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'One' is written, and the band is saved."
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"They write a song on the fly in a matter of minutes. "They take that bridge section out of 'Mysterious Ways' and they go back into the room at Hansa ," Guggenheim told CNN in 2011. Appropriately enough, the completed transatlantic Top 10 smash seems to be both about breaking apart and coming together again. "Suddenly, something very powerful was happening in the room," the guitarist said in Davis Guggenheim's From the Sky Down documentary. Producer Daniel Lanois heard something that caught his attention and suggested the Edge play two different sections in a sequence. Stuck on an early version of what would become "Mysterious Ways," the Edge started rearranging the chord progressions while another fractious argument took place. Instead, sessions dissolved into arguments over the band's musical direction. They'd arrived in Germany on the eve of the nation's post-Cold War reunification, expecting to be inspired. In some ways, this is U2's most important song. and the U.K., "Even Better Than the Real Thing" marked U2's first video collaboration with Kevin Godley, who went on to direct clips for "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," "Sweetest Thing," "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" and "Numb." It's not substantial as a lyric, but it suggests a certain sexual tension and desire to have some fun playing in the shallows." A Top 40 hit in both the U.S. We are all looking for instant gratification. The results, Bono said in Neil McCormick's U2 by U2, were "much more reflective of the times we were living in, when people were no longer looking for the truth. He changed his mind after a minor but important edit: "Even Better Than the Real Thing" still sounded a bit too stodgy, though, until the Edge applied a new DigiTech Whammy effects pedal to the Stones-y main riff. Bono originally included the decidedly unironic lyric " ain't nothing like the real thing," earning a thumbs down from producer Brian Eno. "Even Better Than the Real Thing" began life as a leftover idea from the self-serious Rattle and Hum era and sounded like it – at least at first. In a sign of how freeing these sessions became, Bono encouraged the producers to "just try something that's gonna put me in a completely different place." (Patrons arrived via the nearby Zoologischer Garten railway station.) This is the first of three tracks that grew out of U2's failed attempts to complete a song called "Lady With the Spinning Head," followed by "The Fly" and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)." Though it opened Achtung Baby, "Zoo Station" was actually one of the last tracks completed, primarily because Bono was unhappy with his initial pass on the vocal. Instead, Bono built a theme of dangerous escapism from pieces of a World War II-era tale where animals escaped from the Berlin Zoo after an overnight bombing. Gone were the grand statements of purpose, the calls to action, the sometimes mockable earnestness. "Zoo Station" represents the jagged line between the U2 of the past and the U2 of an exciting new future, announcing itself with smeared guitar and vocals that sound like they've been run through a megaphone. But even deep cuts like "So Cruel" and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" as the track-by-track guide below shows, held sweeping musical intrigues. single was "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses," which went to No. But now we've learned to laugh at it all and find fun in everything, because there is a ridiculous side to rock 'n' roll, and you just have to learn to live with it."Īchtung Baby produced four Top 40 Billboard hits, including the Top 10 smashes "Mysterious Ways" and "One." It's lowest-charting U.K. I think we held on to the music too tightly. "We were scared the business would overtake us we were scared of the nonsense. "We spent a lot of the '80s ducking and bobbing and weaving, running from the ghosts of things that really weren't so scary after all," Bono told The New York Times in 1992.
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All of it shaped the dark and distorted music they'd make with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. The Edge's marriage was failing, and Bono was having a crisis of faith in the band's penchant for songs with big riffs and even bigger ideas. Metallic dance music leaked out of every discotheque and passing car. Principal recording took place in a studio that once served as a Nazi ballroom, amid the groans of an industrial town.