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Post by Libra on Mar 4, 2005 9:45:33 GMT -5
Saw the video for a mystery U2 song a few minutes ago on VH1 Hits. The video looked sorta dated, but I missed the closing credits, which explains why I don't know what the song is.  The song had a catchiness to it, but the only line I can remember from the song is "men will rise..." I checked lyrics for a couple of their songs I've never heard, such as "Staring at the Sun" and "Desire", but both turned out to not be it. What is this song? EDIT: Changed the thread title since the question was answered and to open it up to more discussion. :) |
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Post by Hervard on Mar 4, 2005 9:52:48 GMT -5
The song is "The Fly".
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Post by SyrupBoy on Mar 4, 2005 22:40:42 GMT -5
a man will rise, and a man will fall from the sheer face of love, like a fly from a wall
it's no secret at all
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Post by friday on Mar 4, 2005 22:53:24 GMT -5
Huh, I didn't even know they had a video for "The Fly". And I only learned a while back that it was the true first single from Achtung Baby. Looks like it's time for me to pay a visit to Launch.
I have to say, though, that it is possibly the catchiest track from that brilliant album. I mean, you really can't go wrong with anything from there.
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Post by halo19 on Mar 5, 2005 13:07:15 GMT -5
The video is included on their Best of 1990-2000 DVD.
Anyways, I love this song, as I do the whole album.
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Post by reception on Mar 7, 2005 15:02:23 GMT -5
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 10, 2005 14:32:06 GMT -5
Also didn't know it was the first single until, well, until I saw it in Daniel Shywaoub's Pop chart compendium 3 years ago.
I knew it wasn't an album cut in the same way all the others were, but I never would've guessed it was thought of as a strong enough tune to be the lead single. I'd always thought the first one was "Mysterious Ways," since it was the only one getting any recurrent airplay when "One" was out. (The time I got into "pop" music.)
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Post by 620 Soul Train on Mar 10, 2005 15:54:08 GMT -5
Didn't it debut at number one in the UK? I think I remember seeing that, though I never heard it to this day.
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Post by SyrupBoy on Mar 15, 2005 0:26:05 GMT -5
I knew it wasn't an album cut in the same way all the others were, but I never would've guessed it was thought of as a strong enough tune to be the lead single. Maybe, maybe not, but that wasn't the motivation behind releasing it first. The Fly was U2's statement single. They picked the song on the album that sounded the least like anything they had done before and said "here's the new U2, do you recognize us?" And yes, this went to #1 in the UK. |
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Post by Krypton46 on Feb 5, 2006 0:29:10 GMT -5
I love it. Very cool song and the guitar work is really awesome in this! And of course the lyrics are spectacular just like the lyrics in the majority of their songs from the 80s and early 90s.
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Post by cartman2002 on Mar 13, 2007 20:38:01 GMT -5
The Fly reached #61 on the Hot 100 in 1991
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Post by joker on Mar 14, 2007 15:23:31 GMT -5
Great song, like most everything on Achtung Baby.
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Post by tico on Mar 16, 2007 9:53:59 GMT -5
I never listened to this from beginning to end. Since it didn't do so well on the charts, it got overshadowed after "Mysterious Ways" and "One" hit big.
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Post by Juanca on Jan 24, 2013 23:59:17 GMT -5
Last month, in my usual year-end visit to Peru, I picked up the copy of Achtung Baby and uploaded it to my laptop. It had been a long time since I heard many of the songs in the album. I put the music on my iPhone and finally this morning the random selection in my iPhone chose "The Fly". GREAT song! A departure of their style, but the underlying percussion reminded me of their "Night & Day" cover from 1990. "The Fly" was U2's second UK #1 (after "Desire"  ) and had the "honor" of stopping the 16-week run of Bryan Adam's "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" Achtung Baby was a GREAT album. So many good songs!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2013 0:02:45 GMT -5
I miss new U2 material. :( This song is great, and the whole album is flawless.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2013 10:21:35 GMT -5
Good song.
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Post by ChicaCherry콜라 on Mar 26, 2013 0:29:14 GMT -5
This song is absolutely brilliant  The lyrics to it have to be some of my absolute favorite. U2  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 20:38:57 GMT -5
I like it.
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Post by Unhinged on Aug 17, 2017 13:24:55 GMT -5
Great song!
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) and had the "honor" of stopping the 16-week run of Bryan Adam's "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)"
