They Don't Miss! | Lyric ANALYSIS of "With Or Without You" by U2
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- Опубліковано 13 лис 2022
- Today we are reviewing "With Or Without You" by U2. Let's dive into it!
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“Yes, we’ll shine like stars in the summer night… shine like stars in the winter night..
One heart.
One hope
One love…”
Hold It
It's a song of restrained passion. You can feel the pressure building, but it's never allowed to completely exhaust itself.
Larry on drums . . . Adam on bass
I never forget when I heard the Joshua Tree album the very first time. I was at a friends house and she turned it on for me. I was sitting there and this is the first song I felt like I was moved in a different world. It felt like I was in a trance. Then the second song came on “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m looking For” and I just stayed in that trance, like being in a beautiful dream work. And then song number 3 “Where The Streets Have No Name” ❤❤❤❤ I was so blown away and I never forgot those beautiful melodies, they were stuck in my head for the rest of my life. The JoshuaTree album is the reason I became a U2 fan in 1987. 2 years later I crossed the first time the border to West Berlin 2 weeks after the Berlin Wall came down. Citizens from east Germany received a 20 Deutsch mark gift over the first month when crossing the border first time. I went to the first music store I found and bought my Joshua Tree album and it is my biggest treasure since then 🥰
Beautiful comment 👌 ❤️
That is a wonderful anecdote. Thank you for sharing it. Perhaps I am reading too much into your comment but I find the lack of love for the West today truly depressing. It's heartening to remember how some desired it so badly less than a lifetime ago.
PS. How exactly was she able to get a copy?
@@dannyarcher6370 she had lots of relatives in west Germany and they got regularly packages. We got usually only a couple packages around Christmas with Christmas goodies for us kids 😊🥰😜
@@nellyweini8188 Didn't the East German customs officials check packages for "banned materials"?
The whole Joshua Tree album is amazing. I’d argue that Achtung Baby is just as good, if not better
Everyone loves JT as the best U2 album. My top is Achtung Baby. He's heard One and Mysterious Ways from it (so far).
Yeah, Achtung Baby is God tier.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 I concur but everything they perform has mastery imbued with it.
@@cosmicmatt8 Can't argue that!
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Absolutely! Most people can't even rank the songs on there. I could but honestly they could be put in any potential order and i would not be mad. :D
If you haven't seen, he's done Love Is Blindness ZooTV Sydney and it's up! :)
One of U2,s all time Great Anthem's!
Everytime it gets me, Unbelievable Song that still give,s me Chill's
Big Shout From Ireland 🇮🇪
Forever U2👍
Mullen jr, on the drums, Adam Clayton on the bass.
One of my favourites. Hard to believe this album is 35 years old!
hard to believe I'm 52 already.
I've been a U2 fan since 1981.
One of the Best Albums ever made.
Love your U2 reactions 🎉all of their albums are unique and relevant. on a side note Bono just released his memoirs and the book is absolutely awesome I would encourage you to read it. The audio version is incredible as you hear his voice and music too. Book title “Surrender”. I also just saw him live in SF CA this weekend where he was promoting his book on stage like a musical play. He is a genius.
I think you need to hear a song like The Fly or Bullet the Blu Sky. U2 can rock hard when they want to.
In high school my bf at the times parents had extra tickets to go see U2. We went because I’m not gonna turn down free tickets lol but I was amazed and they were FANTASTIC .
That was the same summer as Live Aid here where Jay Z and Linkin Part debuted their new collaborations. We went to tons of concerts too like Shinedown , Velvet Revolver, etc now it’s WAY too expensive. Then it was like “eh.. I’m bored and no one is throwing a rave on the golf course tonight .. who is in town ?”.
Bono was 27 when the album came out.
Larry Mullen Jr on drums. My early teenage crush 😍 I ruined my sisters video of Live At Red Rocks pausing on him all the time 😂
he was 26 his birthday is in may
Song was released in March 1987. Bono was born May 1960, so he was 26.
Once in a while when they play this song live they add another section at the end and it adds so much. Not sure if your question was answered but Adam Clayton is on Bass and Larry Mullen Jr is drums. They have an insane amount of just fantastic songs.. from popular to deep cuts.. keep at it. As far as heavy U2 look to Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me and Until the End of the World
I love and appreciate U2 on all levels, yet somehow you managed to just still open up and elevate my appreciation again and even improve on what I already know about their music...so thankyou for opening yourself up to their world and making mine even richer 👊
HIGH INTENSITY, DEEP INSIGHT. Love it! I'm fucking asleep so I'll watch the second half tomorrow but speaking of shifts in attitude & sound design... and ZOOS... treat yourself to ZOOROPA of the album of the same name, that U2 did a mere 6 years after With or Without you, in 1993. (not to be confused with ZOO STATION, 1991, also a great song)
I can't put the link because YT, but look it up. 6 years yet a lifetime away.
The build-up is on of the best ever. And strangest...
Cheers from France
Oh one last thing. In that era their album sleeves were shot by their lifelong friend, photographer ANTON Corbijn. He also worked with Depeche Mode.
edit - next day - watched the end. Oh my you are GIFTED.
It took me 35 years and seeing Bono recount his youth in person last year, how he, at that time, was faced with a wall of silence from his wife...
I've lived this....being torn...no easy answer. Truth.❤👍
Bono 26, Adam 27, Edge and Larry 25! There’s something uniquely magical about this song.
Linkin Park did a song similar to this one - "Shadow of the Day"; it just builds and builds
Love it 🙏🙏 But you should try Drowning man From the album “War” 1983 its a kind of a forgotten song that is totally unrated. Loves from Denmark 🇩🇰
Love this song, love your reviews. A request, I'd love you to review one of U2's newer songs, it's called The Little Things That Give You Away, if you love a song that builds. This one does
Check out The live version from the Abbey road studios from 2018 I've left the link above for Anton but unlikely he will React to to it
Absoloutely magic aura as it builds in a live situation and fills the arena
Thank you for a reasoned and thoughtful review of U2.
You have to react to U2 Until the End of the World its alot more of a heavier rock song and it has an epic guitar solo
I'll be requesting it at some point as it's on Achtung Baby album and that's my favorite.
My favourite band of all time, best song is sunday bloody sunday in my opinion, bono was 26 here he was almost 27. saw them in ‘83
Sunday is coming up in December. :)
Really nice unrestrained reaction, to a breathtakingly restrained song that builds, and then...just chills. Check out the Bono solo version from Late night for another type of trip. Fantastic you notice Larry's drumming. It's so good, and so original every song.
There are so many of those types of things like Bono's solo version of this one, and many others, or his and Edge's solos, even Larry has a solo. It's so much to see and hear from them that Anton will likely never be able to unless he does it on his own. I showed him Edge's solo of Love Is Blindness although that has a ton of views probably because it's such a rare thing for him to do one alone. Anton doesn't know the Zoo or Pop side of them even lol
If you want to hear Bono with the most amazing vocals, check out Kite from, All that you can’t leave behind.
Adam is Bassist, Larry Mullen Jr. is a Drummer
My daughter recorded a cover of this and gave it to me for Mother’s Day a few years ago because I fell in love with this song when she was a new born and I would be up in the middle of the night with her and MTV played this at the same time every night. I also feel in love with Robert Cray's "Because of Me". At that time in my life I doubt if I would have zoned into the song had it not been in the quit of night.
Their sing Zooropa is a slow build but a totally different sound.
Larry is on drums. Adam bass
The relationship Bono describes here is a lot like what he’s describing in “One”
❤ Bono here 🔥
Bono's voice was nearly just straight power in the 80s though he's always worn his heart in his vocals too.
Best song of to 80s for me
Please react to U2's video "Lemon" it's totally different (in a good way) from anything they've done before.
Lemon is awesome. It's from the 90s work that is their best in my opinion overall.
When Bono is talking about not finding too many songs on the radio interesting at the time (late70s/early 80s) you have to remember he was in Dublin and not listening to the same things being heard here in the US and likely not the same as what was being heard in Canada at the time either. I know who their influences were. They liked Joy Division, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Lou Reed, The Clash, and other post punk, as well as David Bowie, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, Ramones, Pixies, George Michael.
I don't know if that helps much because most of those I expect you haven't heard. A lot of their influences were bands we've never heard of too but who were big in Ireland at the time. This song was different most likely at the time partly because of the way it did build, as well as Edge's unique tone. Oh, you're right, it did change very distinctly at one point and it was Larry who drove that with the drums. Many of their songs do a slow but deliberate build through layering and other means. Nice catch! The drumming change was just between the end of the verse right before the first time of the chorus. Bono's voice rose just before that, so that's part of the layering. Edge's guitar rises and falls with those things.
As always, the lyrics can be interpreted many ways depending on the listener. They have very few straightforward lyrics hah! I've read that these lyrics were an expression of an existential crisis for Bono as were elements of many songs especially early on. Ireland and Northern Ireland (Ireland not being part of UK but Northern Ireland is) is a very divided place when it comes to religion historically. It was like a Protestant would never marry a Catholic kind of division. His parents had that division. Bono and the rest of the band struggled with whether to continue with the band at one very early point because of their religious views. They ultimately decided it would not be against god or their religious beliefs in any way to do so. The lyrics 'see the thorn twist in your side, and I wait without you' and 'you give yourself away' repeated throughout the song are about that conflict between being a rock star and being a husband and Christian. 'You give yourself away' is specifically about Bono giving himself to the band, to fame, to the industry. It's actually quite complex, though on the face of it it's very simple.
He's talking about 'she' as in the music industry, the band. The I can't live with or without you meaning he's addicted to the drug that is the fame that came with being in the band.
Thinking more about what you said in regard to wondering why Bono thought this song would be something different for the radio. It actually was, and so were the other 3 big ones from Joshua Tree. Joshua Tree was huge in 1987, and this song and video, so I've been told and vaguely remember due to not being that old, was played endlessly on MTV. It's #132 on Rolling Stones 500 top albums of all time. People really love this album. As you know what kind of fan I am of them it may surprise you to know I think the album is a masterpiece yet it isn't my favorite of theirs. Mine, as you also probably know is Achtung Baby (which translated from German means Attention! Baby lol).
Regarding bands changing their appearance for a new album- my next and last song request for them for awhile does that in spades lol! U2 are known for reinventing themselves over and over again. They're in their 60s and going to tour next year and I was concerned they were through for the most part with that. They toured and did about 70 performances at 16-17 years old across a couple of years before their first album and still going 45 years on. :)
Larry on drums adam on base.
Larry Mullen Junior on drums. Adam’s on the bass
Bono was the magic 27 here. Glad he survived it.
“Bullet the Blue Sky”
Listen to Achtung Baby, please.
Larry is the drummer, Adam's on Bass.
Anton you should have done the live version i requested it so many times from the BBC live from 2018 Abbey road studios i dropped the link at least three times for you 😢
The live version is SO good, yes! Well, there are several live versions as with many of their songs. But, this was artist of the month winner, in which case, he does the studio music video versions. I'm the one who requests all the songs by U2 as a patron. There are far too many to request all the best ones in a short amount of time for one person lol!
There are three ways to make requests. Join the discord and request it in the rock raffle, become a patron, or listen to the end of any of his videos and hear how to enter for a free request. :)
@@lauraallen55 " U2 are the best band ever at Delivering a studio song live on stage that's why i always request in these reaction channels that People react to them live but some people just don't listen sadly and as I've seen them live in concert since the early 80's theres no better band to see in my opinion live 👍🎸☘️
@@reactionfan1448 Reactors all do things differently, and Anton has a model he uses that doesn't include reacting to suggestions in YT comments. I doubt it would be possible to keep up with that!
I agree with you about how good they are in concert. I saw them for the 2001 Elevation tour in April. Best concert ever needless to say. :)
One thing I see in the song is the she is a temptation. The imagery is biblical..the she is the temptation. The you is his wife...
So for me…this song describes perfectly the stories of men whose wives chose to step out on them and neglect them. Their stories are often just like this song depicts. They hold on to a love that is one sided as their soul is crushed down to replace love with indifference. “Nothing to win, and nothing left to lose.”
Bono wrote the lyrics, and he's been with the same woman, Ali Hewson, since they were both 12 years old. They've never stepped out on each other.
@@TheAlmaward I know that bro! Maybe he wrote it about someone else. Doesn’t change the fact, that is my interpretation of the song.
@@davidarmour7766 hey, I am just digging how open you are in your misogygy. From assuming that the song has to be about cheating wives, to assuming that I'm male (nope), you think it's all about the men, huh? LOL
I'm exactly in the same kind of relationship so I can feel the emotions behind the lyrics.. we have to point that Bono was/is religious and he wanted to be in the realtion built up on real love (like the God gives to us), BUT she just pushed him to the fake love based on sex etc. - this kind of theme seems to appear in many U2 songs... sorry for mistakes in english ;)
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You said you were inspired by and drawn to artists who want their music to mean something to humanity. That's what they're all about as you're coming to learn.
Their humanitarianism is far beyond what most people know. Met with Presidents, helping get the debt of Africa and some other countries forgiven. Made campaigns that work for poverty, hunger, children’s causes. Everyone in the US who pays taxes helps with AIDS research because of one of their campaigns. They put their money where their mouth is as the saying goes. Bono is a big loud mouth about their campaigns and people hate him for it for some reason. He said he's a big mouth because it works. One, RED, Jubilee, Music Rising, and a few more campaigns they've started/supported I can't think of atm address things like forgiving the debt of countries like Africa, AIDS research and addressing poverty, children's causes. The list is long. They all head or work for these various campaigns, and they've been ongoing for decades. Everyone who pays taxes here contributes to AIDS research/charities. What they do is far-reaching and has brought results. Bono is oftentimes criticized for many things (it's mostly his arrogance, but even he is aware of his faults). His arrogance is part of what got him meetings with several Presidents and gets results, so it's weak tea to criticize a trait used in that context.
Green Day and U2 did a music video of The Saints Are Coming for Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans. Edge met with people and did charity work in regard to that. Larry does work with an organization that does charity surgeries for underprivileged. The other members do things quietly and Bono does them big and in your face. Whatever gets results is what I admire about anyone of stature who does whatever they think it takes to get results. I'm not requesting the song as my choice for the theme this week although it does qualify for and is a fantastic song lol! 😆
You also were surprised by Bono's comment that he thought most music was boring at the time they did this and you would have thought that this song would be kind of representative of what was heard at the time. It definitely wasn't. Joshua Tree (this song and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For are what you've heard so far from it) put them on the map hard in the mid-80s. Reviewers didn't think the album had any 'hits' lol! and didn't know how to categorize or review because their sound was so different at the time. Everyone went mad over them, and this sound. Then, when they did a 180 and put out Achtung Baby songs (that you love most so far) a lot of people went wtf is this because it was so different from what they loved about them.
So, yeah, this song, the other from JT that you've heard and loved are two examples of the songs on that album. There's a song on there called Bullet The Blue Sky that is different from the rest of the album, and a portent of what was to come in the 90s - best song on there imo.
Bono is a devout Christian as is the rest of the U2 band (he still carries a rosary given to him by Pope John Paul ll which he traded the Pope for his signature Black Fly sunglasses) and the song is just riddled with christian dogma. While many refuse to accept the religious overtones they are nonetheless there.
I think he likes the build up… 😂
Coldplay are known to have these slow builds in a lot of their songs
Coldplay, well, Chris Martin is a massive U2 fan.
@@lauraallen55 I’m sure Johnny buckland is influenced by the edge too.
@@emearg191 For sure! Coldplay has never hidden the fact about what band is their biggest influence. :)
@@emearg191 for sure. The whole band and how they approach songs I feel honestly.