Raised By Wolves - Song Discussion

[birdman]

This albums 'Get on Your Boots', doesn't have the same development potential as The Miracle and California.

 

[Axver]

I'd like this song more if it weren't for that awful distorted breathing sound or whatever the hell it is through the first half. That's just shit. Thank god the song really picks up in the second half.

I think this track could've been on Boy or October... Bono's voice on the chorus sounds just so young

Haha you keep telling yourself that.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

After listening to the album all the way through the first time, this was the song I was most excited to go back to. Early favorite by far.

Same!

Holy Shit!!! This is raw, hip hoppy, rap, with a spice of violence. Add Octoberish moody piano too. Feels really new. Reminds me of my first listens of Kite. This is a song that'll surpass U2 single status without having to be a single. I sense a real longevity with this one.

 

[Yahweh]

Great Track.

 

[littleheartsuitcase]

So far this is continuing a few thoughts I've been having right off the bat- the verses are very, very strong and the chorus is kind of a let down. I love the verses but I cringed when I first heard the chorus. Dunno, maybe it will grow on me! I also did not get the 80s vibe.


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[mama cass]

really strong song, everything in it comes together beautifully

 

[Airseven]

Volcano/Wolves is the soul of this album for me. Boy/Oct/War-era U2. It's got energy, attitude, and freshness.

"Blood in the house. Blood in the street. The worst things in the world are justified by belief."

 

[BGD75]

love this song!

 

[JUSTinPUSHPLAY]

Love the angst in this track, my favorite from the album so far, it's such a war-era vocal delivery Bono has on it, and the piano bits in the bridge an outro sound exactly the piano parts in "endless deep'. It's familiar and different enough to be fresh.

 

[last unicorn]

Powerful, haunting, love the lyrics, the atmosphere, the vocal delivery. Certainly a stand-out track on the album.

 

[JJAsi]

Really liking this one, lyrics are good too

It´s about Dubling bombings

from wiki:Dublin and Monaghan bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Second bomb[edit]

The second of the Dublin car bombs went off at about 17:30 on Talbot Street, near the intersection with Lower Gardiner Street. Talbot Street was the main route from the city centre to Connolly station, Dublin's primary railway station. It was parked at 18 Talbot Street, on the north side, opposite Guineys department store.

The bomb car was a metallic blue mink Ford Escort, registration number 1385 WZ. It had been stolen that morning in the Docks area of Belfast.[10] The blast damaged buildings and vehicles on both sides of the street. People suffered severe burns and were struck by shrapnel, flying glass and debris; some were hurled through the windows of shops

 

[SBU2]

Really dig the first minute or so before the 'Raised by Wolves' chorus kicks in. All that tension builds in the first minute or so, only for a flat sounding (music wise, not vocal) chorus to arrive, that sounds like one of them heroic song choruses found over the top of a superhero movie trailer, if that makes much sense.

Dig everything except the chorus, basically.

 

[doctorwho]

I like this song until, oddly enough, the chorus. The "I don't believe" bits are great. Then he starts screeching "Raised by wolves!" and it sound so incredibly out of place and lyrically off-setting that it makes me wonder if Bono combined several lyrical ideas into one song.

Plus, given that wolves are animals of integrity, I'm not sure I agree with the analogy being used here, whatever it's supposed to mean.

So what had potential for being a solid album track, dropped to my second least favorite song on SoI.

 

[SBU2]

I like this song until, oddly enough, the chorus. The "I don't believe" bits are great. Then he starts screeching "Raised by wolves!" and it sound so incredibly out of place and lyrically off-setting that it makes me wonder if Bono combined several lyrical ideas into one song.

Plus, given that wolves are animals of integrity, I'm not sure I agree with the analogy being used here, whatever it's supposed to mean.

So what had potential for being a solid album track, dropped to my second least favorite song on SoI.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Fly-2000]

I like this song until, oddly enough, the chorus. The "I don't believe" bits are great. Then he starts screeching "Raised by wolves!" and it sound so incredibly out of place and lyrically off-setting that it makes me wonder if Bono combined several lyrical ideas into one song.

Plus, given that wolves are animals of integrity, I'm not sure I agree with the analogy being used here, whatever it's supposed to mean.

So what had potential for being a solid album track, dropped to my second least favorite song on SoI.

I've heard the idiom "raised by wolves" used in this context before, referring to something or someone as being uncivilized.

 

[JJAsi]

It means that somebody has no manners, or is rude.. they are wild because they don't know any wiser, therefore uncivilized.

 

[last unicorn]

While I love the verses and the bridge and I really like the chorus I'm not really a fan of the transition between these parts. Still I think it's a very good song. I hear a bit of "Winter" in there.

 

[Afliktor]

Why hello Boy, it's been awhile.

When he bursts into "RAAAAISED BY WOLVES" I didn't know Bono still had that voice. Sounds straight out of 1980.

def one of my faves.

 

[dan_smee]

Why hello Boy, it's been awhile.

When he bursts into "RAAAAISED BY WOLVES" I didn't know Bono still had that voice. Sounds straight out of 1980.

def one of my faves.

I didn't know he ever had that voice. There is some great new ground broken here, and it reveals itself over time.

 

[mama cass]

his singing is stunning on the whole album, just wow

 

[BVS]

I think this could be a bold single, maybe not the one that will get them the big audience, but maybe more of the Alt Nation audience.


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[Needle_Chill]

The chorus ruins this song for me...

The verses are amazing. The tension held in the line "I don't believe anymore" is very palpable, but then the campy transition into the chorus, and the generic chorus brings me right down.

 

[U2Fan101]

I'm with everyone on this song and the chorus. Fuck Bono, who knew you could still sing like this????

 

[purpleoscar]

Favourite track so far. I don't know if it's single material but, who cares?

 

[RoKKeR]

The chorus ruins this song for me...

The verses are amazing. The tension held in the line "I don't believe anymore" is very palpable, but then the campy transition into the chorus, and the generic chorus brings me right down.

Agreed on this, but I still really enjoy the song overall.

 

[PSUBossFan]

Love it! So far, could be my favorite.

 

[Niceman]

This song's chorus is the best part of this album!

 

[leamspaceman]

Is it just me or does the chorus sound like duran duran,which is a good thing?

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It's not just you. I thought the same thing. This song definitely has a really strong 'Rio' era Duran Duran vibe going on. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm so glad he went full-throttle on the chorus, instead of going for falsetto. Would have ruined the song.

Really love this one.

 

[waynetravis]

I first heard it with headphones. The "RAISED BY WOLVES" was on the same level of scared shitless as the intro to ABOY