Lemon

[typhoon]

frostynash13: edge sings the "mans builds a city" stuff

Eno too.

 

[VertigoGal]

I have a feeling I've replied in this thread before...

anyway, I Lemon. It's in my Top 5 U2 songs ever right now.

 

[MacPhistoPT]

I also have replied here, but here it goes again:

Cool melody, great lyric but I can't stand the falsetto and the initial screams. I can't say if I love or hate this song...

 

[AtomicBono]

I just saw a guy at the Red Sox / Rangers game walking around eating a Lemon Chill and I said "lemawn" and I got the strangest look.

Why can't that guy just be normal and know what I'm talking about?

I this thread.

I think I said this in another thread, but this is a great story, so I'm going to tell it again. One time my friend's girlfriend gave him a lemon, which was really stupid, because WHO THE HELL EATS LEMONS??? But if he were a U2 fan, it would probably be way more meaningful and he would have started singing and it would have been hawt Alas, this did not happen, and I had to suppress myself, because I sing enough seemingly random U2 as it is...

That said, the only thing better than the song Lemon is a giant Lemon with four Irish guys in it, one of which (probably the one in the atrocious bubble outfit) is singing, "You can reach..." oh, if only I had seen Popmart when I had the chance. Alas, I was only 9.

I've used alas two times in this most...make that three.

 

[impy13]

oh, if only I had seen Popmart when I had the chance. Alas, I was only 9.

Yeah, I was 9 or 10 back then too. I wish my conception was just a few years earlier.


Yeah but I'm listening to Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" and the line "yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon" comes on, but about the 4th time it's sang, Thom Yorke goes "yesterday I woke up sucking a lemonnnnn".

I sufficiently lost it.

 

[AtomicBono]

Yeah, I was 9 or 10 back then too. I wish my conception was just a few years earlier.


Yeah but I'm listening to Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" and the line "yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon" comes on, but about the 4th time it's sang, Thom Yorke goes "yesterday I woke up sucking a lemonnnnn".

I sufficiently lost it.

Glad to see another young U2 fan Actually I was just getting into U2 around that time, and I was already an internet junkie, so if I had gotten my shit together I probably could have made Popmart. but mom was in the middle of a divorce so it wouldn't have been a good time and the only thing I was concerned about at the time was whether or not we got to keep the Pop CD obsessed, even then...

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

One of my friends who's not that crazy about U2 absolutely loves Lemon. He and I watched the video last night in complete silence, both of us with our heads tilted a little, just appreciating what a brilliant video it is.

And, if you think about it, the song has to be Lemon. It couldn't be anything else. For instance, I just made myself a turkey sandwich and sang "Turkey..." while I made it, and it just didn't work.

I hope they break it out for the third leg!

 

[sniggirb]

ummmm the Lemon returns

 

[impy13]

How freakin cool is that.

 

[Joshua87]

How long has this thread been on the front page?? I swear a month or two atleast....give it up IMP13

 

[impy13]

Eh, I found the lemon headstone and had to have one last hurrah.

 

[Zoots]

That pic is indeed cool.



lemawnnn...

 

[Joshua87]

Eh, I found the lemon headstone and had to have one last hurrah.

 

[XHendrix24]

If I have anything to say about it, this thread will never die.

LLLLeeemmmooonnnn

 

[corianderstem]

Some poor guy dies at 20, and you think it's cool! Sheesh.

That being said, I have one thing to add:

LEMOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!

Does anyone else think that when Bono sings "lemon" or "heaven" or anything else that rhymes with that in the song, that he sounds a little like Adam Sandler's Cajun Man from Saturday Night Live?

 

[Lemonfix]

Does anyone else think that when Bono sings "lemon" or "heaven" or anything else that rhymes with that in the song, that he sounds a little like Adam Sandler's Cajun Man from Saturday Night Live?

I always did

Bout time I got around to this thread, as a particular citrus fruit did inspire my moniker and all...

 

[AtomicBono]

And, if you think about it, the song has to be Lemon. It couldn't be anything else. For instance, I just made myself a turkey sandwich and sang "Turkey..." while I made it, and it just didn't work.

let's get this thread to 500 posts

 

[shaun vox]

lemon is a masterpiece!!!!

 

[Earnie Shavers]

On the list of U2 songs that are pure perfection in every way, there aren't too many ahead of Lemon. One of my personal favourites as well.

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

I don't know why people bag Zooropa, there are some absolute U2 classics on there:

Numb
Stay (faraway, so close)
dirty day
the wanderer

and of course ..... LEMON!!!!!

Absolutely brilliant song!

 

[shaun vox]

this is one of the last great songs u2 ever wrote, now listen to the crap that they are churning out yuck!!!!

 

[Earnie Shavers]

When it rises up to the "midnight..." parts, with Bono's falsetto weaving through it... heaven in your headphones I tell you. Heaven.

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

By the way, how good is the Sydney Zoo tv version!

Mr Macphisto in fantastic form as always!

 

[Pero]

These are the days when we look for something other
That's a line for 90's U2 which describes it the most

 

[shaun vox]

man im listening to wild horses(u2) and it kicks all the 2000 u2s arsss!!90s u2 rocked!! Too bad they turned all pop(not the album) on us in 2000 and now!!!

 

[VertigoGal]

I've been listening to this song every night as i fall asleep

zooropa is the perfect album to fall asleep too (the alarm at the end doesnt bother me )

 

[corianderstem]

I LOVE the Sydney ZooTV version! Bono's countermelody during the "midnight is where the day begins" section is so completely awesome. And it's a great transition into WOWY.

 

[Zoots]

man im listening to wild horses(u2) and it kicks all the 2000 u2s arsss!!90s u2 rocked!! Too bad they turned all pop(not the album) on us in 2000 and now!!!

Be patient. Maybe they'll turn to death metal in 2006.

 

[Lemonfix]

Death Metal

 

[thetitans2k]

Can someone tell me... does Bono do all the vocal on Lemon. Which part does edge do if he ever does any?