"Please" appreciation

[U2Man]

Best song on POP

 

[coolian2]

Please

Live Please with SBS drumbeat

 

[LMP]

It's almost like a continuation of Sunday Blood Sunday.

The young, optimistic man is shouting for change and revolting against the atrocities of man in Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Fast-forward 14 years later, that same man is now older and weathered by experience, now pleading for that same change that he know will never come.

It's youthful optimism versus experienced pessimism, to me atleast.

That's what makes Please so special to me, especially some of Bono's best lyrics, Larry's best drumming, and Adam's best bass playing.

 

[Zoots]

It's almost like a continuation of Sunday Blood Sunday.

The young, optimistic man is shouting for change and revolting against the atrocities of man in Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Fast-forward 14 years later, that same man is now older and weathered by experience, now pleading for that same change that he know will never come.

It's youthful optimism versus experienced pessimism, to me atleast.

That's what makes Please so special to me, especially some of Bono's best lyrics, Larry's best drumming, and Adam's best bass playing.

My man LMP said it beautifully! I don't have to say anything.

 

[xaviMF22]

please

one of my favorite U2 songs


on the Popmart tour it was a showstopper

 

[U2Man]

please -> streets is probably u2's best transition ever.

 

[xaviMF22]

please -> streets is probably u2's best transition ever.

yes best transition ever

 

[Harry Vest]

There are really only 3 GREAT songs on Pop and "Please" is one of them...the other two (at least in my opinion) are "Gone" and "Wake Up Dead Man". That's not to say the others aren't good.

 

[Windmilllane]

Please reminds me of "Stairway to Heaven."

It starts off slow, then picks up, then ends slow.

Please

 

[Aygo]

"Please" is one of U2's most emotional songs when performed live.
Well, SBS was never a masterpiece for me (I like the song, but it's far from being on my favourite ones), and I think that "Please" surpasses its predecessor by miles.

 

[susanp6]

It's so great live too

 

[U2Girl1978]

One of my favorite songs from POP. Love it!

I also love it when he sang Please on the MTV awards(Europe?).

 

[Lancemc]

My favorite song of POP. It's so much better live than on the album, I can't believe they haven't played it more often...it would have worked perfectly for the Vertigo tour.

 

[xaviMF22]

My favorite song of POP. It's so much better live than on the album, I can't believe they haven't played it more often...it would have worked perfectly for the Vertigo tour.

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

Speaking of which ...can anyone send me the single version of this song?

cf_177@hotmail.com

 

[GibsonGirl]

Fantastic song. And I think I'm probably in the minority here when I say I prefer the album version to the single version and the live version!

 

[dietcokeofevil]

THUMBS UP TO PLEASE

 

[Axver]

Please is such a fantastic song, one of the last songs Bono's written with truly good lyrics.

The live version from Popmart Sarajevo is absolutely spine-tingling.

 

[No spoken words]

I am a huge fan of the studio and the live versions...but do prefer the LIVE version...and, yes, that transition from Please to Streets is spine tingling for me, one of my favorites.

 

[RavenBlue]

Love this song, especially live. Wonderful, rocking and heartily emotional.

 

[J_NP]

please -> streets is probably u2's best transition ever.

IT IS ,

-Bono gettin on his knees , with the pray "Get up from ur knees"
-The Screen turns Red
-The Popmart version of the synthetizers begins
-Edge's starting his licks

Bono gettin up , as receiving a answer from heaven , It's like literal symbols of God entering the room ,

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

please is is awesome, any time and place and any time too

 

[LMP]

please -> streets is probably u2's best transition ever.

You are correct, sir.

</Ed McMahon>

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

yeah, and any time too

 

[J_NP]

I also love a certain thing any time too

 

[Liesje]

I'm usually not into the heavy, depressing songs like this so I don't listen to it much, but it is one of their greatest songs, Bono's writing at best, and I think the Please > Streets is my favorite Streets transition.

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

me too!

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

Love this song, especially live. Wonderful, rocking and heartily emotional.

thats it in a nutshell

 

[Alisaura]

please -> streets is probably u2's best transition ever.

Absolutely. I got the Hasta la Vista CD before I ever heard the Pop album, and feeling I got listening to Please->Streets was indescribable. I don't think I stopped listening to it for the whole day.

 

[coolian2]

Please is such a fantastic song, one of the last songs Bono's written with truly good lyrics.

Axver, meet Wild Honey.