U2 - The Fool (1978) + Lyrics
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- One of the first recordings of U2 from 1978.
Alive in an ocean
A world of glad ice insane
I walk the world backways
It's aways the same ballgame
That's out of mind
Out of the living world
Out of time
I break all the rules
They call me a fool
I cartoon in motion
A hero pretends no pain
A clown slipping backwards
You laugh at another's shame
But I don't mind
I know I'm limping low down
I don't mind
Winners or losers
It's all just a game
And I'm going down
And I'm strolling down
Life and an answer
The key to an open door
Admiting I'm laughing
Living I'm limping more
It's out of mind
Out of the living world
Out of time
Winners or losers
It's always a game
And I'm going down
But I'm strolling down
To rout around
And around, and around
To round round
There's a cloud
There's a cloud
So...the fool has
found the golden key
So...it's waiting
there for you and me
Just a fool, a street jester
The hero of society
Just a fool, a street jester
Look at me, now can't you see
A life in emotion
A world I'm glad I didn't see
A cartoon in motion
A key to the same day
I don't mind, I'm here to know
I wanna go go go go go
So...the fool has
found the golden key
It's so...it's waiting
there for you and me
Just a fool, a street jester
The hero of society
Just a fool, a street jester
Look at me, now can't you see
0:40 "A cartoon in motion, the hero pretends no pain. A clown slipping backwards, you laugh at another's shame." That's my favorite line.
Nice
When U2 was a Authentique post-punk Band.
This just goes to show that with lots of practice, a decent singer can become an amazing singer.
well most people nowadays thinking that the edge can't do solo but this record prove it's wrong
ah wow. Bono had the BEST voice when they first started. I completely understand the post-punk thing now
this sounds like it was recorded live on a dodgy mono cassette recorder... but sounds so good and raw - love it!
An unfortunate consequence of the analogue tape trading era... I'd imagine the cassette this was digitized from is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a rough studio mix, with perhaps even more generations in between... all things considered, this one doesn't sound too bad for the era!
@@cftvdata exactly! Sounds pretty decent
Much of the great wonders of the band is hidden in their past.
Yep
They were so much more Punk!
This is like watching leonardo da vinci paint his first painting, driving enzo ferraris first car, going to the first mcdonalds restraunt, or being on set of the pilot of 'friends'.....
"Friends?" You need to raise your standards :D
you had me up til “Friends”… ffs you could have said Seinfeld.
It's pretty good for one of their first!
I love this song !
if people think U2 is overrated,they should hear this
Holy shit this is good.
LOVE IT VERY MUCH! GREAT YEARS!
sounds very much like The Jam... which is a great place to start!
Yep!
Punk!
Yes!
Oh they were so young XD Thank you very much for posting!!!!!!!
Wanted a tattoo of a “Jester” @ age 12 to symbolize my adoration of U2..when i grew up of course..51 years old now..lol have tats but no jester!lol
never knew this existed. LOVE IT
Alive in an ocean, a world of glad eyes insane
good punk with The Fool and after very good post-punk with Sunday Bloody Sunday :)
Edge: y u no write such solos like this one? Fucking awesome solo. I - am - astonished. So greeeaaat song!:)
LEGIT BAND
WE NEED MORE EDGE ON SOE....More TRUE U2 on SOE......!!!!!!!
I actually have this album. It is very punk. Mike Peters from the Alarm said it was a surprise when 'Boy' came out because U2 was known more for their punk sound, not the slower atmospheric music that Boy sounded like. The early version of "Shadows and Tall Trees" is a frantic, fast paced song. Guess we can thank Steve Lillywhite for that. Regardless, great album!
What album is that? Is it anywhere to be found?
@@claudiaortenzi2502 It's on an album called Driving To Midnight Mass. Nowhere on it does it say U2, but it does have a black & white pic of them on it. Bono reads a poem about Xmas Eve on side one. Side two has stuff when they were probably teenagers. It rocks!
@@jimgonz68 Omg, thank you so much for this, I had no idea such an album even existed. And how would anyone buy it? I've tried to find something out but there seems to be very little information about it.
@@claudiaortenzi2502 I bought it like 30 years ago at a mom and pop record store in L.A. for $10. If i ever dig it out and digitize it I'll let you know. 👍
love the bowie influence
For those who might not know Dave Evans brother is playing guitar solo in this classic.
I thought Dik Evans was with Virgin Prunes at this time
Look at those kids.
no one was around for this except Irish(are you?),... U2 in 1978 was strictly Dublin and thereabouts.
would love to hear Edge play some Hendrix!
10x better than the crap they do now!!
A day without me
The Edge is actually a great guitarist
que bueno,
like it! nice song
@jimgonz68 The early version of Shadows and Tall Trees is a sludgy slow paced 'metal' song, not at all frantic fast paced, even in proper pitch tune speed. Perhaps you heard it in chipmunk speed. It's hear on youtube, go listen to it right now. Lillywhite produced the third recorded version of Shadows. The National Stadium gig from February 1980 is a second compositional rendition, and in my opinion the best rendition. It has the sparkle sound factor, as a matter of the playing style.
Im there now!!!
you lost me at "on the set of the pilot of 'friends'
but i agree with the rest of your comparisons
larry drumming tops
I agree
@wolfennyc I agree completely!
@jimgonz68 actually I couldn't find the first version/the demo version of Shadows, from 1978, here on youtube, but it's out there. I've got a recording of it on my cd's.
@wolfennyc street missions solo was pretty good as well
temazo
"Alive in an ocean a world of glad ice insaaaaane,...."
That's the lyric Bono stated verbatim in an interview from 1978/79 for The Fool. Because it's a matter of the sound not the meaning of the words,....he said that.
not, "A world that I didn't see" Please correct, we can't take it anymore......!!!!
Proto-Bongolese...
@eruptionmat
I've read more than 1 account that he can RIP Hendrix type leads....
@wolfennyc none of U2's albums are weak. Though the 'weakest' is probably 'zooropa'
Zooropa is a top 3 album imo
punk