walesa: man of hope

It’s a series of images narrated against a low-key, ambient background. It’s also an alternate reality: what Bono could have ended up like, had his life gone another way. The single had that kernel of something else that the band themselves probably weren’t aware of, but they were able to hone and polish it from breathless clamor into this tale of darkness and light and the shadows in between. But you can’t write about “40” without talking about its place in the live show. “One,” Achtung Baby“One” is an enormous emotional chameleon of a song. You can just imagine this coming together under the chandeliers in Hansa Studios’ Meistersaal. You can hear all of this: the spiral staircase and the dizziness of young love (the two had only been married for two years, though they were teenage sweethearts); the two of them sitting at the top of their tower, watching the sun set over the seaside town. There is always that relative who asks when you will graduate, or a family friend who tells you that he was once an outstanding student. The Edge actually quit U2 at that time, but didn’t tell anyone except Bono. “Levitate,” Unreleased & RareMore detritus from All That You Can’t Leave Behind, with bits that ended up over in “Miracle Drug.” In the liner notes, the Edge writes that “Levitate” is one of the songs that “just don’t fit in.”. “The Ocean,” BoyIt’s not hard to make a guitar sound like ocean waves, but it is an art to make them sound like a particular kind of ocean waves: the dark rolling whitecap kind, the kind you’d see in the Irish Sea. “The Crystal Ballroom,” Songs of Innocence (vinyl only)The most important song on the album … gets left off the album, is only available as a bonus track on the vinyl release, and is only played three times on tour. 218. “With a Shout” is a reasonably powerful song from an instrumental perspective, but starts to feel like Bono is yelling about glory and righteousness yet again, with really nothing new to add. “Your Blue Room,” Passengers — Original Soundtracks IGorgeously twisted, it’s a mix of “Space Oddity” and Blue Velvet. 130. All of the above likely contributed to the disappearance of the track in the band’s live set once the Joshua Tree tour was over, until the announcement in 2017 of the 40th-anniversary tour. The video is the very definition of ’80s video-making, with every possible cliché present and accounted for. “Are You Gonna Wait Forever?,” B-side to “Vertigo”Loud, noisy guitar, another song channeling the Who (this is not a bad thing). Bono describes it as being trapped in a nightclub (and there is definitely some crappy nightclub named “Vertigo” out there) that you do not want to be at. There is blame and pleading and confessions and insistence and obsession and regret. That said, Bono would note, “It’s provocative but I don’t think we really pulled it off” from a lyrical perspective; the band hadn’t yet matured enough as lyricists to get that done. Live, it turned into a maelstrom, and never really stopped. “Native Son,” Unreleased & RareProto-“Vertigo,” with different lyrics about jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier. You won’t realize that, until the chorus arrives and you are there with him in his sorrow and rage: “Raised by wolves / Stronger than fear” is the anguished cry. Peace song. It’s a respite from “I Will Follow,” but not by much, as the last chorus winds up dramatic tension vocally from Bono before he passes it over to Edge for a taut, compact refrain. They wrote an enormous, slick anthem that exploded because people connected to it. “Angel of Harlem,” Rattle and HumThis song accurately captures the excitement and enthusiasm of coming to New York after dreaming about it. “Wake Up Dead Man,” PopInstead of ending this record with a hymn, U2 ends it with a prayer. 107. 147. 180. Time this one right and you’ll think you’re flying. “Race Against Time,” B-side to “Where the Streets Have No Name” singleDuring the recording of The Unforgettable Fire, the Edge discovered King Sunny Ade and juju music, a cross between Western pop and African rhythms. There’s a whole second album of this type of aching echo that came out of The Joshua Tree sessions and ended up as B-sides, but the album would have felt a little more complete and well-rounded had one of them — preferably this one — made the cut. “Out of Control” is direct and driving, no fancy percussion or tricks or echoes, every single member of the band playing at 11. In the introductions to the song on the Innocence and Experience tour, Bono would often speak about her encouragement to the young Paul Hewson and his music career — that his songs didn’t need to be perfect, but they needed to be. It sounds disjointed, but it works together, and is perfect for the movie. “Two Hearts Beat As One,” WarAnother tour de force for Mr. Adam Clayton, the bass on this created the deepest, most unexpectedly danceable rhythm. A year afterwards a semi-independent Duchy of Warsaw proclaimed. Sonically, it’s as gigantic as new love or a broken heart, and it all builds up to the two lines at the end of the bridge — “Come on now love / Don’t you look back” — sung with tremendous pain and passion. “Desert of Our Love” became another outtake called “Weather Girls,” and then they got rid of the vocal melody and the piano and kept the drums and bass, and it turned into “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” It is rare that an outtake is simultaneously enjoyable and illuminating, and something you’d listen to more than once. They do not have to do any of this, and the fact that they insist on continuing to do so, over and over again, comes from the same stubbornness and dogged determination that got them a record deal in the first place. “Slow Dancing,” B-side to “Stay (Faraway, So Close! It’s not going to burn the world down, but the tune is memorable, and the melody line is bulletproof. “It almost worked.”, 207. It is inspirational and uplifting and heartbreaking and just plain gorgeous. “The lyrics were about something I care deeply about,” Bono told Rolling Stone in 2004, “but the song didn’t vibrate. “In a Little While,” All That You Can’t Leave BehindBono sings this in a desperate, tattered voice. Człowiek z nadziei (Polish pronunciation: [vaˈwɛ̃sa tʂwɔˈvʲɛk s naˈdʑɛj])) is a 2013 Polish biopic film directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Robert Więckiewicz as Lech Wałęsa. “The Hands That Built America,” Gangs of New York soundtrackThis song was “written to order for Martin Scorsese,” Bono said. “So Cruel,” Achtung BabyOur hero has lost his campaign to win back his sweetheart, and now he is left to face his desolation. Watch for the moment when Bono removes his glasses for extra emphasis at the “A blue-eyed boy / Meets a brown-eyed girl” line. The definitive performance remains the one in the Rattle and Hum movie, filmed in Denver the night of the Enniskillen bombings, when a visibly emotional band took to the stage and performed the song with a mix of fury and sadness felt in every single note played. You don’t name your song “Gloria” unless you fervently believe you have something else to add to this particular subject area. On the occasion of the release of U2’s 14th studio album, Songs of Experience, it is worth noting how remarkable it actually is that this band has remained a going concern for over 40 years, since Larry Mullen Jr. put up a notice at Mount Temple Comprehensive School: “Drummer seeks musicians to form band.” U2 is, at this point, the only rock band of its stature that still has its original lineup. [2], Głowacki assured journalists that his script was not meant to be an apotheosis, but instead showed Wałęsa "as a man of flesh and blood, a leader of great strength but also someone who has his weaknesses". 2. 193. “Wild Honey” occupied the same general theme, although the Edge said that “Flower Child” is a song he feels is waiting for a rewrite. ... Lech Walesa. The title isn’t accidental and also ties into the religious revival 75 percent of the band was going through at the time the album was recorded. It ended up being one of the disappointments of the 2017 tour, feeling a tad plodding, and you can’t even blame the theory that an album track list (thank you, Kirsty MacColl) does not have the same concerns as a live one. ‘Seeing Green’ Can’t Re-create Nicki Minaj’s. And then, somehow, Bono managed to charm Ricahrds and Ron Wood into recording the track with him, which appeared on the Sun City album in all its overwrought vocal glory. “All I Want Is You,” Rattle and HumOnce again, U2 end a record with a hymn. The moment when both Larry and Edge explode after the second chorus is priceless, and Bono’s vocals are far more believable now that he’s not trying to imitate a 70-year-old black sharecropper. A look into Arnold Ridgeway’s upbringing and spiritual ideology also shows the extent of his cruelty. 149. 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I always had the faith that we could make it up as we went along, but sometimes we couldn’t, and that was a case in point.”. It worked. On the other hand, Island would have pushed hard for it to have been a single, and that would have been difficult to walk back from, taking away from the mood set by the actual singles. Alas, it did not make the cut for All That You Can’t Leave Behind. There needs to be some grit and space, or U2 is not interesting. “Scarlet,” October If this mostly instrumental track reminds you of “40” on War, you’re not imagining things. 9. 27. “An invitation to hope” 139 Copy quote. “Mysterious Ways,” Achtung BabyThere is so much elation in “Mysterious Ways,” the guitar riff that sounds like nothing else, Adam Clayton’s bass line rumbling and swinging and holding the band down from spinning off into the firmament, and Larry Mullen, for all his fears of where he would fit into this “new” version of U2, slotting in perfectly. And then there’s the lead singer, who turns this into a hymn of adoration to women. (It was leaked on the internet, probably when a CD of rough mixes was stolen from a photo shoot in France.) A Hasidic legend tells us that the great Rabbi Baal-Shem-Tov, Master of the Good Name, also known as the Besht, undertook an urgent and perilous mission: to hasten the coming of the Messiah. The Edge’s chromatic chords are just lovely. [11], Wajda stated that he considered the film the most difficult professional challenge of his filmmaking career thus far. “Oh Berlin,” Achtung Baby (20th Anniversary “Super Deluxe” and “Uber Deluxe” editions)Bono wrote a tribute song to Berlin before he realized the entire Achtung Baby album was a tribute. 36. The criteria for doing so took into consideration the strength of the songwriting and the success of the final recorded result; extra credit can be given for a composition’s presence in concert and/or its live evolution over time. Plus a “No ❤️️” from Amber Ruffin and a Ziwe-Fran showdown. It walks a line between Zooropa and Pop, but is polished, sharp, and evocative. “Stranger in a Strange Land,” OctoberA Mr. David Bowie would like a word, gentlemen. 138. Here, U2 decide to shadowbox with Catholicism, Van Morrison, and Patti Smith, not minor influences on the four musicians by any means. It’s a lovely, evocative song — “Your heart is on my sleeve / Did you put it there with a magic marker?” — and the instrumentation and vocals definitely evoke the fragility of love falling apart. It’s the story of punk rock. It is a very nonlinear song, but in the progression of side two of the album, the steps from “One Tree Hill” to “Exit” to “Mothers of the Disappeared” are not that far removed. “It wanted to be a lounge classic,” Bono said. “Soon,” Fan Club release/U2 360° Live From the Rose BowlThis outtake from No Line on the Horizon was used as the intro music for the 360° tour, and was released with the deluxe edition of Live From the Rose Bowl DVD and was made available as a stream on u2.com for about five minutes. [18] The re-enacted scenes were shot "on location in Gdańsk, including in the historic shipyard and its surroundings, as well as in Warsaw". It’s not hard to hear this fitting into Achtung Baby; it would have skewed the story slightly, but would still have fit in thematically, in a sort of “dancing while the world around you ends,” postapocalyptic mood. 152. “Secrets can make you sick,” Bono writes in the liner notes. This excludes covers, Bono–Edge or Larry Mullen Jr.–Adam Clayton outings (so no Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and no “Mission Impossible,” which is a cover anyway). Kenya Barris has announced the end of his award-winning ABC comedy. “[It] was a great thought that never really became a great song,” the Edge said. The minimalism of the instrumentation is remarkable in how it ebbs and flows to fit in the space around Bono’s vocals, and both those vocals and the melody pulsate with intensity. But it was the first moment in the recording sessions where things started to gel — which you can absolutely hear — and it’s a combination of reggae and juju and a few gospel-tinged chords from the Edge on the piano. The lyrics are wince-inducing, but the melody has a monochrome intensity, thanks to Edge’s precise, choppy hooks that make it feel like Berlin traffic back in the day. “It was a case of two hours to go, let’s do it.” It sounds like that. Even then, his smoke-ravaged voice makes it sound like he’s hanging on to the edge of a cliff by his fingernails, even when he falls into falsetto … and then, this was the opening song of the show for the entire PopMart tour! Paul McGuinness gets the understatement of the day award for saying, “I think it is fair to say there was a bit of a row afterwards,” when describing his and the band’s reaction. “Surrender,” WarAs a story, “Surrender” is more linear than anything else on War; it was a song Bono had actually written, as opposed to improvised in the studio. And then one day Lanois suggested to the Edge that he combine two separate guitar parts. Not strong enough to make the album. “Babyface,” ZooropaAn ode to the many supermodels who began keeping company with U2 in the ’90s. 209. 105. 41. The lyrics here find the beauty and the pain in the human condition, and deny neither. 124. “Bullet the Blue Sky,” The Joshua TreeBono asked the Edge to put the sound of “U.S. The song is written from the perspective of that young Bono imagining his parents, specifically his mother, dancing together and watching him play. 53. “But is it up there with ‘New Year’s Day’ or ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’? There are also some uncharacteristic ’60s-influenced harmonies. 151. 49. There’s a lot to like about this one; tight, compact, evocative, it almost unintentionally contextualizes the record by coming in after “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” in that it’s another current commentary. [2] Consequently, the Polish people start to seek out ways to diminish Wałęsa's significance, until they finally accomplish their goal through uncovering actions from a past period. “Kite,” All That You Can’t Leave BehindAnother heartbreaker, this one is subconsciously about Bono’s father (who would pass away in 2001), but is also just another missive of remembrance and loss. There’s what feels like a story line about what it’s like to grow old in Los Angeles: “Everyone’s a star in our town / It’s just your light gets dimmer / If you have to stay.” But the choruses are in a completely different mode, echoing the overarching theme of the record: “There is no end to love,” which is balanced by “There is no end to grief.” The instrumentation is almost too bland; you can barely hear the guitar and bass. Inside the train is the Berlin of Bowie and Iggy, the Berlin of Isherwood, the Berlin split in two and reunited again. All of this is wrapped inside this elegant duet between Bono and Luciano Pavarotti. Musically, it fakes you out in the intro; you think it’s going to be a blues song, then it switches into a composition that’s almost orchestral. When the band finished the record and went back over the outtakes to cull material for B-sides, they decided this track was too strong, so they put it aside. While the ’00s had some of that, U2 still conducted themselves as a rock-and-roll band that goes into the studio to make a new record, then devised some elaborate production element to take on the road. ... A peaceful man does more good than a learned one. 28. The prodigal son returns home, but it’s not a happy ending. “Volcano,” Songs of Innocence“After grief comes rage,” Bono writes in the album liner notes for this track. Watch the music video for her debut single, “Build a Bitch,” now. “Magnificent,” No Line on the HorizonThe key line to this song is in the second verse, where Bono sings about his first cry being a joyful noise. “The Ocean” is a little blip, 1 minute and 35 seconds of atmosphere. “Drowning Man,” WarIt’s not the best song on the record — to be fair, there is a fair amount of competition — but it is both ambitious and fully realized. The otherworldly noises acting as percussion — bicycle spokes, broken bottles — and the guitar moving back into angelic notes, before picking up the SOS pace into full speed, coming out of the bridge and back into the last chorus. “Acrobat” is either a postscript to the scene in “Ultraviolet,” or it’s a flashback to an earlier time: disappointment, betrayal, truthfulness, standing and looking into each other’s eyes and seeing the history of years. 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