August 13, 2007 11:01 PM
Late Night Music Club with U2 and Bruce Springsteen
It's hard enough to cover Ben E. King, let alone Ben E. King doing his greatest hit-- and after John Lennon already did an amazing version. But in 1987 U2 was in Philly and Bruce Springsteen joined them onstage to do a version. It may not be as powerfully emotive as the original but it does the trick. It always strikes me as a very patriotic song these days when we all have to stand together against such a clear and present danger.
What's the clear and present danger? Win an Impeach Cheney cap if you have the best answer. Send it to downwithtyranny@aol.com
Awesome stuff. If I recall correctly, Bono had slipped and hurt his arm on stage one night, but they kept touring.
...hard to believe that was 20 years ago.
'bout time to get some Bruce up there!!
:) Thanks.
Thin Lizzy
Emerald
Live and Dangerous
I don't want an "Impeach Cheney?" cap with a question mark on it! What's the good of that? Give me an exclamation point, or a period at least.
sweet....
very sweet...
but I still love Lennon's version more...
Primus
Too Many Puppies
Impeach Cheney.
Indict Cheney.
Incarcerate Cheney.
Talk about great covers!
Linda Ronstadt - Hurt So Bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYurJjwk9E
Rolling Stones - The Last Time 1965\
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8nSKimHkSY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-ppc4lYyg
miss you
Another driving around aimlessly in LA (hell) with the top down song....
Don't Think Twice (It's Alright) - Bob Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkVGClqrT4
I've never had a good experience with people who snort cocaine.
Another cover- not as good as the stones IMHO
Soundgarden - Stray Cat Blues - (The Rolling Stones)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncZx1QjrVWc
The clear and present danger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6AbIFnJ0f8
The solution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2nlzwXUttY&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyjU6a8ws8s
Memphis's version of Dylan these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EC_vawTTDg
hard rain (symphonic!)
Zombies - She's Not There
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTQMkojCqAA
oooooo, The Edge's sui generis guitar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyhYczii8I
Nebelnest
Etude De Shimshot
smokin' post-rock/avant-progressive from France
Julian Lennon Too Late For Goodbyes Extended
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdApV_3Toyg
Moody Blues - Go Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZreZYPXJAW4
Moody Blues - I Know You're Out There Somewhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhGERg5iPg&mode=related&search=
The Moody Blues - No More Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_IuCN00ac&mode=related&search=
Bee Gees- How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r49pYLk6Xg
Bee Gees - To Love Somebody 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9hQGszLes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o
one
How Deep is Your Love －The Bee Gees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEngs28vwbc
Colorstar
Morning Call
infectious groove & cool vid from Budapest
Bee Gees ..... One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE5l0k_2-oQ
[Deleted. Off topic. This is the music thread. The open thread is the next one up-Sitemonitor]
Bob Dylan: "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QicI7f5u7R8
Bee Gees-words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Q3YTLV80U
i give up, cuz im a dandy highwayman
stand and deliver....adam ant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgHbt0ODr4
bring back the 80s....when women were women...and so were men
It's only turd blossoms
And turd blossoms is all Bush had
To keep his heart away
Not that I think that Bush will regrow a heard now that Rove will be gone.
U.K.
In The Dead Of Night
Holdsworth, Wetton, Jobson, Bruford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEfSnjL0pd8
with or without you
Googbye all
That should be good bye all
g'night lafin xoxox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lbiS1fris
numb
What I mean about LA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVbLm4TN3g
They did a free concert at Embarcadero Center on the same tour. I was there. It rocked harder than the one at the stadium. It was fantastic. Huge crowd of happy people in the square, no trouble, beautiful time. Bono took out a can of spray paint and doodled on the sculpture a little. Dianne Feinstein was Mayor then, and she had a cow about that, but otherwise it was bliss.
OMG, I can't believe all this uniformly maudlin stuff all these masters of the obvious are posting. I mean, U2 was great on the first album, but Bono is such a swaggering fake-soulful ponce, and all the music since the first album is just clickety clickety clickity swim swim swim, with a little bit of something to raise the eybrows on that one Eno produced one, but mostly uniformly lame after the Boy album. I saw them on that tour, and that was why they got signed. Another great promising group that got lazy after fame, like Radiohead, and only after they get lame and the music press catches on too late, and then finally everybody lets the music press tell them to like something, and by the time people start claiming they are God, they are dead already. Woah, that's kind of like Jesus, now that I think of it. Anyway, like I bet you guys have never even heard the Boy album or REMs Chronic Town EP, which is why they got signed, and pretty much turned into muzak after that. I am going to post some stuff that is much more politically pertinent, a lot less polite, and A LOT LESS OBVIOUS AND OVERPLAYED FOR THE LAST HALF CENTURY below. I mean how many times can you play the same old sixties songs over and over and over and over...
Here's a way underplayed metal band called Accept that really holds up to the political situation right now, because Rove is going to get his balls to the wall.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2VCnqCmGw
Never mind the BOLLOCKS, here's the Sex Pistols with Liar. I know they are not on. This is the last gig the night they broke up, so they were played-out by then, but still more vital than BONO for crying out loud. This one is dedicated to Karl Rove: LIAR
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XecDXeWy6lc
This one is dedicated to Patrick Leahy. Blondie does One Way or Another.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=74xiXRxkKxc
Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus? Marilyn Manson does. (Twiggy is so cool.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c5C17zwLiQI
Black Sabbath does War Pigs!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg
The Mighty Mos Def drops something real, a freestyle Katrina Clap, which I dedicate to Brownie and every incompetent appointee of Bushco. "Where is sir Bono and his fancy friends now?"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E2FlcRVTuCA
Heritik
I wish you'd learn how to spell, and your taste in music gives me a headache.
Oh, no, wait! Sorry. If you learn to spell "whoa", I'll remember to clean my glasses, Heretic....
Interesting cover of a classic.
Clear and present dangers:
[1] mass extinction from climate crisis;
[2] World War III;
[3] complete nullification of the Constitution....
Really in any order, but, luckily, [1] will moot [2] and [3].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpzi-SR4bAo
epitaph
We really do have to stand by each other. These are some scary times. Thanks, Howie.
Division,if we as a country stay this divided we will never move forward.No,I don't think we need a another 911 to unite us but something a little more sedate wouldn't hurt.
U2 and other mindless mega bands.
Springsteen sucks. He only had one good song, Born to Run. Than he became a faux populist.
Even John Melencamp does that one better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtW2wLOaa4M
Here's an old hit from the bong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbzLfMJ-dkQ
Blow me away!
Interesting - and weird -comments on the youtube site of the Lennon version about how he was ripping off black music.
Really? The song was written by two white, Jewish guys, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who met when they were both high school students in Los Angeles. The first song they wrote together was "Kansas City." The went on to write literally hundreds of hits among which are Houndog, Jailhouse Rock, On Broadway, Love Potion #9, Poison Ivy, Only in America, I'm a Woman, etc. etc. etc.
Oddly enough, I am actually going to visit Jerry, who's an old friend, later this afternoon. He'll get a kick out of this.
Springsteen inducted U2 into the Rock'n Roll Hall Of Fame and has been a close friend of the Band for decades.
Being a band for 30 years now, without changing a single Bandmember is
a very rare thing these days.
They deserve respect for that, even if you don't like U2's music or Bono's messianic complex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVdZ0Rdm8zI
{{{yawn}}}
Bono and Springsteen, two great, great leftists.
I'd druther be a leftist than a Left Behind.
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