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  • To Greg Carroll a legendary Maori roadie, and to One Tree Hill, a legendary place in NZ during 1980's to get a bit wasted. RIP both of you, and let this song remain special to Kiwis worldwide.

  • Damn this is a awesome song one you can keep listening too and never get tired of !

  • NEW ZEALAND!!!!!!! that is all. FUCK THE TV SHOW!!!! RIP GREG

  • "One Tree Hill.. we see the sun go down..." <3 :'( Just reminds me of OTH and the 9 amazing years it's lived <3

  • This could be the intro of the tv show. I've seen one episode and this would fit perfectly!

  • TV series One Tree Hill's title is inspired by this song... Thank you, U2!

  • I hope they play this on the last episode of one tree hill.

  • i really like this song, my dad was playing this all the time. ;)

  • The song is not about the show but anyway the show brought me here. Thank you One Tree Hill, thank you U2.

  • Best U2 song ever. So underrated - it's just a lyrical masterpiece.

  • for greg carrol the cunt that smashed my bike up ,,thats what he meant

  • my favorite song. so powerful!

  • @ortizu2 Yes! Bono knows how to make it rain hard! :)

  • I know all about U2, to know this was released in 1987! But, one of my favourites too

  • When The Edge had hair...^^

    Wonderfulllllll!! video!

  • Flamenco Bono rules!!!

  • I know this song isnt about the tv show One Tree Hill. But in my opinion everytime I listen to this song I feel like crying... Because I know that the best tv show of all time is ending after 9 years!!! :'( For me it will never end...

  • @lovely90able The only reason I knew about this song was because the name of the very final episode of OTH (Season 9 Episode 13) is called "One Tree Hill" named after a U2 song

  • I saw this live, July 5, 2011 at Soldier Field in Chicago. Usually the song is only played in New Zealand. We were blessed.

  • @SkyrimOrBust

    Chicago always has one of the best setlists on a U2 tour, unreal ! I've seen so many shows, but never saw this played live . Yes, you were truelly blessed they played this (great version too) although Bono had trouble finding the right lyrics, but I guess that only proves he's human after all . Anyway, it was a great tribute to Greg Carroll who sure isn't forgotten by the band or the fans . Bono mentioning him was a class act . From a proud fan .

  • Linda canção, u2 com apenas 27 anos de idade já faziam classicos do rock !

  • 17 people are disliking the quality. No one can dislike this "exquisite U2 masterpiece" as drillsgtvee wonderfully puts it.

  • What a pity what happened to this band. Once singing about hunger, greed and poverty. Today: having an enterprise in a tax-saving country and making ads for Louis Vuitton. This is how credibility passes once you get money and power. Sad, simply sad. How I admired them in the 90´s....

  • @kistarzan Hey motherfucker enough with your BO class warfare. If U2 made a trillion dollars and gifted us with works like this it would a push or fair. Now get that Obama cock out of your capped mouth!!! Fucking retard or Obamabot.Go fuck your sorry ass.

  • Acabo de descubrir una gran cancion!!!

    

  • @Pablo78733 y yo sinceramente descubri hace poco uno de los discos mas hermosos que haya escuchado: The Joshua Tree..

  • 17 people dont know what "music" means...

  • fake and gay

  • so... now it's just a hill :(

  • pity they cut the tree down, a protester damaged the tree beyond recovery. they have no intention of replacing the tree any time soon. that was a sad time as the tree had been an icon in Auckland for so long. use to try and be the first to spot it on the way in.

  • does this have anything to do with the show onetreehill?

  • @jessica5962 No, the song is named after a hill in Auckland, New Zealand.

  • @jessica5962 Not unless the show came out in 1987, so that's a no.

  • Before "One Tree Hill", there was, er, "One Tree Hill"! ;-D

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  • 17 retardados!

  • Immortal.....

  • R.I.P Greg Carroll. I Love New Zealand so much

  • one of a kind song :)

    

  • masterpiece

  • U2 U2 U2 U2

  • Thanks so much for uploading this. We are working on a documentary on Victor Jara, the martyred Chilean socialist singer-songwriter this song is about. Info and trailer w/ part of Bono's interview at:

    resurrectionofvictorjara (dot) com

    Bono has some great comments we just taped in an interview on how important Victor was...and continues to be.

  • This is one of my favorite U2 songs.

  • Those opening words, gives me chills every time.

  • i was in london in 1981 just after the brixton riots and i heard U2s "I Will Follow" and i was hooked. I saw them at the SF Cow Palace in 1984 and now at 51 years of age, i look upon U2 -, along with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Warren Zevon, Lou Reed, and Randy Newman as the angry Muses of our generation. Great Grandpa kingston from Ballydehob who emigrated to Riverbank California to farm in the early 1900s, i can feel your ghost.. 

  • I really believe that U2 should have done the soundtrack to 'The Lion King' :)

  • This song makes me "fly"!!!

  • his song is such a work of art. the first team i heard it was after being left by my very first girlfriend i was just a young child. i cried at the line "boys speak their hearts, and bleed for it." :) U2 changes lives btw.

  • the JT was and still is a landmark recording...in a way the Blood in the Tracks of my college years generation...before this I listened to my parents Beatles/Stones era...now there was a band I could call my own...detractors cried sellout when this lp went mega...and yes side 1 is radio friendly...but taken as a whole...the lp has a dark feel...i remember staying up all night on a glorious moon soaked spring night in Fargo ND...making love to a woman I should have married...dreaming...sleeping.­.

  • from the criminally ignored side 2.JT....U2 were never this good again...

  • U2 Rocks; Took leave while in the Marine Corps to see their concert in Anahiem, California. I hope they hold a concert here in Hawaii in the near future.

    Aloha from the Islands

  • An under-appreciated song from one of the most important albums of the past 30 years...359,325 views. Something called "With Ur Love" by Cher Lloyd ft. Mike Posner...7,045,186 views. WTH?!?!

  • ireland!!!!

  • Rattle and Hum FOREVER !!!!!!

  • @bonomacphisto1 i am a u2 fan from the boy album. there was a local "new wave" band that always played "i will follow", i thought it was an original however they told me about this dublin band called u2. i bought it the next day. i saw rattle and hum at the movies..wow! i have seen them several times now and have all the live dvds. without a doubt rattle and hum shows the real u2. All the glitter and over the top is good, but its no rattle and hum!!

  • For Greg Caroll r.i.p

  • sounds like shit live

  • @RetardGenius

    you sound like shit.

    not only live.

  • @sensualviper lol

  • WOW what a great song.

    U2 are one of the best bands in the world!!

  • Lindo! Maravilhoso!!!

    De qual dvd é este vídeo? Tem +? Help...

  • glad that this song came up first when searching for it, thought i'd have to navigate the shitty tv show

  • Essa música que inspirou a série One Tree Hill.. maravilhosa música!

  • hate his politics but love joshua tree album songs! at night in my car in joshua tree california where i live

  • LOL

  • Why was this not released as a single? Best off the album by far!

  • Yes!!!!!

  • WHY, WHY, WHY did they not put this song on Rattle & Hum????????????

  • does anyone know where was this gig?? this is from rattle and hum/joshua tree era..

    also best version of running to stand still was recorded from the same gig..

  • @jorgoshki im sure it was arizona

  • Who the fuck is Justin Bieber?

  • Makes me proud to be a kiwi!

  • 7 people are Bieber fans

  • Just shut up about Justin Bieber, and enjoy the REAL, NON-MAINSTREAM music!

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  • One of my favorites back in their prime

  • The year 1987 was a pivotal one for me, and this exquisite U2 masterpiece captures the unbridaled and unending spirit of my then-18 youthful self.

    If U2's album 'Unforgeattable Fire' shaped my molten life, then 'Joshua Tree' forged it, steeled it.

    And this particular song still rings powerfully true, now, some 24 years later, and will until my last days.

  • @drillsgtvee Beautifully put

  • @lisamarie656,

    Many thanks! Cheers, DSV

  • @drillsgtvee My two fav albums as well...for the same reasons! Peace

  • @drillsgtvee I couldn't agree more. My life was like a just-poured jelly mould then along came The Tree and it kind of set and went all wobbly.

  • @drillsgtvee AGREED & being a maori from New Zealand this song hits my very soul & strengthens my Wairua [spirit]

  • @drillsgtvee Well said. I was also 18 years old in 1987, ad I bought this album about a week before leaving for the Army that summer. I listened to it over and over again, I still love it.

    

  • bieber is hybrid failure..

  • Superb. In my opinion probably one of the most beautiful songs by U2. And as to Justin Bieber, let's don't talk about him, let's enjoy this beautiful music.

  • I love this music since 1999 I was born in 1995 ! I suppose that seven people can´t hear..

  • This has to be the best U2 song! Simple,played with passion and great vocals

  • perfect song!!!

    my favorit music...

    

  • Bono's voice sounded so good and sharp back in those days... Spectacular song

  • The best band live. The best band. End of story

  • You run like a river.. in Chile!

  • justin bieber not a match to U2

  • RIP to Norway victims !

  • brings back some memories this, sitting in your room, 14 years old trying to figure what life is about, songs like this can help you on the way,

    back in 1987 Joshua Tree changed my life, or at least my perspective of life....

  • zo klaar ,anazing music ooit in depry kreeg ik kippenvel torhout fakkels om terrein dit was top jy hebt over bleeding love hun niet jou painted roses zyn echt met gevoel gemaakt well i love you no,one like you after theres nothing can,t better true love nou ik hurry

  • @mollysangelique How many different languages did you just comment in? I see some English and something that looks alot like Deutsch, although most words are spelled funny.

  • zo klaar

  • They played it last night in Chicago.

  • One of my top 12 U2 songs, along with Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Cedars of Lebanon, Kite, Please, Lemon, Acrobat/Love Is Blindness (they're tied:), Hawkmoon, Bad, Drowning Man, Fire, and Out Of Control!

  • This was played last night in Chicago, a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of his death. It was beautiful, and the final song.

  • @SkyrimOrBust

    And I was there and it was FANTASTIC!!

  • For those that don't know this song was on the "Joshua Tree" album and is dedicated to Greg Carroll who was part of U2's road crew, and was killed in a motorcycle accident while running an errand for Bono. You hear Bono mention him at the beginning of this song....

  • @brishi69 YEA!! I couldn't think of his name. The band was torn up when he was killed. they debated that Greg would want them to continue. "I'll see you again when the stars fall from the skies and the moon is painted red over one tree hill...." I bought "Joshua Tree" the day it was released. i'm a singer and always tear up when i sing it. you are remembered ...the moon is red over one tree hill"!!

  • It is great song, however this is not the best version of it I've heard

  • As a huge U2 fan, most may not agree, but i think this is their best live song ever. Bono's voice was amazing and the perfect sound comming from edges guitar gives me goose bumps to this day. How they did not include this in the Rattle & Hum movie is beyond me.

  • @macphistoig Same here. This is one of their best songs ever written. Beautifully sad, said and played. They did not like to perform this live, probably due to it's personal value. I just saw a few playlists and was awestruck to see this equisite tribute to Bono's friend there. It's deeply personal and moving to me and I would be honored if they perform this in Pittsburgh on the 26th! I always cry, and it's been cried for my lost loves.

  • Just saw them in Oakland earlier this month ... it was a Beautiful Day ... the show was Magnificent!

  • my fav off the joshea tree

  • why the fuck i have lady gaga on a U2 video

  • I want to hear Joshua Tree at my funeral!

  • @JuanMTPineda make sure your family and friends know that. i'm working on my top 100 songs. all they have to do is press play and remember...from the crazy punk shows to who, floyd, just to name a few, i know it will be the music i want to hear. i always was the dj (the old ones that play music that people should hear!! music, love, peace!!

  • Dear Vevo, Let me start by sayin get your corporate asses off youtube! Ever since these big companies started paying off youtube so they could post their videos we can't post ours. We are flagged for infringement evry time we include a song we like in our videos

    This is YOUtube, the place where we can post OUR videos. If we wanted to listen to music from you wed go to your damn website.

    To people who want greedy corporates gone THUMBS UP and COPY and PASTE this.

  • I really love this song, sweet

  • non smetteranno mai di darmi emozioni Ciao

  • non smetteranno mai di darmi emozioni Ciao 

  • hey does anyone know which album this song is from??? i mean this version of the song...

  • Victor Jara de Chile!!!

  • For me, their best track. Hairs on the back of my neck etc etc.

  • Grande Victor Jara ...Jara sang, his song a weapon, In the hands of one, though his blood still cries, From the ground ...

  • @angeloelbohemio sorry to correct you but it's 'Jaro', in the bible I believe, but I love the lyric.

  • Beautiful.

  • god im still sooooo in love

    

  • The song was written about Victor Jara, chilean poet and music man killed during Pinochet period.

  • who gives a fuck about Justin Bieber

  • Can anyone tell me if there exists a DVD wih this exact show??? This is the one at SUN DEVIL STADIUM 1987 right?? the same as the Rattle and Hum DVD's With or Without You, MLK, Running to Stand Still and Where the Streets Have no Name... this must be the best show ever!!

  • @jpbaidal This is the the same Sun Devil Stadium show as Rattle and Hum, but it's an Outtake, not in the final cut. If you search for Torrents you can find U2 Rattle and Hum Outtakes (I believe there are 4 total DVDs worth of material)

  • @jpbaidal

    This version appears on the VHS copy of their Greatest Hits 1980-1989 as a Bonus video. Not sure if it was ever re-released on DVD. The Sun Devil shows were among the finest during the Joshua Tree tour for sure.

  • great song, great spirit. BUT Bono is so absolutely pretentious, narsicitic and self-absorbed durring this time it's almost impossible to watch this. Like nails going down a chalk board.

  • @m00nracer Please explain how he was pretentious, narcissistic* and self-absorbed. I hear people say this all the time, yet they can't back-up their claims. All they can say is "he talks too much about politics and poverty" - all I can say to that is, there's nothing wrong with him using his celebrity status to raise awareness to global issues, but that's just my opinion.

  • Can anyone do me a copy of Rattle and Roll DVD from Joshua tree tour?

  • This version is even more beautiful than this one on album

  • One of my fav U2 songs

  • congratulations to The Joshua Tree!<3 that album!

  • F-ing AWESOME!!!!!!

  • Why the fuk every time i look on youtube for a video it diverts me to vevo why, why, why

  • im addicted im addicted to cock hehe

  • I am a one tree hill. As I venture out onto this earth I am always surprised that I essentially do this alone. That at the end of the day through defense mechanisms my heart of darkness has kept something just for myself. I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts.

  • R.I.P to the victims of the Christchurch earthquake - 22/02/11.

  • i have an instrumental version on y channel that i worked really hard on if you want to check it out?

  • Great Tune ....I worked at an underprivaleged kids camp for 8 years was also a fortunate camper for 4 years as child.....Big part of my life, This tune takes me there WAY TO GO Camp Maple Leaf.....Special Thanks to To The Canadian War Vets Creators of Camp Maple Leaf..

  • too bad they left this out of Rattle & Hum.

  • this should have made Rattle & Hum. too bad they left it out.

  • this should have made Rattle & Hum. too bad they left it out.

  • Awesome! Thanks for posting it.

  • Ojala la toquen el 30. El mejor tema.

  • I love U2. Seeing them again in July 2011. They are by far one of the best bands ever!

  • This is my all time favourite U2 song!

  • ive waited 5 mins for this to load,i have a 24 Mb connection,it loads adverts in seconds,well done google,knobheads

  • why am i seeing tinie tempah on the side of my screen?! fuck off!

  • This is an awesome song. RIP Greg Carroll.

  • Awesome!

  • Love this song.. I could listen to U2 for hours and not get bored!

  • a felicidade é como um "ritmo"

  • Vivo can go to hell. No more of their vids for me.

  • VEVO can suck a dick

  • No, VEVO can suck two or more dicks!

  • u2 made a song for aotearoa! (New Zealand) one love!

  • I love old authentic songs *sigh*

  • u2 in my heart!

  • U2 ROCKS

    VEVO SUCKS

    FUCK VEVO!!

  • Best band in the world. 

  • mihi nui ki nga tangata i roto i a papatuanuku ka nui te aroha

  • One tree hill disliked this video.

  • the respect and aroha given to Greg Carroll and his extended whanau gives U2 a special place in my heart forever

  • This doesn't get more views than Justin Bieber videos?

    What the hell happened to music?

  • @tatertottattum #1, since when does views have a direct correlation to the quality of music? The Spice Girls sold over 10 million albums; doesn't mean they're any good. Don't let it bug ya, mate.

    #2, you looked at a Justin Bieber video? =P