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  • hermosa la cancion hasta se nota el sentimiento que transmite, en especial esta version, saludos a FIME y a FACDYC

  • @Mordecai06 It means you have been blessed by god. Best song writer in h world

  • Awesome song...one of the best ever. It's a shame this will never be on the radio

  • What does it mean making 200 songs and you don't play the best one at your concerts?

  • @Mordecai06 Because "best" is a matter of opinion. Also, perhaps the pace of the show wouldn't flow correctly. Personally, I'd want them to play "Acrobat" from this album.

  • i would like to ask bono why they didnt and still dont play this live.

  • any song they play is awesome rare or not it's all top shelf

  • So precious :)

  • wow

  • not that rare.

  • Mirá vos ??? no lo sabía . Gracias por compartir.....

  • Best live version of the song for me! Emotions all around

  • The audio is taken from a sound check or dress rehearsal at Hershey Park USA, circa spring of 1992 right before the "Zoo TV outside broadcast" leg of the tour was about to begin in the US. The video is not related to the audio. What makes this rare is that "So Cruel" was never really performed during this tour except for this sound check. The song was also pretty much never played during the entire tour in US, EU, Australia and Japan.

  • @anacrobat89 has the song ever been played on tour?

  • @imedi I think they may have played a snippet of the song in Europe during the Zootv tour. But outside of that it has never actually been performed in full on tour.

  • @anacrobat89 I was at that Hershey Park dress rehearsal!

  • @McFuchsto I wish the radio would play it so more people knew about it.

  • I have this recording, its sound check from Hershey, PA. you can find it at U2torrents

  • Great song, shitty video!

  • @McFuchsto I'm from Miami...I remember back in the days hearing this song alot coming from cars passing by I don't know if it was coming from the radio or the person's cd player. to this day this song for me has a sort of Miami vibe to it.....i guess cuz it reminds me of every girl in Miami.

  • WTF does "rare version" mean?

  • @posilipos it means your mom is a whore

  • @dhide14

    Ι say that the bride is a whore.And ofcourse yoy cant fuck her because your dick is small.

  • @McFuchsto yes a hidden gem from u2 only for us fans and there are many hidden u2 gems

  • what fucktard posted this? its shit. not to mention the wanking video. foad. I'm a real U2 fan

  • When was this played? The band played the song just 3 times in 1992 on the Zoo TV Tour, and snippeted it once.

  • @HolaDeco apparently the audio is from Hershey soundcheck in 1992. video seems to be SNL from 2008 (hence the Olympic NBC logo).

  • @ArtMonkforHallofFame The video seems to be from 2004/5, with the band performing Stuck in a Momement. Bono has had shorter hair since 2006

  • @HolaDeco you are 100% correct. Perhaps it was the 2005 performance on Conan.  I dunno.

  • The lip sync is so bad it looks like a Japan bar scene before Godzilla smashes it up.

  • @dalotel I think the lip sync is so bad,beacuse they're singing a different song on the actual video.Its just a bit of footage,it doesnt mean they are singing so cruel.As for this being shit i dont know if you're also commenting on the quality of the recording,if so it just possible its a bootleg recording.Quality may not be stunning,but how many times have you heard this performed live?.

  • i still remember when i first heard this song...my brother had the cd so he copied it to a cassette...& so it was either the last song on Side A or the first on Side B...anyhow i remember lying on my bed & hearing this song, the chills it sent down my body...i remember wishing that one day i would experience a love as tragic & beautiful as this song...i'm 34 now & still haven't experienced that...where have all the men gone????

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  • @McFuchsto selfish. Radio would be much better off playing deep cuts off albums of great bands and maybe, just maybe a song like this could save some poor soul who's music library consists of Lady Gaga, Lil' Wayne and Nickelback. Radio sucks but to say you're glad this song is ignored by it makes no sense. the world can always use some great music to be heard.

  • MASTERPIECE!!

  • WOW.WONDERFULL.

  • Probably my favorite version of any U2 song I have ever heard.

  • Love the song but this video is shit...

  • wow such a wonderfull song...

  • My hair is standing on end, even though I must have listened to this a thousand times

    Thanks

  • haunting

  • thaks so much for the song i hear ever time and the zoo tv change my life,i can´t live with u2,forever from portugal

  • Yes, it's much different from the album version. I'm even not sure if I really like this one. Anyway the song is virtually great.

  • qué canción es la que muestra el video???

  • :^)my one true love is u22 you tube >>>>>>>

  • I'm somewhere, your just not there when I get back.

  • in 1991 i was 19.the achtung baby album was mega  even better live

  • Once i red that Edge and Bono wrote this song when edges girlfriend left him! I don't know if it's true, but this song has a lot of it, a lot of pain and revenge!

  • @pinkfloydianou2

    wife. edges wife left him.

  • @pinkfloydianou2 Not his girlfriend, his wife.

  • Every single time I hear "You put your lips to her lips to stop the lie" the hair on my arms and neck stand up. What a powerful, painful, beautiful song.

  • @extreme67 i like miami :)

  • My favorite U2 song. Some say smell evokes the most powerful memories but I believe music does. Heartbreaking song..I saw them during their Zoo TV Tour and was so hoping that they'd play this song but they didn't. I can see why they have only played this song live a few times due to the emotional nature. Great rare version -- thanks for posting it!

  • Your comment is a gem.

    Quote every word. Indeleble song.

  • OMG, full band electric So Cruel *dies* :D

    so painful and intense and at the same time so wonderful song...

  • I've been a U2 fan since the 80's. i know that people have said that U2 lost it luster after that but I since these guys play and they are awesome. This song has been one of my favorites songs and this version makes me cry because of the sound and Bono's voice is just great. But the Edge playing that guitar is freaking amazing. U2 is da best

  • haha ive seen u2 like 35 times but i've never seen them plyaing this song alive

  • I am seeing U2 in LA next weekend and I would just die if they would play this song, My favorite

  • Does anybody know, where is this audio taken from?

    Which year? Venue?

  • He says in the description that it is from a soundcheck at Hershey (an arena?) in 1992.

  • Hershey is where they practiced before the Zoo tv tour. It is a stadium, there are bootleg tapes called the Hershey Tapes. I have seen them for sale on the internet

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  • By far one of the great songs from Acthung Baby...should have been more of a hit if you ask me. Thanks for the live audio, as a hardcore fan it's awesome to hear a track that they don't even ever do live.

  • this video is way way wrong,this is a song that i use to play over and over again when i lost my love,i love the lyrics and the music.Bono must've been really hurting to put this song together the whole album is a bag of tears and heart-ache,thank you for the release Bono.still love album after all the years,my 12 yr son loves U2

  • someone once told me that this song is about edge and aislin- his x wife

    someone asked them why they never play this live and one of them said " wed have to meditate in a tree for a month to be able to play this live" haha

    its amazin that someone captured it live

  • The reason Achtung has such sad songs on it is because Edge and his first wife were splitting up. the entire band felt the pain of this, because they are such a tight knit group.

    But yeah just like you, I listen to this album whenever I'm heartsick or heartbroken.

  • i like it, awesome........

  • This is fucking great.

  • Why this song never been hit.

    This is my best song ever, ever, ever.

    Thank you for this song Bono.

  • i think & fell exactly the same as you

    i love this song!! even better than other U2's great songs, i.e. Bad, With or Without You, etc.

    its very touching as well as beautiful

    but ordinary people usually dont rate it so high as i (and you) do

    this might be because, i think, people regard it as a less powerful, less enrergetic song when compared to other U2 songs, which i never think so.

  • I think that video is of an acoustic performance of Stuck in a Moment. I've seen it before somewhere. Awesome version of one of Acthung Baby's little-known gems. Thanks for uploading

  • great song

    i love this version as well as the original one

  • como q nada q ver lo q canta con el movimiento de la boca, si hasta en el video The Edge canta, aunque no en lo q se escucha... pero al menos se tiene la version

  • Also, I was just thinking, this would have sounded so perfect during the acoustic part of the show. Like during the parts where Still havent found what im looking for,when love comes to town and later on STAY got play.

  • The cruelest thing about this song is its a bitch to sing live.. Still, fantastic version!

  • FUCK BEING AFRAID

  • Agreed. This song helps make Achtung Baby the masterpiece that it is, along with Acrobat.

  • Yes two very underrated songs

  • @asnunez818 yees...

  • What I can't understand is why this beautiful song is never played on the radio (I never heard it) and in concerts??? Years, years ago I discovered the song on the Achtung Baby Cd and from that moment on - I still listen to it to this day.

  • I agree with you totally , when you look @ the nineties for all the great music that came out ala ..grunge and hip-hop; but i will take achtung in a close race over bloodsugarsexmagic and the best song off the album is def so cruel , so why over the years has john q public not realized this .. ive not a clue

  • I agree. At that time this song "So Cruel" was and still is overlooked. BloodSugarSexMagick is a masterpiece, especially 'Apache Rose Peacock'. My point is the best music is never popular, it remains in the underground. Especially in Metal. Where it belongs, away from the ears of band wagon followers.

  • Nice video man! Thanks :)

  • where was this version done?? and when??

  • 08-07-92,Hersey-Pennsylvania (sound check before the concert).

  • I like the home video images here. It's better than "Linear". :)

    So, people, do make home videos and put them on YouTube as much as you can. That should be the main purpose of this site. Hence the name.

  • People on youtube, please quit making these cheesy homemade videos. This is a great version of So Cruel though.

  • A MASTER PIECE!!!

  • cuando escucho esta cancion, me hace pensar quie realmente tengo mucho miedo de enamorarme...:(

  • no manches con razon quieres crear pleito nadie te escribe desde hace un año... no manches no seras tu el emo (antisocial) tirando tu lagrimita como el jotito de Jared Leto jajajajaj y no manches con tus estupidos comentarios por favor aqui solo puro fan de verdad de U2

  • por si no lo entendiste... ESTUPIDA EMO!!

  • no no entendi estupido NACO

  • VISTE?? no lo entendista porque sos una estupida emo... solo una enfermita mental puede "tener miedo a enamorarse" jaja que patetico... encima me calificas el comentario de negativo, como si me importara jajaj

    ESTUPIDA EMO!!

  • entandista no no se que significa voss??? de donde eres cheee regresa a tu rincon donde dios no paso.... y si me contestas mi comentario y dices que no te importa

  • ESTUPIDA EMO... "ay... tengo miedo de enamorarme" jajaja que bruta que sos... para mi que a vos te agarro la gripe porcina...

  • y creo que np soy la unica en calificarte mal cancer social

  • otra vez tu pense que te habias suicidado chale byeee contigo X

  • Beautiful version !!!

  • oscar donde conseguiste eso??/contestame por favor???me quede boquiabierta.

  • "Everyone is entitled to their emotions"...that is absolutely true, I agree with you

  • Zoo Tv the best tour in Rock n Roll history.. best U2 days. They are still great and I can't wait for the next album but Atchung Baby and Zoo Tv will always be U2 finest.

  • Bono and the band were at their peak then, no doubt.

  • Bono singing like a bird...lovely.

  • the edge riff at the start of this live version has been ripped off by snow patrol on their new album, the song is called lifeboats. check it out, it's exactly the same!

  • Oh man, they really did! This is worse than Viva la Vida and Satriani!!

  • .................This performance is from the early 90's you tool. U2 didn't rip off anything. It's from 1992. And to the other guy who commented, never talk about u2 in the same respect as Coldplay. Coldplay is shit.

  • uh....i think he's saying snow patrol copied u2 and the other guy's saying its even more blatant than coldplay ripping off joe satriani....

    they're on ur side dude!!!!

  • it gives me the chills...I love it!

  • Love song?? Maybe take a look at my video (Shanda Sharer part 5)with editing and another subject it can mean something else.

    any way one slices it...it is a GREAT SONG

  • Very BEautiful, LOVE U2 !!!

  • 4:58 thought so. it looked like the conan o'brian show. this was when they did a full hour of U2 on the show.

  • This is from a soundcheck bootleg known as "The Hershey tapes" from their ZooTV tour before a show in Foxboro, Massachusetts, during which they performed a part of this song. Other than that, this song has never been performed live.

  • yep

    either bono or edge said to perform that song live they would have to meditate in a tree for a month

  • Say huh? They won't perform it live? Meditate for a month in a tree? Ooook. That's odd, but I guess artists are entitled to be quirky. It is a fantastic song, though. Glad I've got the CD at least.

  • Actually, they did do it live once...kinda. Bono did a solo acoustic version to end the acoustic set at the Pontiac Silverdome show in Sept. '92 (the infamous VMA hookup show).

    I know this 'cause I was about 30 feet away from him when he did it.

    This full-band version's beautiful, though. Thanks to oscarg for posting it!

    #@!

  • Està buena, ¿Eh?, gracias.

  • super version de so cruel. podrías enviarmela please!!!!!!!!, neta te lo agradecere

  • one of the most intense U2 songs ever.you tremble while listening......

  • whats the song thier really playing here in the video?

  • stuck in a moment

  • u2 la mejor banda del mundo no hay comparacion gracias por estos videos

  • Beautiful song, love it... thanks for the live version! they should include it in some tour...

  • hermosa versión, nunca la oi en vivo, gracias oscar.

  • agreed- the Beatles anthology versions are better than the polished studio versions.

  • OHHH Yeah...Gteat song and great version...

  • Although the images from the wedding are not related to the song at all, they are like memories from better times, better days and the song is about someone who is so hurt beacuse those days are gone forever and those beautiful memories now hurt.

  • Sorry man, the song is not about any old memory, it deals a present situation that hurts.

  • No wonder why i said that the images and the lyrics are not related at all, cause the lyrics are about a present situation and the images are showing us certainly people that is living happy.

  • better than the album version..

  • If only they did play this song live. This is a beautiful version.

  • If only they did play this song live. This is a beautiful version.

  • very nice, why they didn't play it on ZooTV more often is beyond me..

  • better version than on cd

  • all their songs are,, their just the greatest live band ever!!

  • ojala la cantaran mas veces es preciosa

  • very rare. very beautiful.

  • esta es una gran cancion lastima que nunca la canten e vivo ubiera estado genial que la cantaran en el azteca puta me muero

  • Asi es, si hubieran tocado esta o ultraviolet me muero, pero antes hubiera mojado los pantalones.

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