269

[~*Buffalo*~]

This is kind of a pronounciation question ... how do you say the 269 part in "Hawkmoon 269"?

As .. two-six-nine?

Two-sixty-nine?

Two hundred and sixty nine?

It's not really important, but I'm just curious!

 

[Axver]

Two-six-nine, personally.

 

[intedomine]

two six nine for me

 

[FallingStar]

Hmm. I say twohundred sixty nine.

 

[Queen Bee]

Two six nine from me, too.

 

[Bonochick]

I say two sixty-nine.

 

[u2popmofo]

Hmmm, hadn't ever really thought about it. I think I normally just refer to it as 'Hawkmoon'.
(I probably leave the '269' part out because I dont know how to say it either)

 

[bedouin fire]

duzentos e sessenta e nove.

 

[EPandAmerica]

It was a hotel room number so I would imagine you would say two sixty-nine.

 

[Numbology]

dva-sest-devet

 

[liamcool]

Two-Sixty-Nine.

 

[valentina]

269 was the number of a hotel room? Are you sure?
I knew it was the indication of a distance along a road -- 269 miles to a place called Hawkmoon.

Is there someone who knows more about it?

 

[meital]

according to the MOLL site :
The title for Hawkmoon 269 came from a road side Bono saw while on tour, the sign referred to Hawkmoon being 269 miles away... Bono liked the sound of this, and used it for the song title.

 

[mofoguy]

Two hundred and sixty - nine

 

[kellyahern]

two six nine

 

[bonocrazy88]

I say two-sixty-nine...And I heard that 269 was how many times they had to record the song before they got it right...maybe I am wrong, but I swear I read that somewhere.

 

[EPandAmerica]

okay, I had to go research... funny how things turn in to urban legend. I could have sworn that I had read it was the room number of the hotel Bono was in when he wrote the song.

Anyway from the book Into the Heart by Niall Stokes.

"Hawkmoon is a place in Rapid City, Dakota," The Edge told me around the time of the release of Rattle and Hum. "We passed by it on the Amnesty Conspiracy of Hope Tour and Bono, ever a man with a notebook handy, thought 'That sounds good'. So he used that as a point of departure for the song."

.... "It was actually mixed 269 times," Joe O'Herlihy laughs. "That's where the title came from."

 

[valentina]

Whatever the thing, it's a nice song!

 

[elciojg]

the song was mixed two hundred and sixty nine times?

or two six nine?

Follow me:

101 is "one OU one"
555 is "fy fy fy"
911 is "nine one one"

 

[PennyPyro]

two sixty-nine

 

[babyman]

I say two-sixty-nine...And I heard that 269 was how many times they had to record the song before they got it right...maybe I am wrong, but I swear I read that somewhere.

YESSSSSSSS, YOU'RE RIGHT!!! THEY NEEDED 269 RECORDS, UNBELIEVEBLE!!...and then we want the new album in ONLY 1 year recording! don't joke around!

 

[danisanchez_85]

i say doscientos sesenta y nueve in spanish (two hundred and sixty-nine)

but in english i say two sixty-nine

 

[~*Buffalo*~]

Thanks everyone! I had forgotten about this question I asked, months ago ... I say two-six-nine or two-sixty-nine, myself, just depending on how I feel at the time!