Name one U2 song that isn't a barely-concelead surreptitious metaphor for God.

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And I don't mean picking one that's really obviously about God. Can't be done, can it? Good grief Bono gets on my nerves.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

'discotheque'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

that and "Lemon" are the tough ones, yeah

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

No, I checked Discotheque earlier. Google the lyrics. The lmiddle 8 and last verse go off on one. The disco is a distraction and we wont be happy till we pass it by and embrace God's love. Trust me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Angel of Harlem

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Sunday Bloody Sunday, that one is about aran sweaters and Guinness.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

"The Fly"

oh, alright.

How about :

"New Years Day"

dang.

Umm, "When Love comes to town"?

RIGHT IVE DECIDED.

"She moves in mysterious ways"

I thangyew.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

"With Or Without You" is actually about Lucifer rejecting God. It's the most honest thing Bono wrote, and that's why its their best.

― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Bono's decision to let his horns show is also why Zooropa is their best full-length.

― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Pride
MLK

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

"Spanish Eyes".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

"With Or Without You" is actually about Lucifer rejecting God. It's the most honest thing Bono wrote, and that's why its their best.

This is why we all hate U2.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

"Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)"? Oh wait.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

"Wild Honey", which has lyrics that embrace Darwinism!

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

"Mofo" perhaps.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

"mother am i still your son" seems a little jesusy to me

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

4th of july

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"Mothers of the Disappeared"--the pain of Central American parents who've had the political dissident children "disappeared"
"Indian Summer Sky"--a dirge for the passing of summer
"The Refugee"--a wannabe Central American immigrant
"Seconds"--nuclear war anxiety
"Running to Stand Still"--heroin addiction
"Blue Room"--dada Eno nonsense

I could go on. There are tons.

― audio despot, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for their cover of Bach's Coffee Cantata, with new lyrics showing how the act of drinking coffee is equivalent to communion with the crucified bean.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, isn't about time to retire ILM's gigantic Boner For Bono?

― Dan (Pick More Interesting Targets, Plz) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

God Part 2

― A.C.M.E. (A.C.M.E.), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah yeah yeah that's what they're overtly ABOUT but they're still barely-concelead surreptitious metaphors for God.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me = Jesus' Sermon from the Mount, no?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me = Jesus' Sermon from the Mount, no?
-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...), November 22nd, 2005.

Or Jesus to Judas on the steps of Gothsemane city hall.

― dumdum, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

i was gonna say "New york" but then

In the stillness of the evening
When the sun has had its day
I heard your voice a-whispering
Come away now

fuck.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

OK, now we've established that every U2 song ever is a barely-concelead surreptitious metaphor for God, what does this MEAN? Is Bono the fucking antichrist? Is he Dubya with a guitar and slightly more brane? Is he a nasty piece of Catholic-ideology-spreading scum? Is this covert-Catholic-crusade benign or dangerous?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Boner... expanding...

― Dan (HERE COMES THE GUSH) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Dan he's the biggest man in the world and he's made of gold, we owe it to the Pope to destroy him.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

1,2,3... 14!

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Is Bono the fucking antichrist?

I used to feel bad about claiming this, but then I found out that his parents actually called him that when he was a kid. If there is an antichrist alive on this planet today, it's him.

SEE THE OMEGA CODE.

― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

In the stillness of the evening
When the sun has had its day
I heard your voice a-whispering
Come away now

See? "When the SON has had it's day, I hear YOUR voice..."

The call of Lucifer!

― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

informal group to discuss the spiritual insights of U2's music
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/grp/112250658.html

― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Is he a nasty piece of Catholic-ideology-spreading scum? Is this covert-Catholic-crusade benign or dangerous?

Highly unlikely as he isn't and has never been a Catholic

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

... so don't blame Catholicism for Bono!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I was under the impression Bono and the other two were catholic and Edge was a Protestent?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Larry Mullen (who?) is the left footer, the rest are all Proddies

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, any fool knows that "Sunday Bloody Sunday" isn't about God at alll:

"It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday. You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday"!"

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

All of Zooropa, with the glaring exception of 'The Wanderer'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

please re-read the lyrics to "The First Time"

― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I THREW A BRICK

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I THREW A BRICK

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― Dan (Just The One?) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Dan this thread is revenge for everyone not talking about Will Young, just so you know.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

"Sunday Bloody Sunday, that one is about aran sweaters and Guinness."

Well, there's that "the battle's just begun, to claim the vict'ry Jesus won on... Sunday Bloody Sunday..." part...

Ah well...

― Paige, Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

"Mofo" perhaps.

Is this a joke? That's one of the most overtly Christian songs in a catalog full of lyrics about God!

looking for to save my, save my soul
looking in the places where no flowers grow
looking for to fill that GOD SHAPED HOLE

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 26 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

A good friend of mine is an evangelical Christian and U2 obsessive, and he was actually trying to make a list of the U2 songs that do not have any reference to God or something from the Bible, and the list was pretty small, especially when you take into account that a lot of Bono's political songs are motivated by his spirituality.

But as it goes, the albums that have the most obvious Christian themes are Pop, October, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, The Joshua Tree, and Achtung Baby.

It cracks me up that anyone would look at Pop and think that it's not religious unless they just totally tuned out the vocals from start to finish.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 26 November 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

The disco is a distraction and we wont be happy till we pass it by and embrace God's love.

This is also a theme from "Vertigo"!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 26 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

unless they just totally tuned out the vocals from start to finish

All of a sudden U2's music improved!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 November 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

just hit that "kareoke" button on your stereo :)

― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 26 November 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

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