Edge's angriest song to date

[Swan269]

Edge is pissed off apparently so it got me to thinking....We get alot of sounds from him but rarely would I ever describe his guitar playing as angry, so what would be his angriest song?

1. Bullet the Blue Sky
2. Gone (live)
3. Last Night on Earth (live)
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. Fly

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[u2popmofo]

An Cat Dubh?

I'm not sure if that's angry, but it has a darker mood than most any other U2 song.

The guitar in 'Indian Summer Sky' also has an aggressive feeling to it.

 

[SkeeK]

bullet and fly i would say.

it's always freaky looking at him during fly on the boston dvd.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

The emotion is there on Silver And Gold. Would like to see how he would approach that solo now... maybe some more blues elements hopefully.

 

[Diemen]

I would say Bullet tops the list for anger from the Edge. Particularly the ZooTV versions.

 

[jick]

The buzzer sound in Discotheque, doesn't get angrier than that. He also sounds pretty angry when he sings the line "dont piss in at the drain" - it almost makes me feel apologetic everytime I piss in a drain.

Cheers,

J

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

"Bullet The Blue Sky". It sounds like bombs are dropping right out of his guitar during that song...can't get much angrier than that.

Angela

 

[Rafiennes]

Like A Song
Dirty Day (live)
the live version of Please (his solo sounds like reserved anger)
Wake Up Dead Man

 

[MrBrau1]

Acrobat-The war siren sound.
The Fly-Hack and hue masterpiece.
And the king of them all is HMTMKMKM-Feel the crunch!

 

[Dorian Gray]

hmmm... God Part II maybe?

 

[HolyJoe914]

God Part II for sure.

Absolutely bone-rattling.

Bono ain't too happy in that song either. Albert Goldman (rest in pieces ) had that effect on a lot of people.

 

[FedU2]

I would say " 2 hearts beat as one"

 

[Blacksword]

There's this one ZooTV version of BTBS which is absolutely insane. It's played faster than normal and Edge thows in some wonky effects at the ened. Anyone konw what I'm talking about?

Either way I'll also throw in Exit, Wire, Maggie's Farm/Cold Turkey

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

beat on the brat

as for actuall u2 songs

exit

 

[discothequeLP]

Bullet, Exit, and...Electric Co. anyone? I love the solo.

Dirty Day on Zoo TV was pretty angry too


Gone live because he smashed his guitar lol


Staring at the Sun album version. They need to play that song live full band not acoustic!


Electrical Storm too

 

[Jack In The Box]

I don'y know, maybe Bullet The Blue Sky (live, principally), Exit, Please (live, too), Dirty Day, The Fly (on Boston DVD), Electrical Storm, and many of the early songs

And certainly, Gone and Wire

 

[FelipeVox]

Duh! Of course Edge?s angriest song is... EXIT!

Fly, Until the End of the World and Acrobat are very angry too.

That solo in Acrobat is very angry... altough the solos of Fly and World are better...

 

[Axver]

The Electric Co. is simply filled with anger. Whenever I'm really annoyed, I'll just crank it up, shout it out, and feel a LOT better!

 

[stagman]

The ending of UTEOTW live!
The craziest Zootv versions of Bullet The Blue were from Wembley and Adelaide.

 

[alexvilagosh]

I'd also say Bullet The Blue Sky. I'd also say this is Bono's angriest song too.

 

[Strato Edge]

I think Sunday Bloody Sunday is an angry Edge song...

And I agree with the rest you guys are talking about

 

[david]

Probably his cover of Day Dream Believer from the Pop Mart Tour.

 

[popacrobat]

i thought sweet caroline was angrier.

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

someone please clarify what "angry" for a guitarist mean... songwriting? shredding guitar?

 

[Strato Edge]

An angry guitar song would be very agressive, distorted, wicked solos, effects, like "The Fly" or "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

Hope that clears things up a bit.

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

HMTMKMKM

 

[discothequeLP]

I think HMTMKMKM and the Fly are more 'fun' than 'angry'


Sure they have overdrive and distortion and such, but i think you can tell and angry song from a fun songwhen you see it live.

 

[CrashedCarDriver]

angry's good and all

but hasnt anyone heard of Eminem's "Kim"?

 

[Achtung Ya'll]

Exit....jesus...Exit for sure.

 

[swandiver]

I think "Until the End of the World" is very angry-sounding guitar playing!