Song For Someone - Song Discussion

[jeevey]

Releasing this one as a single really is a head scratcher. It's just...not very good. And following another ballad? *hits snooze*

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Releasing this one as a single really is a head scratcher. It's just...not very good. And following another ballad? *hits snooze*

As mentioned earlier, it's very predictable too. sigh.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Just heard "Song For Someone" on our local Vancouver hard rock station. It stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

[wolbersu2]

Is it released already? Will it be the same half baked promotion as the ebw single?

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[CosmoKramer]

I have liked this song from day one. It's simple but powerful. It lacks the layers that must U2 songs have but it still is a song that I really enjoy.

I just watched the live performance from the San Jose show that was just broadcast on television for Red Nose Day and I like the song even more now.

That was one hell of a performance! Bono's voice was near perfect, Edge was crisp and it being a full band "plugged in" version made it that much more beautiful.

I really like this song!!!!!


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[Super Yo]

https://twitter.com/u2uruguay/status/601591529610829824


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[Super Yo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWeYXF4GrlA

:_)

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[JoRu]

Damn, Bono's voice is basically flawless. Nice performance.

 

[trainmaniac]

Wow!

 

[CosmoKramer]

Damn, Bono's voice is basically flawless. Nice performance.

Right? It was a hell of a performance. I've heard them play warhorses and Edge plays a wrong key here or there or Bonos voice is weak and it takes away from the song a little but this performance, love or hate the song, was great!


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[wolbersu2]

Great performance of this song.

 

[last unicorn]

OMG, this is perfect

 

[TinKnight]

I've realized that I really like this song.

Buuuuuut, I hate the lyrics "song for someone" so much that it basically ruins the entire thing for me.

Lazy as shit, not clever, and ugh.

 

[david]

That was epic.

 

[corianderstem]

It's official. I'm finally into this song.

 

[CosmoKramer]

It's official. I'm finally into this song.

Welcome to the party! You're 8 months late and there aren't a lot of people here but screw them I say!




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[RaisedByWolves]

Song For Someone is really starting to grow on me too.

 

[corianderstem]

It's still my least favorite on the album, for the record.

 

[mama cass]

It's official. I'm finally into this song.

resistance is futile

 

[cobl04]

I'm not sure why, but I really like this song. I have from the moment I've heard it. On the surface it's symptomatic of many of my many issues with the album, but I dunno, it just works. The chorus is really, really lovely.

 

[Hollow Island]

I've loved this song from the beginning. Some of the lyrics are a bit cringe worthy, and it's as cheesy as U2 can get, but yeah - it just works. I love the melody. The build of the song is masterful, they just ride the momentum. On NLOTH or Bomb they'd have forced a different, jarring bridge in there, but this time they just followed the song. Great song on a great album.

 

[corianderstem]

resistance is futile

Song For Some Borg?

 

[thavidesco]

I've loved this song from the beginning. Some of the lyrics are a bit cringe worthy, and it's as cheesy as U2 can get, but yeah - it just works. I love the melody. The build of the song is masterful, they just ride the momentum. On NLOTH or Bomb they'd have forced a different, jarring bridge in there, but this time they just followed the song. Great song on a great album.

Couldn´t sum it up better!

If only it wasn´t a single

Just a lovely album track.

 

[dazzledbylight]

Song For Some Borg?

I loved this song right from first hearing.

 

[Sr. Poop]

#26 currently


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[Dragonfave]

https://twitter.com/highvoltagemag/status/618195408825765888

World premiere of short film, @U2: Song for Someone during @Rectify season premiere on @SundanceTV, Thu @ 10/9c

 

[zoopop]

Video looks interesting.

For some reason this song just won't go away. Its kind of cheesy but that chorus really hits me.

I had a great trip in Vegas with friends last October (one of those once of a lifetime trips for people getting together) when SOI was fresh and hearing it in Phoenix both nights was really nice. And Song for Someone just brings back those great times.

And me and my 4 year old sing it all the time.

 

[Alphorn]

For me SFS was meh at first hearing. Then it grew on me. Then the acoustic version grew on me even more. Then I couldn't stop listening to it, then I heard it live twice, well now I'm really gone. There is nothing as beautiful as the hill at calvary line. Perfection. I can look past some of the cheesiness just for that line alone.

Speaking of perfection, EBW live Chicago Nights 1 and 2 you couldn't hear a pin drop during that song, and it's not because everyone left to get a beer. It is pretty much bone chilling live, loved it. And that's coming from someone who loved it so much at first I eventually got really sick of it.

I loved this song right from first hearing.

 

[wolf]

I think "Song For Someone" is one of the better songs on the album. Its certainly the most commercial as well with the possible exception of Volcano and it probably should have been the first single.

Then again, Crystal Ballroom, Invisible, and Lucifers Hands all should have been on the album and all made better singles than the first two they released.

 

[dudeman]

Then again, Crystal Ballroom, Invisible, and Lucifers Hands all should have been on the album and all made better singles than the first two they released.

They're ON the album.
It's a DOUBLE album.

ZING!!!