords and weird notes to be considered great. The greatness of a song is how it sounds, feelings it elicits, how many times you want to hear it….

@defenestrationfan 3 года назад

Four guys from Ireland take a bus trip across America and somehow absorb gospel and blues and synthesize it into a musical sound of the desert southwest. Amazing. ("It's a musical journey..." as Larry Mullen Jr would say.)

@robloxvids2233 3 года назад

Back in 2002 I was 23 and I worked with a 53 year old Guatemalan guy who I was friendly with. He was a huge Beatles fan and music in general. He played piano. Anyway one day I mentioned U2 and he had no idea what I was talking about. Somehow, this band had completely escaped him his entire life. As a young American kid I couldn't believe it. I told him I would bring in my Joshua Tree CD the next day for him to borrow. He had a great stereo system at home. The next day I asked if he had a chance to listen to it and he said he listened to the entire album and loved it. I remember he removed his glasses and began shaking his head and saying something about how well the instruments were all played and recorded. I just knew it as a huge pop culture album, but he really was a musician and appreciated how well it was crafted. I had hoped he would like them but he seemed to like them way more than I expected.

@mindmeld12345 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing, beautiful

@ragayomama 3 года назад

I was one of the only kids in my school in the Midwest (US) listening to this back when it came out. In fact, I was surprised when U2 made the cover of Time magazine, because I didn't realize the album was so popular. It was like a hidden gem for me. So, I guess the point being that a lot of people didn't appreciate it back then. I'm glad you were able to turn your co-worker on to it.

@crimfan 3 года назад

@@ragayomama I was a teenager in Chicago when Joshua Tree came out. At the time music fandom among white kids was definitely very split and U2 were very much coming out of the post-punk strain. The other big one was metal. There were other groups of youth fandom, of course, such as white kids listening to rap (just becoming a thing) or house music (really big in Chicago then), but those were the two main camps. (I'm leaving aside black or Hispanic kids---music was really segregated then.) This was when bands like Guns 'n Roses and Metallica were on their way up and other pop metal bands like Motley Crue were in their heyday. The way we talked about it then was "punkers" versus "dirtheads", although there were clearly camps there, too, because there were "punkers" who were into what was at the time called college or alternative rock and metal fans were into more obscure underground artists, not pop metal---GnR and Metallica came out of the underground but this was before they were mainstream.

@sonicfoxxmusic4281 3 года назад

Great songwriters...all with parts to play.

@tailhookmd2546 3 года назад

Awesome story!!

@Zetasphere 3 года назад

The Joshua Tree album sounded like the future in 1987 and still sounds like the future in 2021. It's absolutely timeless.

@gsimons213 3 года назад

This album is like a soundscape of the 80s and 90s for me. Beautiful album start to finish

@good_king_guitarman1334 3 года назад

That's a great way to describe how it felt in 1987. It did sound like the future!

@kannonmcafee 3 года назад

A pop rock LP by a post-punk band doing a gospel song. Who does that? U2.

@j_e_hill 3 года назад

Yeah, it kind of stands alone, it was always in its own class. It’s own thing compared to contemporary’s music.

@toddroberts5522 3 года назад

Can’t believe Bono sang this a half step HIGHER than what we hear in the recording…what a voice.

@IntangibleBeatz 11 месяцев назад

I have my doubts about this...how do we know they weren't just playing the tape back faster speed by accident in that doc? In the 80s shows I've listened to the band plays this song a half step lower than it appears on the record. Is this theory supported elsewhere?

@PipeChoir 3 года назад

Finally....someone is talking about the greatness of Larry Mullen Jr as a song writer's drummer.....such an underrated drummer....

@christophertaylor9100 3 года назад

I agree, guy is really underrated, almost forgotten

@DuhQuanNigstix 3 года назад

I think some of coloring around Mullen Jr. was added by Henry Rollins, who years ago bitterly criticized U2's rhythm section. I think Rollins critique was misplaced and made him sound envious. I wonder if Rick Beato has ever seen the Rollin's interview and would care to comment on it.

@coffeedudeguy 3 года назад

Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet the Blue Sky are bloody fantastic

@DuhQuanNigstix 3 года назад

@@coffeedudeguy Agree. I think The Joshua Tree is a brilliant album, as are a number of other U2 records.

@Lbvg 3 года назад

his drumming got a lot more fluent and syncopated from "the unforgettable fire" and onwards. just listen to the difference between "sunday bloody sunday" and "a sort of homecoming". he's a one of a kind

@MagnumMuscle1000 3 года назад

Rick is totally correct...Bono is a genius lyric writer and a phenomenal singer. The band as whole makes unique and epic music.

@moogleguitar 3 года назад

yeah I agree. It's crazy that a lot of people in Ireland speak badly of him. Jealousy I guess

@padraigodriscoll986 3 года назад

@@moogleguitar I think it’s just funny to pick on Bono now most Irish people enjoy U2

@espalier 3 года назад

Bono Vox

@AnthonyRecenello 3 года назад

Definitely add in those fun additions to the video. The extra drumming adds so much context. Thanks so much Rick for being you. 🙏🏻

@jacobarmstrong5308 3 года назад

Dating coach reacts to Rick Beato

@JohnTerby 3 года назад

I agree with you man. I’m am a long time drummer & U2 fan. But the older I get, I’m always drawn more into the. Choices the musicians made in the music I love. It’s like learning what an author’s meaning was or influences into the story they wrote.

@dkbrn1b.737 3 года назад

That was one of the BEST parts of the video,keep asking your friends over to participate in your videos!

@onetwothreefour-s1n 3 года назад

I agree

@johnmc3862 3 года назад

Thankfully he can’t be anyone else!

@SonicDykstra 3 года назад

U2 is the prime example of what chemistry can do, and how it makes a band, or not. NONE of these guys could even play their instruments for the first while. But what their vision was, kept them together, and ultimately, proved transformational.

@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 4 месяца назад

It’s also why they wrote their own music at the very beginning instead of playing covers. They couldn’t play anyone else’s songs bc they didn’t have the skill yet. So they each literally invented their own style. Styles that from the outside looking in looked and sounded bizarre. I never really realized that before until I heard them being interviewed a couple years ago. So now it makes total sense why they have such a unique sound. Especially early on.

@garydonofrio17 3 года назад

This entire album was incredible. There are simply no misses on it and remains one of the greatest. Very rare for an entire album to be damn near perfect.

@ThorsteinKlingenberg 3 года назад

Lauryn Hill.. But U2 has many albums of that stature.

@peterh1353 3 года назад

They had no preference about how the tracks should be in terms of order. So Kirstie McCall gave them each a score and they go from high to low!

@akeithing1841 Год назад

Agreed. Any Elliott Smith album as well

@iggypopisgod9 Год назад

@@ThorsteinKlingenberg Even their others had minor hiccups...but JT is in a league all by its own

@OceanofMaya 3 года назад

RIck is SOOO good at THIS. So good at trying to preserve ART in music and musicians for the sake of ART and music. The world needs many things, that's not really up for debate, and one of the paths to betterment for us all is passion in ART IMHO. So, for his role in that - we're all very lucky. At least, I feel I am. Thanks Rick et al.

@asharpbflat7179 3 года назад

Couldn't agree more!

@estebanchoy 3 года назад

Indeed.

@saltandsoundrecordings 3 года назад

Absolutely

@andiparker3733 3 года назад

Well said!!

@SteveWeintraub346 3 года назад

I've seen every WMTSG, and this may be his masterpiece of analysis. Simply incredible breakdown.

@msmoniz 3 года назад

This video seems timely as Daniel's brother Bob just died unexpectedly last week. A huge loss for our local music community, as I'm sure a personal one for Daniel. Daniel Lanois got his musical start here in my city of Hamilton Ontario, Canada(40 miles south west of Toronto). It was his older brother Bob who started with Daniel, recording locals musicians and bands in their mothers basement, eventually buying an old house and setting it up as a well renowned studio locally and nationally called Grant Ave (still in use today as a studio by a friend who bought it from them). In the liner notes for Joshua Tree, Bob gets a shout out from Bono. Bob still lived here in Hamilton and had another studio and artist's studio setup(Bob was also an amazing photographer and visual artist; Daniel produced Emmylou Harris' Wrecking Ball album features Bob's pictures of her) for locals to rent in an industrial part of town. I was lucky to have met and speak with him a few years back and we had a common acquaintance that knew how much of a fan I was of his and Daniel's music and production work.

@doablefilms9380 3 года назад

U2 is one of the few artists that people will still be listening to in 200 years

@cabrini99 2 года назад

good prediction

@hollyw. 2 года назад

Amen!

@grogscol Год назад

True, you can add Queen and Bowie to that list, all Live Aid artists.

@normie2716 Год назад

But _not_ Paul Simon. At least according to some guy in another of Rick's videos I watched earlier.

@fordsandbeagles 11 месяцев назад

😂😂😂

@MrMetalhorse 3 года назад

I thought I was alone thinking that Larry mullen was an amazing drummer. The guy comes up with the coolest, most original and unexpected beats.

@7thangelad586 3 года назад

I hope Mr. Beato will do an entire series investigating what makes U2’s songs great. There are so many timeless titles.

@voodooturbo 3 года назад

Seriously. He could do another 100 episodes just on their stuff. He hasn't even touched Achtung Baby yet, which is an even better album to take a deep dive into the bits of.

@alfonsomango_suyu 3 года назад

Totally agree

@baronbayne9899 3 года назад

yeah i could conservatively think of about 30 songs that would deserve a good beato deep dive

@alanguiney2133 3 года назад

That transition at the start of Streets needs the Rick treatment!

@philyates7670 3 года назад

@@voodooturbo Hell yeah, Until The End Of The World is a phenomenal track.

@woodsdenis 3 года назад

Larry Mullen Jr started playing drums in a marching band which certainly led to his style. Rick check out the intro "Where the streets have no name" for the time signature changes when it goes into the tune. To this day Larry counts the 6/4 intro. I worked in Windmill Lane studios where they recorded and mixed this, great times. I will add four of the nicest people you will meet in this industry to this day.

@AndTheRoadGoesEverOn 3 года назад

Thanks for that story. Great to hear. And yeah, a video from Rick on U2’s WTSHNN and/or signature time changes would be a good one.

@stevenkay-clough3976 Год назад

Watching this gives insight to how good U2 realy is ..melodys from another world ,dreamstate ..all from a few chords ...a band made in heaven .

@oubaas49 4 месяца назад

Absolutely. That dreamscape effect is also of course a lot due to Brian Eno's influence.

@nickbruni8041 3 года назад

I was 20 in 87’ ... the Joshua tree tour was the only time I stayed in line overnight for good tickets in philly at a video tape store that sold tickets ... My buddies and I wore the tape out trying to learn the music. I think it was life changing for me at that point in time 🇨🇮

@shawnminnier6117 3 года назад

I was at the show with you. JFK Stadium. Opening act was Little Steven, aka Silvio from The Sopranos. Sadly, my #1 memory from the show is they only played for about 90 minutes. 80,000 people in the stadium and they couldn't play 2 hours?? I went home angry and never saw them again.

@arottie4097 3 года назад

Great story! Did ya end with good seat?

@coolmacatrain9434 3 года назад

Well, we've got the Côte d'Ivoire Flag and the Italian Flag in this thread, So I guess I'll just stick the Irish Flag in the mix as well :) 🇮🇪 Been listening to U2 since a friends older brother played us the new single he'd just bought; "11 O'Clock Tick Tock", back in 1980 ...41 years gone in the blink of an eye Regards from Donegal, Ireland.

@marklybeer9038 3 года назад

I saw U2 the same year in Las Vegas UNLV. . turns out a photographer from Time magazine was there that night also. . .one of the best musical experiences I have ever had, and the interesting thing about it was they had VERY little stage show - they just came out and basically played. . .that's all they needed to do.

@user-ym3ld5ut7b 3 года назад

Did the same in Chicago.

@larbueno 3 года назад

"If you want your music to have humanity...you actually have to have it played by humans!" Hell yes, Rick!!!

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

YESSSSSSS !

@theloniouscoltrane3778 3 года назад

think ed sheeran

@stephenlawn159 3 года назад

It always amazed me that a drum machine is even a thing in a production studio. You wouldn't consider a guitar machine, ffs! ...ironic, considering that any person involved in creating any form of art for a living is continually reminded through life that art's not a "real" job. Sorry, but a drum machine track is not really drum track. I listen to recordings of musicians playing, so an artist called "the drummer" should be playing the drums - with sticks (and have a job). It's the whole frigging point, and you can easily tell the difference. The other artists in the studio shouldn't allow the drum machine crap to happen.

@stevencarreiro5080 3 года назад

@@stephenlawn159 Even in just the three days, this comment demands far more likes than merely mine..??

@charlesseymour1482 3 года назад

Yes! Human hands on sticks.

@JD-pn1ow 3 года назад

Having grown up in southern California, this song feels like the chilly high desert from a convertible. I can FEEL this song. It's beautiful.

@jessekulbe1855 2 года назад

That's the power of music and nostalgia, it really is amazing

@hugh-johnfleming289 2 года назад

There are few things I miss about California. It sadly isn't FOR Californians anymore. BUT, the desert gets in your marrow, the rocks and hills, the Spring Bloom... the arid Winter cold, the enveloping Summer heat. The immaculate silence.

@RIPHenry 2 года назад

You said it the memories by the beaches, in S. CAL

@RIPHenry 2 года назад

Totally!

@lisag18 2 года назад

I also imagine songs driving a car. It's personal and intimate

@left0verture 3 года назад

Nice tone. And yeah, don’t see how anybody can slag Edge’s playing. In a world full of “look how fast I can play” guitarists, Edge CRAFTS music.

@joeywho534 2 года назад

When people get mad it’s cause he did it and they didn’t

@wilmascholte7607 2 года назад

I'm pretty a-musical, but I am reminded of the general idea that what may seem simple is usually actually harder than it looks.

@DaveTaste 2 года назад

I've read loads of comments saying "don't slag The Edge off" but I've not actually seen anyone slagging him.

@Jaggedknife11 2 года назад

He's not so much in the hendrixian rock mode. Play guitar like a synth kinda. There's a clip from the movie "it might get loud" where he plays a riff with and without effects. The "dry" version of the riff legitimately sounds grating, annoying and horrible. With effects it sounds spacious and beautiful. He writes parts that only sound good with loads of delay, reverb, chorus and other FXs but can sound terrible only clean or only distorted. It may sound like I'm slagging on him but I'm not. I really love some of his playing but he really does play with a totally different skill set and Intention then the usual rock guy. This is why he gets hate I think.

@miguelpereira9859 2 года назад

How dare The Edge make music that people actually want to listen to

@tomwhalen8400 3 года назад

"Is that too much drumming? - No." Great call.

@thomasluby1754 3 года назад

Agree 100%! That drummer was amazingly talented and I could have listened for a few minutes more. Many times in R&R, drummers are taken for granted and are thought more as beat keepers than artists.

@davidgomersall7185 3 года назад

Could have done with a bit more cowbell...

@MegaBanne 3 года назад

In funk the drummer sets the mood for the rest of the band to grow on.

@roc2389 3 года назад

Hard to believe U2 were still in their twenties then. Harder to believe they are in their sixties now. Timeless.

@boysothebog 3 года назад

When I was growing up in Ireland in the 80s, EVERYONE was a U2 fan. I tried not to be, just to be different, but by this record I had become a fan despite myself (and for a large part due to my older brother's record collection). The Joshua Tree (as well as TUF and Achtung Baby) is now one of my top ten today...to have Rick dissect and "fanboy" all over this song just made my week😁☺️

@user-qr8ki8ue4i 3 года назад

It took us Yanks a little while to catch on.

@zingleraster9124 3 года назад

Achtung Baby was ground breaking, bold & brave. The older I get the more sentimental I am becoming about music from my youth. Amazing albums and songs.

@bethenielukl 2 месяца назад

Oh Bono, his voice is transcending. When he sings low, pure beauty. Higher, it’s ok, but the way he uses it is unreal. Who has more passion? Forever my favorite singer ever. I dream of singing a duet with him day.

@dantreview4698 3 года назад

The vocal harmonies at the end, where Bono actually cuts out, and it's just Edge and a few other voices: that part blows my mind every time. For the singer to step OUT, and the music to get "broader," is RARE.

@ragayomama 3 года назад

yeah, I love that outro and also the outro in With or Without You. I wish they had extended those, or at least has an extended version of the songs.

@jackiwannapaint 3 года назад

well said dan

@greg6602 3 года назад

@@ragayomama The restraint The Edge displays at the end of "With or Without You" is haunting and perfectly calculated by the master himself. Just brilliant in his decision to fade out with what he is playing there.

@skinnynorris9419 3 года назад

Thanks Rick, I think The Joshua Tree is one of the best Albums ever recorded. I am 18 years old and I love this Band.

@PJBonoVox 3 года назад

If you're new to U2 don't discount Zooropa and Pop. Both killer albums in my opinion.

@Jamsterboy 3 года назад

@@PJBonoVox and the 12 inch remix of Lemon is incredible!

@skinnynorris9419 3 года назад

@@PJBonoVox yes i think the Zoo TV Tour era was also very important for U2 and for me the best Tour of all Time. I am from Germany so i like this Berlin Vibe. Great stuff

@thatchadlmiller 3 года назад

Very few songs can bring tears to my eyes with almost every listen, but this one does. It's legitimately a miraculous piece of music.

@dougrobinson8602 3 года назад

'One' does the same thing to me. Maybe U2 should go down as the most successful gospel band of all time.

@scottharrison1323 3 года назад

Promenade does it for me!!🤣

@QuantumBeeWellness Год назад

Saw them for the first time in 1987, my friends and I still go to see them on every tour. They are one of those few bands that are better live than in the studio.

@hobbesthecat6868 Год назад

I swear Streets gets better every time they play it!

@robertborden2666 3 года назад

A song that is seemingly so simple reminding budding songwriters that it doesn't have to be super complex to be a masterpiece; it just has to make you FEEL something. Working those dissonances into the guitar parts, thundering kick drum fills to push the track along, vocals straightforward enough to sing along to... that's how you touch people in their hearts.

@jfo3000 3 года назад

Touch people in their hearts...a fine goal that U2 achieved quite well.

@bminturn 3 года назад

Writing a tune that just about everyone on the planet can relate to his or her own life didn't hurt either. U2 gets a lot of flack for writing such general songs (like who doesn't experience spiritual longing at some point?) On the other hand, who doesn't experience spiritual longing at some point? So why not do it in an anthemic way? You don't have to be as specific as Leonard Cohen to explore the topic. Either can be a good approach.

@Fdurey 3 года назад

"An internet treasure." Every video you produce Rick adds validity to this statement. "What Makes This Song Great." represents what the internet can be at its best. Please don't stop - there are so many more great songs for us music enthusiasts to discover with your help.

@TheCOZ 3 года назад

Cool avatar

@davidpalmer9014 3 года назад

G&R's Appetite for Destruction and R.E.M.'s Document also came out in 87. What a year!

@AbbeyRoadkill1 3 года назад

Don't forget Midnight Oil's 'Diesel & Dust.'

@gnordache4405 3 года назад

George Michael's "Faith", Prince's "Sign o' the Times", Michael Jackson's "Bad", and so on, and so forth... It was an amazing year. Damn, we even got rickrolled!

@m1k3g3tz 3 года назад

the smiths : strangeways , new order : substance, replacements : pleased to meet me, teh cure : kiss me x3, depeche mode : music for the masses, INXS : kick, the cult : electric, 10,000 maniacs : in my tribe, echo & the bunny men : self titled, sisters of mercy : floodland, love and rockets : earth sun moon, PIL : happy?, dukes of stratsophear : psonic psunspot, firehose : if'n 1987 was the year that music happened.

@donny2327 3 года назад

AND .... Bruce's Tunnel of Love. Another class record

@axnyslie 3 года назад

@@m1k3g3tz It was the year music said "OK hair metal, we're done with you!"

@darwinprice4466 3 года назад

Let’s not forget Brian Eno’s contributions to Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree’s as a recording engineer. Arguably their best albums!

@j_e_hill 3 года назад

Elton John said once if you’re ever in a pinch for a hit, write a hymn. When Rick plays this song on a keyboard, I think we can all hear that song in a church basement. Love it.

@avedic 3 года назад

hmm.....That's actually a cool bit of advice. Elton's own Your Song, Hallelujah, Mad World, Imagine, and Let It Be....all come to mind as songs that kinda say: Enough with the clever tricks and bells & whistles.....just sit yourself down at a piano, and tell the truth over diatonic chords.

@pkirkey6932 3 года назад

The Toronto Celtic Choral Society has actually sung I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For at St. Basil’s.

@miarrem 3 года назад

It's actually played often by many choirs. ...

@captbuscemi 3 года назад

I’m certain U2 have said in interviews that it’s a gospel song. Edge in particular is very religious and he always considers it a spiritual, his yearning to know his god.

@elarboldejoshua 3 года назад

The songs, the playing, the cover art, the production (!!!), the lyrics.,the sound....from top to bottom Joshua is one of the greatest albums of all time..no matter if you like U2 or not

@DachsieMom75 3 года назад

It was the FIRST album I bought on CD .. 4 months BEFORE I got my CD player (as a part of a component system) out of layaway. ... yes I'm an old lady now at 73, but I still listen to Joshua Tree at least once a month. 🎶

@TheRosePhantom 3 года назад

Same goes for Achtung Baby.

@oasisbeyond 3 года назад

I think Aunctung Baby is the best, it's a little newer, edgier... And all songs are different and top notch. They hit their peek there. But, had another 2 or 3 good albums after it.

@tunemxr480 2 года назад

The Joshua Tree saved my life March of ‘87. I met Lanois in Chuck Berry’s basement/dive bar Blueberry Hill a few years ago, (a completely gracious gentleman) and the circle was complete in my life. ⭕️

@gugy68 2 года назад

Yep, TJT and Achtung Baby are U2’s masterpieces and IMO among the top rock roll albums.

@AbbeyRoadkill1 3 года назад

Larry Mullen Jr is one of the great drummers. Thanks for pointing out all the interesting kick drum work he's doing here.

@j_e_hill 3 года назад

The Vertigo tour: Larry did the outro after each other band member stopped playing one at a time, with 40... I’m sure they did it before, but for a guy to hold a full arena’s attention with just a drum kit like that, for as long as he wanted... a real artist. 🥁

@valeriesuttonpayne7413 3 года назад

Something amazing (to me anyway) happened to me today. I was in my car listening to some of my favorite songs from my Amazon playlists. I realized as I was listening to Stevie Wonder’s “I Don’t Know Why I Love You” I was trying to hear different instruments in the music. I almost had to stop the car! From this day forward this will be forever known as “the Rick Beato effect.” I’m a 67 year old grandmother who has become obsessed with your videos and what you’re trying to teach us. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I’m enjoying your videos so much even though I don’t understand most of what you’re talking about! 💕

@stephanhuebner4931 2 года назад

Very nice story, love it. :-D And I love Ricks' videos.

@6472275455 2 года назад

Love this reply!!!

@patrickjordan2233 2 года назад

Criminally underrated comment 👍♥️👍

@anekedudy8369 Год назад

I can confirm this effect! So cool to hear something you didn't notice before following Rick.

@maetongco8988 11 месяцев назад

I feel you...really, i finish all interviews, reviews of the songs, if that is the right word...i dont understand most what he is saying, but im learning...if that make sense..

@sgtpet 3 года назад

Joshua Tree was an important album for gen x. What an album and this is such a great song. Thanks for sharing.

@littlegreenbud2067 3 года назад

Wow this is the perfect example of the difference between How drab modern quantize music can be, and comparison to human played instruments that is an internal voice that is being externalized through instruments as a language that is universal and speaks from within

@dannyspitzer1267 3 года назад

I agree!

@bakman2411 3 года назад

I lost you at wow!

@nadavegan 3 года назад

"You know what would make this song better? A snap track!" - Some producer today, probably

@danielmoser5483 3 года назад

I don't have any particular story associated w/ this song. No "my dad listened to this all the time before he passed", or "I did a cover w/ my church choir". All I can say is that when I listen to this song, I feel an overwhelming sense of peace. All of my worries and problems disappear, and everything is all right. The emotional impact is profound. This song and The Joshua Tree is a masterpiece.

@hwd7 Год назад

I'm glad that Rick appreciates Larry Mullen's drumming, he is a very creative, unique drummer. 💖 U2, 💖80's💖💖💖💖💖💖

@bronwynbeistle8317 3 года назад

Thank you for defending the Edge. He has a sound that, at the time, I had never heard before. When I first heard this song on the radio, at the age of nineteen, I stopped what I was doing and went to the radio and sat there mesmerized until it was over.

@nicholasschlegel473 3 года назад

This was released my senior year of high school. People just don't get it unless they were around -- how ubiquitous and powerful U2 were. A stratosphere launching LP. This brought a tear to my eye. The episode is a masterpiece Rick, just like the Joshua Tree.

@Gretzky2857 3 года назад

Fellow class of ‘87 here, can’t agree with you more, what an album. It’s still as powerful and moving at 52 as it was at 18.

@GO-ej1pg 3 года назад

@@Gretzky2857 class of 1988 here. I feel you! Saw them at sun devil stadium in 1987. $5 tickets because they were filming the Joshua tree. We had no idea history was in the making. Incredible

@AndTheRoadGoesEverOn 3 года назад

Well said. I was a freshman in high school when this came out. Already had been a U2 fan since their War album due to my sister picking that earlier one up at a Virgin Records by mistake. (She’d been looking for a different band but wasn’t sure their name; upon a few listens to U2 she fell in love & refused to return the album. LOL) When TJT was released...it’s hard to put into words just how big & beloved U2 was. Especially for myself & my peers who were at an age were we just beginning to chose the bands that we’d adopt, champion & follow into adulthood. I still listen to this album (& all 6 Rick showed on screen in fact) today. U2 - soundtrack of my life.

@joecrafted 3 года назад

I was working my first job (at a supermarket) when this album came out. I was already a U2 fan having worn out my War, Under a Blood Red Sky and Unforgettable Fire (my fav and so avante garde IMO). It was a magically album. Saw them on back-to-back nights for this tour and got to see them again on the 30th tour. I'm a guitarist, but always loved Larry's playing too, struck me as so different than what all the other drummers were doing.

@evanparrott6129 3 года назад

I swear Rick is one of my favorite guitarist of all time

@thesmellycatjazz 3 года назад

Yikes

@BigEdWo 3 года назад

he s good. yes.

@suarezmarull 3 года назад

The simple bass lines are the glue that make most U2 songs shine.

@ciaranchew 3 года назад

As a kid growing up in Dublin in the late 70s me and my friend saw U2 busking in a place called the Dandelion Market a cool flea Market (now Stephens green shopping centre) and as the years went by I got to see them become the biggest and in my opinion the coolest band in the world...love your show rick

@stevendevries1395 3 года назад

that is something special indeed, a piece of history

@mariki3 3 года назад

Wow

@charlesseymour1482 3 года назад

Wow. What a fan comment. Golden U2 busking in Dublin!

@leonardmcdermott7703 3 года назад

It was a dark and bohemian retreat for the alternative style seekers. U2 played to a walk by crowd, as they became better the people gathered and blocked the entrance to many shops...The legend was born.

@schristinef6352 3 года назад

Show off. (Just kidding....jealous!!)

@drdre4397 3 года назад

You know I still can't believe we just get these videos and knowledge for free. This series might be my favourite thing to watch.

@baileyjones5744 2 года назад

Whatever you think about The Edge's Guitar playing there's no denying that he had his own unique style of playing and it has become incredibly influential. There are so many bands today who have riffs inspired by the edge. So many songs sound like it could be a U2 song and The Edge was the first one to do it. I have also heard from friends who have seen him live that he is an incredible guitar player.

@sdalt001 Год назад

The Edge is a sound technician. Many artists forget it's ok to have rests in your composition. The race to the most notes is not the only measure of greatness.

@johnpuntenney4596 10 месяцев назад

He definitely does have a unique style. And yes, it is so worth it. Seeing him live with the rest of the band, the music alone may change your life, but seeing it in person feels so transformative.

@lamech006 3 года назад

U2'S songs got me through my father's death in 2001. No one like them. Thank you Rick.

@fabiors10 3 года назад

I feel sorry for you. I'm going through similar moment after losing my mother and little sister... I can't listen to Kite live from Sidney without pouring my eyes when Edge's solo kicks in

@fabiors10 3 года назад

@@MisbehavingChild thanks for the kind words, I wish you all the same.

@bminturn 3 года назад

I lost my father in Feb of 2019. Then an aunt in the same month. Then a nephew in April of that year. So it was just one sorrow after another. I found myself listening to a lot of Achtung Baby during that time. The lyrics in some of the songs like "Ultraviolet" ("There is a silence that comes to a house where no one can sleep / I guess that's the price of love and I know it's not cheap") just hit harder. The grief never really goes away, but, as the song says, that's the price of loving someone who you may lose.

@jppagetoo 3 года назад

I am not a U2 fan, but I cannot argue the brilliance their work. This album is a masterpiece. The have made at least 5 albums that are masterpieces. That is something that puts U2 in rare air indeed.

@AbbeyRoadkill1 3 года назад

People always talk about The Beatles "Big 5" albums. I think U2 also have a "Big 5," which for me would be Joshua Tree, Actung Baby, Unforgettable Fire, War, and Boy. Then again, I think The Beatles actually have a "Big 6" because I would include A Hard Day's Night among their bona fide classics.

@HBSuccess 3 года назад

Well said. Very well said in fact.

@chopper4484 3 года назад

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Zooropa to me is also a classic its like a totally different band played on that record. Stay probably is most U2-like song, plus Johnny Cash very very cool

@oig40203 3 года назад

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 "A Hard Day's Night" is so freakin' good, and often overlooked

@wrbrdnt 3 года назад

EVERY TIME YOU RELEASE ONE OF THESE MY DAY IS BETTER- 😊

@timjackson4387 2 года назад

This is one of those melodies that is so perfect that it sounds like it has existed forever.

@sammyfromsydney 3 года назад

Beato has to be one of the most under-rated music teachers on the planet. Listening to him passionately rant about old music and bring in friends to demonstrate parts is more instructive than anything else i have seen. I only wish I had the talent and circumstances to play well enough to take advantage of his work. Anyone that copyright strikes this guy is disgraceful.

@powbobs 3 года назад

Rick Beato is hugely respected in the industry.

@sammyfromsydney 3 года назад

@@powbobsyep and virtually unknown outside it. He should be a household name. He is that good.

@tanya_az229 3 года назад

He is amazing!! This is the first video of his I've ever seen. I love his passion. Can't wait to watch more!

@Kingcarparpeggio 3 года назад

@@sammyfromsydney : when you say “ good” did you misspell “ god” ......🤓

@nunancreative8932 3 года назад

Larry is the Ringo of his day. Because of their lack of flash, everyone thinks what they do is rudimentary when it is really just subtle and full of nuance. Much the same as Ringo, remove or replace any of these signature parts and the songs we have grown to love would simply not sound, or feel the same.

@pfzt 3 года назад

Ringo is the exact comparison i was thinking of too.

@happypapi1903 3 года назад

As a former DJ, when mixing in a U2 song with a song with quantized drums or a drum machine, it locked up perfectly once I got the tempos matched. Larry is a human metronome. Very little deviation.

@golaoi 3 года назад

I totally agree. Ringo was brilliant too.

@almo2001 3 года назад

For me, the subdued drum performance is what makes this song.

@daflotsam 3 года назад

As a kid of the 70’s who heard the Beatles on the radio multiple times a day, it wasn’t until my 30’s that I started to listen to them afresh. I was amazed at how amazed I could be with music so seemingly familiar. And Ringo’s playing-which as a teen seemed “weak” compared to Peart, Bonham, McBrain-made me head slap myself in an aha moment of finally recognizing his melodic style that was so creative and unique. Larry Mullen’s is similar in approach yet unique to his own voice. Creative drum patterns and lines truly throw songs into extra dimensions.

@t_electronics7147 3 года назад

Whatever else you want to say about U2, this record is phenomenal. It sounds like America somehow.

@MIKERUPTION 3 года назад

Yes, this is by far, my favorite U2 album.

@BigElectricBull1981 3 года назад

@@MIKERUPTION All that you can't leave behind is my favorite U2 album. Joshua Tree has some great songs on it though

@MIKERUPTION 3 года назад

@@BigElectricBull1981 Beautiful Day off of that album is a great song!

@axsal8607 3 года назад

The original tittle for the Joshua Tree was The two Americas

@MIKERUPTION 3 года назад

@@axsal8607 Was it really? I didn't know that. Thanks for the bit of trivia!

@ronr6450 2 года назад

As a child of the 80s, I'm in my mid 50s now, and this stuff still brings a tear to my eyes.

@SanDiegoUteFan 3 года назад

Rick seems so approachable and friendly. Would love to spend an afternoon with him and discuss music theory. What a treasure.

@RuinDweller 3 года назад

People who share knowledge are some of the most generous, loving people on the planet. Thank you.

@miaoupha2370 3 года назад

Amen.

@truthserum9157 2 года назад

RuinDweller - those words you said sounds like it could almost be lyrics, well put my friend.

@KrisWood 3 года назад

The 9th chord and the major 7th chord always gave me this unspeakable sense of pure joy. It was like light. I remember when this song came out and I just felt GLAD, even in the midst of the unfulfilled longing. Those chords were like nothing I had ever heard before in mainstream music.

@thecresthotel 2 года назад

I’m no musician Rick but I could listen to your videos all day….how you explain all the great music of our generation. I’m 59 too. You are an ally in our quest to make sense of all the great music culture we lived through. Amazing. You have fantastic presence to camera.

@renorailfanning5465 3 года назад

Being in a stadium, which I have, while U2 lets the crowd sing this is something spiritual. Their version on Jimmy Kimmel is mesmerizing. These guys are a live band and their shows are something else.

@ACCH-cm9ou 2 года назад

thanx for sharing, just listened to it now ...... excellent

@MrThorp1 2 года назад

i cant stand when bands stop playing and hand it over to the crowd. im sure im in the minority here, but just not my thing.

@jamesdavison2927 2 года назад

@@MrThorp1 I CAN SEE what you are saying and feel the same once in a while

@brown22sugar25 2 года назад

@@MrThorp1 I agree. I only like it as a call/response thing or when they sing at the same time. When the singer just holds the mic out and lets the crowd sing an entire verse I cringe

@MikeRidgway 2 года назад

@@MrThorp1 obviously never heard U2's 40. That is a song that has to be sung by the audience to hit it off right... "How long.... To sing this song...."

@ajrob77 3 года назад

Your breakdown of In God’s Country is what brought me to your channel. While I'm a massive Tool fan (amongst other similar artists) U2 was the first music to hit me like a religious experience when I was a child. If you ever do a full album “what makes this album great” it should definitely be The Joshua Tree ❤️

@JDtennessee 3 года назад

Same here, this video is how I found Beato. Love this channel.

@michaeljvdh 3 года назад

Beato is so Intune with being a human that loves his craft it inspires me.

@challism 3 года назад

YES! Do NOT Auto-tune Rick's humanity!

@jonconverse4866 Год назад

Great reading Bono's Surrender and being able to do deep dives with you and CLASSIC ALBUMS on the song structures. What an amazing time we live in!

@williambenner5550 3 года назад

Growing up in Southern California, Joshua Tree National Park was a place I absolutely loved as a kid. It blew me away that U2 choose to name this great album after this amazing cactus "tree". When I Still Haven't Found What I Am Looking For was released, suddenly it was absolutely everywhere; flooding the air ways and MTV. I remember wondering how a song could be a hit with such a long title. However the song is just magical, filled spiritual longing. This will always be a very special song for me.

@pepeperezmartinez 3 года назад

One of Rick's best videos. Outstanding. I love how Rick loves the music. He FEELS it. I felt a kindred spirit as I watched because this song moves me so much. I'll never forget the first time I heard it at age 11.

@The.Adam.D 3 года назад

I wasn't looking for this, but I found it anyway.

@ronnierush9379 3 года назад

Glad you finally found it, but I would have watched it with or without you.

@luismazzeo9006 3 года назад

I found it...where the street have no name 😉

@CraigHollabaugh 3 года назад

Boy, you all are out of control.

@kipster9 2 года назад

The live version on Rattle and Hum with the church choir always gets to me every time I hear it. Nearly brings me to tears. Love this song so much.

@piteusx8440 3 года назад

Joshua Tree is one of the greatest albums of all time. Anyone who went to high school in the late 80s was affected by U2 one way or another.

@robertcaldwell2107 3 года назад

Grade school too

@stuksy4321 3 года назад

or in college.

@eggy1962 3 года назад

It was the live version of Sunday Bloody Sunday from the live at Red Rock that really got my attention, i was aware of their hit new years day but on that live concert wow found gloria and i will follow, later came pride and the song i called one to piss the neighbour off with..with or without you...awesome bass

@windonthevalley 3 года назад

I graduated high school 1970, and am totally affected by U2, THE GREATEST BAND ever! :p

@davidanania5618 3 года назад

Truth. 4 of us drove from Oshkosh, WI down to Indianapolis to see this tour at the Hoosier Dome. Fun fact: the Bo Deans were supposed to open but didn’t make it due to inclement weather (I think)...after a delay, four Dudes in “country regalia” and porn staches came on stage and played a set....yep, it was U2....opening for themselves. ALSO, the “all lights on/house lights on” cue at the huge downbeat in the intro of “Where the Streets Have No Name” is one of the most epic rock & roll moments in concert history....also-also, this entire record is pretty much all in D major, and it’s still incredible 😄

@pdkonkol 3 года назад

Yes! U2’s success belongs to the band as a whole, but Edge’s guitar sounds are so unique that listening to “Joshua Tree” or “Achtung Baby” it’s hard to place exactly what year they’re coming from. They sound timeless. Of course Page is freaking amazing, but his guitar tones are 70s, even if his playing is out of this world. Oh man, I’m going to get schooled on that one.

@thomasluby1754 3 года назад

I agree about The Edge. Never heard a guitar with a sound like that before and just loved it. It comes thru so well on this song and on the live version of Bad and also on The Streets Have No Name.

@TheTapeFarm 3 года назад

U2 is a perfect example a true band… they are greater than the sum of their parts.

@MrHVanB 3 года назад

The edge inspired me to play guitar. The repeats, the soundscapes, the drone-notes. I listen to the song a million times. But never linked the quality of the song to the drum and bass parts. Very well and enthousiast explained in this video. Big 👍 here! I think I didn’t found what I I ve been looking for so far. I put the record on listen again till I find it😉!

@jfkesq 3 года назад

That is such an incredible bluesy sounding gospel sounding low end percussive beginning, and then Bono's voice....incredible.

@raderke 3 года назад

I championed U2 early and all my friends mocked me except my family. They thought War was a stupid record. By the time Joshua Tree came out everyone loved U2 and I got that record as LP, cassette , CD, merch as gifts and I played it to death and most of the haters wouldn't admit mocking me and that is ok.

@HerveBoisde 3 года назад

How could anyone mock War? That record is so raw.

@laikenf 3 года назад

Thank you Rick for giving this band its due credit, especially their work from War to Achtung Baby, that was an amazing streak.

@nateds7326 2 года назад

Man alive, the fact that this song was recorded a half step HIGHER blows my mind as a vocalist. Whenever I play this song at parties I usually put it a half step DOWN. Bono just never ceases to impress me with his singing.

@globalmonkey007 3 года назад

The only march to ever hit #1. Jaw-dropping and utterly original soundscapes by Edge, Lanois and Eno. To this day, nothing else sounds like it. One of the greatest songs ever recorded.

@brucealexanderwhite7455 3 года назад

very cool observation - I never would have thought about that.

@ZZZebman 3 года назад

It is Rick Beato's analysis and comments which made me realize how great guitarists Edge and Andy Summers really are. Another great great episode of WMTSG.

@paulshaughnessy 3 года назад

Rick, I'm not a musician, I just dabble a little, but I love music and always believed understanding how it's made allows me to appreciate it more. You're channel fills my heart with joy. Thank you for doing what you do.

@peterh1353 3 года назад

Couldn't agree more.

@dominickfurlano8016 3 года назад

A Master Class in less than a half hour. Classics withstand the test of time, and U2's heavenly song and Rick Beato's breakdown of it will still be heavily accessed 100 years from now.

@jcb3393 3 года назад

The history of the technical details is what i love about these videos. A casual listener cannot truly appreciate how the technical and technological side of rock music progressed/advanced through the years. Once you learn these things, you more fully appreciate *why* these songs were so important to the industry and the art of rock music.

@vintagebackgroundvibes 3 года назад

As a teenager, U2 was the first band where I appreciated their music enough to buy a poster for my wall that didn't come out of teen beat lol

@renorailfanning5465 3 года назад

Listening to Adam's bass parts reminds me why Bono has said Adam" is the soul of the band" The guy has killer feel.

@strangeunbelievableunexpla4388 9 месяцев назад

I listen every day 41 year. Unforgetable fire in the evenings. Boy in the mornings october at work. This is atleast three times a week. It never gets old. Ive heard Elvis Presley in America a million times . Track 9 on unforgettable 🔥 still cant tell you what hes saying but its so beautiful and important. Ill never forget you U2

@nivac5227 3 года назад

When people says that a song is poor because it has three chords, you have to show ISHFWILG. Melodies, arrangement, performance: perfection everywhere.