"Gone" appreciation

[schnumi]

Boston gone rocks, especially because of the ending by

"Flaming edge" ripping over his guitar!

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

Boston gone rocks, especially because of the ending by

"Flaming edge" ripping over his guitar!

 

[The_acrobat]

This is probably the most extreme case of "Album track that should've been a single" in U2's career. However, I feel that the album version simply wouldn't have flown on the radio. Had the album version sounded more like the live version or the best of version, I think it would've been a successful 3rd single, after Discotheque and Staring at the sun.

 

[xaviMF22]

Gone is amazing

Boston Gone is even better

 

[Zoots]

Best song on Pop. Album version pwns all other versions. And that is a fact in my opinion.

 

[Total U2 Nut]

^

Gone is the best song on Pop, I prefer it to anything on Atomic Bomb

 

[xaviMF22]

^

Gone is the best song on Pop, I prefer it to anything on Atomic Bomb

 

[U2Man]

no thats please.

 

[xaviMF22]

no thats please.

bitch please, its gone

 

[Aygo]

This is probably the most extreme case of "Album track that should've been a single" in U2's career. However, I feel that the album version simply wouldn't have flown on the radio. Had the album version sounded more like the live version or the best of version, I think it would've been a successful 3rd single, after Discotheque and Staring at the sun.

Agree with everything, except when you say that it wouldn't suceed on the radio. I think it could make better than LNOE for instance, since there were few successful songs at the time in the same vein (or with similar feeling) of Gone.
It's a crime, this song (and MOFO too as a real single, not a remixes single) wasn't released as a single.

 

[silvrlvr]

LOVE Gone -- what is Bono saying, is it something like "Hutch!" at the beginning? I think he also says it at the beginning of Saints live.

 

[dietcokeofevil]

I love that f'n song

going going GONE

 

[xaviMF22]

 

[phillyfan26]

has not seen boston version

 

[RavenBlue]

You need to. Tis awesome.

 

[AtomicBono]

Gone is one of my favourite songs ever (wow, big surprise there)

U2 at the top of their form. I love all versions of the song, but I think it reached its high point live on Elevation. but, it's the album version I listen to the most. something very haunting about the vocals

 

[J_NP]

Boston version is quite good

Mexico's version is Awesome

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

gone is awesome

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

gone in any form, time or place is

 

[xaviMF22]

gone in any form, time or place is

 

[LMP]

Gone is amazing.

I like listening to it next to Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me.

Both are pretty similar lyrically and thematically, that's why I stick Hold Me... on my Pop playlists over Zooropa.

 

[popacrobat]

LOVE Gone -- what is Bono saying, is it something like "Hutch!" at the beginning? I think he also says it at the beginning of Saints live.

in reference to michael hutchense

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

in reference to michael hutchense

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Gone

Fuck yeah!

I love it whenever martha curses...so

As is 'Gone' one of U2's best songs evah!!! (the original mix, which I thing has a stronger vocal)

 

[Alisaura]

By the Boston version, do you mean it's on the Boston Elevation DVD/video?

I do have the video somewhere, but it's been years since I looked at it...

 

[coolian2]

By the Boston version, do you mean it's on the Boston Elevation DVD/video?

I do have the video somewhere, but it's been years since I looked at it...

Yes, compulsory Gone viewing/listening.

 

[Salome]

love the bridge part

Gone did a great job on Elevation as one of the rocking tunes


other than that it is a good song, but not any more than that
which already is a huge compliment for a song with such a bland chorus (not that I care specifically for chorusses, but if something is going to return a couple of times within a 4 minute song anyway it better be good)

 

[xaviMF22]

I agree, this song should have been a single

 

[Sir BonoBjanglz]

Going,
going,

GONE!

Rocks, haunts, sexes one up big time, in a "hard" way....

Love it.

 

[topplehatU2]

For some reason it reminds me of a slowed-down, neon The Fly.

I love Gone, especially the "siren" sounds on the Pop version.