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U2 - Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
 Album:
Songs Of Experience (2017)
  1. Absolutely the song should have been given to Coldplay or Justin Timberlake it was way to cheesy for U2 , despite the promotion they gave it and the 100 remixes it was never a hit.
  2. Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
    Absolutely the song should have been given to Coldplay or Justin Timberlake it was way to cheesy for U2 , despite the promotion they gave it and the 100 remixes it was never a hit.
    It was definitely a hit live in NA and Europe.
  3. It didn't get air play or wasn't known outside the fanbase and for me it wasn't a good song,Little things is the best song on SOE by a country mile IMO.
  4. When I first heard this I thought it sounded a bit like U2 trying to imitate Coldplay (now that's inverting the norm!) but it makes for a great singalong song at the end of the concert.

    Oh - oh - oh - oh - oh - oh
    Oh - oh - oh - oh - oh – oh
  5. It was really powerful live. Top 5 for sure of the EI tour. The Edge's tone live on the Fender Tele was higher in the mix and was dreamy.
  6. Decent jingle but the ‘if they moonlight saw you crying..’ but sounded so naff live. It sounded so jarring.
  7. Originally posted by miryclay:It was really powerful live. Top 5 for sure of the EI tour. The Edge's tone live on the Fender Tele was higher in the mix and was dreamy.
    Not a tele, he used Ed O’Brians signature Fender Stratocaster
  8. The bridge lyrics are so powerfull. But in the live version it never gets me the way the album version does..
  9. That 'burst' effect from the album is hard to replicate I guess, or they didn't bother. Agree with above comments that it's the most powerful part of the song that fell flat live.
  10. Thanks, good to know. It was baby blue right?
  11. EOB Strats are all white afaik.

    It's also the guitar he used in the BBC special so it's safe to assume he used it for recording the song too.

  12. He's got a hotrails pickup in it as far as I remember which seems like a surprising amount of altering given that I can imagine he bought it like that - I've always got the impression that he just took the guitars as they sounded and didn't play around with them too much and used their own individual sounds for what he wanted (which is what I've always assumed has been the reason he has so many). In contrast to the Eric Claptons of the world who I've generally seen using one or two guitars almost exclusively but really spending huge amounts of time doing very fine tweaks and changes and experimenting with different pickups and switches and pots etc to change the sound of the one guitar