Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Chris Columbus, Ponce De Leon, Leonard Peltier---all outlawz for their causes. . . . but . .. . what did they fight for??. . . that is THE Question. U will have to ask. I agree 2 disagree
I like that they changed the nature of tho the lyrics, but the original way could've still be kept...sounds a bit cooler? I don't know - I like both versions, not necessarily the lyrics of this one and who it was about b/c he was you know...guilty! Lol!
It's apparently about the Indian bloke who shot some FBI agents. They (U2) changed the lyrics when they realised he really was a criminal dickhead and slowly distanced themselves from the controversy.
@viperdude281 It was a song about liberating leonard peltier, a native american convicted of murdering two fbi agents. Realizing Leonard Peltier DID actually kill these two agents, U2 rewrote the song, called it Vertigo, and won a Grammy.
the jews suffered the Holocaust about 8 million jews...theres lots of books you can read that about. but white america makes adolf hitler look like a angel because america had their Holocaust here they killed and Slaughtered over 30 million native americans indians not all at one time but thats how many were killed and you wont fined that in know histroy books, white america dont wont that truth out...now that is (TRUE FACTS)
"" Lillywhite asked him if he would be able to sing the "Native Son" lyrics in front of an audience, and Bono found the experience too uncomfortable."" What a faggot.
@snehring Isn't there this crazy thing in America - "Innocent until proven guilty"? Where's the evidence Columbo? Do you know anything about this case? Probably not.
Besides U2 are making a bigger point with this song: that the Native Americans were/are constantly fucked over. They - no doubt coming from the feelings most Irish have about centuries under British rule - are making a statement about how the First Americans are oppressed in their homeland.
@Lukege15 I'm Native American and I find this song embarrassing. Yeah, sure, put a spotlight on how oppressed and "fucked over" my people are...by glorifying a murderer who just HAPPENS to be of my race. That's like writing a song decrying anti-German prejudices by glorifying the Nazis who went to trial "unfairly" by the victorious Allies.
& clearly U2 changed the song because they did do the research. Eventually.
@RavnDream I - and the defendants, Amnesty International, the Dalia Lama, Nelson Mandela (who support Peltier) - have yet to see proof that he is a murderer.
"That's like writing a song decrying anti-German prejudices by glorifying the Nazis who went to trial "unfairly" by the victorious Allies."
No it's not. Where was your mind when you wrote that? A disbanded dictatorship which committed genocide is no comparison to a murder convict (innocent or not). What an utterly insane, inept argument.
"What these people ignore is that Peltier ran from the agents that day at Pine Ridge because he thought the agents were there to arrest him for a previous warrant for his arrest in Wisconsin. The charge? Attempted murder of an off-duty police officer. Then, in 1979, he led a violent prison break attempt that resulted in the death of a fellow inmate."
(3) I only put the Nazi comparison to point out how retarded you are. Look, if you really give a damn about my people, go support other causes and other people. NOT someone who for all intents and purposes is an Axe Crazy individual and is currently taking advantage of white guilt. He had celebrities like U2 and Rage Against The Machine fooled, sir. And he's fooled you, too. Besides, if I used any other comparison, you'd pro'lly not even catch the reference. But everyone knows the Nazis.
(cont'd from 3) And only Holocaust denialists would actually defend the Nazis and Hitler so the comparison is plain and SIMPLE. For simple-minded self-hating fucktards like yourself to pick up without having to scratch your monkey cranium for longer than 30 seconds. Although, judging from your reaction, you're much more dense than most. I'd call you a troll but that'd be an insult to trolls. Seriously.
(4) Oh, y'know what's "utterly insane" and "inept"? You, hiding behind big names like the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela just to back your own argument up. Why? Stand up for yourself, sir. Don't attach your no-name with famous people who don't even know you exist. It's disgusting enough that you apparently support Peltier JUST BECAUSE he's an Indian. That's prejudice of its own kind; you Pre-JUDGE on the basis that he's from a certain race and/or culture. That is irrelevant.
@Lukege15 "You're an idiot." Wow, it only took you a whole month to say it, you troll. =P
Oh, and it's "YOU'RE", not "YOUR". Learn to spell! I'd accept that was a typo, but you did it twice. It's quite sad. Apart from your immature, and oftentimes ad hominem choice of words, of course.
@RavnDream ""You're an idiot." Wow, it only took you a whole month to say it, you troll. =P
Oh, and it's "YOU'RE", not "YOUR". Learn to spell!"
Are you serious? Look again at what you just quoted. No typo...
"But hey, took you a whole goddamn month to fart it out."
I'm terribly sorry that I have a life outside of YouTube.
And I'm a troll also? Looks like you just conceded defeat. If I made you that upset by replying, you obviously realize that you are wrong. YOU'RE an idiot. /Facepalm.
@Lukege15 "your a Native American", & "your the voice..." It's YOU'RE. With the "R" and the "E".
Frankly, I totally forgot about you till today. All you had to do was just toss another ad hominem my direction like you do everyone else who disagrees with you. Take a gander at your own channel comments. Can't deny it. Doesn't require 30 days to put those three simple words together.
You fail twice. I'd facepalm but you're not worth it. ;)
@Lukege15 But what REALLY amuses me is that, as I've said, I forgot about you till today. You spent an entire month just to insult me yet again. Clearly you hadn't forgotten me. Dude, get a life, man. Or better yet, get a girlfriend.
@RavnDream With all this talk of per-judging (by the way, how does the fact I am both supporting an 'Indian' and disagreeing with another at one time work in your fucked-up little world?), you're doing it yourself - to me.
Though, honestly, I am wasting my time. Is this seriously how you see the world? What a sad individual you are.
@Lukege15 'Coz not all Indians are axe-crazy. That's a stereotype. And by your outright dislike of my point of view, clearly you prefer Indians to all fit that stereotype. That makes you an ignorant. That makes you, in a rather humorous twist of irony, a racist. How's that? =)
I wouldn't exactly call myself the sad individual round here, if you're the one who's going around the comments like you're the only one with an opinion.
But hey, took you a whole goddamn month to fart it out.
@RavnDream I'm sorry, I just have to say once more how fucking taken back I was by that Nazi comment. I'm guessing you are a WWII obsessive, but still. You may have just have said the most stupid thing I've seen on YouTube ever - and that's definitely saying something.
"Peltier was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. That day, the two agents followed a car they thought belonged to a man wanted for robbery and assault. What they found instead was Peltier and two other members of the American Indian Movement who, after fleeing the agents, initiated a shootout that left them both dead."
The story behind this song is that U2 was having trouble compiling the song we now know as Vertigo, so Bono took a break. Upon returning, he was asked by Steve Lillywhite if he felt like he could perform the song live, and Bono found doing so uncomfortable, so they rearranged the song and rewrote the lyrics and produced Vertigo.
" On The Run..Officer put down the gun..I never wanted to own one..Both of us want to be someone..its so hard for a native son to be free...free...free"
Pow! Great Song.
Shouldn't surprise anyone though U2 has been calling out the truth since the early 80's.
@TheBluntNinja damn the rabbit hole goes even deeper..thanks I had no idea..still a great song...and the lyric lines I posted still has resonance with other issues..I appreciate the edit though. cheers.
the jews suffered the Holocaust about 8 million jews...theres lots of books you can read that about. but white america makes adolf hitler look like a angel because america had their Holocaust here they killed and Slaughtered over 30 million native americans indians not all at one time but thats how many were killed and you wont fined that in know histroy books, white america dont wont that truth out...now that is (TRUE FACTS)
you need to do your research again, (madskillz) he was Wrongfully Accused and wrongfully Convicted of murders he never did and he never was in no prison violent break. this is all the white man lies, the white government lies,
they should have made a few more guitar changes and released this as a seperate song. its real good i no bono didn't like performing it but it is a great song
I think cracked got the story right here, U2 probably realised the truth behind Leonard Peltier that he was in fact a murderer, and not an oppressed, framed cherokee indian.
Shut the hell up, he wasnt a murderer. Even the FBI stated that they dont know who shot the Agents, plus the bullets they found in the agents, werent the bullets from Peltier's gun.
@tvdownloads If you're going to say something so incredibly baseless, at least get the point of your statement correct. Leonard Peltier was not a Cherokee, and your mistake points to the ignorance of most people on the finer details of his plight.
@tvdownloads You're right, Peltier wasn't an oppressed, framed cherokee indian. He IS an oppressed, framed, LAKOTA / CHIPPEWA NATIVE AMERICAN.
all supposed "eyewitnesses" retracted their statements and stated they were coerced by the FBI to lie, the ballistics didn't match, the vehicle didn't match, and the FBI and federal prosecutors admitted there was no conclusive evidence of his guilt. Go to Pine Ridge or any other rez if you want to see the US government at work.
Vertigo is shit, just like much other U2 music after 1996. Most of it before 97 was great. This one is actually better than Vertigo version, but that somehow doesnt surprise me.
Native Son coulda been a classic U2 tune, right up there with Bloody Sunday, but Bono "Uncle Pennybags" just had to go and sell it to Apple Computers for their IPod commercials...Fu&%in miserly leprechaun.
@TheSkinParade totally agree. Except the music and feel of this version are vastly better to. 'Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel' = the best U2 moment since....since any of us poor bastards can remember.
@eLECTROLOSIS U2's obsession with perfection CREATED a whole lot of amazing songs. Maybe if they had relesed this one and held back Vertigo people would say the same thing. :-D I think this is defenatly an amazing song. So much of their unreleased / B-side stuff is amazing as well as their original albums. Just my opinion. Greetz.
@Magalink Don't get me wrong, U2 are my favourite band and I'm the only teenager I know that likes them... But i just love the pre-chorus in this version
@eLECTROLOSIS This whole "Native Son" and "Xanax and Wine" thing that turned out int different songs issue got me thinking, I remember something happened when they were making and album, and I believe it was with this one, that somehow all their work was stolen o lost... maybe that's the reason why these songs ended up the way they are now? Still, gotta love the "uno, dos, tres catorceeee!! Hello hello, HOLA!!" in every concert people go crazy with that XD
Great song. Leaves terrible taste in mouth. Bono was GWB's best friend, so didn't want to have an anti-American government song. No? Well that's sure what it looks like. Then the later version is on an apple ad. Talk about all your hopes and principles going down the toilet. Modern U2 talks none-stop about soul but completely lacks it.
@drvertigo There are some of us left. We're real music fans with principles. It wouldn't wash releasing this song, although it is better, much better, with much more soul and a vastly better feel. If bands like U2 compromise themselves, I don't see how that is my fault for objecting to it. Where do YOU FUCKING COME FROM? Brainless-land. If you have a reasoned come back on this subject, that will chaneg my mind...I'm listening... Not got one?
ohhh you guys. Too bad that conviction is entirely false and made-up by the federal attorneys office.. you know, the one about the off duty cop? yeah they actually admitted some 20 years later that they made that shit up. Also all this evidence they came up with to prove that HE was the ONE in that firefight of oh 30 or so people that killed those 2 FBI agents.. yeah all that? That was later admitted to be false as well.
... But whatever.. you all seem to be so very highly educated so I'm sure you already knew that. What website did you get your, "research" off of?
Why don't you go read a book instead of being spoon-feed what the government wants you to know?
AND YES! The US government can make U2 change a song.. of course they cant directly do this but they can make it unable to be sold in US stores which pretty much eliminates the point of creating a song in todays world doesnt it?
So yes, the song is changed because the US government does not want to/virtually can not admit to being wrong or else the constitution will basically fall apart.
And about the jail break... come on, if you were put in prison wrongfully, wouldnt you want out? We're not all tim robbins here (Shawshank reference, im just gonna have to assume that most people reading this now are just bloody fucking ignorant).
Peltier and his 2 friends ran from the cops, 2 cops are dead, his 2 friends are no longer and he was found with a gun. He ran because he thought the cops wer going to arrest him on another previous charge of attempted murder of an off duty police officer.
The music in Vertigo is better. Its fast and exciting, probably the way they wanted it to be. The lyrics in what we got were deeper, actually. This is a good song, but they made the right choice with Vertigo.
God, I would be so embarrassed to be U2 after finding out the truth about Peltier...
hkgirl852 1 month ago
I like this song way better than Vertigo. It's touchy, I know, but still.
BonsaiEternity 1 month ago
Glad they did more research on Leonard Peltier and rewrote this song as Vertigo.
greasy82 1 month ago
Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Chris Columbus, Ponce De Leon, Leonard Peltier---all outlawz for their causes. . . . but . .. . what did they fight for??. . . that is THE Question. U will have to ask. I agree 2 disagree
NativeDrapes 2 months ago
I like that they changed the nature of tho the lyrics, but the original way could've still be kept...sounds a bit cooler? I don't know - I like both versions, not necessarily the lyrics of this one and who it was about b/c he was you know...guilty! Lol!
But it's good all around
Kimbelle10 4 months ago
It's apparently about the Indian bloke who shot some FBI agents. They (U2) changed the lyrics when they realised he really was a criminal dickhead and slowly distanced themselves from the controversy.
bootymanager 4 months ago
@bootymanager It's never been proven one way or the other.
Also it's 'Native American' not 'Indian', we're out of the 1800s now pal.
Lukege15 3 months ago
wow this sounds exactly like vertigo
viperdude281 4 months ago
@viperdude281 It was a song about liberating leonard peltier, a native american convicted of murdering two fbi agents. Realizing Leonard Peltier DID actually kill these two agents, U2 rewrote the song, called it Vertigo, and won a Grammy.
MaxLalib 4 months ago
@MaxLalib They actually won 3 different grammy awards for the song.
viperdude281 4 months ago
@viperdude281 It later became Vertigo
Daveed84 3 months ago
@viperdude281 the crucial difference being that this one is GOOD!!!
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mollysangelique 6 months ago
the 11 dislikes were obviously O'reilly
collision934 6 months ago
the jews suffered the Holocaust about 8 million jews...theres lots of books you can read that about. but white america makes adolf hitler look like a angel because america had their Holocaust here they killed and Slaughtered over 30 million native americans indians not all at one time but thats how many were killed and you wont fined that in know histroy books, white america dont wont that truth out...now that is (TRUE FACTS)
rrh73005 6 months ago
@rrh73005 Well, actually, you WILL find it in the history books. Google the trail of tears. And it was 300,000, not 30,000,000.
doyhla 5 months ago
"" Lillywhite asked him if he would be able to sing the "Native Son" lyrics in front of an audience, and Bono found the experience too uncomfortable."" What a faggot.
twiztdupsmoke187 6 months ago
This is just Vertigo!!!
plumberboy83 6 months ago
The global challenges we all face, are much more organic, and any objective solution requires visionary leadership of epic proportions.
U2AMERICA TURN UP TUESDAY!
Arturo82001 6 months ago
Random snippets don't work :(
ziel4sz 7 months ago
Thumbs up if you're here because of Jon Stewart
andresforero 7 months ago
they changed it because they did further research on peltier
banger320 7 months ago
I lost so much respect with U2 after learning they changed the lyrics, probably to appease their Euro-American audiences.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 Or because they were celebrating a murderer and perhaps that's a bad thing to do.
snehring 7 months ago
@snehring Isn't there this crazy thing in America - "Innocent until proven guilty"? Where's the evidence Columbo? Do you know anything about this case? Probably not.
Besides U2 are making a bigger point with this song: that the Native Americans were/are constantly fucked over. They - no doubt coming from the feelings most Irish have about centuries under British rule - are making a statement about how the First Americans are oppressed in their homeland.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 I'm Native American and I find this song embarrassing. Yeah, sure, put a spotlight on how oppressed and "fucked over" my people are...by glorifying a murderer who just HAPPENS to be of my race. That's like writing a song decrying anti-German prejudices by glorifying the Nazis who went to trial "unfairly" by the victorious Allies.
& clearly U2 changed the song because they did do the research. Eventually.
RavnDream 6 months ago
@RavnDream I - and the defendants, Amnesty International, the Dalia Lama, Nelson Mandela (who support Peltier) - have yet to see proof that he is a murderer.
"That's like writing a song decrying anti-German prejudices by glorifying the Nazis who went to trial "unfairly" by the victorious Allies."
No it's not. Where was your mind when you wrote that? A disbanded dictatorship which committed genocide is no comparison to a murder convict (innocent or not). What an utterly insane, inept argument.
Lukege15 6 months ago
(2) "
"What these people ignore is that Peltier ran from the agents that day at Pine Ridge because he thought the agents were there to arrest him for a previous warrant for his arrest in Wisconsin. The charge? Attempted murder of an off-duty police officer. Then, in 1979, he led a violent prison break attempt that resulted in the death of a fellow inmate."
RavnDream 6 months ago
(3) I only put the Nazi comparison to point out how retarded you are. Look, if you really give a damn about my people, go support other causes and other people. NOT someone who for all intents and purposes is an Axe Crazy individual and is currently taking advantage of white guilt. He had celebrities like U2 and Rage Against The Machine fooled, sir. And he's fooled you, too. Besides, if I used any other comparison, you'd pro'lly not even catch the reference. But everyone knows the Nazis.
RavnDream 6 months ago
(cont'd from 3) And only Holocaust denialists would actually defend the Nazis and Hitler so the comparison is plain and SIMPLE. For simple-minded self-hating fucktards like yourself to pick up without having to scratch your monkey cranium for longer than 30 seconds. Although, judging from your reaction, you're much more dense than most. I'd call you a troll but that'd be an insult to trolls. Seriously.
RavnDream 6 months ago
(4) Oh, y'know what's "utterly insane" and "inept"? You, hiding behind big names like the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela just to back your own argument up. Why? Stand up for yourself, sir. Don't attach your no-name with famous people who don't even know you exist. It's disgusting enough that you apparently support Peltier JUST BECAUSE he's an Indian. That's prejudice of its own kind; you Pre-JUDGE on the basis that he's from a certain race and/or culture. That is irrelevant.
RavnDream 6 months ago
@RavnDream You're an idiot.
Lukege15 5 months ago
@RavnDream You're an idiot. Attach my name to famous people? Seriously? Are you that goddamn stupid?
Secondly, your use of two accounts is rather amusing,
"I agree with that other guy that definitely isn't me..."
Thirdly, your a Native American (or Indian, as you put it) so your the voice of Native America?
Besides, do you know you he apparently killed? An undercover agent. The FBI made it war, don't start crying when your risks don't pay off.
And lastly, you're a goddamn idiot.
Lukege15 5 months ago
@Lukege15 "You're an idiot." Wow, it only took you a whole month to say it, you troll. =P
Oh, and it's "YOU'RE", not "YOUR". Learn to spell! I'd accept that was a typo, but you did it twice. It's quite sad. Apart from your immature, and oftentimes ad hominem choice of words, of course.
RavnDream 5 months ago
@RavnDream ""You're an idiot." Wow, it only took you a whole month to say it, you troll. =P
Oh, and it's "YOU'RE", not "YOUR". Learn to spell!"
Are you serious? Look again at what you just quoted. No typo...
"But hey, took you a whole goddamn month to fart it out."
I'm terribly sorry that I have a life outside of YouTube.
And I'm a troll also? Looks like you just conceded defeat. If I made you that upset by replying, you obviously realize that you are wrong. YOU'RE an idiot. /Facepalm.
Lukege15 5 months ago
@Lukege15 "your a Native American", & "your the voice..." It's YOU'RE. With the "R" and the "E".
Frankly, I totally forgot about you till today. All you had to do was just toss another ad hominem my direction like you do everyone else who disagrees with you. Take a gander at your own channel comments. Can't deny it. Doesn't require 30 days to put those three simple words together.
You fail twice. I'd facepalm but you're not worth it. ;)
RavnDream 5 months ago
@Lukege15 But what REALLY amuses me is that, as I've said, I forgot about you till today. You spent an entire month just to insult me yet again. Clearly you hadn't forgotten me. Dude, get a life, man. Or better yet, get a girlfriend.
RavnDream 5 months ago
@Lukege15 ...OR a boyfriend. Whatever your tastes.
RavnDream 5 months ago
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@RavnDream "...OR a boyfriend. Whatever your tastes."
Haha, OK. Stay in school, champ.
I'll just be over here working on completing my university degree, cheers.
Lukege15 5 months ago
@Lukege15 Good luck with that. With your horrendous grammar and insane troll logic, "completing" your degree would be a miracle.
RavnDream 5 months ago
@RavnDream With all this talk of per-judging (by the way, how does the fact I am both supporting an 'Indian' and disagreeing with another at one time work in your fucked-up little world?), you're doing it yourself - to me.
Though, honestly, I am wasting my time. Is this seriously how you see the world? What a sad individual you are.
Lukege15 5 months ago
@Lukege15 'Coz not all Indians are axe-crazy. That's a stereotype. And by your outright dislike of my point of view, clearly you prefer Indians to all fit that stereotype. That makes you an ignorant. That makes you, in a rather humorous twist of irony, a racist. How's that? =)
I wouldn't exactly call myself the sad individual round here, if you're the one who's going around the comments like you're the only one with an opinion.
But hey, took you a whole goddamn month to fart it out.
RavnDream 5 months ago
@RavnDream I'm sorry, I just have to say once more how fucking taken back I was by that Nazi comment. I'm guessing you are a WWII obsessive, but still. You may have just have said the most stupid thing I've seen on YouTube ever - and that's definitely saying something.
Lukege15 6 months ago
@Lukege15
"Peltier was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. That day, the two agents followed a car they thought belonged to a man wanted for robbery and assault. What they found instead was Peltier and two other members of the American Indian Movement who, after fleeing the agents, initiated a shootout that left them both dead."
RavnDream 6 months ago
The story behind this song is that U2 was having trouble compiling the song we now know as Vertigo, so Bono took a break. Upon returning, he was asked by Steve Lillywhite if he felt like he could perform the song live, and Bono found doing so uncomfortable, so they rearranged the song and rewrote the lyrics and produced Vertigo.
fencingperson 8 months ago
U2 probably scrapped this song to make Vertigo. The music is exactly the same, well almost. Now I love U2 so don't you guys get mad at me ok.
DizziNY1 8 months ago
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DizziNY1 8 months ago
not a huge u2 guy but i like this song way better than what it became
northmen4999 8 months ago
If this was nickelback, they could release this as another single
comp0stable 8 months ago 2
oh SHIT! now I can't choose one of them :(
1991subaru1991 8 months ago
" On The Run..Officer put down the gun..I never wanted to own one..Both of us want to be someone..its so hard for a native son to be free...free...free"
Pow! Great Song.
Shouldn't surprise anyone though U2 has been calling out the truth since the early 80's.
bornflippy1 9 months ago
@bornflippy1 Except it wasn't released, because they realized they got their facts wrong... Peltier was guilty
TheBluntNinja 8 months ago
@TheBluntNinja damn the rabbit hole goes even deeper..thanks I had no idea..still a great song...and the lyric lines I posted still has resonance with other issues..I appreciate the edit though. cheers.
bornflippy1 8 months ago
@TheBluntNinja So being framed makes you guilty?
HolaDeco 8 months ago
Here because of Stewart as well (good song too)
wpfeffer 9 months ago
@wpfeffer what did Jon Stewart say about this song?
p.s. I'm hear because of Leonard Peltier! search RATM - 'Freedom'.
gocubs1815 9 months ago
God bless Jon Stewart for ending this nonsense discussion and showing Fox News for the hypocrite racists, that they are.
JosephCa64 9 months ago 13
Search Rage Against the Machine - Freedom
leokills 9 months ago
it's better than vertigo... they should just replace the vertigo lyrics with this one
monkeyfeng 9 months ago
This is literally the best U2 song I've ever heard!
ZachValkyrie 9 months ago
here cuz of Jon Stewart pwning o'reilly
Zeplovr333 9 months ago 83
@Zeplovr333 Me too
ZachValkyrie 9 months ago
@Zeplovr333 Jon Stewart sent me here too.
dirtyweasel 9 months ago
@Zeplovr333 ME TOO!!!
dicksalad1122 9 months ago
@Zeplovr333 word
kildahorde 6 months ago
@Zeplovr333 go to o'reilly poll center and vote more then once
thepeoplesvoice03 4 months ago
the jews suffered the Holocaust about 8 million jews...theres lots of books you can read that about. but white america makes adolf hitler look like a angel because america had their Holocaust here they killed and Slaughtered over 30 million native americans indians not all at one time but thats how many were killed and you wont fined that in know histroy books, white america dont wont that truth out...now that is (TRUE FACTS)
rrh73005 9 months ago in playlist native songs 3
you need to do your research again, (madskillz) he was Wrongfully Accused and wrongfully Convicted of murders he never did and he never was in no prison violent break. this is all the white man lies, the white government lies,
rrh73005 9 months ago in playlist native songs 3
@rrh73005 It's so sad that here in 2011 we still have race as an issue.
TheUltimateNoob001 9 months ago
free leonard pelrier
papason4041 9 months ago
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SalishSavage 10 months ago
Free Leonard Peltier
SalishSavage 10 months ago
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SalishSavage 10 months ago
is this song really recorded by U2 or just composed by a music computer engineer geek who put together because did n''t have any better else to do?
omersexy 10 months ago
@omersexy Yes it is, its the early version of Vertigo ;)
jBxDD 9 months ago
2:17 EPIC
TheXemion 10 months ago
bono looks like Pacino and EDGE LOOKS LIKE Janes Gandolfini..this better the vertigo my opinion MY opinion assholes ..cunts
omersexy 11 months ago
bono looks like Pacino and EDGE LOOKS LIKE Janes Gandolfini
omersexy 11 months ago
Should've kept those lyrics!!
iconprojects 11 months ago
they should have made a few more guitar changes and released this as a seperate song. its real good i no bono didn't like performing it but it is a great song
mock109 1 year ago
WOOOW vertigo bass lines.
Georgikinz 1 year ago
not bad wen it kicks in
DurtDurty 1 year ago
This is original VERTIGO..before was changed
eveymolly 1 year ago
Weak version of "vertigo".
msbull100 1 year ago
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@msbull100 This is original VERTIGO..before was changed
It's about Leonard Peltier and the murder of 2 FBI agents at Jumping Bull.
BlueberryDoughnuts 11 months ago
I think cracked got the story right here, U2 probably realised the truth behind Leonard Peltier that he was in fact a murderer, and not an oppressed, framed cherokee indian.
tvdownloads 1 year ago
@tvdownloads
Shut the hell up, he wasnt a murderer. Even the FBI stated that they dont know who shot the Agents, plus the bullets they found in the agents, werent the bullets from Peltier's gun.
WiseSpirit18 1 year ago
@tvdownloads If you're going to say something so incredibly baseless, at least get the point of your statement correct. Leonard Peltier was not a Cherokee, and your mistake points to the ignorance of most people on the finer details of his plight.
caitalana 11 months ago
@tvdownloads You're right, Peltier wasn't an oppressed, framed cherokee indian. He IS an oppressed, framed, LAKOTA / CHIPPEWA NATIVE AMERICAN.
all supposed "eyewitnesses" retracted their statements and stated they were coerced by the FBI to lie, the ballistics didn't match, the vehicle didn't match, and the FBI and federal prosecutors admitted there was no conclusive evidence of his guilt. Go to Pine Ridge or any other rez if you want to see the US government at work.
BlueberryDoughnuts 11 months ago
it sounds like vertigo
ALBE0Q 1 year ago
Para quienes preguntan, esta es la versión "primaria" de vertigo :)
NaiNLDA 1 year ago
Para quienes preguntan, esta es la versión "primaria" de vertigo :)
NaiNLDA 1 year ago
What? This is just vertigo with different lyrics.
WilFriesen 1 year ago 2
@WilFriesen yea exactly...also why its not on any of the albums
drexasour 1 year ago
@WilFriesen this was the original version but because of the lyric subject it was changed to something more commercial therefore you get vertigo
andyhthedrummer 1 year ago
@andyhthedrummer
Vertigo is shit, just like much other U2 music after 1996. Most of it before 97 was great. This one is actually better than Vertigo version, but that somehow doesnt surprise me.
KibyNykraft 1 year ago
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Native Son coulda been a classic U2 tune, right up there with Bloody Sunday, but Bono "Uncle Pennybags" just had to go and sell it to Apple Computers for their IPod commercials...Fu&%in miserly leprechaun.
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
cracked.com ftw
jdavidson091 1 year ago
an1 find a place to download this?
Duckcedes 1 year ago
@Duckcedes
You can download by DownloadHelper.
tonka2211 1 year ago
Just like Vertigo, except this version actually has a fucking meaning and purpose.
TheSkinParade 1 year ago
@TheSkinParade totally agree. Except the music and feel of this version are vastly better to. 'Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel' = the best U2 moment since....since any of us poor bastards can remember.
JesusMFingChrist 1 year ago
isnt this about that native american guy who killed a cop and for some reason everyone wanted to free him?
reallyrandomdude23 1 year ago
yeah, i'm here because of cracked
jakebrenner 1 year ago
U2's obsession with perfection once again ruins a perfect song.
eLECTROLOSIS 1 year ago 12
@eLECTROLOSIS U2's obsession with perfection CREATED a whole lot of amazing songs. Maybe if they had relesed this one and held back Vertigo people would say the same thing. :-D I think this is defenatly an amazing song. So much of their unreleased / B-side stuff is amazing as well as their original albums. Just my opinion. Greetz.
ArrJayEss 1 year ago 3
@eLECTROLOSIS yea i like this better than vertigo
reallyrandomdude23 1 year ago
@eLECTROLOSIS This is no where as good as Vertigo... you people are on crack
drvertigo 1 year ago
@eLECTROLOSIS That's your opinion, I think Vertigo is far better than this, I love it though, but Vertigo is just EPIC
Magalink 9 months ago
@Magalink Don't get me wrong, U2 are my favourite band and I'm the only teenager I know that likes them... But i just love the pre-chorus in this version
eLECTROLOSIS 9 months ago
@eLECTROLOSIS This whole "Native Son" and "Xanax and Wine" thing that turned out int different songs issue got me thinking, I remember something happened when they were making and album, and I believe it was with this one, that somehow all their work was stolen o lost... maybe that's the reason why these songs ended up the way they are now? Still, gotta love the "uno, dos, tres catorceeee!! Hello hello, HOLA!!" in every concert people go crazy with that XD
Magalink 9 months ago
@Magalink Yeah exactly... Either way both of the songs would have been massive hits and Vertigo well and truly smashes it live...
eLECTROLOSIS 9 months ago
@eLECTROLOSIS It surely does! 8D
Magalink 9 months ago
@eLECTROLOSIS +1000
thejosetree 6 months ago
JACKSON HOLE WYOMING LIVE cnbc
'Is it so hard for a Native Son to be FREE?'
Arturo82001 1 year ago
vertigooo~
S0NiCCCCC 1 year ago
cracked
8tripsaweek 1 year ago
Great song. Leaves terrible taste in mouth. Bono was GWB's best friend, so didn't want to have an anti-American government song. No? Well that's sure what it looks like. Then the later version is on an apple ad. Talk about all your hopes and principles going down the toilet. Modern U2 talks none-stop about soul but completely lacks it.
JesusMFingChrist 1 year ago
@JesusMFingChrist You're a fucking idiot. GWB's best friend. Where do you people fucking come from? Why do you have to exist?
drvertigo 1 year ago
@drvertigo There are some of us left. We're real music fans with principles. It wouldn't wash releasing this song, although it is better, much better, with much more soul and a vastly better feel. If bands like U2 compromise themselves, I don't see how that is my fault for objecting to it. Where do YOU FUCKING COME FROM? Brainless-land. If you have a reasoned come back on this subject, that will chaneg my mind...I'm listening... Not got one?
JesusMFingChrist 1 year ago
I like Vertigo better but this is still cool
RushRules4 1 year ago
ohhh you guys. Too bad that conviction is entirely false and made-up by the federal attorneys office.. you know, the one about the off duty cop? yeah they actually admitted some 20 years later that they made that shit up. Also all this evidence they came up with to prove that HE was the ONE in that firefight of oh 30 or so people that killed those 2 FBI agents.. yeah all that? That was later admitted to be false as well.
TheRhodesguitar 1 year ago
... But whatever.. you all seem to be so very highly educated so I'm sure you already knew that. What website did you get your, "research" off of?
Why don't you go read a book instead of being spoon-feed what the government wants you to know?
AND YES! The US government can make U2 change a song.. of course they cant directly do this but they can make it unable to be sold in US stores which pretty much eliminates the point of creating a song in todays world doesnt it?
TheRhodesguitar 1 year ago
So yes, the song is changed because the US government does not want to/virtually can not admit to being wrong or else the constitution will basically fall apart.
And about the jail break... come on, if you were put in prison wrongfully, wouldnt you want out? We're not all tim robbins here (Shawshank reference, im just gonna have to assume that most people reading this now are just bloody fucking ignorant).
TheRhodesguitar 1 year ago
@TheRhodesguitar OMG you're so clever! Can we be friends? Bellend.
banzaii02 1 year ago
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TheRhodesguitar 1 year ago
Yea realm I am lol.
Bullroarrer 1 year ago
Wow, I have no respect for this song.
Telebena 1 year ago
@Telebena why
bubbathenaslover 1 year ago
Peltier and his 2 friends ran from the cops, 2 cops are dead, his 2 friends are no longer and he was found with a gun. He ran because he thought the cops wer going to arrest him on another previous charge of attempted murder of an off duty police officer.
1+1 = let him rot.
schnoods302 1 year ago 2
Haha Cracked, you've done it again.
idriveadodgestratus 1 year ago
Cracked said he did shoot those agents I believe Cracked. Peltier supporters are wrong cracked is right end of story.
CompuBrains27 1 year ago 2
why can't they play some of these B- side songs on their tour?!
johnson1095 1 year ago
I wouldn't call reading something on cracked as "research"
RoyceAquatic 1 year ago
Yeah, here from Cracked.
I like Vertigo more. Both the song and the condition.
Beowulf8989 1 year ago
anyone else here cuz of cracked??
realmproductions 1 year ago 76
fuuuuuuuuuuuuck yeah bitches!
geekdiggy 1 year ago
@realmproductions count me in.
Clash1138 1 year ago
@realmproductions Wow, I'm here exactly becuase of cracked. Funny.
maddoormatter 1 year ago
@realmproductions haha yeah!
spacecadetzack 1 year ago
@realmproductions yup
dhcpme 1 year ago
i love the Edge singing in this one!!!!
arkhamdisintern 1 year ago
You guys are so talented and I'm glad spiritual.pkease keeo the songs xoming. philillie
philillie 1 year ago
I like Geographers cover of native son way better
Xxnicoroxxx 1 year ago
@Xxnicoroxxx can you go and say that and their channel then!
breachmania 1 year ago
BETTER SO MUCH BETTER!!!
breachmania 1 year ago
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Free Leonard Peltier...this is not a nation of freedom! only a nation of cover-ups and lies!
FinisP 1 year ago
Free Leonard Peltier...this is not a nation of freedom! only a nation of cover-ups and lies!
FinisP 1 year ago
Sounds like.... "Lights go down, you'r stars ... jungle in your head".... is Vertigo.
eddyerkelens 1 year ago
U2 is just awesome period
MySon89 1 year ago
Vertigo is a musically superior song as well...
NeoExelor 1 year ago 4
is the edge singing at 1:20?
strato954 1 year ago
yes
ajaxrulzz 1 year ago
U2 should have stopped here with the stage production...360 is a bit overdone....
gowestward1 2 years ago
I love the "freeee" part at the ending. =D
In fact, IMO this version is better than Vertigo.
vittau 2 years ago
this version is way better. the band must have felt that the alblum needed a catchy single
stardaddyo9 2 years ago
vertigo show what happens to u2 when they are just aching to be cool. they are special when they let it happen organically.
stardaddyo9 2 years ago 2
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OxycontinForPain 2 years ago
Native Son lyrics were based on the story of Leonard Peltier
turtle53081 2 years ago
They couldn't use this version to sell iPods, that's why they dumbed down the lyrics. Marketing geniu$
Ardakapalasan 2 years ago 4
The original version is based on the story of Leonard Peltier, which is very controversial.
turtle53081 2 years ago
The music in Vertigo is better. Its fast and exciting, probably the way they wanted it to be. The lyrics in what we got were deeper, actually. This is a good song, but they made the right choice with Vertigo.
Matthordika 2 years ago
Yah I actually wish they would have put this on HTDAAB instead.I actually like this better than Vertigo.More organic.
clublife32 2 years ago
cool it was probaly the the first version of vertigo
BUSHIDO529 2 years ago
I was hoping this was U2 covering the John Hiatt song.
smitpauly 2 years ago
They work in a very complicated way
jpjames1 2 years ago
U2 ever =D
remmendo 2 years ago
Edge´s Singing.. beautiful
herrpittner 2 years ago
Such a better song than Vertigo. Stop writing vapid songs and stick with your convictions.
jamesspills 2 years ago 3
I agree. I like this much better than Vertigo.
haleyfamily1975 2 years ago