Read on for a track-by-track take on this, a dark and bristly debut from a band now known for bringing bright lights and optimism to the stadiums of the world.įittingly, the first song on the first U2 album is certified roof-raiser stuffed with rumbling bass, insistent guitars, glockenspiel, and lyrics written about something very specific (the mother-child bond) yet delivered in a way that anyone can sing along and insert his or her own meaning. It all came together on 1987’s massive The Joshua Tree, the first of U2’s seven chart-topping albums. With 1983’s War, U2 stepped up its anthem game, while 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire established much of the sonic architecture that’s propped up subsequent works. 63 on the Billboard 200, producing no hit singles, the following year’s October stalled at No. It would take a few albums for U2’s abilities to catch up to its ambition - and for the public to catch on. “There’s a certain spark, a certain chemistry, that was special about the Stones, The Who and The Beatles, and I think it’s also special about U2,” he told Rolling Stone in February 1981, when he was still going by the name Bono Vox. While producer Steve Lilywhite mostly stays out of the way and lets the group careen through its songs - minimalist post-punk numbers with an obvious debt to English predecessors Joy Division - there’s a spirit to these performances that foretells greater things to come. It was a huge success, becoming one of the best-selling songs for both Blige and U2, managing to overcome even the success of the original.Packed with prickly guitar sounds, strident beats and lyrics about the terrors of growing up and the grief Bono felt after losing his mother at 14, Boy is basically U2’s emo album. The song has been the subject of covers by Johnny Cash and Joe Cocker. Sony ranked One fifth among the most popular songs of all time. Realised that they had to stay together they were still able to create They were a step away from their final separation but it was there that they Over again from this song and resumed an adventure that still continues today. We get to carry each other, carry each other Perhaps we can re-emergeįrom this collapsed house of cards and build something new. Section lights up these hopes: perhaps from this new situation we can startĪgain, in a different way, forgetting our old plans. You ask me of me to enter, but then you make me crawlĪnd I can’t keep holding on to what you got, ’cause all you got is hurt You say love is a temple, love is a higher law See we hurt each other, then we do it again Something specific you are just dissatisfied by a long-term plan that has been No one to blame, nothing that can be fixed: you are not angry because of You feel that theyĬan be weapons with which one can accuse another, but the reality is that youĬannot find the words. Then here the anger and the disappointment start to appear. Until this point, the tone of the lyrics was still rational and analytical, Well, did I ask too much, more than a lot? Time, he recognises that getting lost in memories is useless: it doesn’t help Writer, who feels he has given a lot and not received as much. Little anger also emerges because, hidden in the form of a question, there is the thought of the Was there anything about me that you didn’t like We planned our future together, then we realised that we were That all the members of U2 felt was coming.
One’s lyrics are animated by that feeling of inevitable separation A common routine that needs to be broken, because we are suddenlyĭifferent. Leaves you darling, if you don’t care for it You got someone to blameYou say one love, one life (One life) Music and words slowly flew there, just when everything was almost gone. “Everyone recognised it was a special piece.” The boys looked at each other this was something new. “Suddenly something very powerful was happening in the room,” Edge said.
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