Pride is U2’s best song hands down. Come at me LL.

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Pride is U2’s best song hands down. Come at me LL.
« on: February 22, 2024, 01:15:22 AM »
Edge has concocted 2 riffs that are rock magic.  Pride and Mysterious Ways.  The latter being the better.   

Both have been beaten to death by FM radio.   I never tire of Pride.    I tried so hard to play it at 15 that I failed at guitar. 

Essentially is pure U2.  All 4 members just crushing it in their juvenile phase.  Maybe Adam not so much.  But Edge, Bono, and Larry deliver iconic moments.   

Larry’s roll into Bono’s at wail at 2:41 with Edge in the background can never be duplicated.  Even by them. 


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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2024, 01:34:59 AM »
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened in the early morning hours of April 4. 

40 years later, I am still stumped.

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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2024, 01:47:19 AM »
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened in the early morning hours of April 4. 

40 years later, I am still stumped.
MLK had breakfast


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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2024, 02:31:59 AM »
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened in the early morning hours of April 4. 

40 years later, I am still stumped.
MLK had breakfast


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but a shot rang out... did he fart?

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Re: Pride is U2’s best song hands down. Come at me LL.
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2024, 03:01:18 AM »
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened in the early morning hours of April 4. 

40 years later, I am still stumped.
MLK had breakfast


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but a shot rang out... did he fart?
If he had chipped beef


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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2024, 10:36:24 AM »
Zero, what kind of delay/effects setup did you have at 15?

Because I’m guessing it wasn’t your harmonics game that failed you.
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« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2024, 10:52:44 AM »
Edge has concocted 2 riffs that are rock magic.  Pride and Mysterious Ways.  The latter being the better.   

Both have been beaten to death by FM radio.   I never tire of Pride.    I tried so hard to play it at 15 that I failed at guitar. 

Essentially is pure U2.  All 4 members just crushing it in their juvenile phase.  Maybe Adam not so much.  But Edge, Bono, and Larry deliver iconic moments.   

Larry’s roll into Bono’s at wail at 2:41 with Edge in the background can never be duplicated.  Even by them. 


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Did you have a delay pedal?

Edit: Didn't see laoghaire's post lol

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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2024, 11:58:04 AM »
Zero, what kind of delay/effects setup did you have at 15?

Because I’m guessing it wasn’t your harmonics game that failed you.
Not much of anything


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« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2024, 12:01:17 PM »
Zero, your love of Pride (and what it means personally for you) is a bit like me with Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

It is what it is, and the others who don’t like that can take a walk.  ;)
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« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2024, 12:07:50 PM »
Pride is a violation; bombastic, horribly conceited, factually incorrect, musically pedestrian, populist claptrap. It’s only redeeming quality is that chiming thing edge does with his guitar which he does on every bleedin’ u2 song.
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« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2024, 12:16:23 PM »
Pride is a violation; bombastic, horribly conceited, factually incorrect, musically pedestrian, populist claptrap. It’s only redeeming quality is that chiming thing edge does with his guitar which he does on every bleedin’ u2 song.


Pride is the song Duran Duran, Radiohead, and PG Harvey wish they could write.
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« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2024, 12:18:52 PM »
Pride is a violation; bombastic, horribly conceited, factually incorrect, musically pedestrian, populist claptrap. It’s only redeeming quality is that chiming thing edge does with his guitar which he does on every bleedin’ u2 song.


Pride is the song Duran Duran, Radiohead, and PG Harvey wish they could write.

I’d rather listen to PG Harvey, while an tha rogers me senseless, than sit through pride.
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Re: Pride is U2’s best song hands down. Come at me LL.
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2024, 12:22:22 PM »
Pride is a violation; bombastic, horribly conceited, factually incorrect, musically pedestrian, populist claptrap. It’s only redeeming quality is that chiming thing edge does with his guitar which he does on every bleedin’ u2 song.


Pride is the song Duran Duran, Radiohead, and PG Harvey wish they could write.

I’d rather listen to PG Harvey, while an tha rogers me senseless, than sit through pride.

Whatever that means, it doesn’t sound like fun… although still sounds like more fun then listening to PG Harvey
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2024, 12:36:37 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2024, 01:22:09 PM »
One of my moments of… Pride, as a teenager, is when we played the high school concert with my U2 tribute band.

We played 3 tunes : Bullet the Blue Sky, Silver & Gold and Pride.

There was this guitarist from another band. The guy was technically super good. He had a cool custom guitar too. Could play anything, it seemed. After our set (which was very average, even by our standards), he came to me to ask me how to play Pride’s riff.

That’s the genius of The Edge. His approach to the guitar was just different than the mainstream. It was so at odds with what those guys were playing that they couldn’t get the simplest things.

I think this is why U2 passed as frauds for many musicians : when the guys got to understand what U2 were actually doing they were actually disappointed / jealous. How could they make such a big sound out of such simple riffs ?

Because, in the culture, good is supposed to be difficult.

Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to come up with. Especially when you’re swimming against the tide.
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