Where the Streets Have No Name

I hadn't been asking for it, but I think he had a sense that it was an important album that I would enjoy.

And, well, to be honest, I wasn't that crazy about it the first time I listened to it, though I did really, really love Where the Streets Have No Name.

Where the streets have no name.

Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name We're still building and burning down love Burning down love And when I go there I go there with you

But even then, I leaned toward the cover version by the Pet Shop Boys, where they mashed the song up with I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You by Frankie Valli.

So I had heard Where the Streets Have No Name before, but that is actually the first way that I heard I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You.

Fun fact.

I can see that.

He got really pissed off with their obsession over tiny little tweaks.

Apparently there's different time signatures throughout the beginning of the guitar delay intro for Where the Streets Have No Name.

And he got so fed up with their perfectionism and their lack of ability just to do it from the heart that he tried to erase the entire album.

when they're at the studio.

which they had not played at all until actually very recently, running to stand still, right? And then there are the first three openers of this album, I think go head to head in terms of popularity and just strength with the opening three of any album that's ever been made.

And that's Where the Streets Have No Name.

That's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.

And that's With or Without You.

I mean, it's a hymn.

I think I still haven't found what I'm looking for is a hymn.

And Where the Streets Have No Name is as sort of a palate cleanser.

Like this is an album about America.

But I'll drop one other deep thing from you two here.

If you're a U2 fan, or if you know a U2 fan, or you're willing to go online and search it up on YouTube, to me, the ultimate U2 song, the pinnacle of their art and their work is Where the Streets Have No Name.

It's the biggest moment in any U2 conference is that song where the building will simply lift off.

And famously, during a performance in 2000 of that, Bono, during the final part of the song, simply began quoting the Psalms and praying and doing a whole bunch of other stuff on stage in Boston.

Where the Streets Have No Name is about the fact that as a young man in his early 20s, he was a part of efforts to sneak into South Sudan.

His wife is a human rights activist and a lawyer.

He's been married to the same woman his entire adult life.

They met in high school, if I remember correctly.

yeah this song is my alarm clock in the morning i like to pick songs that you know have that quiet start and just build up because you know if it's something that slaps you in the face i'm gonna wake up pissed off every day So I like something that brings me there a little slowly.

And, you know, something like Where the Streets Have No Name was one.

Mad Seasons Wake Up was one.

But I thought it was too corny.

And remember they had that tribute? with the images of all the victims on the big screen.

And they were singing, um, where the streets have no name with the images of everyone who lost their lives with all the lights.

No, every note, not a dry eye in the house.

No, you got the song wrong

where the streets have no name is what they were singing.

Now the streets have no name after nine 11.

That's, that's, that's harsh.

I'm going to challenge you on that, Rod.