U2- Levitate

[TheMuleRock]

this sounds like something from the Achtung Baby sessions. You can hear Zoo Station 2:22, and throughout the rest of the song the bass line is straight Zoo

[luieu2]

Brilliant !

[juandaman07]

1.12 could be The Stone Roses. Their nod to the Great Mancs perhaps?

[breburran]

Great song. Burrows deep into your subconscious. I keep hearing "Spirit come on down" inside my head. It lingers and surfaces. I must hear song. Great job, U2!

[osheal]

777

[SpocKaren]

You know a song's great when it has no dislikes...

[luieu2]

Great video :-)

[dtpc191991]

Aside form Beautiful Day, this is better than anything on ATYCLB, hell this could comfortabley make The Joshua Tree.

[TheBeautifulStream]

OMG! Sounds like the 2000's and 90's mixed into one... with maybe a hint of the future! :D

[zakilaouira]

great song

[Caillou263543]

it's strange, we can find some lyrics from Wild Honey, Always and Miracle Drug, this is really a nice demo :)

[annnmarie1974]

date: 25:04:2010...this is how easy it is to begin a statement on this site. PLEASE!! PUT THE DATE FIRST!! because it helps loads..

[erickrolo]

Yeah , maybe this song could be in the "Pop" album , I really love the lyrics and the music, I think that this song is perfect for KARAOKE.

[mattressjedi]

@erickrolo

This song really reminds me of The Passengers album.Maybe a little too much guitar for that. But it does have some of that album's vibe.

[acrobatzootv]

Un très grand morceau !

Viva U2 Rock And Punk Rock !

webuz2tv

[ANEMYLLAB]

bliss.

classic U2

[clublife32]

Another great POP leftover.Man POP would have been better IMO if they would have added this song,Holy Joe,Big Girls Are Best,North and South of the River,Stateless,Im Not Your Baby,ect.Yep POP should have been a double album IMO.

[pennypyro42]

i LOVE "Big Girls Are Best!"

[TheAmiyakumar]

love the drums...

[greyday1]

this is a great new favorite of mine. i wish they'd perform more b-sides live. this would be great on the new tour. Always is another cool song.

[vandrewlongstrider]

Reminds me a bit of 'Gone': "I'll be up with the sun. I'm not coming down."

[SariPanni]

Spirit come on down, no I'm not coming down

[fortitude78]

I'm really suprised this never ended up as a b-side on the singles released from ATYCLB. You can tell they were searching for direction with this track - it's still dancey - a carry over from Pop, a Zoo Station/ Salome style bassline in parts - yet guitar lines in the breakdown are Beautiful Day. And the newborn baby's head lyric that ended up in Miracle Drug on HTDAAB.

[ANEMYLLAB]

Absolutely.

They are a different class from everything.

Some loathe them.They can do no wrong musically imo.

This is a great track,as is 'Love you like Mad'

[Rubikscube27]

Man, U2 are ridiculously good. After so many years, I still love almost everything they do, even the tracks they throw away. No other band impresses me as consistently as U2. They're an inspired band.

[monikavox]

It's a pearl. It has something from POp. At 2:03 it sounds like Zooropa. Really great. It should be realased much earlier. Thanks U2 for all your passion, love and joy you give me.

[lisamarie656]

This really is a good song.

Spirit, come on down.....

[mrschaos1]

Amazing!!! don`t know how I hadn`t heard this! Thanks for posting :)

[hectamar1]

simple incredible

[recobalegend20]

has the same lyric as miracle drug.

[Ptrrrrrrrr]

yea, they do that some times, recycle a lyric from a non-studio song. they did before, I think for The more you see the less you know or something (cant remember exactly)

[HacjienceYukona]

This song has a Miracle Drug lyric too!

[jamaicanhemp]

yeah.. miracle drug lyrics

[MrU2man]

Bloody magnificant song.Takes me away to another place this band.Keep on keepin on u utter legends

[malrem]

veramente molto bella!!!!!

[oliwil92]

the song reminds me of Wild Honey

[acrobat311]

I wish it had made it to ATYCLB.

[19AD93]

some lyrics they used at miracle drug;

Freedom has a sence

like a new born babyshead

or something

[Franckdatankpart2]

a scent like a newborn baby's head

[rocksuena]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH VERY GOOD SONG

For me, this song had gone to LEVITATE album (All That You Can not Leave Behind)

was the best song of this album later

Beautiful Day

elevation

kite

walk on

stuck in a moment you can not get out of

when you look at the world

U2 THE BEST BAND OF THE WORLD

[Europe1992]

4:15 Everybody smile =D

[b377a]

where can i downloads this

[justme788]

love this song!

[LoveAndPeaceOrElsee]

"no I'm not coming down"-probably from the chorus of Gone

"To be the bee, to be the bee and the flower

Before the sweetness, before the sweetness turns to sour"- this is nearly exactly like the beggining of the 2 verse in Always, the beautiful day b-side

"freedom has a scent

It's like the top of a newborn baby's head"

Is from the chorus of Miracle Drug...by the way its a great song

[anacrobat89]

Yeah, this b-side is a good example of U2's song writing. They'll record dozens of songs and try to come up with the best arrangements from all to make one song. But this song itself is pretty uplifting..

[sgf1989]

I noticed that too, but hey something good came from all that

[luieu2]

f n awsome

[u2MacPhisto09]

This song is really not bad, im listening to it a second time and it's really growing on me lol

[craighunter73]

Does anyone REALLY know what songs are gonnae end up on the new CD?

If Smile and Levitate are samples of what's ahead, I'm more than delighted.

No B.S. please! Does anyone have an answer folks?

[njbono2007]

Its being used on new album, this is the one song that held up the release in NOV. 08. They just couldn't finish it (from what I've read).

Then in Feb they were redoing Smile (which was orginally 9mins long)

[tommylikethewolf]

njbono, I hope to God you're right because I'm dying to download these songs and I CANNOT FIND THEM.

The pain, The pain!!

[lewecca]

i had a copy of this song in late 2007 ..with another song called mercy..i think.

[malilite]

Génial !

[fortitude78]

This is fantastic! Why wasn't it ever put on a b-side? Love the scat dance rhythms. Perhaps they're saving some of this for later?

[redjaguar2]

This was a really interesting song to listen to. "Levitate" is the basic recipe for half a dozen other ATYCLB and HTDAAB songs-its bits and pieces ended up in so many other great songs. I love U2! This is creative recycling at its best!

[Paint4U2]

YEAH!

[Squemby]

Why has belfastrangers comment been hidden?

Why have you censored someones plausible point of view...i dont agree with what he has said but why has he been prevented from voicing his opinion to others?

You are a nazi!!!!

[Bruni93]

c'mon you're kidding! you're comment has to be hidden because of that nazi thing! thats just incomprehensible and you can't tolerate sth like that!

[Squemby]

Ok i dont mean that you are literally a nazi, but why have you hidden his comment just because of his opinion...he hasnt said anything offensive. Hes been censored because of his opinion...something that U2 rally against.

[Bruni93]

i haven't hidden his comment! everyone can do it just by pushing one button! so please don't affront me and my country for things i haven't done!

[LordLiamo]

Are you livin' in the past?

No country is perfect ya gobshite.

Tell me where you're from and I guarantee I can say something bad about your country just as you did ther

[Squemby]

What country?

I never mentioned any country?

[LordLiamo]

Well it's a bit ironic that you called a german girl, a Nazi. When infact you're more of one than her. Insulting her like that. Who do you think you are?...Twater

[Bruni93]

thank you all for your comments and for 10.000 views! the greatest band also has the greatest fans! you're the best!

[FlowMephisto]

wonderful song^^

it speaks for this great band, that SUCH a song is a b-side^^

U2 is the best band in the world, every song of them touched my feelings :D

[LordLiamo]

Ok, I know I said it before. But, you have uploaded the best songs. I havent heard this one before.

Thanks yet again *****

[A026]

AWESOME SONG!!!!!! How can I download this song onto my computer?

[u2snumberonefan]

love it!

[U2Sister]

I love their old stuff. But I cannot tell you how much the new stuff lifts me up! Window, Walk On, Original, Always - all have beautiful lyrics. & I love others mainly for the "movement" of the song - Fast Cars, Elevation, Love & Peace, Vertigo. I will forever adore Streets, I Will Follow, The Fly, Acrobat, Out Of Control, With Or Without You, etc. But I guess that in my deep love for their path in life, their experiments & depth, I have evolved with their music. God Bless U2. ALWAYS #1 !

[19AD93]

how you get all this songs??

neve heard before,ther great!!

[Bruni93]

thank you! lol! you could get them at the itunes-store, but i dont know if you can get them there now.

[TheGavio93]

@Bruni93 torrent!!

[LucyLieben]

Oh man, this is my absolute favorite song by U2! Thanks for posting it!

[Bruni93]

no problem! thx for your comment!!

[scottclemente]

wow! they have a lot of awesome b-sides/unreleased song that are really good, this one not my favorite

[sgf1989]

where can I get an mp3 of this? I'm toally a b-side freeloader

[Bruni93]

you could get it on the i-tunes store a year ago, but i'm not sure if you can get it there now. just try!;)

[nightimeman]

great I love it u2 is God's band !

[ScandalCrow]

They're just people.

[babyblueloveangel]

haha.. well yeah. but they are a great band. my favorite ever.. :)

[ScandalCrow]

Same here. I grew up with them. If you really want to see something funny, look at the war I started by accident on the "Love is blidness/ can't help falling in love video". It's gotten out of hand...rofl. All I said to start this riot is that Daniel Lanois, along with Brian Eno, wrote and performed the music for Love Is Blindness on Achtung Baby while U2 were in Morroco filming the Mysterious Ways video. Chaos has ensued! But I'm right. Lanois said so at a concert my brother attended.

[rb27indahouse]

oh wow.. ok i'll watch. and yeah, i've been in a few war of words myself. i know how it is :)

[babyblueloveangel]

i had actually heard that before myself. that they weren't there for the song's production. interesting!

[vhuskey]

spandex cow:

isn't that why you come to these sights, just to find something to bitch about and end up in wars?

obviously, you don't like thier music, so you didn't come to listen.

[ScandalCrow]

Excuse me, Veryhuskey, but I happen to enjoy U2's music quite a bit (most likely even more than you). I grew up listening to them. They were my gateway drug to music. Now I do music for a living. So before you start a war here, think about what you are saying. This is the problem with U2 fans...they think U2 can do no wrong and anyone who says something in a critical way, you jump on the defense. This is why I hate the fans. I have a right to say what I want if I buy the albums.

[vhuskey]

fair enough. my jump was premature. you yourself didn't do it, but sometimes people come to commenting just really trash agaist u2, it's unwarrented, and i don't know why they even come on their song site if they hate them so much. like i say, your right, i was premature & unwarrented myself this time. no war here!

[U2Sister]

If you read Conversations, you'll see that Bono makes a comment about being in the recording studio for that very song & how The Edge was so wracked with pain over the end of his marriage that he was bending the strings on his guitar during the solo & you can hear one break during the recording. It's still in the song.

[SaintSylvia]

"top of a newborn baby's head" he uses this phrase in "Levitate" and "Miracle Drug" does anyone know if there is any hidden meaning in that?

[rufus102]

He's saying "Freedom has a scent, like the top of a newborn baby's head" - ever smelled a newborn baby's head? It's beautiful,unique,pristine.

[vhuskey]

god, i love love this song!

it's exciting!

[terrestre86]

Where can I find this song? Sounds from the nienties.....

[Bruni93]

I'm sorry but I'm not sure. I found it on the internet and I think it's from the end of the 80's up to the 90's.

[u2htdaab]

I can email you this song. I'm pretty sure it's actually from the 2000 All That You Can't Leave Behind sessions...his voice definitely sounds post-Pop.

[Bruni93]

yea, i think you're right. i didn't think about it yet.

[SaintSylvia]

It's in the "Rare" collection along with some other songs from studio sessions and alternate versions, and like u2htdaab mentioned it is accredited to ATYCLB sessions.

[AchtungBaby79]

It´s only available in ITunes store. See en.wikipedia. No B-Sides. See en.wikipedia --> "The complete U2"