A Song for Sunday
Bringing the weekend officially to a close is my Sunday song choice.
Big things happen on Sundays and a very big song completes my selections for songs about weekdays.
“Sunday, Bloody Sunday” from 1983′s War album became one of their breakout songs, (along with “New Years Day”), in the U.S. receiving major MTV and radio play. It reached number seven in America but was never released as a single in the U.K. due to it’s political message.
Opening with Larry Mullen Jr’s basic drum beat shortly followed by The Edge’s guitar the song immediately gets your attention. Bono’s vocal runs before the start of the verse finish setting the mood. This song is important and it knows it.
The urgency and power of the vocals puts “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” over the top. Long a concert favorite for U2 it still gets s very emotional responce even though few in the audiance really know much about the subject matter.
I’ll leave that to what is on display in the video.
A striking and powerful song.
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March 18th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Thank you for this week Pete,
and U2 on a Sunday, what a way to wrap things up.
I have been a U2 fan for quite sometime, and we won’t mention what version my iPod is.
I’ve been through that area of Derry, unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it
I didn’t stop to look about much.
The song is powerful, but backed up with the visuals, it’s even more so.
Thank you Pete…