david
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The song was so nice they had to play it twice (at some shows).
SOI Gets Only 1 Grammy Nomination?!?!
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Ugh what a stupid decision that was
gvox
Ghost of Love
Really? Sales maybe, but definitely not the biggest of their career in terms of importance.
Have to go with this comment here, and the single most important song for U2 in the last decade - if not 2 decades - is indeed Beautiful Day. You might argue that it's the single that rescued them from chart oblivion, really.
trainmaniac
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Beautiful Day was even the most played on TV along with Californication from RHCP.
Biggest as far as BIGGEST. Most important is Beautiful Day. It saved their career.
gvox
Ghost of Love
Hmm. What are we basing this off of? Sales? Critical acclaim? I'm not trying to be contrary, I'm genuinely interested in the metric being used here, because I've yet to hear anyone really say that it's the biggest U2 song of all time. I hear that about One, Still Haven't.., WOWY, Beautiful Day...but not Vertigo.
thavidesco
Refugee
I wonder, would you expect B Day to be so huge if it came out today? There is something special about it, but it is a bit problematic, it has a very unremarkable intro and first verse and moreover even if the song works it is still evident it is a mish-mash of 4 ideas put together. Even if I consider it to be one of the better moments of ATYCLBI´m still surprised it got so huge response from the public.
ozeeko
Refugee
That intro is sublime, and clever too. It starts out like it's going in a club direction and instead becomes a rock anthem. When I first heard the song driving in my car, I didn't think it was U2 until Bono started singing. Compare that with The Miracle's "OOOOwwwooooahhhwoowoosooahhh" intro...hmmm I wonder who that could be...
gvox
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ozeeko
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shaun vox
New Yorker
Beautiful Day saved u2..and its still played on the radio among their other good/classic songs like nyd,wowy,streets,one !
Scorpionac
War Child
SOI gets only one Grammy nomination? Well, it's not a very good album, is it?
CosmoKramer
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For what it's worth, I do think they will get more nominations next year with Every Breaking Wave and possibly other singles.
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If digital downloads counted it would have been a #1 hit across the globe for weeks, at a period in time where that wasn't exactly an easy thing for an aging rock band to do. The song was HUGE when it was released.
The other songs you've mentioned have grown as time goes by, whereas Vertigo got played out. But at the time of release no U2 song ever was bigger.
gvox
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I think the commonly held belief is that if digital downloads had counted in the Billboard ratings, it would have performed better on Billboard, which is just the US, not globally. I'm not sure if the other charts around the globe were tracking digital and/or if it would have made much more difference to it's performance.
If we take it in totality worldwide by the following 3 metrics: sales, chart success and critical acclaim, Beautiful Day was bigger than Vertigo for U2. BD charted higher, in more countries, and sold more. It's also more widely regarded from reviews that I've read.
Vertigo was also evvvvverywhere, thanks to the commercial. It charted in the US for 30 weeks.
popacrobat
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
I'm fairly convinced Vertigo would've been a top 10 hit if they counted downloads at the time.
On that Year End Chart for the World Charts, Vertigo ended 22 in 2004 and then 35 in 2005 while Beautiful Day was 23 in 2000. In terms of pure statistics they are pretty similar and that isn't inclusive of the downloads Vertigo received.
The ipod team up made that song a monster for the time period. This doesn't mean it is as good or as important as Beautiful Day but it certainly was as, if not more, prolific.
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The ipod team up made that song a monster for the time period. This doesn't mean it is as good or as important as Beautiful Day but it certainly was as, if not more, prolific.
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Mack_Again
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
I don't even care for the Grammys, as long as U2 or AC/DC or those cool bands are going to play on Grammys, that's okay. I mean, many of my fav. albums like Achtung Baby, Superunknown, or even Nevermind didn't get any awards from Grammys, so
U2 won more then there fair share of Grammy's mostly on what I would argue is some of their weaker material outside of The Joshua Tree. It will be hard for them to win any Grammy's from now on but the old U2 from the 80s wouldn't have cared about that hell they likely wouldn't even show up.
jeevey
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
They always showed up.
Galeongirl
Galeonbroad
And they cared, given their speech when JT won stuff...
Hawkmoon269
War Child
So... Does anyone think they can win? Beck is performing with Chris Martin, should we assume Beck has it in the bag?
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Only my opinion but U2 will preform every breaking wave.
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LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
I loved Morning Phase, but that's not a rock album. At all.
ImNotSleeping
Acrobat
THAT could put me to sleep. Why together? Is there a preview somewhere and u read this?
Hawkmoon269
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