U2 - The Fly (Official Music Video)

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    Lyrics:
    It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
    It's no secret that our world is in darkness tonight.
    They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by the moon
    Y' know I don't see you when she walks in the room.
    It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help.
    It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else.
    They say a secret is something you tell one other person
    So I'm telling you, child.
    Voice 1 Voice 2
    A man will beg Love, we shine like a
    A man will crawl Burning star
    On the sheer face of love We're falling from
    Like a fly on a wall The sky... tonight
    It's no secret at all
    It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest.
    It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success.
    Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief;
    All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief.
    Voice 1 Voice 2
    A man will rise Love, we shine like a
    A man will fall Burning star
    From the sheer face of love We're falling from
    like a fly from a wall. The sky... tonight
    It's no secret at all.
    Love, we shine like a burning star
    We're falling from the sky tonight
    Voice 1 Voice 2
    A man will rise Love, we shine like a
    A man will fall Burning star
    From the sheer face of love We're falling from
    like a fly from a wall. The sky... tonight
    It's no secret at all.
    It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
    The universe exploding 'cos-a one man's lie.
    Look I gotta go, yeah, I'm running outta change;
    There's a lot of things if I could I'd rearrange.
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  • @artlover4668
    @artlover4668 Před 3 lety +1505

    I don't think anyone can fully understand how radical and revolutionary this album was in 1991. When I first heard the opening riffs of "The Fly" on the radio, I was like thinking......is this "f"ing U2????? You can dislike Bono all you want, but admit, his Fly persona was pure genius

    • @ipiap
      @ipiap Před 2 lety +112

      It feels much more radical and revolutionary now. But nobody is listening.

    • @Io-Io-Io
      @Io-Io-Io Před 2 lety +144

      Bono is one of the greats. That's just a fact. To say otherwise is just the expression of envy and resentment

    • @ericn1450
      @ericn1450 Před 2 lety +29

      I think the album is really good but revolutionary it is not. I mean the dance elements are straight Up Happy Mondays rips per the Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches album.

    • @tommyz9910
      @tommyz9910 Před 2 lety +21

      It was pure fun!

    • @iliasmess
      @iliasmess Před 2 lety +46

      Exactly. The opening riff from this is so satisfying and shows a group so much more mature than Rattle and Hum, willing to explore new paths but always influenced by the giants before them... Bowie, Zeppelin ( Edge's pants pay homage to Page's dragon suit here) are stronger influences than ever on this one. Colossal album, cannot be topped

  • @bigneon_glitter
    @bigneon_glitter Před 3 lety +982

    How is _Achtung Baby_ 30 years old? Still feels like a new album.

    • @hiwayman981
      @hiwayman981 Před 3 lety +32

      Because it's F-ING AWESOME!!!

    • @Pianoman999
      @Pianoman999 Před 3 lety +18

      This was the time when Red Chili Peppers came out with Blood Sex Magick and Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty

    • @Carob_55
      @Carob_55 Před 3 lety +12

      30 years?!?!? Holy bananas!

    • @bensonhedges5471
      @bensonhedges5471 Před 3 lety +4

      Cause they're ultra cool Rockstars!!

    • @Idol2Idol
      @Idol2Idol Před 3 lety +14

      I agree. I was born in 87 and I still think a lot of 90s stuff hasn't date.

  • @masswellwiley6688
    @masswellwiley6688 Před 3 lety +135

    “You’ve made the best album of the 80s, what now?”
    (Makes the best album of the 90s).

    • @ellukitaa__6571
      @ellukitaa__6571 Před 2 lety +3

      this

    • @zackzallie8735
      @zackzallie8735 Před 2 lety +2

      Sometimes you gotta erase everything in order to remain consistent.

    • @masswellwiley6688
      @masswellwiley6688 Před 2 lety

      @@zackzallie8735 sometime four men need to tear down the Joshua Tree.

    • @johnnyguitars609
      @johnnyguitars609 Před 25 dny

      Honestly, i would go there for foo fighters as the best album of the 90s. But this is also very good

  • @miguelh4750
    @miguelh4750 Před rokem +379

    The Edge's solo here is one of the most legendary ones at least from this time period

    • @incredifall
      @incredifall Před rokem +6

      agree!

    • @user-bt5xn2bo6p
      @user-bt5xn2bo6p Před rokem

      czcams.com/video/hbBrnEU-ZUc/video.html

    • @11geosno
      @11geosno Před 11 měsíci

      there are so many better solos on achtung baby
      this is literally just playing a scale up and down lmao

    • @victorgodoy7724
      @victorgodoy7724 Před 11 měsíci +6

      We used to listen at the school breaks, in a brand new cdplayer, looking at the sky, in our small country, pretending to be The Edge. What a memory...

    • @yellowjackboots2624
      @yellowjackboots2624 Před 9 měsíci +11

      ​@@11geosnoit's not so much the notes that make it great, it's the bits in-between the notes. As he goes up the scale, the muted notes go down. The flange effect goes in the opposite direction of the riff melody. The judder of the delay... all of it. It's effortlessly brilliant

  • @johnharpur3010
    @johnharpur3010 Před 3 lety +725

    To jump from Joshua Tree/Rattle and Hum to this????One of Musics Greatest Reinventions.....Stunning!!!

    • @casualsoundenjoyer
      @casualsoundenjoyer Před 3 lety +44

      And then they got very experimental with Zooropa and Pop!

    • @johnharpur3010
      @johnharpur3010 Před 3 lety +31

      @@casualsoundenjoyer Yep...agree totally....i always stick Pop into the trio of Albums......would love to see them take chances like that again!!!

    • @beccylikesmonkeys3270
      @beccylikesmonkeys3270 Před 3 lety +12

      Must have been a pretty grand 'culture shock'

    • @jonathandcallan
      @jonathandcallan Před 3 lety +22

      But the timeframe .. within 18months going from cowboy hats to this 👏🏻

    • @rodtaylor5476
      @rodtaylor5476 Před 3 lety +35

      Then they completed the trilogy with Zooropa and Pop. I love how experimental they got in the 90's. It's my fave period of them.

  • @gengisdiaz
    @gengisdiaz Před rokem +161

    The solo is PURE GOLD.

    • @dukecleve4008
      @dukecleve4008 Před 11 měsíci +7

      Has Hendrix.... undertones

    • @declanoneill1192
      @declanoneill1192 Před 10 měsíci +6

      Edge deserves a medal for it. It is single-handedly responsible for me learning to play guitar. 28 years after I first heard it, it still gives me shiver in those little transitions underneath "...falling from the..." when Bono's falsetto comes back in.

    • @EmmaginationMiss
      @EmmaginationMiss Před 3 měsíci +5

      The Edge one of the best guitar players

  • @michaelwilson2340
    @michaelwilson2340 Před 8 měsíci +12

    I know people still go on about Nevermind being the best album of the 90's, but to me Achtung Baby is so much better.

    • @roxyvargas3659
      @roxyvargas3659 Před 11 dny +1

      100% agree, glad they performed it at the sphere

  • @SofaSleuthing
    @SofaSleuthing Před 4 měsíci +22

    My Dad worked at Bri-Line cars (in the beginning) and got to hang out with U2 while filming this video! He has a photo of him and Bono together!

  • @SuperMikedoom
    @SuperMikedoom Před 3 lety +545

    Achtung Baby is a revolution of sound in music history. Best album ever

  • @Libertin101
    @Libertin101 Před 3 lety +489

    ...30 years ago . It sounds ahead of its time in 2021. Masterpiece.

  • @vaderfett3229
    @vaderfett3229 Před 2 lety +99

    The 90s was THE time to be a teenager.... and I was there!

    • @Countravendark
      @Countravendark Před 2 lety +2

      Me too and i am fucking happy about that🤘😬

    • @15081972able
      @15081972able Před 2 lety +2

      Being a teenager in both 80’s and 90’s I can say 80’s way better

    • @kingpolo8690
      @kingpolo8690 Před rokem +1

      It may happen again.never give up hope.i was a teen throughout the 90's.yes agreed,best fockiN times of mY life,so was the 80'sand early 2000's.lifes what we make of it.Always remember that we can always bring back those days,even we can make even more magical Kuz we fockiN lived it.LONG LIVE THE 90'S WOOHOO!!!!! ROCK N ROLL BABY!

    • @hazor777
      @hazor777 Před rokem +1

      Nope , 80’s was far better in every way

    • @lactosalldaindustriadoleit8240
      @lactosalldaindustriadoleit8240 Před rokem

      Meeeeeee tooooooo💣

  • @gmr7494
    @gmr7494 Před 5 měsíci +131

    U2 in its absolute creative prime. Achtung Baby was their greatest album ever.

    • @OberynTheRedViper
      @OberynTheRedViper Před 5 měsíci +4

      Uh, what? It's great, but it doesn't top Joshua Tree.

    • @kellethomas7808
      @kellethomas7808 Před 5 měsíci +5

      Best Album Hands Down!!!!

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@OberynTheRedViper Rattle and Hum

    • @kevinkeenan6078
      @kevinkeenan6078 Před 4 měsíci +2

      ​@@OberynTheRedViperYour opinion...not mine.

    • @Zontar82
      @Zontar82 Před 4 měsíci +1

      it does, in fact the anniversary edition with all the material and stuff was done for this album and not the joshua tree.@@OberynTheRedViper

  • @lLostGems
    @lLostGems Před 3 lety +374

    Achtung Baby will forever be one of my favourite albums

  • @casualsoundenjoyer
    @casualsoundenjoyer Před 3 lety +432

    Zoo TV is probably one of the greatest tours U2 has ever done, if not THE greatest.

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 Před 3 lety +26

      Definitely. Possibly the greatest tour ever.

    • @kalterkakaozumfruhstuck1515
      @kalterkakaozumfruhstuck1515 Před 3 lety +9

      Probably???

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 Před 3 lety +18

      @@kalterkakaozumfruhstuck1515 🤣🤣 I think it is the greatest ever, irrespective of U2's tours. Nothing and no one else has ever staged something like that.

    • @pault6599
      @pault6599 Před 3 lety +15

      They were pioneers in technology and use of things like the b stage and video - those screens on the outdoor zoo shows were groundbreaking for the time - no led etc. Took massive numbers of trucks, power etc also. Just a great time to be a fan of theirs 😊

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 Před 3 lety +8

      @@pault6599 I got the Zoo TV video release. I think it came out spring/summer 1994. I watched it everyday. It absolutely blew me away. It's never lost it's power on me.

  • @captpicard6894
    @captpicard6894 Před 8 měsíci +55

    Achtung Baby was, is, and still remains U2’s best work, and their subsequent Zoo TV tour is arguably the best tour any band ever embarked on.

    • @Zontar82
      @Zontar82 Před 4 měsíci +1

      agreed, pop mart tour come as close second, but the zoo tv tour with his personas, reference to 90's pop culture and the cold calls to the power that be (of the times)was the cherry on top that will never be replicated

    • @coreyjasonprice5011
      @coreyjasonprice5011 Před 3 měsíci

      Not arrfff ❤

  • @aledmb
    @aledmb Před 2 měsíci +27

    this album is timeless... future generations will always listen to it like contemporary music.

  • @regponciano
    @regponciano Před 3 lety +515

    This has to be the most underrated guitar solo in rock history.

    • @ellukitaa__6571
      @ellukitaa__6571 Před 3 lety +13

      T H I S

    • @zeitesixx
      @zeitesixx Před 3 lety +8

      There are tons of better guitar solos than this one ,

    • @regponciano
      @regponciano Před 3 lety +58

      @@zeitesixx I never said that this is the best guitar solo, pal, just the most underrated. Those are different concepts.

    • @zeitesixx
      @zeitesixx Před 3 lety +6

      @@regponciano being that way, there are tons of much better underrated guitar solos than this one lol

    • @regponciano
      @regponciano Před 3 lety +41

      @@zeitesixx great, go comment on the videos of those solos, then.

  • @rodtaylor5476
    @rodtaylor5476 Před 3 lety +190

    One of the best reinventions in music history. These guys killed it in the 90's.

    • @Nathan-gd7xq
      @Nathan-gd7xq Před rokem +15

      I reckon Achtung Baby saved their career. If they had put out another Rattle and Hum or The Joshua Tree, they would have been seen as a band stuck in the 80s and the fans would have dropped off. This album proved they were still relevant.

    • @dean-marr
      @dean-marr Před rokem +5

      I agree. Greatest reinvention

    • @marcoantoniocardoso4728
      @marcoantoniocardoso4728 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Until Nirvana comes....😅

    • @chadredding2652
      @chadredding2652 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@Nathan-gd7xqAwesome take. I am not sure any group has been able to stay relevant with the changes as long as U2 has. The persistence of their work is amazing as is the continual evolution of their music.

    • @mikeglazier5993
      @mikeglazier5993 Před 7 měsíci +2

      ​​@@marcoantoniocardoso4728Nirvana was a whole different beast and vibe. Nirvana didn't kill anything U2 was doing, they just pushed everyone to try harder and do better for a little bit during the early 90s. The good bands did their own thing and innovated their own way. This album sold 18 million copies dude, Nirvana didn't impact U2

  • @AndyMogen
    @AndyMogen Před rokem +206

    My god this is still so incredible. Absolute chills

  • @bernicerogers2383
    @bernicerogers2383 Před 6 měsíci +17

    Dave Evans aka The Edge really stands out in this band IMO.

  • @isragrande
    @isragrande Před 3 lety +60

    This is the quintessential cyberpunk song.

  • @wexfordfour6790
    @wexfordfour6790 Před 3 lety +95

    This is the best looking remastered video yet. I've been waiting for the Achtung era...

  • @williammelville729
    @williammelville729 Před rokem +69

    The opening guitar riff 23 seconds in still gives me chills everytime!

  • @danfarrell6572
    @danfarrell6572 Před 3 lety +70

    For me this era of the band is them at their creative peak. The reinvention of their sound and image at the time was inspired. The Zoo TV tour was mind blowing; a multi media, sensory assault. Yes there have been bigger tours since but this was the benchmark for all tours that followed. And it was 30 years ago.

  • @KellyEddingtonWatercolors
    @KellyEddingtonWatercolors Před 3 lety +392

    Eternal favorite. I remember exactly where I was the first time I saw and heard this: grad school dorm room, watching on a tiny TV set with a 2-inch speaker that somehow managed to relay this song's greatness.

    • @u2Pritch
      @u2Pritch Před 3 lety +17

      Yes, me too. My parents' lounge TV on Top of the Pops. They weren't overly impressed and I was gobsnacked, wondering what had just happened to my 80s band!

    • @beltran954
      @beltran954 Před 3 lety +12

      I was a junior in high school...that whole album was my anthem

    • @huskypoop4917
      @huskypoop4917 Před 3 lety +10

      i wos just about to go out on my motorbike when this came on MTV blew me away

    • @tappetisonori
      @tappetisonori Před 3 lety +2

      Me too...

    • @andysearle4457
      @andysearle4457 Před 3 lety +9

      I remember Simon Mayo had the first play in the UK on his Radio 1 breakfast show. I think he played it twice!! As a long time U2 fan by then I just thought "Wow", they are back - even if they never really went away! Edge's guitar solo in this is one of the best of all time as well.

  • @jjwankenobi
    @jjwankenobi Před 3 lety +108

    One year prior to this single, U2 hinted at their new direction when their cover of Cole Poter's "Night + Day" was released (from the AIDS benefit compilation album "Red, Hot and Blue"). Watch the video and listen to the song: it's a fascinating collision of post-Rattle And Hum era U2 set to a pre-Achtung Baby sonic landscape. When welding-goggle wearing Bono appeared I was personally blindsided by how much fun they seemed to be finally having. Gone were the poe-faced, waist coat and Stetson-wearing Irish dudes homaging American music. Replaced by a slick, Euro-clad, version of the band that embraced exotic sounds of the alternative industrial scene while heralding the electronic soundscape to come.

    • @Crisis.Knight
      @Crisis.Knight Před 3 lety

      I was waiting that too, but it seems that they skip it.

    • @marvinm.messier1120
      @marvinm.messier1120 Před 3 lety +1

      Very insightful - I 100% agree

    • @AnthonyBethell
      @AnthonyBethell Před 3 lety +2

      God Part II on Rattle & Hum was the precursor to Night & Day/Achtung Baby reinvention imho

    • @greg.murphy
      @greg.murphy Před 3 lety +1

      Bono said Achtung Baby went in God Part II's direction just before the album was released.

    • @Mujcanal
      @Mujcanal Před 2 lety

      Agree, great song

  • @Lawnboyspost1975TheHomeOfDave
    @Lawnboyspost1975TheHomeOfDave Před měsícem +9

    That opening riff and Bono's whisper still sends shivers down my spine 30 odd years later. Best song, best album, best band!

  • @mkl62
    @mkl62 Před rokem +7

    This hit from U2 was the 442nd #1 song of the Rock Era in the United Kingdom. We prepare to say goodbye to 1991 and prepare to welcome in 1992. What will the music scene be like in the UK in the upcoming year? Stay tuned.

  • @hasinurrahman4119
    @hasinurrahman4119 Před 3 lety +145

    Edge's solo is electrifying !!

  • @darrenbarone3200
    @darrenbarone3200 Před 3 lety +75

    It was a shock to see this back in 1991. U2 came out of their cowboy style from the late 80s to this. It was like a caterpillar turning into a beautiful butterfly or should i say A FLY!

    • @TheMuzfly
      @TheMuzfly Před 3 lety +3

      I was already a U2 fan. Heard this half way in someone's car with good speakers. Others were speaking in the car; I wasn't listening to them; just thinking "Who the fuck is this? This is amazing..."

    • @user-ez2qd3gu5v
      @user-ez2qd3gu5v Před 3 lety

      This album is a ripoff pretty hate machine album

    • @ed4253
      @ed4253 Před 2 lety

      @@user-ez2qd3gu5v Yes, One sounds alot like NIN lol

  • @humzaahmed1759
    @humzaahmed1759 Před 9 měsíci +33

    This is fucking genius. Most people don't, but I just connect with U2 on a whole different level and thank the gods for that.

    • @coreyjasonprice5011
      @coreyjasonprice5011 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Ain't that the truth,,, Ruth,,,,😅

    • @pastamasta69
      @pastamasta69 Před měsícem +1

      Amen brother. Something in their sound has always hooked into my brain in a way that no other music quite manages. This whole album blew my fucking socks off and 30 years later it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

  • @mahendrakarunaratne4788
    @mahendrakarunaratne4788 Před 2 lety +45

    The guitar solo in the middle is The Edge's finest. Brilliant.

  • @giuseppedevita1241
    @giuseppedevita1241 Před 3 lety +36

    Zootv is the greatest tour of every time.... U2 the best band of the planet

  • @wayneoconnor7552
    @wayneoconnor7552 Před rokem +112

    Still one of their most amazing albums and still a regular player for me..

    • @sniper161718
      @sniper161718 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Closest they came to touching the Joshua Tree

    • @mikeglazier5993
      @mikeglazier5993 Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@sniper161718way different vibe, but they reached hard and we're definitely pushing the envelope on originality. A true work of art in an era when so many bands were pushing the envelope. I really miss that time, music was really so good, exciting and everyone was doing their own thing in the early 90s. Then the industry pushed copy cats on us and killed the whole thing. A once in a lifetime level of art

    • @spinflux
      @spinflux Před 6 měsíci +1

      One of THE most amazing albums, ever.

    • @Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu28
      @Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu28 Před 6 měsíci

      Gru39 zxy nss👒💎💎💎💎🩳📿👝🛍🩱👕🎇🎋🎊🎊🎀🎀🎀🏉🏓🏸🏉🏀🏐🏒🎎🎟🎫❤🩳 0:04 2

  • @OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8
    @OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8 Před rokem +6

    Bono described this song as "the sound of four men chopping down the Joshua Tree". Indeed it was.

  • @clintaustin2817
    @clintaustin2817 Před 2 lety +141

    For me, this album stands head and shoulders above all others. Never gets old no matter how many times I have listened to it.

    • @jasonturpin5899
      @jasonturpin5899 Před 2 lety +3

      Like a fly on the wall ..its no secret at all

    • @johncohle8331
      @johncohle8331 Před 2 lety +3

      Timeless

    • @rockdoublard
      @rockdoublard Před 8 měsíci +1

      Along with TJT, I'd say. I hv both. 🙂

    • @user-rr2pv8sq5g
      @user-rr2pv8sq5g Před 8 měsíci +3

      Album of my life. Every single track.

    • @mikeglazier5993
      @mikeglazier5993 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@user-rr2pv8sq5gevery track is it's own animal, and something we had never really heard before. I remember the first time I heard the fly it blew my mind. I was never a U2 fan before that and I remember feeling so conflicted because they seemed annoying to a young teen me until that moment. Brilliant album and no mystery why it sold 18 million copies

  • @SteveM109r
    @SteveM109r Před 3 lety +38

    The song that knocked that Bryan Adams song from the top of the UK charts after about 6 years

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 Před 3 lety +4

      Six years 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @pault6599
      @pault6599 Před 3 lety +6

      @@christopheranderson1968 felt longer 🤣

    • @huskypoop4917
      @huskypoop4917 Před 3 lety +6

      i remember and i cheered

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 Před 3 lety +5

      @@pault6599 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I remember. Unfortunately, I was one of the ones that helped keep it at No. 1. I apologise to all 🤣🤣

    • @pault6599
      @pault6599 Před 3 lety

      @@christopheranderson1968 I probably did also 🤣

  • @IHateThisHandleSystem
    @IHateThisHandleSystem Před rokem +46

    It's not secret... that this album is one of the best.

    • @SpiritualGangs
      @SpiritualGangs Před rokem +2

      para mi es La mejor Creativa y ruda!!! zoo

    • @CoboProdz
      @CoboProdz Před 10 měsíci +1

      It’s when I stopped listening to them. Terrible

  • @zurichsee706
    @zurichsee706 Před rokem +5

    BRIAN ENO. What genius producer! The evolution was iconic because of him.

  • @wreckim
    @wreckim Před 2 lety +110

    The most underrated U2 song of them all. Hypnotic as hell.

  • @Rishiyisus
    @Rishiyisus Před 3 lety +23

    WE NEED SOMETHING FOR THE 30 YEARS OF ACHTUNG BABY LET'S GO

  • @gianpaololufrano9014
    @gianpaololufrano9014 Před 3 lety +163

    The Edge's guitar should become World Heritage Site, let's sanctify it

    • @krypto_9872
      @krypto_9872 Před 3 lety +7

      And his amazing echo pedal board

    • @Unplugged70
      @Unplugged70 Před 3 lety +5

      Sounds LETHAL on this audio mix. Holy fuck.

    • @marvinm.messier1120
      @marvinm.messier1120 Před 3 lety +6

      That solo rival's Jimi's All Along the Watchtower, maybe betters it. A+

    • @gray6071
      @gray6071 Před 3 lety

      He was called the man with thousand guitars when they toured the US in the 80s

    • @ryukan250
      @ryukan250 Před 3 lety +3

      @@marvinm.messier1120 Good lord. I've heard some claims but that's up there with the best.

  • @TrayDyer38
    @TrayDyer38 Před 2 lety +63

    When they debut this video in November of 91… most of us were like “what the hell?” But then we digested the album over 6 months and saw the tour, and realized… these 4 lads are incredible. And the rest is history.

  • @JamesGore1547
    @JamesGore1547 Před rokem +6

    Happy 63rd to Bono, today on May 10th 2023! 🎉🎊🍾

  • @sorryimtoohot
    @sorryimtoohot Před 3 lety +63

    This how humans must felt after discover fire or electricity.
    To me Joshua tree era was the black and white, and Achtung Baby is the explosion of all colors.

  • @keithtaylor3940
    @keithtaylor3940 Před 3 lety +72

    The shock of u2 fans when this came out must have been unreal...being so used to Ernest and serious songs..this must have been like a shot in the dark.and I am forever grateful u2 managed to record this masterpiece.

    • @tinfoilhatter
      @tinfoilhatter Před 3 lety +1

      that band, heck, any band worth-a-damn, is firstly, and lastly about the bass-and-the-drums, man~!

    • @nianfiedler9691
      @nianfiedler9691 Před 2 lety +4

      it was, but for the fans that took the ride like me, it was life changing. was lucky enough to see zootv indoors in chicago and then slept on the sidewalk for three nights to get tickets for the outdoor show. Seen them 12 times now, and always amazing, but nothing touches Zootv

    • @lyliakar
      @lyliakar Před 2 lety +1

      It was shocking indeed. I listened to it once, put it in a drawer and left it there for at least 10 years when one day out of the blue, I listened to it again and started loving it. Now I consider it one of their best.

    • @Mario_N64
      @Mario_N64 Před 2 lety +2

      A lot of older fans hated it. They wanted another Joshua Tree. The only song they liked was "One".

    • @15081972able
      @15081972able Před 2 lety +1

      I was an absolute mega fan and I loved this just as much as anything they ever did, I’ve never heard like this before or after and this was my thoughts back in 91, I can still remember the Saturday night I played this album.

  • @sasarasasarasa
    @sasarasasarasa Před 3 lety +46

    This album was 20 years ahead of its time. What a masterpiece 👏

  • @Muhdah1972
    @Muhdah1972 Před 3 lety +18

    This has got to be the sexiest U2 song ever 🎶🔥💥

  • @frankmclean9971
    @frankmclean9971 Před 3 lety +17

    The first time I heard 'The Fly" was while listening (tapeing) to the Radio 1 Top 40! Mark Goodier (DJ) had counted down the Chart from 40 to 2 & announced that the No:1 song was new entry from U2! I was intrigued - this was unheard of in those days! A WTF moment happened soon after & I've been hooked on U2 ever since! "The Fly" blew me away, it was sonically brilliant & so f*cking different to anything I had listened to before! I went out in my Dad's car that night with the "The Fly" on tape and turned that f*cker up loud. It was just what an 18 year old boy needed to hear at the time in his life! "Achtung Baby" followed, it was inspiring & turned me on to the Greatest Rock n Roll Band from the "North" side of Dublin. I've now seen U2 over 30 times live from New York, Berlin, Dublin to my hometown of Glasgow! They have never let me down - Thank you Boy's! #thefly #achtungbaby #everythingyouknowiswrong #watchmoretv #deathisacareermove

  • @nigelbooth3042
    @nigelbooth3042 Před 2 lety +19

    31,year old,but. TIMELESS. MUSIC OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY.

  • @paulwright7194
    @paulwright7194 Před 3 lety +110

    The moment at about 3:30 and following, where the Edge's guitar and Bono's voice merge so as to become almost indistinguishable, has always given me goosebumps. I have never heard anything else like it and for me it is a highlight not only of their entire body of work, but of anything I've ever heard.

    • @NoahBodze
      @NoahBodze Před 2 lety +3

      Like siouxsie with the banshees during “kiss them for me.”

    • @dextermcgrubbin
      @dextermcgrubbin Před 2 lety

      Paul Wright- good call

    • @LeeMaitland
      @LeeMaitland Před 2 lety +1

      100% agree.

    • @mellu3533
      @mellu3533 Před rokem +1

      Omg yes. That moment is perfect. The music and the part of the video.

    • @Ali-hd6dn
      @Ali-hd6dn Před 8 měsíci +1

      Me too - and it gets me choked up too

  • @allspark2370
    @allspark2370 Před 3 lety +29

    I can’t believe it... finally... an official music video of The Fly!

  • @petertromp8786
    @petertromp8786 Před 3 lety +45

    Been loving these remasters. The Fly is one of the best songs of the 90s.

  • @Northernsoul8582
    @Northernsoul8582 Před 2 lety +11

    Reinvention at its finest. About time people see beyond Bono and what’s so supposed to “cool” and recognise this is pure fucking genius

  • @fbanget
    @fbanget Před měsícem +2

    I remember first listening to this album and saying "oooh, U2. What the hell are you doing...".... 2 days later it was my favorite album of all time.

  • @actung74
    @actung74 Před 3 lety +52

    I've been a U2 fan since 1984 and I've only ever been shocked by the band twice, and both shocks came via the same thing ... this song. I knew they were 'going away to dream it all up again' so we'd be getting something a little bit different when we would see the band for a first time in the nineties. Dave Fanning gave the song its first air play on RTE's 2 FM radio in Ireland and it blew me away. They wanted something different and this was and is different. I love a heavy kind of music so I loved this song right away, I just was not prepared for how different it would be from anything which came before.
    Of course in 1991 we had no CZcams, no iphones, laptops or anything of the kind so to see the video we would have to wait for MTV to play it. Back then MTV were indeed still playing music and shock number two came when I did see the video for a first time. Not only did they sound very different to what they previously were, they looked oh so different too. Again I liked it.
    U2 are a band who have changed so, so much over the years but at no other point in their career had they altered themselves as much as they did in such a short time as they did between 1988 and 1991 or rather since New Years Eve coming into 1990 and October/November of 1991.

  • @notkafk4
    @notkafk4 Před 3 lety +19

    "LoOoOoveEeEe, we shine like a burning staAaAr, we're falling from the skyYyYy toOonight".

    • @deshunsmith2580
      @deshunsmith2580 Před 3 lety +3

      Love that part too.

    • @Jonathan-hy3pv
      @Jonathan-hy3pv Před 3 lety +5

      A man will beg a man will crawl from the sheer face of love like a fly on a wall

  • @llednop
    @llednop Před rokem +4

    To think that the making of this album almost broke U2 up.

  • @edsonnavarrus7379
    @edsonnavarrus7379 Před 9 měsíci +6

    These were my nights in Vienna, walking through all its centers, enjoying the ultra-gothic pop life, the peak towards the apocalypse, preparing to put on the master fly and endure until the end. The dark black of the 90s has one of its anthems here.

  • @dovesandcoldplay
    @dovesandcoldplay Před 3 lety +101

    Bono was never cooler. And for me, not many other rock stars have matched his coolness in that era either.
    If you watch interviews with him in that period he is uber cool; pithy quotes, flirty, the charm of the devil. He was the bomb.

    • @habibhussain825
      @habibhussain825 Před 3 lety +6

      The epitome of cool...

    • @ryukan250
      @ryukan250 Před 3 lety

      I can't take any man seriously who has more than 5 pairs of sunglasses and wears them all indoors

    • @deshunsmith2580
      @deshunsmith2580 Před 3 lety +5

      Yes , that was when he was the Fly.

    • @nianfiedler5291
      @nianfiedler5291 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ryukan250 He actually wears sunglasses because of an eye condition. So that's why he has a lot and wears them all the time.

    • @michelleannor6944
      @michelleannor6944 Před 3 lety +1

      @2.22. True.

  • @chema95011
    @chema95011 Před 4 měsíci +3

    it was the first single from 'achtung baby', a brave choice.

  • @stephenmorris9382
    @stephenmorris9382 Před 2 měsíci +6

    The solo in this just soars. Beautiful.

  • @federicomacagno
    @federicomacagno Před 3 lety +26

    Please upload the 7 video versions of "One" 🙏❤️

  • @LordEradicus
    @LordEradicus Před 3 lety +10

    The world wasn't ready for this back in '91, but ZOO TV was coming with a vengeance anyway.

  • @okosbokos1491
    @okosbokos1491 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Every great band has a great guitarist and every great guitarist has a recognizable sound
    This is it

  • @aaronbrungardt2917
    @aaronbrungardt2917 Před 2 lety +65

    The Edge's solo and the bridge in this one still gives me chills. I could just listen to tracks of his all day long. So many layers to his sound and very uniquely his sound. Nothing else like it.

  • @cjmq1970
    @cjmq1970 Před 3 lety +11

    Ten years ago a British magazine put “Achtung Baby!’ as the most influential and hence, the best album of tha past 25 years, thus back to 1985 or so, even superior to “The Joshua Tree”, and I couldn’t agree more. This album was the one who convinced me of making an enduring bond with the band which I flirted with before, and leave the rest as occasional affairs.

  • @JamesGore1547
    @JamesGore1547 Před 2 lety +15

    " Love, we shine like a burning star, we're falling from the sky tonight."
    This line got stuck in my head. It keeps appearing all the time.

  • @michaels3436
    @michaels3436 Před 9 měsíci +5

    The Fly is the best U2 song…
    (Close seconds are Mysterious Ways and Lemon.)

  • @jstohler
    @jstohler Před rokem +3

    This has to be the best I'M BACK MFERS performance ever, right?

  • @Sportsguy-rl8wj
    @Sportsguy-rl8wj Před 3 lety +31

    Greatest song off the greatest album by U2

  • @dolemite10005
    @dolemite10005 Před rokem +24

    I was already a huge U2 fan at 16 years old when this came out. I was counting the days until this video premiered in MTV. I remember getting to the tv 30 min early just so I wouldn’t miss it. I remember saying to myself once it ended “I’m not sure what I just saw/heard, but I LOVED IT! Hands down the greatest evolution of a band in rock history. When Bono said “we need to go away and dream it all up again”, he wasn’t kidding. My favorite album of all time.

  • @leonboyd1973
    @leonboyd1973 Před 2 lety +86

    An album so far ahead of its time, that we are still trying to catch up, even after 30 years

    • @TheYazmanian
      @TheYazmanian Před 2 lety +2

      It blew me away when I first heard it. My heart and soul could barely handle it.

    • @kevinmcdonald1490
      @kevinmcdonald1490 Před rokem

      Unfortunately, they haven't made anything to this level since. Still love them but their creativity has been lacking since this and Zooropa.

  • @andrewschultz8425
    @andrewschultz8425 Před 2 lety +19

    It's no secret they are 1 of the best bands ever

    • @derekreid1709
      @derekreid1709 Před rokem

      Of all the dozens of concerts I've gone to I chose the zoo tv tour to drop acid with...23 third row centre stage went on a life changing bad trip..friends took me to the hospital about half way thru...still the best concert I've ever seen!

  • @rossco78
    @rossco78 Před 3 lety +14

    I am STILL here waiting for the Pop album remasters.

    • @pioneernut7487
      @pioneernut7487 Před 3 lety +1

      Me too. But it seems U2 forgot about pop. Seems like they are ashamed of it? Instead 20th anniversary pop we got another reissue of succesfull Joshua tree. U2 are cashing on their success. Its a shame that after Pop they decide to record real pop rock albums. Shame... I was Adamant fan in 1997. But after Pop... Im not a fan anymore

    • @ellukitaa__6571
      @ellukitaa__6571 Před 3 lety +2

      If u check their channel they are uploading the videos chronologically (so, please wait), also for their "virtual road" for the 90's instead of showing ZOOTV they chose PopMart.

  • @sasarasasarasa
    @sasarasasarasa Před rokem +20

    Achtung Baby was 20 years ahead of it's time. A total masterpiece, from the first to the last song. 👏

  • @PatrickCrossfire.
    @PatrickCrossfire. Před rokem +2

    Early 1991. Nothing matches the power of their music. At that time, 80's and 90's , they were the BEST.

  • @kommissar.murphy
    @kommissar.murphy Před 2 lety +102

    They aren't known for their guitar solos but this one is a banger.

    • @robg4147
      @robg4147 Před 2 lety +10

      Bullet the blue sky!

    • @jamesbelljr7987
      @jamesbelljr7987 Před 2 lety +3

      New Year's Day

    • @rachelb6153
      @rachelb6153 Před 2 lety +3

      All I Want is You, another great guitar solo.

    • @15081972able
      @15081972able Před 2 lety +1

      With or without you and Bad live need listening to

    • @ohso41
      @ohso41 Před 2 lety +4

      Actually The Edge's guitar work influenced the 90's Grunge sound moreso than anything else that came out of the 80's

  • @UnderABloodRedSkyU2
    @UnderABloodRedSkyU2 Před 3 lety +18

    NOBODY WAS COOLER THAN U2 IN 91. absolutely stunning music. And they looked great! So much fun!

    • @nuttay8356
      @nuttay8356 Před 2 lety

      In a documentary about The Pixies, Bono said they weren’t cool in the way The Pixies were. Still, AB is a great album

  • @TheUltimateVoid
    @TheUltimateVoid Před 3 lety +15

    I'm happy they are finally uploading these classics, please upload Lemon and discotheque too 😭

  • @Melanie_T2023
    @Melanie_T2023 Před 27 dny +1

    ‘Everything You Know Is Wrong’ just about sums up the last few years 💯😏

  • @U2MQU2
    @U2MQU2 Před 3 lety +9

    The Fly and Zoo Station, masterpieces ❤🇧🇷

  • @p.j.degenaro5972
    @p.j.degenaro5972 Před 3 lety +9

    My at-the-time best friend and I used take long, pointless drives every weekend just to listen to this album without anyone bothering us. But I did not remember this video being *quite* this sexy. (Too soon old; too late smart.)

  • @filipealmeida5447
    @filipealmeida5447 Před 3 lety +23

    "The Fly" is my favourite song and video of the 90's. #AchtungBaby1991

  • @marcoc.8548
    @marcoc.8548 Před 2 lety +7

    Gli U2 erano tra i pochi gruppi a potersi permettere di intraprendere una via sperimentale come i Radiohead (per esempio) . Alla fine hanno scelto purtroppo la strada delle pop hit. Mi mancano brani come” if you wear that velvet dress” Poesia pura.

  • @katieb928
    @katieb928 Před 3 lety +2

    Achtung Baby. Zoo TV tour. What an era ❤

  • @grim3712
    @grim3712 Před 3 lety +21

    I really wish they had explored more of this darker aesthetic and music, U2's artistic peak for sure

    • @kevinkeenan6078
      @kevinkeenan6078 Před 3 lety +11

      They did on Zooropa,Passengers and Pop.

    • @krypto_9872
      @krypto_9872 Před 3 lety +11

      @@kevinkeenan6078 pop is very dark if you listen to it. It's one of my favorite albums ever

    • @yvonnemulder9038
      @yvonnemulder9038 Před 3 lety

      Irisch

    • @nianfiedler9691
      @nianfiedler9691 Před 2 lety

      Dark U2 is the best U2. Don’t let POP fool you. That is dark beautiful masterpiece in its own rite.

  • @Redplanetfilms1
    @Redplanetfilms1 Před 3 lety +8

    Watched Bono and the boys on the ZOO tour at Giant Stadium about 12 feet away, great times, great album, Achtung Baby. So many times I was supposed to work with U2 and Bono. I was schedule to be a grip on the One video shoot. Then MTV had him scheduled and it got cancelled, then the series I was working on (Classic Albums) did a documentary about The Joshua tree, but it was shot in Ireland and they could only hire Irish crews (I get it) Then I did a film about Elvis, found out Bono LOVES Elvis so we were going to interview him and he sent us his poetry about Elvis (Yes I read Bono's private poems about Elvis) and again and again I missed them by a nanosecond (Thank God for live concerts) saw every tour except their very first in NY. Finally we made a film about the Irish Politician John Hume. I asked the director, if we had Bono slated for an interview and he said YES! Finally I get to meet this elusive singer. Nope it was filmed in Europe. Oh well, maybe someday in the right situation. Keep on Rocking U2! Thanks for the decades of inspiration and dedication to your art and entertainment.

  • @CordeauxG
    @CordeauxG Před rokem +17

    Bono's best lyrics, rock blended with dance rhythms and blasts of metal and gospel, and a solo that takes you on a journey across the universe. What's not to like?

    • @gerardscreve9430
      @gerardscreve9430 Před rokem

      And rock attitude and look and a video still full of hidden sense moreover during these troubled times

  • @STREET_ARTISTS
    @STREET_ARTISTS Před rokem +5

    Can we talk about THAT guitar solo?

    • @markkehoe1556
      @markkehoe1556 Před rokem +1

      Probably the most underrated guitar solo of all time..IRISH MARK.🍻🍻

  • @youtou_13
    @youtou_13 Před 3 lety +49

    My favourite song on Achtung Baby album. Love the early 90’s 😍

    • @MrJeumf
      @MrJeumf Před 3 lety +3

      Cool mais tu as quel âge pour apprécier se groupe tu as l’air très jeune 🧒

    • @youtou_13
      @youtou_13 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MrJeumf Eh bien, j’ai 18 ans et j’aime U2 depuis que j’ai 13 ans.

    • @MrJeumf
      @MrJeumf Před 3 lety +3

      @@youtou_13 Génial de voir des jeunes comme toi apprécier se groupe personnellement j’ai vu la tournée zooropa tour à Nantes , Marseille , et Paris et ma première tournée c’est The Joshua tour en 87 à l’hippodrome de Vincennes 😀

  • @kuroroluc
    @kuroroluc Před 3 lety +17

    I love goofy Bono at the beggining of the video.

  • @deplorableaussie6749
    @deplorableaussie6749 Před rokem +4

    Unworldly music.
    Fucking futuristic.
    33 yrs later , still ahead of its time.

  • @OrionConspirator
    @OrionConspirator Před 2 měsíci +1

    Can't imagine being a big u2 fan in the 80s and then listening to this for the first time. All their fans must of been shitting bricks. Brilliant album

  • @jasonhall1138
    @jasonhall1138 Před 2 lety +40

    Still one of the best albums from front to back I’ve ever listened to. It moves your soul.

  • @robbiecarroll5491
    @robbiecarroll5491 Před 3 lety +6

    Bono sums up the music today every artist is cannibal every poet is a thief kill the inspiration and sing about the grief. Pretty much the music scene now with autotune and reality music shows.
    A song so ahead of its time FUCK I miss those days

  • @benk9947
    @benk9947 Před 3 lety +29

    Oh shit, y'all. It's about to get even better than the real thing up in this channel! Zoo TV shiz in HD!

  • @johnnyespinoza8
    @johnnyespinoza8 Před 9 měsíci +9

    Massive hit and massive album! Perhaps one of the most defining albums of the 90’s! And more relevant than ever! Keep this in your mind: Everything You Know Is Wrong!!!!

  • @marvinm.messier1120
    @marvinm.messier1120 Před 3 lety +13

    This song introduced the world to what the 90's were going to be & by my estimation, big time rock'n'roll has never improved on it since.

  • @jennycarranza4291
    @jennycarranza4291 Před 3 lety +7

    For me, their best album: Achtung Baby!!!😎