what New York track is the best?

[DPrinceNY]

So we have three options...
COBL
New York
Angel of Harlem

All were dedicated/written about new york. What is everyones favorite? There prob. will be a landslide for COBL but we shall see...

My vote's COBL

 

[bonofox]

COBL

 

[MSMCGirl]

I personally LOVE "COBL". Gives me goosebumps (ALL my favorite U2 songs give me goosebumps...or "chickenskin" I think they call it across the pond?!)

 

[MrBrau1]

AOH is about Billie Holiday, not NYC.

 

[U2bpbear24]

New York

 

[gareth brown]

AOH is about Billie Holiday, not NYC.

i don't need to post in here anymore.

 

[miss becky]

City of Blinding Lights, beyond a doubt.

 

[xaviMF22]

New York, can't stand COBL

 

[XHendrix24]

COBL.

Duh.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

yea i was gonna say that angel of harlem is about a person from new york, not the city it's self.

i dunno... i love 'em both in different ways.

 

[ElectricalVoice]

New York!

 

[theu2fly]

Are we talking in quality of song terms?

AOH...

But if you want a great melody, thoughtful lyrics and mystery then COBL...

 

[Azor]

City of Blinding Lights

 

[Utoo]

AOH is about Billie Holiday, not NYC.

To be fair, part of it was also inspired by the feelings the band had the moment they first came to NYC. Evidenced at least by these lines:

It was a cold and wet December day
When we touched the ground at JFK
Snow was melting on the ground
On BLS I heard the sound
Of an angel

New York, like a Christmas tree
Tonight this city belongs to me

To top off the feelings they had, they heard Billie on the radio--cementing those first-time feelings of NYC forever. Bono discusses it in a few interviews, I believe.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

what, exactly, is mysterious about city of blinding lights?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i wonder if u2 has actually ever been played on WBLS

 

[Joey788]

COBL

 

[catlhere]

Miami...

Wait huh?

Oh out of those three I would pick Angel Of Harlem, but seeing as it's not about New York according to my posting chums, I'll settle on COBL.

 

[tuwie]

COBL =)

 

[zoopop]

COBL, epic live song.

 

[tuwie]

^ yeah, a GREAT opener

 

[PopFly]

I vote for Angel of Harlem

 

[Numb1075]

AOH = easily

 

[alainn-la]

New York... I think it just captures the city well.

 

[sniggirb]

City of Blinding Lights is amazing but the live version of New York is simply brilliant......


so my vote is New York!

 

[corianderstem]

what, exactly, is mysterious about city of blinding lights?

Well, you really don't know which lights specifically are blinding the band, and we also don't know what the consequences of this temporarily blindness were.

Did they get disoriented and fall off the stage, while shielding their eyes with their hands and saying, "AUGH! MY EYES!" ?

 

[Miricale_Drug]

With John Coltrane, and his love supreme

ANGEL OF HARLEM

(COBL close 2nd)

 

[Miricale_Drug]

Well, you really don't know which lights specifically are blinding the band, and we also don't know what the consequences of this temporarily blindness were.

Yes We do... its the lights during streets at a NYC show on elevation. 24/10/01? And when they came up the look on peoples faces was unbelivable after all they'd been through... oh u look so beauitful tonight. in the city, of blinding lights

 

[namkcuR]

1.Angel Of Harlem
2.New York
3.COBL

 

[corianderstem]

Yes We do... its the lights during streets at a NYC show on elevation. 24/10/01? And when they came up the look on peoples faces was unbelivable after all they'd been through... oh u look so beauitful tonight. in the city, of blinding lights

I know. I was being silly in response to Headache's question.