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 3 года назад +1551

    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 2 года назад +115

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

    • @Io-Io-Io
      @Io-Io-Io 2 года назад +147

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

    • @ericn1450
      @ericn1450 2 года назад +30

      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 2 года назад +22

      It was pure fun!

    • @iliasmess
      @iliasmess 2 года назад +47

      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

  • @miguelh4750
    @miguelh4750 Год назад +389

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

    • @incredifall
      @incredifall Год назад +6

      agree!

    • @user-bt5xn2bo6p
      @user-bt5xn2bo6p Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/hbBrnEU-ZUc/видео.html

    • @11geosno
      @11geosno Год назад

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

    • @victorgodoy7724
      @victorgodoy7724 Год назад +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 10 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@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

  • @aledmb
    @aledmb 3 месяца назад +38

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

  • @bigneon_glitter
    @bigneon_glitter 3 года назад +1001

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

    • @hiwayman981
      @hiwayman981 3 года назад +34

      Because it's F-ING AWESOME!!!

    • @Pianoman999
      @Pianoman999 3 года назад +20

      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 3 года назад +12

      30 years?!?!? Holy bananas!

    • @bensonhedges5471
      @bensonhedges5471 3 года назад +5

      Cause they're ultra cool Rockstars!!

    • @Idol2Idol
      @Idol2Idol 3 года назад +14

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

  • @gengisdiaz
    @gengisdiaz Год назад +170

    The solo is PURE GOLD.

    • @dukecleve4008
      @dukecleve4008 Год назад +7

      Has Hendrix.... undertones

    • @declanoneill1192
      @declanoneill1192 11 месяцев назад +8

      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 4 месяца назад +6

      The Edge one of the best guitar players

  • @captpicard6894
    @captpicard6894 9 месяцев назад +57

    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 5 месяцев назад +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 4 месяца назад

      Not arrfff ❤

  • @SofaSleuthing
    @SofaSleuthing 5 месяцев назад +28

    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!

    • @laurakendalltarot9693
      @laurakendalltarot9693 2 месяца назад +1

      ❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @nenerosey
      @nenerosey 2 месяца назад

      I dont want to believe it because I'm a jealous bitch & pray ever day that I run into one of the guys 😭

    • @SandraMilovici
      @SandraMilovici Месяц назад

      NICE ❤

    • @ritaenast
      @ritaenast 4 дня назад

      Ur sooooo Lucky❤

  • @danfarrell6572
    @danfarrell6572 3 года назад +71

    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.

  • @johnharpur3010
    @johnharpur3010 3 года назад +735

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

    • @casualsoundenjoyer
      @casualsoundenjoyer 3 года назад +44

      And then they got very experimental with Zooropa and Pop!

    • @johnharpur3010
      @johnharpur3010 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +12

      Must have been a pretty grand 'culture shock'

    • @jonathandcallan
      @jonathandcallan 3 года назад +22

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

    • @rodtaylor5476
      @rodtaylor5476 3 года назад +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.

  • @SuperMikedoom
    @SuperMikedoom 3 года назад +546

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

  • @gmr7494
    @gmr7494 6 месяцев назад +135

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

    • @OberynTheRedViper
      @OberynTheRedViper 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @kellethomas7808
      @kellethomas7808 6 месяцев назад +5

      Best Album Hands Down!!!!

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@OberynTheRedViper Rattle and Hum

    • @kevinkeenan6078
      @kevinkeenan6078 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@OberynTheRedViperYour opinion...not mine.

    • @Zontar82
      @Zontar82 5 месяцев назад +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

  • @zurichsee706
    @zurichsee706 Год назад +13

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

  • @wexfordfour6790
    @wexfordfour6790 3 года назад +95

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

  • @jjwankenobi
    @jjwankenobi 3 года назад +109

    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 3 года назад

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

    • @marvinm.messier1120
      @marvinm.messier1120 3 года назад +1

      Very insightful - I 100% agree

    • @AnthonyBethell
      @AnthonyBethell 3 года назад +2

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

    • @greg.murphy
      @greg.murphy 3 года назад +1

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

    • @Mujcanal
      @Mujcanal 3 года назад

      Agree, great song

  • @masswellwiley6688
    @masswellwiley6688 3 года назад +145

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

    • @ellukitaa__6571
      @ellukitaa__6571 3 года назад +3

      this

    • @zackzallie8735
      @zackzallie8735 3 года назад +3

      Sometimes you gotta erase everything in order to remain consistent.

    • @masswellwiley6688
      @masswellwiley6688 3 года назад

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

    • @johnnyguitars609
      @johnnyguitars609 Месяц назад +1

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

  • @Lawnboyspost1975TheHomeOfDave
    @Lawnboyspost1975TheHomeOfDave 2 месяца назад +10

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

  • @lLostGems
    @lLostGems 3 года назад +377

    Achtung Baby will forever be one of my favourite albums

  • @rodtaylor5476
    @rodtaylor5476 3 года назад +191

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

    • @Nathan-gd7xq
      @Nathan-gd7xq Год назад +16

      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 Год назад +5

      I agree. Greatest reinvention

    • @marcoantoniocardoso4728
      @marcoantoniocardoso4728 9 месяцев назад +3

      Until Nirvana comes....😅

    • @chadredding2652
      @chadredding2652 8 месяцев назад +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 8 месяцев назад +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

  • @michaelwilson2340
    @michaelwilson2340 9 месяцев назад +33

    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.

  • @Libertin101
    @Libertin101 3 года назад +492

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

  • @dazbarone
    @dazbarone 3 года назад +77

    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 3 года назад +4

      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 3 года назад

      This album is a ripoff pretty hate machine album

    • @ed4253
      @ed4253 2 года назад

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

  • @williammelville729
    @williammelville729 Год назад +69

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

  • @AndyMogen
    @AndyMogen Год назад +208

    My god this is still so incredible. Absolute chills

    • @carloavagliano5724
      @carloavagliano5724 Год назад +2

      I’m back to this today omg powerful!!!

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    • @vladrileynavilys
      @vladrileynavilys Год назад

      :PPPP

    • @user-bt5xn2bo6p
      @user-bt5xn2bo6p Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/hbBrnEU-ZUc/видео.html

    • @JasonBentleyJones
      @JasonBentleyJones 7 месяцев назад

      It's a rehash of Sympathy for the devil. Listen to that beat.

  • @regponciano
    @regponciano 3 года назад +520

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

    • @ellukitaa__6571
      @ellukitaa__6571 3 года назад +13

      T H I S

    • @zeitesixx
      @zeitesixx 3 года назад +9

      There are tons of better guitar solos than this one ,

    • @regponciano
      @regponciano 3 года назад +59

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

    • @zeitesixx
      @zeitesixx 3 года назад +6

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

    • @regponciano
      @regponciano 3 года назад +42

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

  • @casualsoundenjoyer
    @casualsoundenjoyer 3 года назад +433

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

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 3 года назад +26

      Definitely. Possibly the greatest tour ever.

    • @kalterkakaozumfruhstuck1515
      @kalterkakaozumfruhstuck1515 3 года назад +9

      Probably???

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +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.

  • @JamesGore1547
    @JamesGore1547 2 года назад +17

    " 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.

  • @bernicerogers2383
    @bernicerogers2383 7 месяцев назад +18

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

  • @isragrande
    @isragrande 3 года назад +60

    This is the quintessential cyberpunk song.

  • @keithtaylor3940
    @keithtaylor3940 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +1

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

    • @nianfiedler9691
      @nianfiedler9691 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +2

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

    • @15081972able
      @15081972able 2 года назад +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.

  • @TrayDyer38
    @TrayDyer38 2 года назад +64

    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.

  • @mahendrakarunaratne4788
    @mahendrakarunaratne4788 2 года назад +45

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

    • @peterhayabusa
      @peterhayabusa 2 года назад +2

      Echoes trough my heart troughout the universe

    • @joncoish
      @joncoish 2 года назад

      Agree!

    • @joncoish
      @joncoish 2 года назад +1

      One of the best solos of anyone!

    • @BrendanMacWade
      @BrendanMacWade Год назад

      It's either this or Acrobat, right?

  • @KellyEddingtonWatercolors
    @KellyEddingtonWatercolors 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +12

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

    • @huskypoop4917
      @huskypoop4917 3 года назад +10

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

    • @tappetisonori
      @tappetisonori 3 года назад +2

      Me too...

    • @andysearle4457
      @andysearle4457 3 года назад +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.

  • @hasinurrahman4119
    @hasinurrahman4119 3 года назад +146

    Edge's solo is electrifying !!

    • @josevela7868
      @josevela7868 2 года назад +4

      Beyond!!!!! No Words

    • @Thenosferatu1900
      @Thenosferatu1900 2 года назад +5

      best guitar solo ever. goosebumps.

    • @Boric78
      @Boric78 2 года назад +3

      Always thought that - glad I am not alone.

    • @avalonjustin
      @avalonjustin 2 года назад +1

      Good-looking guy too. I'm jealous.

    • @luismateus5280
      @luismateus5280 2 года назад +1

      2 minutes of bliss!

  • @vaderfett3229
    @vaderfett3229 3 года назад +99

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

    • @Countravendark
      @Countravendark 2 года назад +2

      Me too and i am fucking happy about that🤘😬

    • @15081972able
      @15081972able 2 года назад +3

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

    • @kingpolo8690
      @kingpolo8690 Год назад +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 Год назад +2

      Nope , 80’s was far better in every way

    • @lactosalldaindustriadoleit8240
      @lactosalldaindustriadoleit8240 Год назад

      Meeeeeee tooooooo💣

  • @frankmclean9971
    @frankmclean9971 3 года назад +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

  • @actung74
    @actung74 3 года назад +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 RUclips, 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.

  • @deplorableaussie6749
    @deplorableaussie6749 Год назад +7

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

  • @mkl62
    @mkl62 Год назад +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.

  • @nigelbooth3042
    @nigelbooth3042 2 года назад +20

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

  • @giuseppedevita1241
    @giuseppedevita1241 3 года назад +36

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

  • @aaronbrungardt2917
    @aaronbrungardt2917 2 года назад +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.

  • @humzaahmed1759
    @humzaahmed1759 10 месяцев назад +34

    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 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @pastamasta69
      @pastamasta69 2 месяца назад +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

  • @dolemite10005
    @dolemite10005 Год назад +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.

  • @cjmq1970
    @cjmq1970 3 года назад +12

    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.

  • @clintaustin2817
    @clintaustin2817 2 года назад +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 2 года назад +3

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

    • @johncohle8331
      @johncohle8331 2 года назад +3

      Timeless

    • @rockdoublard
      @rockdoublard 9 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @user-rr2pv8sq5g
      @user-rr2pv8sq5g 9 месяцев назад +3

      Album of my life. Every single track.

    • @mikeglazier5993
      @mikeglazier5993 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@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

  • @edsonnavarrus7379
    @edsonnavarrus7379 10 месяцев назад +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.

  • @stephenmorris9382
    @stephenmorris9382 3 месяца назад +6

    The solo in this just soars. Beautiful.

  • @UnderABloodRedSkyU2
    @UnderABloodRedSkyU2 3 года назад +20

    The sound on this song and the album is extraordinary. To go from Rattle and Hum to Achtung Baby is something spectacular that no other band could achieve successfully. Forever appreciative of experimental U2

  • @Muhdah1972
    @Muhdah1972 3 года назад +20

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

  • @okosbokos1491
    @okosbokos1491 5 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @paulwright7194
    @paulwright7194 3 года назад +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 2 года назад +3

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

    • @dextermcgrubbin
      @dextermcgrubbin 2 года назад

      Paul Wright- good call

    • @LeeMaitland
      @LeeMaitland 2 года назад +1

      100% agree.

    • @mellu3533
      @mellu3533 Год назад +1

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

    • @Ali-hd6dn
      @Ali-hd6dn 9 месяцев назад +1

      Me too - and it gets me choked up too

  • @petertromp8786
    @petertromp8786 3 года назад +45

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

  • @johnnyespinoza8
    @johnnyespinoza8 10 месяцев назад +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!!!!

  • @lmpl4156
    @lmpl4156 2 года назад +8

    The Fly and all the Achtung Baby turned my point from childhood to maturity, its the song of my older youth and the album of my lifetime. An era marke without any doubt by this album.

  • @wayneoconnor7552
    @wayneoconnor7552 Год назад +112

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

    • @sniper161718
      @sniper161718 10 месяцев назад +3

      Closest they came to touching the Joshua Tree

    • @mikeglazier5993
      @mikeglazier5993 8 месяцев назад +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 7 месяцев назад +1

      One of THE most amazing albums, ever.

    • @Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu28
      @Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu28 7 месяцев назад

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  • @TheUltimateVoid
    @TheUltimateVoid 3 года назад +15

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

  • @emmamagee713
    @emmamagee713 9 месяцев назад +7

    Another legendary song by U2. I especially love the lyrics, "you shine like a burning star falling from the sky" 🌟🔥✨

  • @fbanget
    @fbanget 2 месяца назад +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.

  • @sasarasasarasa
    @sasarasasarasa 2 года назад +20

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

  • @SteveM109r
    @SteveM109r 3 года назад +39

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

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 3 года назад +4

      Six years 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @pault6599
      @pault6599 3 года назад +6

      @@christopheranderson1968 felt longer 🤣

    • @huskypoop4917
      @huskypoop4917 3 года назад +6

      i remember and i cheered

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 3 года назад +5

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

    • @pault6599
      @pault6599 3 года назад

      @@christopheranderson1968 I probably did also 🤣

  • @IHateThisHandleSystem
    @IHateThisHandleSystem Год назад +46

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

    • @SpiritualGangs
      @SpiritualGangs Год назад +2

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

    • @CoboProdz
      @CoboProdz 11 месяцев назад +1

      It’s when I stopped listening to them. Terrible

  • @JamesGore1547
    @JamesGore1547 Год назад +7

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

  • @Northernsoul8582
    @Northernsoul8582 2 года назад +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

  • @Dwaynerade
    @Dwaynerade 3 года назад +7

    This one's all about the drums and the bass during the chorus. One of those rare U2 songs where Edge drops out at the sing-a-long part. Love it.

  • @Rishiyisus
    @Rishiyisus 3 года назад +23

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

  • @OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8
    @OVI-Wan-Kenobi-8 Год назад +6

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

  • @wreckim
    @wreckim 2 года назад +111

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

  • @reylogan3488
    @reylogan3488 3 года назад +11

    The most greatest album of history!!! DIVINE! This work came from HEAVEN! Believe it, or not.

  • @sasarasasarasa
    @sasarasasarasa 3 года назад +46

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

  • @biff0101
    @biff0101 7 месяцев назад +5

    The Bass Line is just hammering away in this classic!

  • @lauremalleval5816
    @lauremalleval5816 10 месяцев назад +5

    And live version is most powerful! Like plenty U2 songs! I play bass guitar 35 years ago, i always like U2 bacause they are a live band! A réal live band!

  • @gianpaololufrano9014
    @gianpaololufrano9014 3 года назад +164

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

    • @krypto_9872
      @krypto_9872 3 года назад +7

      And his amazing echo pedal board

    • @Unplugged70
      @Unplugged70 3 года назад +5

      Sounds LETHAL on this audio mix. Holy fuck.

    • @marvinm.messier1120
      @marvinm.messier1120 3 года назад +6

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

    • @gray6071
      @gray6071 3 года назад

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

    • @ryukan250
      @ryukan250 3 года назад +3

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

  • @paliki
    @paliki Год назад +8

    “Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief”
    Bono. 🙌

  • @allspark2370
    @allspark2370 3 года назад +29

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

    • @christopheranderson1968
      @christopheranderson1968 3 года назад +11

      This is the official video from 1991, when the single was first released.

    • @redshift8302
      @redshift8302 3 года назад +1

      I've seen this before.

    • @HarveyHirdHarmonics
      @HarveyHirdHarmonics 3 года назад +2

      It's actually the first U2 video I ever saw back in the 90s on MTV.

    • @allspark2370
      @allspark2370 3 года назад

      @@HarveyHirdHarmonics That’s awesome!

    • @rodtaylor5476
      @rodtaylor5476 3 года назад +2

      I grew up with this film clip

  • @crazymoose9875
    @crazymoose9875 5 месяцев назад +3

    "The edge" chords and Bonos voice in this song are just diabolic, outstanding.....!!!

  • @PatrickCrossfire.
    @PatrickCrossfire. Год назад +2

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

  • @grim3712
    @grim3712 3 года назад +21

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

    • @kevinkeenan6078
      @kevinkeenan6078 3 года назад +11

      They did on Zooropa,Passengers and Pop.

    • @krypto_9872
      @krypto_9872 3 года назад +11

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

    • @yvonnemulder9038
      @yvonnemulder9038 3 года назад

      Irisch

    • @nianfiedler9691
      @nianfiedler9691 2 года назад

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

  • @trentonbooth9141
    @trentonbooth9141 21 день назад +3

    This song is awesome and it's because of the guy playing lead Guitar. Brilliant

  • @korkyrougewhite864
    @korkyrougewhite864 10 месяцев назад +4

    Might have said it before but…. The harmonies, guitar, bass n drums - it’s no secret 1991 what a year x

  • @kevinhitzemann1257
    @kevinhitzemann1257 2 года назад +3

    I was searching "Spanish Fly" and this popped up...not bad...not bad at all U2!

  • @CristianCifuentesRiquelme
    @CristianCifuentesRiquelme 3 года назад +15

    First time I listened this song on 1991 it was like a explosion to my head. So much different from the previous work. The equalised voice from outer space sounded so hysterical for the new age that was media hype for everyone, previous internet.

  • @kuroroluc
    @kuroroluc 3 года назад +17

    I love goofy Bono at the beggining of the video.

  • @albertrosenflower3011
    @albertrosenflower3011 7 месяцев назад +5

    best song ever

  • @keithohalloran7861
    @keithohalloran7861 3 года назад +4

    The Fly, the last of the rock stars. Best album ever

  • @stephenwebster3304
    @stephenwebster3304 3 года назад +10

    This was the track that did it for me. I was 14 and bought the record on 7”. That was it, I was hooked, got Achtung Baby, swiftly followed by the Joshua Tree. Within 18 months Zooropa landed - and on the back of the greatest tour of all time. My mind was blown.

  • @kentr1431
    @kentr1431 2 года назад +6

    Best U2 song?

  • @kendolan5632
    @kendolan5632 Месяц назад +3

    Yes? The Fly. Yes? The Fly. Yes? The Fly. Yes?

  • @bonovoz71
    @bonovoz71 Год назад +8

    When this song came out (before the album) it BLEW MY MIND! Edge.......what a guitar solo. 30+ years later and it still gives me chills.

  • @LuisSaravia-uh1ld
    @LuisSaravia-uh1ld 9 месяцев назад +5

    U2 Is the Best!

  • @notkafk4
    @notkafk4 3 года назад +19

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

    • @deshunsmith2580
      @deshunsmith2580 3 года назад +3

      Love that part too.

    • @Jonathan-hy3pv
      @Jonathan-hy3pv 3 года назад +5

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

  • @eniocontreras6110
    @eniocontreras6110 2 года назад +13

    For me THE BEST U2 ÁLBUM even hate comparison but is the most vanguardist álbum of all bands. It sounds like it came from the future. Love U2😍

  • @AlyoshaK840
    @AlyoshaK840 8 месяцев назад +5

    I love the harmonics Edge incorporates into this guitar solo. Such a unique awesome sound.

  • @wahillyman
    @wahillyman 3 года назад +6

    such an exciting time to be alive. looking back, the 90s was as transformative as the 60s. Multimedia, digital media and WWW! U2 were there with ZOOTV and later POPMART..watching them in th 90s..you felt like anything was possible

  • @dovesandcoldplay
    @dovesandcoldplay 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +6

      The epitome of cool...

    • @ryukan250
      @ryukan250 3 года назад

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

    • @deshunsmith2580
      @deshunsmith2580 3 года назад +5

      Yes , that was when he was the Fly.

    • @nianfiedler5291
      @nianfiedler5291 3 года назад +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 3 года назад +1

      @2.22. True.

  • @U2MQU2
    @U2MQU2 3 года назад +9

    The Fly and Zoo Station, masterpieces ❤🇧🇷

  • @ZiEdgE_Zoo-Station
    @ZiEdgE_Zoo-Station 10 месяцев назад +1

    The Fly is the song (i really love the live's version !!) i listen the most. For this album and for all the U2 album and i'm a fan since 1983 and the war album ...

  • @UnderABloodRedSkyU2
    @UnderABloodRedSkyU2 3 года назад +18

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

    • @nuttay8356
      @nuttay8356 2 года назад

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

  • @sorryimtoohot
    @sorryimtoohot 3 года назад +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.

  • @CordeauxG
    @CordeauxG Год назад +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 Год назад

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

  • @jennycarranza4291
    @jennycarranza4291 3 года назад +7

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