These B-sides were so significant to the soundtrack of my youth. Spanish Eyes, Walk to the Water, Deep In The Heart, and Luminous Times (Hold Onto Love). I wore out the cassettes in my walkman listening to them over and over whilst on certain landmark roadtrips through the US, back in the day...so the imagery from my trips, the songs, the events from that time, and the Anton Cobijn photography from that time, also...all meld together. Can't imagine my life without it all.
ATTENTION ALL U2 FANS!(Sorry for the caps lock),On August 12th, we will be watching the music video With or Without you repeatedly all day to boost it's view count up to at the least of 100,000,000 views. You don't even have to listen to it. You can just keep playing the video back to back all the way through without sound. We're doing this to compete with Justin Beibers garbage music videos & to make U2 be heard across Youtube. Copy& Paste this across all U2 videos. Spread the word
ala por favor dejad de hablar gilipolleces como que spanish eyes son españoles y no sudamericanos y viceversa... ATONTADOS!!! la cancion es preciosa!!!!!!! y los spanish eyes tambien!!!:P
I'm a huge U2 fan, but this song is not that great - seriously. It has no creativity in it. Even when Bono sneezes, he can't help but emit something beautiful and different. But this, this song is not that. My five year old niece could come up with something more refreshing.
Unbelievable that this was a Joshua Tree (throw away). This would have been a hit single for any other band at that time. This is why U2 was the greatest rock band of its era and a huge influence for future bands (Ex. Killers, Cold Play)
@DarkAcrobat tell me if you would ever say that a person from the US has "English eyes"... believe me, to be Mexican is veeeery different from being Spanish... learn to understand the context, dumbass
@jameabeto Stupid, any person from US, could be have "english eyes", or "irish eyes", any mexican , or argentinian or peruvian could be have "spanish eyes" too, is perfectly valid, butthead. Mucha gente en US desciende de ingleses o irlandeses , mucha gente de latinoamérica desciende de españoles, no lo sabias animal ? Lee bien el contexto.
@DarkAcrobat Antes de seguir opinando sin tener conocimiento alguno, te recomiendo que te informes bien primero, puesto que estás quedando en ridículo. Aunque seguramente tendrás que buscar la manera de entender primero estas frases. Aprovecha para buscar un profesor que te enseñe la diferencia entre Mejicanos, españoles y catalanes. Eso, o puedes seguir metido en tu "DarkWorld"
@mailmerce No seas estúpido e ignorante, por supuesto que conozco las diferencias, a lo que me refiero , es que es válido poner gente en el video, que tenga ascendencia hispana, tal como los mexicanos , cubanos, chilenos, etc, tu entiendes el punto, no ? decir que alguien de mi barrio o de mi calle tiene ojos españoles, u ojos japoneses, es perfectamente válido, el mundo es una mezcla de razas, ignorante, debes de ser un regionalista separatista español, que se cree superior a los demás. Mamón.
@DarkAcrobat y @mailmerce ... solo digo que parece un poco fuera de lugar que se llame "Spanish eyes" cuando esta en medio de la frontera de mx. con eu., ya que la mayoria de nosotros asociaria el titulo con España ... pero bueno cada quien tiene su manera de interpretar la cancion, y realmente nunca sabremos quien tiene la razon (a menos de que le preguntemos al mismisimo Bono) ... asi que para que perder el tiempo, mejor nomas disfrutenla :)
This song and including Silver & Gold and other tracks were orginally planned to be on the Joshua Tree which would of made it a double album and a even better record than it is shame they didnt do that
That has been the better look of u2. Yes when their are in the desert, in the railroad train, in the border with Mexico, with very good blues and rock and roll, and Bono looks like a chief of a tribe of Apaches.
That was their best moments of u2. But their are greats right now anyway
That has been the better look of u2. Yes when their are in the desert, in the railroad train, in the border with Mexico, with very good blues and rock and roll, and Bono looks like a chief of a tribe of Apaches.
That was their best moments of u2. But their are greats right now anyway
Love it at 2:29!! It's Great to see Bono driving around where I live!!! I'm wondering which footage, if any, was shot in El Paso!! Love this song the minute I heard it!
@ArrJayEss "I remember watching Kurt come through and thinking, "God, this music is nuclear," This is really splitting the atom. They raised the temperature for everybody. Manufactured pop never looked so cold as when that heat was around.Nirvana made everything else look silly."
Bono, quoted in Lorraine Ali, "Cries From The Heart" - Newsweek 10/28/2002
the entire besides album of which this song appears is fucking incredible.. listening to Bass Trap (my fav) with headphones makes me wanna die by drowning at sea on a super bright sunny day.........sounds weird but listen to it with headphones and youll feel the same way!!
The first few singles from JOSHUA TREE had two new songs on their B-sides that were not on it. A great promotional ploy. All of the songs were as good as anything from the album.
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Are you crazy) This man Bono cannot even carry a tune. His voice is awful. On top of that, he cannot even hold an octave. I know that any good singer anywhere, in any language, can sing better than Bono.
Compared to Brian Wilson, John Lennon, Mick Hucknall or Marvyn Gay and Teddy Pendergrass, Bono is nothing but a two-bit singer of bad music. I am not surprised that he is popular, though, because it goes to show you how far down music has gone and how much farther down it could go. Rolando
listen here you dumb fuck... u are an un educated piece of lingering shit on the bottom of an drueling elephants foot. you dumb fuck... and if i heard you say such a thing face to face you dumb fuck, i would tell you to suck the fart out of my ass, and than stuff my fist down your thoat......... and sit in pure laughter...
@cochranexyz I guess I aged myself by calling it a B side, but so what. I've been a U2 fan since 1980 and have seen them about 30 times. And no, I don't think there is a term for B sides anymore. :)
@MrTamaguy I know it blows me away it was a "b"side. It just goes to show how great and special The Joshua Tree is, that album still stands the test of time..
This is taken from a programme called "Outside Its America" which was screened in many provinces at the end of 1987. The Joshua Tree album came out that April and they toured for the rest of the year. I think it was the only time this video, screened as part of the one hour programme, was ever shown. The typeface at the start of this clip, where it says "Spanish Eyes", confirms its from that programme. This was the b-side to "I Still Haven't Found" or maybe "With Or Without You". One of those.
MORE: A clue to the meaning of the song: many Irish Republicans fought in the Spanish Civil War, they are still commemerated regularly in Northern Ireland. This song possibly refers to that - the line "I crossed the world for green and gold" is clearly a reference to the Irish flag, and the Spanish reference is obviously there in the title. This is only a theory. Then again, maybe the song doesnt mean anything. It wouldn't be the first U2 song to have bizarre lyrics and no definate meaning! Lol!
at first glance it seems like a fun throwaway song about sex (U2 didn't really sing about sex til the 90s) but it's hard to imagine Bono writing lyrics without subtle meanings in them so that is a possiblity
In "In A Little While" from All That You Can't Leave Behind, there is a line that say, "A little girl with Spanish eyes/When I saw her first in a pram they pushed her by/Oh my have you've grown/Well it's, it's been...a little while."
Maybe...that reminds me of Manic Street Preachers, and their song "if you tolerate this".The part which says "so if I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists" is in memory of those soldiers from Wales who helped Spanish republicans in the civil war...
In spain, darker skin comes from jews, not moorish, when, in 1492, after peninsula reconquering, they were forced to to turn into christians. Moorish were expelled from spain (not spain yet), bequeathing very little small of blood of some spaniards.
Spaniards are celtics from the north, and iberians from the east in a beggining. German, roman, and moorish invasions came after. Many many many blood came from the north. I have white features, almost blonde, grey eyes, and i'm spanish.
That is quite true, almost all the northern Spain has a huge celtic influence.You can notice it by some of the symbols of the ancient cultures that today people from there are trying to preserve,which are celtic,also the strong influence of celtic mythology (dwarfs,fairies, witches etc).If there's anyone who's interested,I would recommend him/her to visit specially Cantabria (and there in concret La Vega de Pas, part of my roots), where you can find all these things.
saying that any child born in the uk of african or carribean parents in the last decade aren't black british because their parents didn't come to britain on the windrush. i think sfumato spends a bit too much time with his head in books.
my family are not. plexusnexus's version of the moores is the one i learned in school in andalucia, also the further north you get the fairer the spanish get. Red hair and green eyes anothercommon irish trait is from mixing dark hair brown eyes with fair hair and blue eyes but the vikings spread all over the place didn't they so many of them had red hair. i think you'll find most races are very mixed so to say all black irish are solely from celtic stock is a bit naive, its a bit like saying
yes i know where the celts come from i can also read and i like discovery channel too. I lived in malaga for 5 years so i know spanish history too. but as you are are soooo keen to repeat your self i will do the same, my ancestor came from spain via the armada. my husband is black our children are quite light, shows what one dilution of the genes does so imagine many. unlike you i'm not pig headed enough to say that you are totally wrong i'm sure some black irish are as you say but i know that
irish people are made up of lots of races, celts, vikings pics and yes even anglo saxon. the black irish come from the spanish armada. when it was split up many ships wandered and were wrecked on irish cornish and scottish coasts
just type "celtic spain" on youtube. Wow, black irish comes from Spain? LOL, never heard of that term hahaha. Maybe it has to do with Irish Americans in the USA. But I never heard that term in Europe. Read some books on the origin of Ireland.
I beg that you pick up a history book and find out were those celts came from that arrived to Ireland in 500BC...way before the spanish Armada. Did you know north of Spain is Celtic? Spaniards are black? Okay, hit the books, better yet, travel the world and expand your education.
yes i do know this! i also know that ireland has been conquored by the vikings and god knows who else since then and a lot of that will have mixed it down, and for your info I am black irish and my ancester come from the armada and married a local girl after being ship wrecked so i dont need to pick up my books and i'm already well travelled thank you very much. take some of your own advice I'm speaking from traceable family knowledge passed down not from a book!!!!
Black people in the spanish armada+, I was unaware the Kingdom of Castile had black soldiers. You should check your ancestry again. No offence intended. But Spain was a great catholic power, this included wars with the moors, and arab countries. It is impossible you ancestry comes from the Spanish Armada. Also, yes, Irish are mixed with alot of races from Europe. But the origins are celts from the north of Spain.
the moors got themsves plenty of ' spanish' pussy. guess thats why the spaniards have a little moore (lol) colour to them than lets say your typical ango saxon
i just guess that spanish womenjust loved big black african bone dick :)
maybe I guess in the south of Spain. But the moors never conquered the north of Spain. Asturias, Galicia, basque country, catalonia, even Madrid is all christian. Except for Andalucia which the moors did stay there, but true spaniards are white, not anglo-saxon white because we are more latin. so don't generalize dumb shit. Also Spain has more history than you little island there. You must be ignorant to make such a dumb shit racist comment like that. I have nothing against black people.
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...if we are mixed, why we can't carry caucasian blood in our veins?.
...and a last comment before ending. In great bretain, perfect white couples haves mid-black mixed childs... oh, look at that, there are so many pussies that tried a big black meat too, and that is not a legend, it happens... ;)
look you in a mirror, you don't know, but you have a past running ahead lions... how many vice i see here XD
And if you find dark skined spaniards, then they are gipsies, not full Iberians, or mixed with morrish blood. This is only in the southern part of Spain were Flamenco comes from. The north and central part of Spain is as white are russia. Like in Italy, sicilians are darker than north Italians.
I said celts from the Basque region, but also in Galicia, Asturias and most nothern spanish country, the bagpipe is the national instrument in all northern Spain. check youtube under spanish bagpipes, galician bagpipes, asturias bagpipes, oviedo, lugo, etc...
Flamenco is only played in a small part of southern spain, but again, most americans don't know that.
The gene patterns of the three races, welsh, irish and spanish basque passed down through the male line are all "strikingly similar", researchers concluded in BBC. Besides that the Bagpipe is on of the most typical musical instrument in northern Spain specially in Galicia.
Ali's family is spanish Irish. The mixture of Irish and Spanish blood dating from the time of the Spanish Armada, when many shipwrecked Spanish sailors were washed up on the Irish coastline and wound up staying. Many Irish families have Spanish ancestry. learn you history bro. Ali may be from Ireland but her roots are mostly from Spain.
If I'm not mistaken, that specific strain of Irish ancestry is called "Black Irish." My birth mother (I'm adopted) was described as Black Irish. I suspect Philomena Lynott, mother of the sainted Philip, had some Black Irish ancestry, as well.
Interesting, how Irish military disasters have scattered the seed of Eire in some unlikely places. Thanks to the San Patricio Brigade in the Mexican-American War we can find red-headed Mexicans with surnames like "Ferrell"!
Yup, you are mistaken. Spaniards arent' black. The term black irish is probably from the the mexican-american war, because that term is from the USA? You know americans are ignorant and call mexican spanish. Anyway, I'm talking about the spanish armada from spain. Besides that in spain the celts from the basque country had ties with ireland and scotland. The Welsh and Irish Celts have been found to be the genetic blood-brothers of Basques, scientists have revealed according to the BBC.
Hold up just a second. I'm talking about two entirely different things.
"Black Irish" has NOTHING to do with African ancestry; people of that description usually have dark hair and fair skin, as do many people from Spain.
The San Patricios fought hundreds of years after Drake sank the Spanish Armada in a conflict that took place a continent and an ocean away from the Mexican-American War.
Then I don't know what your point was. I was referring that this song is about his wifes ancestry and in fact that of ireland. Then you brought up the "black irish term" which has nothing to do with Spain or Ireland. Again search "Spain and Ireland Part 1 of 10" on youtube. "black isish" is a term used in the states I guess, I never heard the term and it has nothing to do with Irish history. The point is Spain an Ireland have a history going back thousands of years.
Another thing you need to keep in mind is that you are problable from the USA, and most americans know very little about the history of Europe and specially Spain. It's not rare to see americans confuse Spain with Mexico. You even call latin americans "Hispanics" when that term in strictly only for the Iberian Peninsula. Having Mexico so close to the USA an the fact that they speak spanish, you probably figure Mexican=Spanish LOL.
You're probably right about American provincialism, unfortunately. But as I noted elsewhere, I wasn't confusing "Mexican" with "Spanish."
I've lived abroad, visited a half-dozen countries on three continents (not the Iberian Peninsula, alas -- although my wife has), speak three languages and read several more, and -- being Latino myself -- recognize that the term "Hispanic" was adopted for the convenience of demographers at the expense of accuracy.
this song is for catalonia,not for spain
pakitovillanueva 3 weeks ago
This is before u2 became commersial, awsame !
psj61 1 month ago
Wey hey hey baby hang on. It's amazing when Bono hits those screams. This song should"ve been on the Joshua Tree.
jmrolltide12 3 months ago
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You are absolutely right!
guilhermelafmg 1 month ago
These B-sides were so significant to the soundtrack of my youth. Spanish Eyes, Walk to the Water, Deep In The Heart, and Luminous Times (Hold Onto Love). I wore out the cassettes in my walkman listening to them over and over whilst on certain landmark roadtrips through the US, back in the day...so the imagery from my trips, the songs, the events from that time, and the Anton Cobijn photography from that time, also...all meld together. Can't imagine my life without it all.
saranoid 4 months ago
BONO LIIIINNDOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
lvalenzv 4 months ago
opps Bonos drivng.... watch out ;)
EnjoyTheSurface 5 months ago
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ATTENTION ALL U2 FANS!(Sorry for the caps lock),On August 12th, we will be watching the music video With or Without you repeatedly all day to boost it's view count up to at the least of 100,000,000 views. You don't even have to listen to it. You can just keep playing the video back to back all the way through without sound. We're doing this to compete with Justin Beibers garbage music videos & to make U2 be heard across Youtube. Copy& Paste this across all U2 videos. Spread the word
Difop 5 months ago
Only heard this (even tho long time U2 fan) after the B-side album was released. Loved it ever since.
Kaldhore 6 months ago 3
Should never have been a b-side! Such a TUNE!
potplan 6 months ago
ala por favor dejad de hablar gilipolleces como que spanish eyes son españoles y no sudamericanos y viceversa... ATONTADOS!!! la cancion es preciosa!!!!!!! y los spanish eyes tambien!!!:P
bktmali 7 months ago
If U2 sang Spanish Eyes today it would be a hit!
jordanforever21 7 months ago
spanish but the sudamerica, spain is rich
teisoro 7 months ago
Ali, his wife, has Spanish eyes...this is about her. It's HOT!
AltRockAddict 7 months ago
an undercover classic ... not many people know from back then
dyedinsoul 9 months ago
I'm a huge U2 fan, but this song is not that great - seriously. It has no creativity in it. Even when Bono sneezes, he can't help but emit something beautiful and different. But this, this song is not that. My five year old niece could come up with something more refreshing.
davesommers2 9 months ago
@yramirezv so true....
LBjim 10 months ago
SHOULD OF BEEN A SINGLE - ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!
studleytwonder 11 months ago
love the song . never seen the video before cheers
bertieblunt77 11 months ago
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.....wake up people..U2 sucks
palukas80 11 months ago
@palukas80
sam ssiesz kurwa
pannaMacPhisto 11 months ago
@palukas80 Your ass and you suck!
chompypunk890 8 months ago
promenade wasnt even ever played live cant believe it
MrZippy69ster 1 year ago
Great era of U2
virgofemme5 1 year ago
The barbarians arrived... Mediocrity is King. Anything goes. Even this grabage...
TheMandrino 1 year ago
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@TheMandrino ,., yet here you are...
ajhleix 10 months ago
@yramirezv maybe in your special world.
I'm sure you don't know spanish or catalonian people. We are totally different of Mexican/latin people.
onlymerce 1 year ago
I resent the learn spanish commercials. Learn English please and become a citizen. pay the awesome taxes to live.
Gen2far 1 year ago
Unbelievable that this was a Joshua Tree (throw away). This would have been a hit single for any other band at that time. This is why U2 was the greatest rock band of its era and a huge influence for future bands (Ex. Killers, Cold Play)
Desi7077 1 year ago
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Hi there...I'm spanish (from Spain).
People who lives in South America, are mexican, not spanish.
We are different in all.
SO please, take note.
onlymerce 1 year ago
Hi there...I'm spanish (from Spain).
People who lives in South America, are mexican, not spanish.
We are different in all.
SO please, take note.
onlymerce 1 year ago
@onlymerce Mexico is in North America , ignorant. And is the biggest spanish talking country in the world.
DarkAcrobat 7 months ago
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MrMonono123aware 1 year ago
¿? ... It looks more like Mexico than Spain XD
jameabeto 1 year ago
@jameabeto right. I can't believe that they don't see the difference.
onlymerce 1 year ago
@jameabeto Mexico is a spanish speaking country, read a little more, twat...
DarkAcrobat 7 months ago
@DarkAcrobat tell me if you would ever say that a person from the US has "English eyes"... believe me, to be Mexican is veeeery different from being Spanish... learn to understand the context, dumbass
jameabeto 7 months ago
@jameabeto Stupid, any person from US, could be have "english eyes", or "irish eyes", any mexican , or argentinian or peruvian could be have "spanish eyes" too, is perfectly valid, butthead. Mucha gente en US desciende de ingleses o irlandeses , mucha gente de latinoamérica desciende de españoles, no lo sabias animal ? Lee bien el contexto.
DarkAcrobat 7 months ago
@DarkAcrobat Antes de seguir opinando sin tener conocimiento alguno, te recomiendo que te informes bien primero, puesto que estás quedando en ridículo. Aunque seguramente tendrás que buscar la manera de entender primero estas frases. Aprovecha para buscar un profesor que te enseñe la diferencia entre Mejicanos, españoles y catalanes. Eso, o puedes seguir metido en tu "DarkWorld"
mailmerce 7 months ago
@mailmerce No seas estúpido e ignorante, por supuesto que conozco las diferencias, a lo que me refiero , es que es válido poner gente en el video, que tenga ascendencia hispana, tal como los mexicanos , cubanos, chilenos, etc, tu entiendes el punto, no ? decir que alguien de mi barrio o de mi calle tiene ojos españoles, u ojos japoneses, es perfectamente válido, el mundo es una mezcla de razas, ignorante, debes de ser un regionalista separatista español, que se cree superior a los demás. Mamón.
DarkAcrobat 7 months ago
@DarkAcrobat y @mailmerce ... solo digo que parece un poco fuera de lugar que se llame "Spanish eyes" cuando esta en medio de la frontera de mx. con eu., ya que la mayoria de nosotros asociaria el titulo con España ... pero bueno cada quien tiene su manera de interpretar la cancion, y realmente nunca sabremos quien tiene la razon (a menos de que le preguntemos al mismisimo Bono) ... asi que para que perder el tiempo, mejor nomas disfrutenla :)
jameabeto 7 months ago
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mailmerce 7 months ago
This song has given me chills ever since I was 12 :)
jameabeto 1 year ago
WISPRWORLD/YOUTUBE MYSPACE/WISPRWORLD
wisprworld 1 year ago
I love this group but i had never heard this song, thanx for sharing my friend! ;)
Ximena0e 1 year ago
Scotty and Patties favorourite!!!!! Home Again!!!
papamurll 1 year ago
2:08 --> LOL
rutjeputje 1 year ago
Anyone else see the Monty Python moment here? I know Bono's a fan but only just noticed it today!
KangoTV 1 year ago
This song and including Silver & Gold and other tracks were orginally planned to be on the Joshua Tree which would of made it a double album and a even better record than it is shame they didnt do that
birdland1 1 year ago
They made a video for this?! I didn't know that
brajtnerinjo 1 year ago
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That has been the better look of u2. Yes when their are in the desert, in the railroad train, in the border with Mexico, with very good blues and rock and roll, and Bono looks like a chief of a tribe of Apaches.
That was their best moments of u2. But their are greats right now anyway
luismendeze 1 year ago
That has been the better look of u2. Yes when their are in the desert, in the railroad train, in the border with Mexico, with very good blues and rock and roll, and Bono looks like a chief of a tribe of Apaches.
That was their best moments of u2. But their are greats right now anyway
luismendeze 1 year ago 7
"That has been the better look of u2.(...) Bono looks like a chief of a tribe of Apaches" - luismendeze
LOL!, sure dude. U2s greatest years were in the late 70s. Its been all shlock rock since then.
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
@luismendeze learn how to spell u dumbass
lonetreug8 1 month ago
Love it at 2:29!! It's Great to see Bono driving around where I live!!! I'm wondering which footage, if any, was shot in El Paso!! Love this song the minute I heard it!
mozzdmu2 1 year ago
Good tune, probably one of the best to come outta The Joshua Tree sessions.
Still, "Nevermind" makes this sh%$ sound old.
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
@RideMyBMW Just like Achtung Baby from U2 makes "Nevermind" sound old. :-D Great records, all of them.
ArrJayEss 1 year ago
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"Just like Achtung Baby from U2 makes "Nevermind" sound old. :-D Great records, all of them" - ArrJayEss
Dude, Nirvana´s my generation´s Beatles...U2s your generations Elton John XD!
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
@ArrJayEss "I remember watching Kurt come through and thinking, "God, this music is nuclear," This is really splitting the atom. They raised the temperature for everybody. Manufactured pop never looked so cold as when that heat was around.Nirvana made everything else look silly."
Bono, quoted in Lorraine Ali, "Cries From The Heart" - Newsweek 10/28/2002
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
I'm Breathlesss!!!! Thumbs UP!
thebee135 1 year ago
I LOVE this. It was a single originally & not available! Very sexy, danceable.
Kammerz10 1 year ago
they always "throw away" the best songsssss which is pretty awesome since the stuff they release is great.....
NOWAYNOTME91 1 year ago
the entire besides album of which this song appears is fucking incredible.. listening to Bass Trap (my fav) with headphones makes me wanna die by drowning at sea on a super bright sunny day.........sounds weird but listen to it with headphones and youll feel the same way!!
Emoidiot187 1 year ago
nice camaro 1:36
mikepassword2 1 year ago 2
B-side, this is one of my favs. VERY sexy.
Kammerz10 1 year ago
The first few singles from JOSHUA TREE had two new songs on their B-sides that were not on it. A great promotional ploy. All of the songs were as good as anything from the album.
UandMeKid 1 year ago 2
Yes he does
lisetteediamandjeex 1 year ago
Does Bono smoke ?
malilite 1 year ago
It was a B side
Gen2far 2 years ago
was this an official video?
marknaki123 2 years ago
no , its leftover footage from the wide awake in america documentary.
JoyC666 1 year ago
I love watching videos from the 80's to see the "new" cars
benspilk900 2 years ago
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bono and u2 are the shit thats a fact, rolandogodog1 your a asshole thats a fact also!!!!
uk4u21 2 years ago
i just do not know why i do not like music of U2... but i like Bono, he is a great man, i respect him.
VendPrekmurec 2 years ago 2
It shows just how brilliant u2 really are, i mean this is only a b side but it is a quality song. EVEN THE B SIDES ARE CRACKIN, unbelievable
TheKenney81 2 years ago 2
Yo soy de SurAmérica el patio trasero de USA
ravenelfer 2 years ago
I simply cannot get over the fact that U2
has covered so many musical styles...
they are the best right now (that I know of)
MCLimeslimey 2 years ago 7
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Are you crazy) This man Bono cannot even carry a tune. His voice is awful. On top of that, he cannot even hold an octave. I know that any good singer anywhere, in any language, can sing better than Bono.
Compared to Brian Wilson, John Lennon, Mick Hucknall or Marvyn Gay and Teddy Pendergrass, Bono is nothing but a two-bit singer of bad music. I am not surprised that he is popular, though, because it goes to show you how far down music has gone and how much farther down it could go. Rolando
rolandogodoy1 2 years ago
listen here you dumb fuck... u are an un educated piece of lingering shit on the bottom of an drueling elephants foot. you dumb fuck... and if i heard you say such a thing face to face you dumb fuck, i would tell you to suck the fart out of my ass, and than stuff my fist down your thoat......... and sit in pure laughter...
1764135 2 years ago
LMFAO!! that was hilariousss !!!
recobalegend20 1 year ago
twat
TheKenney81 2 years ago
E o Chevrolezão véio passa em frente ao trem quase batendo e nem tchum! hahaahhhh
jimibrazi 2 years ago
Strange video.
Lovely song
karenzitaloren 2 years ago
Love the song, reminds me a lot of my memories of being the USA :)
deanej10 2 years ago 2
great song from TJT
zakilaouira 2 years ago 5
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extreme67 2 years ago
A great song, and ...
God, no wonen on Earth drive this gringo wild like senoritas!!
RobertMurph 2 years ago 5
I think this is one of their best. They have a lot of those :)
cochranexyz 2 years ago 6
I agree-most underrated B-side ever!!!! They need to re-release this!!!
jedijs 2 years ago 6
Always one of my favorite U2 songs. I still can't believe it was only a "B-side."
MrTamaguy 2 years ago 64
@MrTamaguy Totally agree. But that's what makes B sides sometimes so special. Is there even still a term for B sides anymore?
cochranexyz 1 year ago
@cochranexyz I guess I aged myself by calling it a B side, but so what. I've been a U2 fan since 1980 and have seen them about 30 times. And no, I don't think there is a term for B sides anymore. :)
MrTamaguy 1 year ago
@MrTamaguy I know it blows me away it was a "b"side. It just goes to show how great and special The Joshua Tree is, that album still stands the test of time..
LBjim 10 months ago
1:52 omg. he looks so adorable!
KittichanU2 2 years ago 6
Great song; I can't believe it wasn't a huge hit for them. Almost a throwaway, but one of their best!
blaster1985 2 years ago 35
Great vid, love them. Bono's reaction at 2:08 is so cute! U2 is the best band ever! Rock on forever U2!
Drummer1060 2 years ago 12
I like the bohemian look they had then.
TheRebelLeonRoy 2 years ago 2
Simplesmente maravilhoso!!!! U2 o melhor!!!!
patyca87 2 years ago
One of their best songs...they look so cool here too..;-))
tmallo1 2 years ago
the best sing!!!!!!!!!!
patrimoranita16 2 years ago
1:04 IS VERY SEXY!
englishmorrison 2 years ago
Fantastico
SG77com 2 years ago
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what a crappy song
QueenBlairWaldorf 2 years ago
Omg 2:09, hahaha ;p
rutjeputje 2 years ago 3
HAHA, that cracks me up when he knocks the microphone off with his face and then looks like...'what just happened?' :D
tacosontheceiling 2 years ago
muito bom !!!
diegoesteves2000 2 years ago
this is an awesome song !!!
kennymelodica 2 years ago 2
these Spanish eyes keep on seeing you when they close to dream...
lms4jfcr 2 years ago
This is taken from a programme called "Outside Its America" which was screened in many provinces at the end of 1987. The Joshua Tree album came out that April and they toured for the rest of the year. I think it was the only time this video, screened as part of the one hour programme, was ever shown. The typeface at the start of this clip, where it says "Spanish Eyes", confirms its from that programme. This was the b-side to "I Still Haven't Found" or maybe "With Or Without You". One of those.
MySeif2282 3 years ago
MORE: A clue to the meaning of the song: many Irish Republicans fought in the Spanish Civil War, they are still commemerated regularly in Northern Ireland. This song possibly refers to that - the line "I crossed the world for green and gold" is clearly a reference to the Irish flag, and the Spanish reference is obviously there in the title. This is only a theory. Then again, maybe the song doesnt mean anything. It wouldn't be the first U2 song to have bizarre lyrics and no definate meaning! Lol!
MySeif2282 3 years ago
at first glance it seems like a fun throwaway song about sex (U2 didn't really sing about sex til the 90s) but it's hard to imagine Bono writing lyrics without subtle meanings in them so that is a possiblity
RuskNation61 2 years ago
This is a song Bono wrote about his wife. She is of Spanish descent. It is a love song.
anla00 2 years ago 6
In "In A Little While" from All That You Can't Leave Behind, there is a line that say, "A little girl with Spanish eyes/When I saw her first in a pram they pushed her by/Oh my have you've grown/Well it's, it's been...a little while."
butterflyhope333 2 years ago 2
Maybe...that reminds me of Manic Street Preachers, and their song "if you tolerate this".The part which says "so if I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists" is in memory of those soldiers from Wales who helped Spanish republicans in the civil war...
Bickelbach 2 years ago
i dont think song reffers to eyes from spain. spanish as in hispanic or latino in general and the "blue" is sad eyes.
And it is a very beautiful song.
moonflower0924 3 years ago
In spain, darker skin comes from jews, not moorish, when, in 1492, after peninsula reconquering, they were forced to to turn into christians. Moorish were expelled from spain (not spain yet), bequeathing very little small of blood of some spaniards.
Spaniards are celtics from the north, and iberians from the east in a beggining. German, roman, and moorish invasions came after. Many many many blood came from the north. I have white features, almost blonde, grey eyes, and i'm spanish.
Ralph007es 3 years ago 2
That is quite true, almost all the northern Spain has a huge celtic influence.You can notice it by some of the symbols of the ancient cultures that today people from there are trying to preserve,which are celtic,also the strong influence of celtic mythology (dwarfs,fairies, witches etc).If there's anyone who's interested,I would recommend him/her to visit specially Cantabria (and there in concret La Vega de Pas, part of my roots), where you can find all these things.
Bickelbach 2 years ago
They were hitch hiking and no one picked them up! Man that person was stoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopid!
RUDYCUTY 3 years ago 2
in northwest of spain people are also celts like north west of france and also ireland. galician people
iliadde 3 years ago
U2 B sides are as classic as the A sides sometimes even better (whoops that's blew it)
I thought this song was for Hewsons wife (as have been many including ooh ooh ooh the sweetest thing - same time) and you see she has spanish eyes..
Behind every great man is a great woman.
UP THE DUBS
lecturerob 3 years ago 2
Isn't that Ali Hewson driving the car Bono rides in? I've heard jokes that Bono is a terrible driver.
RuskNation61 2 years ago
no its not ali
69tomasito 2 years ago
ok then who is it?
RuskNation61 2 years ago
I think you are right about Ail being the video but I don't know about Bono's driving.
butterflyhope333 2 years ago
heh, well it was just something I heard, I don't even remember where though.
RuskNation61 2 years ago
Oh I was joking about the last part, I forgot to use LOL. LOL XD
butterflyhope333 2 years ago
oh haha I didn't take offense or anything :D
RuskNation61 2 years ago
Okay, thats cool. :)
butterflyhope333 2 years ago
viva españa
5papagallos 3 years ago 2
U2 the story!
galopeira7 3 years ago 2
This is a wonderful song, U2 is one of the greatest bands of all time
livingoutloud40 3 years ago 3
saying that any child born in the uk of african or carribean parents in the last decade aren't black british because their parents didn't come to britain on the windrush. i think sfumato spends a bit too much time with his head in books.
raychibabe 3 years ago
my family are not. plexusnexus's version of the moores is the one i learned in school in andalucia, also the further north you get the fairer the spanish get. Red hair and green eyes anothercommon irish trait is from mixing dark hair brown eyes with fair hair and blue eyes but the vikings spread all over the place didn't they so many of them had red hair. i think you'll find most races are very mixed so to say all black irish are solely from celtic stock is a bit naive, its a bit like saying
raychibabe 3 years ago
yes i know where the celts come from i can also read and i like discovery channel too. I lived in malaga for 5 years so i know spanish history too. but as you are are soooo keen to repeat your self i will do the same, my ancestor came from spain via the armada. my husband is black our children are quite light, shows what one dilution of the genes does so imagine many. unlike you i'm not pig headed enough to say that you are totally wrong i'm sure some black irish are as you say but i know that
raychibabe 3 years ago
True Spaniards are White. anyone e;se in Spain not White is of mixed blood. The Muslims are invading Spain once again, as we speak.
stinkymouser 3 years ago
makes the usa look like white trash with mexican influences.
euryalestheno 3 years ago
read a bit about this the americans called the irish who came over the black irish because of the dark hair and eyes
Mikey2k8C 3 years ago
Great song, good enough for the album!
bigwednesday0 3 years ago
Good enough for the album!
bigwednesday0 3 years ago
wonderful song
caterinasaracino 3 years ago
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Man, I love U2, but this song sucks. :(
EvilAL13 3 years ago
So back to my first post before getting interrupted....this song is about Irish having spanish ancestry, in fact Irish people originated from Spain.
sfumato1002 3 years ago 3
irish people are made up of lots of races, celts, vikings pics and yes even anglo saxon. the black irish come from the spanish armada. when it was split up many ships wandered and were wrecked on irish cornish and scottish coasts
raychibabe 3 years ago
there are also black scottish and cornish people they're just not called that. my family are black irish this is how i know
raychibabe 3 years ago
just type "celtic spain" on youtube. Wow, black irish comes from Spain? LOL, never heard of that term hahaha. Maybe it has to do with Irish Americans in the USA. But I never heard that term in Europe. Read some books on the origin of Ireland.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
I beg that you pick up a history book and find out were those celts came from that arrived to Ireland in 500BC...way before the spanish Armada. Did you know north of Spain is Celtic? Spaniards are black? Okay, hit the books, better yet, travel the world and expand your education.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
yes i do know this! i also know that ireland has been conquored by the vikings and god knows who else since then and a lot of that will have mixed it down, and for your info I am black irish and my ancester come from the armada and married a local girl after being ship wrecked so i dont need to pick up my books and i'm already well travelled thank you very much. take some of your own advice I'm speaking from traceable family knowledge passed down not from a book!!!!
raychibabe 3 years ago
Black people in the spanish armada+, I was unaware the Kingdom of Castile had black soldiers. You should check your ancestry again. No offence intended. But Spain was a great catholic power, this included wars with the moors, and arab countries. It is impossible you ancestry comes from the Spanish Armada. Also, yes, Irish are mixed with alot of races from Europe. But the origins are celts from the north of Spain.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
Anglo Saxon's are mostly English, sure there are mixes in Ireland because they are on the same land. But Irish are Celts.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
Why I'm arguing with you...LOL, whatever, if you want to change history in your head that is fine. see ya!
sfumato1002 3 years ago
the moors got themsves plenty of ' spanish' pussy. guess thats why the spaniards have a little moore (lol) colour to them than lets say your typical ango saxon
i just guess that spanish womenjust loved big black african bone dick :)
plexusnexus 3 years ago
maybe I guess in the south of Spain. But the moors never conquered the north of Spain. Asturias, Galicia, basque country, catalonia, even Madrid is all christian. Except for Andalucia which the moors did stay there, but true spaniards are white, not anglo-saxon white because we are more latin. so don't generalize dumb shit. Also Spain has more history than you little island there. You must be ignorant to make such a dumb shit racist comment like that. I have nothing against black people.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
'more history than you (sic) little island'
lol
sure did a great job in latin america....
and spain is on of the most racist countries on the planet.
you are all mixed race and you cant stand it.
as the saying goes your great great great great great great grandma was getting pumped by a black man
and she loved it :)
plexusnexus 3 years ago
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...if we are mixed, why we can't carry caucasian blood in our veins?.
...and a last comment before ending. In great bretain, perfect white couples haves mid-black mixed childs... oh, look at that, there are so many pussies that tried a big black meat too, and that is not a legend, it happens... ;)
look you in a mirror, you don't know, but you have a past running ahead lions... how many vice i see here XD
Ralph007es 2 years ago
And if you find dark skined spaniards, then they are gipsies, not full Iberians, or mixed with morrish blood. This is only in the southern part of Spain were Flamenco comes from. The north and central part of Spain is as white are russia. Like in Italy, sicilians are darker than north Italians.
sfumato1002 3 years ago 2
actually search "Spain and Ireland Part 1 of 10" on youtube.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
Check this out on youtube:
Irish History -"Spain and Ireland" Part 1 of 10
sfumato1002 3 years ago
I said celts from the Basque region, but also in Galicia, Asturias and most nothern spanish country, the bagpipe is the national instrument in all northern Spain. check youtube under spanish bagpipes, galician bagpipes, asturias bagpipes, oviedo, lugo, etc...
Flamenco is only played in a small part of southern spain, but again, most americans don't know that.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
The gene patterns of the three races, welsh, irish and spanish basque passed down through the male line are all "strikingly similar", researchers concluded in BBC. Besides that the Bagpipe is on of the most typical musical instrument in northern Spain specially in Galicia.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
It's melting me when I hear .."I'll cross the world for green and gold
But its those spanish eyes
That get me home...home again"
just love them with all my heart
Andreeea18rock 3 years ago
good u2 days
Today - they seems to be with bush and the pope
izkx 3 years ago
Ali is deffo a dub' (lol)
ANEMYLLAB 3 years ago
My Spanish Eyes
juandosu 3 years ago
I think this song is about Bono's wife which she is from Spain.
sfumato1002 3 years ago 3
Bono's wife is from Ireland
guzio1986 3 years ago
Ali's family is spanish Irish. The mixture of Irish and Spanish blood dating from the time of the Spanish Armada, when many shipwrecked Spanish sailors were washed up on the Irish coastline and wound up staying. Many Irish families have Spanish ancestry. learn you history bro. Ali may be from Ireland but her roots are mostly from Spain.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
If I'm not mistaken, that specific strain of Irish ancestry is called "Black Irish." My birth mother (I'm adopted) was described as Black Irish. I suspect Philomena Lynott, mother of the sainted Philip, had some Black Irish ancestry, as well.
Interesting, how Irish military disasters have scattered the seed of Eire in some unlikely places. Thanks to the San Patricio Brigade in the Mexican-American War we can find red-headed Mexicans with surnames like "Ferrell"!
Kirok 3 years ago
Yup, you are mistaken. Spaniards arent' black. The term black irish is probably from the the mexican-american war, because that term is from the USA? You know americans are ignorant and call mexican spanish. Anyway, I'm talking about the spanish armada from spain. Besides that in spain the celts from the basque country had ties with ireland and scotland. The Welsh and Irish Celts have been found to be the genetic blood-brothers of Basques, scientists have revealed according to the BBC.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
Hold up just a second. I'm talking about two entirely different things.
"Black Irish" has NOTHING to do with African ancestry; people of that description usually have dark hair and fair skin, as do many people from Spain.
The San Patricios fought hundreds of years after Drake sank the Spanish Armada in a conflict that took place a continent and an ocean away from the Mexican-American War.
Kirok 3 years ago
Then I don't know what your point was. I was referring that this song is about his wifes ancestry and in fact that of ireland. Then you brought up the "black irish term" which has nothing to do with Spain or Ireland. Again search "Spain and Ireland Part 1 of 10" on youtube. "black isish" is a term used in the states I guess, I never heard the term and it has nothing to do with Irish history. The point is Spain an Ireland have a history going back thousands of years.
sfumato1002 3 years ago
Another thing you need to keep in mind is that you are problable from the USA, and most americans know very little about the history of Europe and specially Spain. It's not rare to see americans confuse Spain with Mexico. You even call latin americans "Hispanics" when that term in strictly only for the Iberian Peninsula. Having Mexico so close to the USA an the fact that they speak spanish, you probably figure Mexican=Spanish LOL.
sfumato1002 3 years ago 2
You're probably right about American provincialism, unfortunately. But as I noted elsewhere, I wasn't confusing "Mexican" with "Spanish."
I've lived abroad, visited a half-dozen countries on three continents (not the Iberian Peninsula, alas -- although my wife has), speak three languages and read several more, and -- being Latino myself -- recognize that the term "Hispanic" was adopted for the convenience of demographers at the expense of accuracy.
Kirok 3 years ago
0:53-1:05 L.O.L.
rohm274 3 years ago
one of the best B-Sides of u2
RikiCe85 3 years ago 2
SSSSSSSOOOOOO sexy. One of my fav U2 songs.
And sexy Bono singing? Muah.
KamiMetal 3 years ago 4
This song is with me from the beginnin of My Own Cuban Crisis:))heheheheh....
patologia80 3 years ago
why are spanish eyes different than frnech, russian or indian eyes?
ithinkilikethis 3 years ago