Cry / The Electric Co. - U2

[hellyfornication]

man, i want a midlife crisis like that

[jm1774]

The transition on 5:00 absolutely awesome

[MRCHEALTH]

DOPE!!!!!!!!

[AntiRellik]

Edge went back to Red Rocks at 3:01 !!

[rubenalonsol]

"despite of my rage I'm still desperate in my cage!!!!"

Fuck off Bono, I prefer to stay with the smashing pumpkins World is a vampire, it´s way better song, nothing personal, it's just grunge and you don't belong to it.

[xem727]

@rubenalonsol WHY THE HELL YOU EVEN HERE? GO WATCH S.P. VIDEOS DIPSHIT!!! ..IF ANY THING YOU SHOULD BE GLAD THEY ARE PAYING HOMAGE! TO THAT FORGOTTEN BAND(EXCEPT LOYALISTS OF COURSE) DOUCHE BAG!

[hellyfornication]

@rubenalonsol haven't the smashing pumkins done a cover of a whole u2song once? i mean, about that i could say, fuck you pumpkins, youre grunge and you don't belong to u2songs

[HyperU2]

@rubenalonsol

It's "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". Moron. Speaking of Stay, Smashing Pumpkins covered Stay (Faraway, So Close).

[Tterfwrx]

@rubenalonsol Bono does that with tons of songs, throwing little snippits from famous songs in. Like Bob Marley, the Doors, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. It's how he pays respect to these groups. As a Smashing Pumpkins fan, I think it's awesome he's putting Smashing Pumpkins up on that pedestal alongside the Doors and Beatles.

[achtungjones]

love this! awsome. Lisbon 2005 and Coimbra (postugal) , 2010 (portugal) =)))

[runawayushould]

Fantastic....

[guysan]

nothing for me beat them at Red Rock!!

[Dingojack1]

at 3:35 of this video Adam Clayton is thinking to himself.....Look at me, I self taught myself the bass, married a super model, teamed up with these cool guys, made millions of bucks and look where I am right now. life sure is good. I think thats why he has that look on his face. God bless this group !

[bozoned]

this song is all edge, but i love bonos singing too great song!

[Romchikthelemon]

Energy

[mathbrmath]

this is like a heavier where the streets have no name

[ImABasketCase1994]

happy birthday adam! (March 13, 2011)

[u2slovakia]

@ImABasketCase1994 DAMN I forgot !

[natmanprime]

adam provides the inspiration, i.e. fashions, odd bass lick, drugs--1st circuit

larry builds on it, i.e. focused, hard work, rationalizing--2nd circuit

edge turns it to magic, i.e. spiritual, inspired, rationalist--3rd circuit

bono holds it all together, keeps adam happy, i.e. expert preaching, fiery, paternal, protective--4th circuit

so adam provides more inspiration

larry builds, etc.

may the circle be unbroken...

4 circuits courtesy of timothy leary look him up : D

[Buzlex]

Unico



[bootlegapples]

@TheNo97

:)

Yeah U2 has a special vibe and closeness that is extremely rare if i don't say unique.

[BigVail]

Wow! Awesome. I can't say much more than that!

[walrus12831]

this song does not get justice, its so good but nobody knows about it!

[iluvroknrole]

oh the boys still have it..go edge, adam. larry, bono..keep on rockin..

[NewBrain01]

VIVA U2 , FANCULO IL RESTO

[buggerteetar]

im a fan of old u2---------this is their best song ever

[TheMariofroes]

best band! best music... congratulations

[Chicagoclee]

I was fucken there at the Aragon in Chicago like Bono said. It was 23 years ago, 1982, with Dream Syndicate. U2 was fucking Awesome!!!!

[anarchristov]

play those bells, Edge !!!

[Niels15031991]

Edges voice is really fantastic, also very good live performance, but, red rocks is the better one i think.

[MrVanhuizen]

Simply the best!!

[Uzezarin2]

Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage!!! The smashing pumpkins!!

[Suletzi]

Who are the 5 idiots who dislike this?... This is awesome!

[witchaster]

@Suletzi its actually 6 idiots now, and i bet all of them is deaf. THIS IS AWESUME XD

[stromssa]

This song is one big adrenline rush! I was too young in the early '80s to remember this and other early songs by u2; I was 10 when Joshua Tree came out. Still, I like this early stuff; it' so hard-charging and, well, it just rocks!

[cmw37]

This is my favorite U2 song! Let me know about the BOSS Effects that mack it happen!

[schlabresfan]

I was waiting for Bono to climb up to the rafters like in 83

[Coexist2012]

I forgive the 5 people who didn't like this video

[lauvicto]

@Coexist2012 those "people" should be hanged

[rushdude67]

my favorite song from U2

[seanmufc77]

The Edge the BEST guitar player ever U2 the BEST band ever to grace the earth without doubt

[jacobekelundarbast]

very nice! edge is the best ofc

[gohawks13]

I love Larry's look when Bono smacks the cymbal with the mic.... haha

[tobalable]

anyone else see bono put his ear up against edge's amplifier at the end of the song? holy shit that must've been loud!

[Year52x]

@tobalable

maybe that amp was turned off... I know that the edge has 2 or 3 amps per concert... like backup.... at one of the 360º tour concerts, he smashed up one of those amps.

[ajitsurya]

Awsome, pure!

[xem727]

POWERFUL! Something about adams playing that I can't put my finger on that sounds hypnotizing starting right about 3:45 Any bass players out there have have an opinion???..........U2 4 ever!

[morty007]

Xem, yes it is hypnotizing! I always thought that since I heard this. It's on my ipod. Glad you thought the same!

[mrsamrocks2]

what do you want to know?? how to produce the sound or the notes??

[paulus050267]

this is the real u2 (October, boy the joshua)

[RichardJBroderick]

Every so often the real u2 comes to the surface

[RichardJBroderick]

It all went downhill after.

[Ilovegreendart21]

I love it that at 3:55 Larry Mullen is like wtf

[seantk11]

i was thier man i was littel

[TheIamawesome2]

the edge is awesome

[Standupthisiscomedy]

I was there! :D

awesome song/band.

<3 U2.

[bozoned]

this song should be prescribed for depression. adrenaline is all i can think of

[idigcars]

The Edge can do no wrong...such good stuff

[spentonmediocrity]

Yes,there are two types of guitar players.

There is Edge and then there is everybody else.

[ars0067]

@spentonmediocrity Greatest comment ever.

[spentonmediocrity]

@ars0067

:)

[breachmania]

@spentonmediocrity best comment man best comment!

[coolkid2446]

@spentonmediocrity and then theres me

[spentonmediocrity]

@coolkid2446

Yes,of course!

For guitar players there are *two* schools.. Edge ...and coolkid2446 everybody :)

[prezydent2025]

@spentonmediocrity exactly 

[Jaepie79]

This is one of my favorite songs. The Edge rocks! The way he plays the guitar is really fantastic.

[Skillz1615]

i was looking for this song for weeks...oh yeah!!

[staggaz32]

Sooo good.

[logibear22]

this is an absolutely rocking live tune

[marcmar10]

They were awesome during this tour. Hate to say they are no longer the same. Saw them at the Rose Bowl and it had none of the energy that they've had in the past. Bono has become too political that it now has become part of the show. Won't pay so much money ever again to hear a sernon.

[ayar7sor]

The Edge es un genio...

[sorene0202]

Awesome performance, remember it in Milan 2005, all the stadium dancing.

[sorene0202]

Great song, greatly live performed at Vertigo tour.

[ryanchitwn]

I was at that Aragon show he mentions, December 11, 1984. Most over-crowded, hottest show EVER! I remember being crushed at the beginning and being off my feet for 5 minutes pressed against bodies.

had to carry a girl over to the side after she passed out from heat or lack of air. They had gallons of water for people on the side. Craziness. I can barely remember songs they played, I was in survival mode.

[tothjozsef81]

because it is the start of "is that all" !

Great song, possibly the best for me, but I like Boy-girl too, and all they early songs, they rock my soul.

[VOLKSN8R]

The start of this song sounds like 'IS THAT ALL' from the 'OCTOBER' album.

[kaled666090394]

Yeahh!!!! one of the bests songs

[extreme67]

U2 wrote "Miami"

[kuku982]

I wish they could sing this song in their next tour!! love it!

[rushdude67]

there is a live version where he sings Send in the clowns, I sure wish I had that.

[DangarStu]

Excuse the possible double posting, browser just hung... I think the version you are talking about is from Red Rocks but I'm not 100% sure.

[chrfals]

This rocks !!!!!!!

[ChloeSchrader]

"You can't shut me up.  You can't shut me up." And we don't want to Bono.

[criscucapapa]

collons!!! com mola!! aixo es unic!!

[delaplata2]

4:24...chills...if they play this in NYC 360 tour the place will come down!

[carlobernar]

U 2: just four guys and lots and lots of talent!!!!

[Robesda75]

0:00 - 1:07 ... could listen to that guitar riff as long as he wanted to play it.

[MrMmore]

The Edge really did it on this song.. Awesome..

[santiheladero]

esta mas que claro que u2 es the edge, no?

[akazihtli]

no mames no nada mas hace todo ese wey la neta bono le pone mucha idea a las cosas

[thejack9537]

para nada amigo... u2 son los 4, cada uno un maestro en lo suyo ;)

[mynteva]

The Edge's voice here is Fantastic!

[elivanhees]

Yeah really magnificent :D

[beelzebozo69]

I was at the Aragon Ballroom show on December 11, 1984. Wow, I can't believe that was 25 years ago! I lost interest after The Joshua Tree came out. Somewhere, I still have close to 100 live tapes from 1979 (Cork Opera House, Dublin Dandelion Car Park) - 1985 or so. I saw them on both legs of the North American Unforgettable Fire tour and once on the Joshua Tree tour (Aragon Ballroom 1984, UIC Pavillion 1985, and Rosemont Horizon 1987, respectively).

[cycomao]

Hey great!... There was something special in that gig for this song?, Why the Bono's reference to that gig? or is only local cortesy?... tnx & Greetings!

[Chicagoclee]

Did he say the Aragon over 20 years ago??!! That's fucking awesome!! That's the first time I saw them was at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago in 1981!!!! Fucking AWESOME!!!

[beelzebozo69]

Are you sure that wasn't the Park West in 1981?

[mynteva]

thanks for the upload

;-)

[aroncris77]

ver tocar esta cancion a u2 en esta epoca es como vover a una epoca maravillosa de su etapa mas juvenil y fuerte y con mas garra,increible

[ArtVandalay666]

The poop they are putting out now does not even come close to comparing to songs like this.

[Chicagoclee]

I totally agree

[Dingojack1]

The best U2 song by far in my opinion. This version is better than the other ones on youtube. This whole DVD is phenomenal. The Edge is the man in this song.

[AgustinU214]

In This Song And In ALL The Songs. Edge Is THE MAN.

[WhoDoYouWant]

This is the band the pop radio listening public THINK they know, but don't. Like this song, U2 emerged from of the bowls of ragged (and real!!!!- Greenday take note) punk. They know all about mixing energy, fire, aggression and passion, and they don't need any lessons from young 21st century pretenders.

[htdatb]

i was thereee :D

[u2urn]

The Edge is so great, but the whole dvd is the greatest in my collection!!

[Year52x]

It was my second U2's DVD after U2 Go Home, so both are great but this is more rocker than the Slane one... I think so.

[dermott06]

this dvd is nowhere near as good as slane in my opinion.

[Year52x]

I'm not talking about the quality of the DVD... both are great in my opinion... I Just say this concert is more rocker than the Slane one... U2 Go Home is more like "all age" U2...

[douchechilled]

I first saw U2 at Meadowlands Arena in 1987, then saw them again and again and again.... but this tour was the first one I missed b/c they never played the old stuff.... so now we'll go see them again on the NLOTH tour, and I hope they play some of this old stuff, cause it's the most amazing music we ever heard....

[PLT875]

when i first watched this it was my first hearing of this song i never knew it existed

instantly ceome one of my favourties partly because of edge's solo

[tinus7]

Almost best song ever!!!

[dragmio]

Adam's string harmonics are absolutely perfect here. And the other guys are just as good. Brilliant!

[PFGL90]

Edge sounds very powerful here

[GladiusP]

More than ever in this song.

[Zujfsn]

this sounds alot like their 87 version from Paris

[guitarherorandyrhoad]

i heard the 87 version on the radio and thought it was the chicago version haha

[Cacildo234]

Eu n diria q sao umas das melhores do mundo diria q sao a maior banda de rock and roll da historia ..

[eoghanhp]

these boys have played the soundtrack to my life. love these tracks. thanks for putting them up. met bono once. sound man

[Esberard]

U2 sem dúvida, uma das melhores bandas do mundo que será bem recordado como músicos e o vocalista principal que é o Bono como o homem da paz e contra a pobreza.

[johnnypeacock69]

2:49....are you kidding me? unbelievable. cannot wait to see them again.

[TBullhouse]

U2 is the only band i knew with songs that never get bored. I can listen it for over 20 times a day, without getting bored of it, don't know how they do that.

They preformed this track absolutely great by the way, how can you make such a song, still unbelievable to me.

[hustedge]

Yeah!!!!!!!!! U2 unleashes power and then breaks the sound barrier. Rockin Rage at it finest.

[hannahsuckscrap21]

best song ever it sounds even better when they dont fix the voices agree

[U2005]

Best rock song ever is A SORT OF HOMECOMING - U2

[susiflatz]

3:57 LOL

[runawayushould]

Best version of this song!!!

[logibear22]

awesome drumming all the way through....

[roydebooij]

the sound he makes with his gitar is amazing

[davpm07]

Best song of the Boy album. This Live version is out of this world, still shows these Irish lads still have it in them to kick ass and still rock on after 30 years. Not many bands have succeeded that.

[HarmonicsExplorer]

Some of the live renditions from the first few tours in 1981-83 we're the best of this song, in el opinion mio. The October Deluxe rendition is about as good as it ever got, though on that album they deleted part of the bridge; anyways, blows this rendition(plus no explosive 'guitar burst' out of the bridge, lame/weak). The Boy album version was rather pallid in comparison to the best live renditions. Check out my ECo cover on my channel, it's in the right direction. Trash it if you like tho.

[lazarush1980]

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE...IM STILL LIKE A RAT IN A CAGE!!

great lyric

[quinkell]

Bullet With Butterfly Wings -- Smashing Pumpkins

[dermott06]

Best performance from that whole DVD, the last minute or so gives me chills.

[SilverDragon1994]

Could you write more new good artists?

[SilverDragon1994]

And there is one legend of metal - Metallica

[SilverDragon1994]

Legends of rock: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elvis Presley, U2 (also can be Green Day);

"New" Good Artist: Nickelback, Coldplay.

[shel8777]

Pearl Jam Gives credit to U2, they always have, Green Day has as well. Its S H I T bands nowadays, that have lost thier touch. A bunch of fucking sissy ass, slack jaw faggots-with the play by numbers music need to fuck off forever. 110 Million records sold: 30 Year history: Second only to The stones, Over 1 BILLION dollars made millions more to charity. U FUCKING 2 MOTHERFUCKERS!!! Got it? U2!!!!

[lovez2rock818]

i love this song and i think it's really catchy and i have like 5 cd's of u2 rock out loud and keep livin' ur dreamz ppl yeah!

[lovez2rock818]

ha ha! can't shut me up can't shut me uuup lolz! funny stuff yeah i like it!

[Legman124]

Watching them play this nearly 30 years later, they still have all the energy and firepower that they did back then. Not many bands can keep up for as long as they've did. March 2nd, a new era of u2 begins

[WhoDoYouWant]

I laugh when young blood followers of more recent 'great' bands(Greenday, Pearl Jam to name two) always try to suggest Bono is too old, hasn't got a voice, the Edge can't play etc. I laugh. They've obviously never heard anything except some radio Elevation or Beautiful Day. I point them to this, to Out of Control at Slane, to Until the End of the World... anywhere. Radio U2 is U2 lite so that the children aren't scared

[macphisto9999]

great comment. U2's lesser known catalog is better then anyone's.....and you're so right about end of the world. That song live is incredible every time they play it....especially at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

[staaloraman]

Adam quietly but those rockt now themselves assist normally nice! deliciously very the link this way in action, them remains the best link ever, in my opinion! Groetjes from the Netherlands

[RogerFirmin]

kerel, ik zou het zelf proberen te vertalen, in plaats van het door een vertaalmachine te halen

[bonoffee83]

This version of this song always reminds me of just how much noise three musicians can make. Electric Co here is absolutely rocking and yet all you have is a drummer, a bassist and a guitarist. Yeah, I know Edge uses lots of effects, blah blah, but it's still just those three, supporting Bono with that massive wall of sound.

[farid918]

son geniales

[bliwers]

bono is the most improvised artist ever

[koots1974]

Im always amazed at how Bono adds lyrics to songs and sounds so flawless! Like the Smashing Pumpkins shout out in this song!! That guy is unbelieveable!!

[Legman124]

With their new album due within months, and it being their best, i think now that only u2 is able to surpass themselves now

[harrygolightly]

well said

[davidmcgold]

what a great comment!

[milller666]

raw..f'ng..power

[modeo92]

I got into the Ellipse in Miami II and there were so many highlights throughout the night. But Edge doing the Electric Co solo, where I could literally reach out and touch him (who needs U23D for that) was just a surreal moment. It was almost like being in another dimension. You could say it's like U2 playing in your living room, but only if your house can hold 20,000 people.

[VCSAMC]

U2 é uma banda incrível. A maneira como conseguem colocar seus pensamentos nas letras e cativar o público fazem deles grandes líderes. Uma maneira de interagir perante milhares de pessoas que poucas bandas têm. Muito legal mesmo.

[celticfc09]

This is by far my absolute favorite version of any U2 song EVER! And you've got to love the Smashing Pumpkins shout-out

[carolaisvidios]

edge sos un dios

[rattleandhumgirl]

Edge's solo is amazing in electric co. I could watch that part over and over again. nd not get bored of it

[davidmcgold]

ive been doing the same!

[rattleandhumgirl]

yea its so, epic

[davpm07]

After all these years it's still played just like the original on the Boy album. Shows that The Edge is up there with all the great guitarists, Rory Gallagher and Hendrix.

[ToolsnFire]

This is different than the boy version

[davpm07]

The live version would be different but the guitar sounds are similar. This version is the best.

[ToolsnFire]

Check out the live version on the October deluxe album, that's been my favorite since I first heard the bootleg in 1992, and for all these years since, on my recorded tape and cd bootlegs. That recording is from 3-6-1981, Boston. You can listen to online, just type 'U2 October deluxe imeem'. note: the bridge got chopped out though for legal reasons.

[davpm07]

Cheers

[sorvetevirtual]

I respect your opinion. But I don´t think so. Here, they show they can play like old times with the same energy and emotion.

[sorvetevirtual]

I respect your opinion. But I don´t think so. Here, they show they can play like old times with the same energy and emotion.

[ToolsnFire]

Post October tour though, I prefer the Boy era; plus B used different words during the Cry and bridge, more urgent and 'real' in the early performances. This performance 'reminisces'. Edge's guitar is less 'urgent/powerful' in this performance too.

[042rogo]

Lmao! Bono hits the cymbal and Larry's like 'WTF?'

[milller666]

smooth though....who alive plays like larry

[marcmar102]

Does anyone know where u can get this song version?? Kicks ass!!

[dermott06]

edge owns this song

[hustedge]

Pure ENERGY pure Energy. U2 the cure for the Energy shortage. What power out of the greatest band of the Century. Kick Ass Power. New album coming out in November. Bring it on and on and on and on.