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Thanks for all the links
I recorded this from Radio 4 last night. It's from the digital broadcast.
2009-05-13_BBC_Radio_4_Elvis_By_Bono.zip (18.1Mb) MP2 audio 192kbps 48kHz
OK, first, the guy who "annotated" this poem clearly has too much time on his hands. I do this all the time and I could do a better job. At some points he clearly isn't even trying hard enough. Who cares anyway?
Second, the comments from readers, as always, range from funny to simply spiteful and mean. OK, I understand that people tend to be annoyed by someone who is in the media so much (and yes I feel that poem shouldn't be broadcast at all), but calling him talentless, uneducated and saying he knows nothing about world affairs and poetry is a bit wrong. Bono has a unique way of writing, love it or hate it. Some of the stuff is good, some isn't. That latest piece on Elvis should have been kept in the drawer, together with the song EAA. I have no idea why the BBC decided to broadcast something like that. I wish Bono wouldn't have agreed. Just gives his critics more ammunition.
I recorded this from Radio 4 last night. It's from the digital broadcast.
2009-05-13_BBC_Radio_4_Elvis_By_Bono.zip (18.1Mb) MP2 audio 192kbps 48kHz
Abominable Poem...INTHISTOWN
Inthistowntastic Bono was a drunk
Inthistowntastic Bono had the funk
Inthistowntastic Bono couldn't see the microphone
Inthistowntastic Bono believed that he was, in fact, in this town
Inthistowntastic Bono was a womanfish
Inthistowntastic Bono couldn't have possibly been a womanfish
Inthistowntastic Bono passed the mic to Robert Smith
Inthistowntastic Bono wore a bandana
Inthistowntastic Bono looked like an ass
I can't understand what Inthistowntastic Bono just said
Inthistowntastic Bono knew some of the words
Inthistowntastic Bono did not know those four chords
Inthistowntastic Bono wrote a song about a mermaid
Inthistowntastic Bono never sang that song again
Love is all Inthistowntastic Bono needs...until the morning after
Inthistowntastic Bono has a positive outlook concerning this town
Inthistowntastic Bono...INTHISTOWN
Inthistowntastic Bono...couldn't put the glass down
Inthistowntastic Bono...proposed multiple toasts
Inthistowntastic Bono...made out with a lamp post
Inthistowntastic Bono...Guinness
Inthistowntastic Bono...incompetence
Inthistowntastic Bono...forgive us
Inthistowntastic Bono...pray for us
Inthistown
Tastic
Bono
I recorded this from Radio 4 last night. It's from the digital broadcast.
2009-05-13_BBC_Radio_4_Elvis_By_Bono.zip (18.1Mb) MP2 audio 192kbps 48kHz