theSoulfulMofo
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sweetest thing
U2's Saddest Song
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Green Light 711
The Fly
Stay isn't so much sad as bittersweet or even hopeful.
FelipeVox
Acrobat
Stay is a happy song... I mean... the melody is VERY happy altough the lyrics are sad.
U2' saddest moments in song...
While there are several sad U2 songs, the live versions of two songs are very sad for me to hear. First, there is One from "Popmart in Mexico City", where Bono's already called out to "Hutch", and his voice cracks when he changes the lyrics to "Have you come her for forgiveness...well I can't raise the dead...
It's true emotion. It happens again in a live CD I have from the concert in Genoa, Italy. When Bono sings the first two verses of Wake Up Dead Man, he's clearly choked up and crying. He nearly loses it completely when he says "Would you put a word good in for me?" I know this was around the time of his Father's passing.
Those two moments in song are sad, and since the songs are sad to begin with, that makes it that much more tearful when you can tell Bono is at a very sad, vulnerable state in the midst of a concert.
Anyone else notice these two incidents?
While there are several sad U2 songs, the live versions of two songs are very sad for me to hear. First, there is One from "Popmart in Mexico City", where Bono's already called out to "Hutch", and his voice cracks when he changes the lyrics to "Have you come her for forgiveness...well I can't raise the dead...
It's true emotion. It happens again in a live CD I have from the concert in Genoa, Italy. When Bono sings the first two verses of Wake Up Dead Man, he's clearly choked up and crying. He nearly loses it completely when he says "Would you put a word good in for me?" I know this was around the time of his Father's passing.
Those two moments in song are sad, and since the songs are sad to begin with, that makes it that much more tearful when you can tell Bono is at a very sad, vulnerable state in the midst of a concert.
Anyone else notice these two incidents?
Moonlit_Angel
Blue Crack Addict
Re: U2' saddest moments in song...
Ohhh...
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I've never heard those live versions...but just from the way you've described them, they certainly sound heartbreaking...
Angela
beLIEve said:
Ohhh...
...I've never heard those live versions...but just from the way you've described them, they certainly sound heartbreaking...
Angela
u2head
The Fly
Drowning Man
The Unforgettable Fire
The Unforgettable Fire
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stagman
War Child
Red Hill Mining Town
Unforgettable Fire
One
With Or Without You
Walk To The Water
Luminous Times
Kite
Electrical Storm
Mother's Of The Dissapeared (Live)
Unforgettable Fire
One
With Or Without You
Walk To The Water
Luminous Times
Kite
Electrical Storm
Mother's Of The Dissapeared (Live)
HolyJoe914
The Fly
Peace On Earth.
A Christmas card to the heart of darkness.
A Christmas card to the heart of darkness.
gherman
New Yorker
One word 'Kite'
There really are no "sad" U2 songs. There are emotional U2 songs such as Running to Stand Still, Please, and Mothers --- but these aren't intended to be 'sad' or to make the listener feel depressed. All theses songs are masterpieces.
I can see why someone would say that Love is Blindess is sad though, although that too is so powerful, more then 'sad'.
When you see people crying or whatever at a U2 show, I would hope they are crying simply because of what they are witnessing, not because they are actually saddened.
EDIT: with songs like Mothers, I understand that this is about a very sensitive issue therefore people might feel associate it with 'sad' feelings.
I understand why people interpret songs as sad, but personally I dont.
I can see why someone would say that Love is Blindess is sad though, although that too is so powerful, more then 'sad'.
When you see people crying or whatever at a U2 show, I would hope they are crying simply because of what they are witnessing, not because they are actually saddened.
EDIT: with songs like Mothers, I understand that this is about a very sensitive issue therefore people might feel associate it with 'sad' feelings.
I understand why people interpret songs as sad, but personally I dont.
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Bunbury
Refugee
Wake up Dead Man is freaking depressive 
Soul Always
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After watching U2: Go Home and the nice Irish lilt Bono gave the song "Wake Up Dead Man", I'm beginning to think THAT is the saddest U2 song I've heard. It is VERY plaintive, especially the way he sang it in that concert.
TiaraGurl
War Child
Mothers of the Disappeared-version from when the mothers were actually onstage the "we hear there hearts beat and still there hearts beat" line I sobbed.
RTSS
Love is Blindness (yeah NEVER listen to this during a breakup it will just make you nuts)
I find it interesting many people have listed electrical storm I would not have thought of that but come to think of it whenever Bono is saing baby please don;t cry i usually feel emotional not so much sad.
Kite
hands too is very moving
RTSS
Love is Blindness (yeah NEVER listen to this during a breakup it will just make you nuts)
I find it interesting many people have listed electrical storm I would not have thought of that but come to think of it whenever Bono is saing baby please don;t cry i usually feel emotional not so much sad.
Kite
hands too is very moving
RickFly
Refugee
mothers of the dissapeard, tomorrow, and possibly the first time.
