U2 - Shadows And Tall Trees

[1Larry9Mullen1Jr2]

they were great Boys during this period

[JordieCaldwell]

same name as one of the chapters in lord of the flies :p lol

[MrAquilaReale7]

Wonderful

[JButler1983]

this song is bad ass, been listening to it over and over tonight.

[GuitarGod9895]

My teacher played played this song for us. She said it is based on the 6th chapter of the Lord of the Flies.

[BornWithAnAK]

@GuitarGod9895 my teacher said chapter 7

[shawnzubkov]

@BornWithAnAK is your teacher mrs. white

[BornWithAnAK]

@shawnzubkov no

[JordieCaldwell]

@GuitarGod9895 same here aha it has the same name as chapter 7.

[tahoevic]

A Bono song from his life in Ireland, Nice. Funny how some "real" songs don't get the music to make them a hit, Formula that has to be adheared to.At least U2 like the Beatles know make some stupid hits but always put some real Heart Felt B-Sides on their Albums. The White Alblum perfect example. Zoo Rope-a Perfect Example!

[SuperPatricia88]

this song its my life,,this is u2,,,the young boys not be like this...but this is u2 this songs makes my happy ever,,u2 boy ever,,,this is the band change the world of music u2 u2 u2 portugal

[freakigurl626]

MY TEACHER MADE ME LISTEN TO THIS OMG.

[nik5769051]

like if Lord of the Flies brought you here!

[Crazycupmuffin]

@nik5769051 haha no way

[luigifan607]

I thank my English teacher for introducing me to this :)

[ronaldvanderkleij]

Boys normally grows up .I always wanne be the Boy. Its in me over me and will never left me.

[evilofisalm]

Bono is a raving right wing loopy hypocrit avoiding paying his tax`s does he think he can take it all with him when he dies. He talks about eradicating poverty, helping the poor etc what an evil IRISH ARSE HOLE. wayne roony and many buisness men many pop stars should hold there heads in shame

[ronaldvanderkleij]

Where the good U2 brings me to endless roads.

[KoszaSzello]

When this song was written Bono was only 20 years old... Wow...

[ccccccccccccccccc477]

my fav song

[jc1984442]

mmm.... studying for LOTF

[SuperPatricia88]

im listening the album boy today...im fell so well....that band make my happy...u2 shadows and tall trees.....best band 4 ever u2....portugal love u2

[Kailuh727]

my teacher is the one that showed us this

[CandyCanesAreBeast62]

@Kailuh727 Lemme guess... Lord of the Flies? o3o

Sux to her ass-mar

[Kailuh727]

@CandyCanesAreBeast62 you bet, and then we had to write an essay about how the song lyrics related to the chapter Shadows and Tall Trees

[CandyCanesAreBeast62]

@Kailuh727 Mmmm.... zat sux... we just had an "in class convo" bout it. Eet be a gewd sawng, tho. U2=epicnesh

Ya know, they only played this song once live? They were also very young when they wrote it. I guess it's because at 17 or 18 you are making big decisons, as Ralph was doing in that chapter. The boy on the cover is probably also based on LOTF.

Man I'm a geek.

e3e

[cguitar100]

@Kailuh727 what tits?

[Kailuh727]

@cguitar100 what are you talking about?

[killerdudex9]

@Kailuh727 ya same do u go to cunningham?

[Kailuh727]

@killerdudex9 No

[ArvidFalk86]

what a great song. Bono's voice is poignant, Edge's landscape of guitars simply inspiring. 

[Korndude4561]

U2 has always been great. I like Achtung Baby the most. This is still great

[thelargge]

Boy is probably one of the best albuns I have ever listened in my whole life. The production is simply perfect, the sound is somehow pristine, the delays and ecos are perfect and it's one of the best rock/post punk things I have ever heard. It's one of those very rare records that stays with you and follows you through your whole life. This ain't music THIS IS ART.

[exxcalibur1973]

was hoping this had something to do with the novel Lord of the Flies and the swirling tensions that build in the similarly titled novel of the book -

[DTL3317]

Boy = Masterpiece :D

[aquamarine094]

@DTL3317 Absolutely. Boy + War = 2 X Masterpiece. When U2 really mattered...

[makeghandi]

back before U2 became shitty!

[prc7990]

sucha good fucking song holy shit

[hippopowernow]

Who is it now

Who calls me inside

Are the leaves on the trees

Just living disguise

[NICOPERRY72]

E' stupenda questa canzone!

[birdyyyful]

i love my cassettes. they have really stood the test of time and outlived many of my cd's

[HrtZColiDE]

I heard this song as soon as I'dfinished reading the book, its such a great song.

Thanks for posting.

[TheKearnsmike]

This song is about imaginary fear. I have it and it is good to remember that fear is just that- imaginary.

[oldhawkins]

That is not correct, not all fear is imaginary........

[zreidsnider]

well what do you mean by that? you've got me wondering now lol..

[extreme67]

U2 wrote "Miami"

[DanceParis]

I never read Lord of the Flies, so I don't come from that reference point listening to this album, or song. I just know that I would play this over and over, and it struck a chord deep within me, within my heart. Old school U2 is (as we use to say) the joint! No one makes music like this anymore. This is a tragedy in itself. Too damn bad!

[curtisrunstedler]

Check out Lord of the Flies, my friend, it's an excellent novel!!

[inugal321]

LOTF is a great but its one of the saddest books ive ever read too.....

[kiasmus]

Bono... I hate his megalomania, his hypocrisy -pretending to change the world while investing in hedge funds- and his mickey mouse messianism. Nevertheless, I love his voice. I can't help it, God Damnit! There's something deeply touching in it.

[elebelita]

@kiasmus de que hipocresia hablas acaso no crees que alguien tenga deseos reales de ver este mundo mejor ? se y deja ser sin juzgar las actitudes de los demas

[zreidsnider]

@elebelita dudo que kiasmus sabe hablar el espanol...

[elebelita]

jajajajaj no habia pensado en eso jajaja es que cuando tocan a bono me nublo jajajaja

[AwesomeCoasters]

plz jump

[GDG4ever]

love the song. hate the chapter.

[anxieanxie]

Martin Hannett did not produce anything on this album. In fact, there is a marked difference between the production on this album ( by Steve Lillywhite) and the Martin Hannett productions earlier in 1980 with U2

[emidore]

Whenever I hear this song I think, "Why does Bono have to get old?" I'm all for Madonna getting older, but Bono needs to be preserved.

[SuperKawaiiPandaGirl]

LOL, redundant comment, sorry...

[SuperKawaiiPandaGirl]

oh, this is a chapter name in Lord of the flies! Cool! ^^ U2 is so cool...

[GDG4ever]

yup ^.^ Im listening to it while i do my LOTF homework

[SuperKawaiiPandaGirl]

Ha, really? I had to read that over the Summer. I thought it was a pretty good book, actually...

[GDG4ever]

well its wasn't that bad a book, but it was a strange chapter lol

[valk09]

-2 lol

[shellcummings]

U die, He cheated on his wife. it's a known fact look it up

[shellcummings]

And Stop cursing have a normal sentence.

[shellcummings]

You wrote as far as you know he didn't I'm just saying I know further and he did.

[shellcummings]

So I guess what it means to a person like you is that although his musuc is righteous, his is not. and he has sexual weeknesses.lol

[shellcummings]

I'm sorry if that upset you but it's a fact he has cheated on his wife Ally Many Many Many times.

[shellcummings]

why are YOU cursing and acting crazy...Christy Turlington**** correction

[twochordcool]

Why do moronic imbeciles have too much time on their hands and spread false rumours?

[shellcummings]

There's something wrong with you.

[twochordcool]

There's something wrong with you pinhead - you feel the need to spread unveified rumours and then have a conversation with yourself at a youtube video. You have an EMPTY canvasse for your own youtube page.

Go die and leave me alone.

[shellcummings]

Well he is still married and he has had sex with Crist Turlington the model and Wynonna Ryder had been seen making out with him in a NYC restaurant by a friend of mine

[shellcummings]

why did bono cheat on his wife so many times

[twochordcool]

Far as I know he didn't. Why do morons fabricates shit and pull things out of their asses?

[shellcummings]

I made new comments you should read them...i feel bad for you.

[3960meridian]

complimenti :ombra ed alberi alti,per me una delle piu' belle e profonde in assoluto della band irish.

[hamjamnspamalot]

I was only listening to this album in my car yesterday....I STILL have the tape from 1980 (my sis got me into punk n post punk when I was a young 'un) and THIS was the album that started it all for me. Now I have it on CD, but will still occasionally pull out the tape. I must have worked out every single little beat, fill and accent Larry Mullen Jr had done on this album, October, War, and The Unforgettable Fire.

[U2rock55]

nice...before i acctually got the internet my first source for free music was the library,which at that stage had some really old u2 cassettes.

as a result,i could not imagine october,war,the unforgettable fire,rattle & hum and achtung baby on a good quality cd.

and i'm not gonna buy them on a good quality cd.i think cassette tapes still hhave the right to live.

[whatabigthing]

ha! you're still listening to cassettes? oh hell yeah. i don't even have a tape-player. i couldn't handle the rewinding/fast-forwarding - i was always close to suicide through those years, cds were the god-send for me. but i like it when people keep alive the old ways.

[650monza]

Kudos to you, sir! I understand what you mean. Those old cassette tapes are like valuable cultural artifacts.

[DawnenAut]

A couple of days ago I found a box full of my old cassette tapes - including Boy, Oct & Under a Blood Red Sky plus loads of other stuff. I have to admit that it was a little jarring, but fun as hell to pop open the tape deck again (currently sitting in there is Split Enz/True Colors). Boy was a pinnacle find in my youth......that's when dreams really mattered, I think. Thanks for posting!!.

[empiricist83]

I grew up listening to U2. I loved just about everything they did except for Boy, and now that I'm an adult and my tastes have become more sophisticated, I realise that, if anything, Boy is better than most of their albums, and it absolutely leaves atomic bomb in the dust, lyrically and instrumentally. U2 should listen to Boy, they might learn something.

[empiricist83]

I think the most striking thing about boy, is how different in structure and style it is, from any subsequent U2 album. All U2 albums feel very distinct from one another, and up until very recently, very distinct from anything else, but this is almost contemporary in style, as if they hadn't yet come upon their tendency to buck musical trend, and just tried to write really good songs. I almost think its a shame that they only did this once.

[darthragar]

U2 proved one thing that no other band can. They are a band that grows better as they age.

[emersonballa2]

they still make money and thats impressice, but this early stuff is much more interesting than their current work

[darthragar]

whatever you say. at least they never have sucked. i cant say the same for other bands.

[richardhecker]

Wow. This is my favorite U2 song ever

[subcin]

Yes, over the years Ive met plenty of U2 naysayers who say they dont like U2, until I play this album for them and they are stunned at the searing post-punk angry "edge" that it has. I personally still think its probably their alltime greatest album.

[loliH9]

@subcin i still don't like it.

[pnschupa]

sick! you posted the whole album. thanks, dude. can you believe this was their first? compare this to other albums from that year, and to other debut albums from other bands from any year, and it's just astounding how original, how precise and polished this record is. Hard to believe this was nearly 30 years ago now. U2 is simply a legendary band.

[U2rock55]

yeh thats why they were so successful,when it was first released.but the next album wasn't.but after that,war made then world famous,and so on and so forth

[MYNARUALGA]

OMG! I never knew U2 was this good. I just got through listening to the whole album thanks to you. WOW!!! I am shaken to the very core. Boy was i born in the wrong decade.

[rcameronswindsor]

@MYNARUALGA Really? what have you been listening to that makes you think you were born in the right decade?

[FlyingSQUIRRILLLS]

@MYNARUALGA

when i read your comment i thought i wrote it. i feel sorry and sad for all the people who have to live in the crappy now with its bad music. why do we deserve to live HERE!!! WHY NOT THEN!! :(

[newveteran]

When I heard this song I noticed alot of editing in it that made it sound awkward.

[newveteran]

nevermind...