Please: The Song

[martha]

Tell me what you know about this song. I know about the lyrics (although feel free to weigh in on those,too). I want to know about the tune and the music and the playing. What have you read about the evolution of this song? Why is it just so damn good?

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...a highway with no one on it, a treasure just to look upon it...

"The skeletal structure of your foot is not normal." -- my podiatrist 8-6-01

 

[Foxxern]

All I really know is that it's about the Northern Ireland peace process. Here's a page that does a good job of describing it all: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4jonas/U2MoL/Pop/please.shtml

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Change is the only constant

 

[martha]

Cool link, thanks. But what about the music?

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...a highway with no one on it, a treasure just to look upon it...

"The skeletal structure of your foot is not normal." -- my podiatrist 8-6-01

 

[Autumn454]

I don't like it {Ducks, runs for cover!}

 

[martha]

Originally posted by Autumn454:
I don't like it

How come, you silly person you?

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...a highway with no one on it, a treasure just to look upon it...

"The skeletal structure of your foot is not normal." -- my podiatrist 8-6-01

 

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by martha:
Cool link, thanks. But what about the music?

I love the music, very trippy. But as good as it is on cd, the single and live versions are *so* much better. They get so funky in the middle, kind of like the reworked Bullet The Blue Sky from the same period, Miami, and New York

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'you two will get old.'
Baz Luhrman, 'Everybody's Free(To Wear Sun Screen)'

 

[LuvLady]

Er, I luv the song, particularly the drum work but I am no musical expert so I couldn't comment on how they wrote it or whatever. So that was no help at all sorry!!