Oh yeah . I ASOH & 3S!!!
Three Sunrises IS one of my very, very U2 faves! Why?
I love the uplifting sound & feel of it. Bono's singing is so lovely there. Also
everyone else's harmonizing on there is one of their most ~~really beautiful~~ efforts together.
I also love the fact that they have a big dynamic change from the soft, lilting start that goes into this harder-charging rock sound.
This something they do that reminds me of 2 of my most favorite Who songs that contain the same dynamic shift..... The Song IS Over and Pure & Easy
Edge's gutair is both great & beautiful, there.
I especially love that (which is mostly the case in their songs) he uses the various melodies and at least 2 types of sonics together- which IMHO is part o his signature sound. Idon't know if there are more technical music terms for what I'm trying to say here.
He has those opening dawn-glow [like a sunrise] sonics of different notes, then it turns into these bell-tone sounds and the the stuttering & rip-stop sonics & melodies.
Sometimes I choose this as my fav u2 song because it has a variety of the things I love most about them musically As mentioned above. Besides sides loving the song as a whole in itself.
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WAIA... had me going for a sec myself... i don't know every u2 song there is....[esp pop & Zooropa and foggten alot of UF]
But once I saw the names of the songs...
WAIA ='s Wide Awake In America a 4 song 12" EP vinyl record.
I have the origianl tape.
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ASOH I love that song!
But it had a complicating factor for me.
My Mom got very sick soon after it was realeased. She was in the hospital for 3 months. My sis had been planning to go to Europe. She came to visit her, but mom or dad told her how sick she really was, so she could go on her trip. This made me
I am the older 4 yrs. Our Mom got very ill with asthma when I was around 5 yrs and has had various related and totally different Medical Emergencies since I was 5. SO for most of my of life in my younger years I was emotionally burdened with the awareness/knowledge of my mothers probelms and close-calls.
When they let my sis go without the truth We were ? 28 & 32 at the time-- I felt terribly abandoned, furious that my sis had " gotten the better end of the deal", so to speak. Yet again now with an even higher level of worry & experiences to deal with on my part while she was 'happily cavorting away in Europe'.Still makes me kinda mad but
way less so than for many years. <i've worked on it>
Anyway I used to listen to WAIA on my walkman tape-player while visiting my mom in the hospital. There was a little balconey and I used to go out there ona nice day [was all during Oct, nov dec}.
I loved the almost 'horse-riding' kind of rythym that ASOH had. Besides the melody etc. The joy of coming home! {if home is a happy place for you}!
But perhaps the idea that my mom was possibly Not comoing home {it was touch & go at times}, and perhaps the deep feeling of abandonemt I felt from my sis (and maybe my parents- unable to direct my anger at them fully, circimstance-wise at the time) felt like the often 'home-like' relationship I had with my sis being so shaken at that time.......................
...sometime after my mom got out of the hospital I couldn't listen tpo ASOH at All.... For aboutr 15 yrs!!!