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Saiu na Rolling Stone um artigo sobre o 1º disco dos U2, Boy. O Bono dignou-se a comentar. Cito aqui a parte final do longo comentário ao artigo:

"you can have everything the songs, the production, the face, the attitude but still not have “IT”… U2 had nothing really, nothing but ‘IT’… For us music was a sacrament … an even more demanding and sometimes more demeaning thing than music as ART, we wanted to make a music to take you in and out of your body, out of your comfort zone, out of your self, as well as your bedroom, a music that finds you looking under your bed for God to protect your innocence…

…i’m proud of this little Polaroid of a life I cant fully recall. As well as the ability to make embarrassing mistakes, the demands of a great debut might be fresh ideas, fresh paint and sometimes for its canvas, a fresh face."

A verdade é que, goste-se ou não, eles marcaram para sempre a Música. Gostei de ele não pedir deculpas pelos erros que cometeram nesse disco, nem sequer se considera o melhor, tem só qualquer coisa... de inexplicável... Uma Polaroid de um momento na sua vida. Bonita imagem.

Gosto muito de U2, mas como em tudo o resto, de todas as que gosto muito, há duas de que gosto mais, e são as duas calmitas...

A 1ª, One, do grande Achtung Baby, por tudo e por nada. Grande som, aliado a uma letra estrondosa. Só não a consigo ouvir cantada pela voz estridente da Mary J. Blige, porque ela farta-se de guinchar e não há pachorra...

(...)

Did I disappoint you

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth

You act like you
never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's...Too late

Tonight

To drag
the past out into the light

(...)

Have you come here for forgiveness

Have you come to raise the dead

Have you come here to play Jesus

To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much

More than a lot

You gave me nothing

Now it's all I got

We're one, but we're not the same....

(...)

You sayLove is a temple

Love a higher law

Love is a temple

Love the higher law

You ask me to enter

But then you make me crawl

And I can't be holding on

To what you got

When all you got is hurt...........

A 2ª, de um CD mais recente, All that you can't leave behind. Fica aqui, para a posteridade :), a versão acústica, The Edge e Bono no seu melhor...

In a little while

Surely you'll be mine

In a little while

I'll be there

In a little while

This hurt will hurt no more

I'll be home,

love

When the night takes a deep breath

And the daylight has no end

If I crawl, if I come crawling home

Will you be there

In a little while

I won't be blown by every breeze

Friday night running

To Sunday on my knees

That girl

That girl, she's mine...

(...)

A man dreams one day to fly

A man takes a rocketship into the skies

He lives on star that's dying in the night

And follows in the trail

The scatter of light

Turn it on

Turn it on

Turn me on.....

Slow down my bleeding heart

Slowly, love......

O verdadeiro arrepio! Há melhor que isto?