Is anyone else completely blown away that they played this?
No, I am not blown away that they played this. A beautiful, beautiful late night riddle in the studio version – with a worn out, Lou Reed voice telling the tale, Adam zooming in and a great guitar outro taking you on higher grounds.
What remained for the live version?
- Bono's 'new' singing style with new lyrics in the middle where once there was a band choir, not reaching the depth of his original story telling
- Adam does anything but singing his part (which would have been great ...)
- Guitar is replaced by – nothing, it simply is missing completly ...
- Recorded back vocals, instead of at least Edge doing them
No applause so - why? Only because U2 'played' it, no matter how? Nope, not enough for me ... Or is this here only for praising again?