I love the story the director told about how when they were making this video Bono saw the final cut and was mildly horrified bc he had never seen himself doing MacPhisto and it was a lot, especially with the effect the wide angle lens gave. He wanted to redo his parts of the video bc he felt insecure about it and Larry stepped in and said that there was no way he was going to redo it, that it was one of the best performances Bono had given. So Bono's original performance was what they used. It is funny to think Bono had never seen himself doing MacPhisto, but I actually think it explains a lot about how he was able to commit to such an outrageous character. That era of U2 was so amazing and it was awesome how willing they were to take such huge risks. Lemon is a truly incredible song that manages to be strange dance music on the surface with moments of heartbreaking beauty and fragility at its core. It has a complexity that is a signature of all of the best U2 songs and is completely unexpected at the same time. I love that this album has ended up being deeply beloved by the fans bc it was so ahead of its time and has aged extremely well.
@@thomas.deliot I believe I heard it from the directors commentary on the "Lemon" music video from the Best of 1990--2000 dvd. That dvd is kinda worth checking out for the directors commentary on all of the music videos. The commentary on the "Discotheque" music video is hilarious...
I think i love you....man i feel lucky in a way to have been there in that year totally digging the song and alblum.Many years later i still listen,still can't believe the tune,and i still here things i "hadn't" heard before.I don't know if their is a word for what U2 is.Killer comment
A lot of the critics of U2 nowadays need to really look into this era from 90’s. They were doing some incredibly bold and impressive stuff and this song and video is one of their finest realized concepts.
100 percent. Obviously the big stuff is overly well-known, but stuff like this flies under the radar. Such an underrated song / album, but it's fun to see all the people here who recognize its brilliance.
The fact U2 did so much stuff like this in the 90's earns them the right, in my opinion, to make the straightforward stuff they make now. They've been everywhere musically, they can do whatever they want from here on out.
@@reecord2 Honestly, I think that's a totally fair opinion. I don't think it's plausible for any band with the longevity of U2 to also be at a creativity / songwriting peak for that entire time. I appreciate the fact that they're still dedicated to writing and playing new music rather than just doing all nostalgia tours, as they could easily have done. Sure it's not as good as the run from like 83-98, but few bands have runs that good.
Back when I first heard this song, it took me a minute or two to even recognise it was Bono singing in falsetto. Even when I realised it was Bono I thought he was making a guest appearance with a completely different band. When I finally realised it was in fact, U2, I was blown away. This was such a radical reinvention that they were almost unrecognisable. It's still impressive today. There are very few artists or bands that can deconstruct their own sound and reinvent themselves like this.
Experimental. Odd. Weird. Innovative. Unique. Amazing... U2 pushed the envelope throughout the 90s and chose to stand out while others would keep on doing the same old thing. I'm glad U2 pushed that boundary and I love and respect their work from the 90s👌👍
They were the only band doing new and pushing-the-envelope things? Please. Love U2 but they too drank too much fine wine in my opinion after this album, but to say they were the only band that pushed boundaries has "I love, love, love, love, love U2" written all over it.
@@Brooklyn3955 "Under a Blood Red Sky" shows U2 at the height of their egotistical gluttony and a prime example of what "being a rockstar" means and why you should avoid that - the fans consume it like crack addicts, though. In "Achtung Baby" they start to realize it's time to stop trying to emulate U.S. music, The Smiths and Joy Division and it's a great album... But after that, Bono indulged in excessive cynicism and had no idea what he was doing on "Pop" and later went on to try "being U2" again... the messianic, faux humble, goody-goody U2.
"Lemon" is one of the biggest acts in U2 history. Very underrated. I waited a lot for this video. Midnight is where the day begins 🍋love from Brazil, we miss u, guys! 💛
why people when they don't know much about music or history of music say that songs are underrated, this was number 3 in US Modern Rock Tracks ranking and number 1 in US Hot Dance Music/Club Play.... That you did not about that does not make it underrated
This is still one of my favourite songs of all time.....its one of those tunes that you can't put your finger on but really strikes a chord deep down. Timeless.
Same as that pal. I couldn’t believe how some U2 fans were nonplussed with it. The Pop album and Zooropa were their most interesting records, so full of texture. Nothing afterwards reached the same level.
Bono will never have these type of beautiful falsetto notes ever again. Sad but true. He's literally a top 10 pop singer in the world at this time. That includes the heavy weight divas like Whitney Houston, Mariah, Madonna. Zoo tv era bono is one of the greatest singers in history. You could train all your life and never be able to hit the falsetto notes that Bono hits here and he hits them so clearly and cleanly. It's impressive as hell. Still today.
I’m sorry but that is a lie 😂 how can you say that when they have “one”, “with or without you”, “In the name of Love” “Sunday Bloody Sunday” “where the streets have no name” even recent songs like “song for someone” are better so no way this one of the best songs. Pop and zooropa are in my opinion the worst U2 albums hence why they never returned to that style of music again.
@@jackbauer5455 While most of the list are all time obviously classics Song for Someone doesn't come anywhere near Lemon in any way shape or form!! SFS is beyond Biege, Lemon is beautiful!!
@@barryrowlings83 Song for someone is not beige at all its beautiful take that back 😂 seems like our opinions are completely reversed when it comes to Lemon but I guess we will have to agree to disagree. If you like the Lemon song then power to you but it’s definitely not going to be in the top 10 songs (probably even top 20 ) where U2 will be remembered for.
@@jackbauer5455 I prefer 13 to SFS! Lemon is U2 at their creative peak for me, the falsetto, the piano, the harmonies for me are all wonderful! While it won't be in their all time top ten (neither will SFS) it perhaps should be!! 🤣
I remember when Achtung Baby and Zooropa came out people said that U2 had lost their way. I don't think they lost their way they had just traveled in another direction and both albums are masterpieces which show their versatility and adaptability.
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mate I was thinking EXACTLY the same I MISS my MTV when it played a proper mix of all sorts.....and I REALLY miss my 80s / early 90s U2 . Great band ...great albums. ..gteat days and times
@@TheSlighty everything was very new, smelling new, new format... besides us... less age, body aches, but I like the way I am... and we always have the internet to kill my nostalgia!!!
U2's *Lemon* track was way beyond its time - along with its proper album *Zooropa* in its entirety. Furthermore, *PoP* is also another brilliant U2 record that people were not even close to being ready for yet. *PoP* is my favourite U2 album release ever. Songs like Discotheque, Do You Feel Loved, MOFO, Staring at the Sun, Gone, Miami, The Playboy Mansion, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, Please, and Wake-up Dead Man - spectacular versatility and stellar musical performances, a complete absurdly underrated album of near experimental perfection. Nothing compare to 90's U2. Finally, U2's "No Line on the Horizon" is their greatest album past the year 2000, alongside one of their most impressive tours, their *360° Tour.*
Song? The whole damn record was underrated, Numb and Stay are played every so often (5 or 10 years) but silence on the rest. My Favourite disc from them.
Oh agreed. Even if the band has mixed feelings about it, for us, as a fanbase, it's fantastic to see themselves putting themselves out there and stretching the limitations of what we expect. Brave album.
@@WrathofArminius And no one is forcing you, you listen to music that irritates you simply because you want to. Go see what you like, just don't want to change the opinion of others as if you were an expert judge, because here, nobody even knows you.
@@huksohuksovich1945 The lyrics are based on a home video of Bono's mother where she is wearing lemon (yellow). She died when Bono was 14. "I have very few memories of my mother because my father never talked about her after she died," Bono writes in the band bio U2 by U2. "So it was a very strange experience to receive, in the post, from a very distant relative, Super 8 footage of my mother, aged 24, younger than me, playing a game of rounders in slow motion. This beautiful, young Irish girl, with a narrow waist, curvaceous figure, dark gypsy hair. The film was early color and it looked extraordinary. It was a wedding, where she was the maid of honor in this beautiful lemon dress." Of the lyrics Bono says, "There were two things going on at once, memory and loss, a portrait of a girl in a shimmering lemon dress that kept it sexy and playful and the pathos of a man separated from the things he loves... 'Lemon' is about leaving home, versus not leaving home."
@@Neucod55 Bono said he’d received old super 8 films from a distant relative and one of them was of his deceased mother as a bridesmaid wearing a lemon yellow dress. This inspired him to write a song about how we use film and photos to try to preserve our memories.
Bass line just killing it. Tension and passion and cold doomed melancholy. Electronic Greta Garbo. Away from standard brutal masculinity. Fabulous. And the great video. Best U2 song.
The sample is a plagiarism of this song: ruclips.net/video/76v5j_TWYUU/видео.html it is plagiarism because Soda Stereo did not receive credit for the song, it is said that during the Zoo TV Tour, in Mexico in 1993, Bono, asked a radio programmer for a copy of "Dynamo" and upon hearing "Claroscuro" he was inspired to " Lemon ", even the covers of both albums look alike.
Believe it or not, this was when I first discovered U2, so I thought this was their look and sound. It was only later that I discovered how unique this song was on the album, and how unique the album was compared to everything that preceded it.
Lemon has great elements combining dance music and alternative rock. Bono I find was very comical in a lot of scenes, dancing like a Russian dancer, grabbing onto his bandmate, twiddling his fingers over his neck and total outrageous expressions and movements! U2 is amazing in this one!! You go boys! ❤❤
And yet both songs are essentially mining the same seam as they are both about Bono's Mother. You could say that Lemon was the second song in a suite of four songs, I Will Follow, Lemon, Mofo and Iris.
Yup, exactly! They way their sound changed over time is amazing. The difference in their sound only 13 years later is crazy. The 90s is my favorite U2 decade, but all of their music is great!
My high school years (1998 to 2002) are when I really got into U2. I liked them ever since I was a kid but it was my teenage years finding U2's "Zooropa" and The Cure's "Disintegration" that blew my mind out of the water.
@@mar15115 Auchtung Baby and Zooropa are my top 2 U2 albums. My top 2 songs are One and Please( the album version, I hate the rerecord version in the video)
Adam's been on the gravy train since day one. Lives off Bono and Edge's creativity. Larry's almost as bad, but IS a great drummer. Adam is the only member who is replaceable.
@@blackporscheroadster6415 U2 as a band should have called it a day in 2001.Their career output before that is brilliant.And where their greatest albums are.Their live shows maybe extended a couple of years further.Great band to grow up to, especially seeing them live a few times.I don't care for musos, just songs.
@@StratsRUs I think their later output post 2001 is patchy and not as great but does contain some incredible nuggets. I think it is definitely worth they carried on. One of my favourite albums is 2014s No Line on the Horizon. Criminally overlooked and produced by Eno. It has some great if more understated tunes and goes more for atmosphere than stadium chants. Apart from Get on Your Boots it's a classic. Whereas 'Songs of Innocence' is by far the worst album they have made. Strangely their album art also massively deteriorated too. The cover of Songs of Innocence is just plain terrible and NLOH is one of the most dull album covers in history. Surrounded by too many 'yes' people at that stage.
@@blackporscheroadster6415 I have nothing against them lasting so long.Adam Clayton is a cool solid player.That band of friends made each other rich too.I was lucky to have REM and U2 soundtracking my youth.That will always be special.
@@StratsRUs R.E.M. were like the American U2 to me. Got all their albums. Incredible band. Actually some of REM's later stuff has been overlooked too. Reveal is a fantastic album, but no one seems to rate it, because it was a post-Bill Berry release. Same with Pink Floyd and Division Bell which was a post Roger Waters release, so everybody dismissed it. There will never be bands like U2 and REM again. They were alternative in lyrics and intelligence, but had a mainstream appeal too. A VERY difficult feat to pull off. I remember seeing U2 on the Zoo TV Tour in Leeds in 1993 and seeing them fly in on helicopter and the TV screens and the buzz of the fans was just other-worldly on a rainy miserable night in north Yorkshire. What a life they have had.
This song opens my eyes, the lyrics, the vocals, THE EMOTIONS it transmits. Also, this is PURE ART as the lyrics are subjective, in my case I think they’re singing to the Morning Star, the Sun (Midnight is where the Day begins) 🙌💜 also beginnings, transmutations, and the list is endless 🌞🍋
Would love this to be on some Netflix teen drama and get the appreciation it richly deserves. A whole new generation will be grateful for the introduction.
I wasn't a big fan of u2... I just liked a few songs of them back on the 80's.... but in the early 90's they really blow my head with this song and The Fly!! Masterpieces both!
Check Tears for Fears' Elemantal. It might surprise you. Same release moment. Zooropa and this one from tff where the two casettes that were always playing in my headphones ... great summer.
Lemon See through in the sunlight She wore lemon But never in the daylight She's gonna make you cry She's gonna make you whisper and moan And when you're dry She draws her water from the stone And I feel Like I'm slowly slipping under And I feel Like I'm holding onto nothing She wore lemon To colour in the cold grey night She had heaven And she held on so tight A man makes a picture A moving picture Through the light projected He can see himself up close A man captures color A man likes to stare He turns his money into light to look for her And I feel Like I'm drifting from the shore And I feel Like I'm swimming out to her Midnight is where the day begins Lemon See through in the sunlight A man builds a city With banks and cathedrals A man melts the sand so he can See the world outside You're gonna meet her there A man makes a car She's your destination And builds roads to run them on You gotta get to her A man dreams of leaving She's imagination But he always stays behind And these are the days When our work has come assunder And these are the days When we look for something other A man makes a picture A moving picture Through the light projected He can see himself up close You're gonna meet her there A man captures colour She's your destination A man likes to stare There's no sleeping there He turns his money into light She's imagination To look for her Lemon She is the dreamer She's imagination She had heaven Through the light projected He can see himself up close She wore lemon
Lemon, Numb, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - absolute art. Three tracks of unbridled, burning genius. Testament? Time, within reason, like a fine wine, it just keeps getting better...
Cuando U2 era la banda más grande del rock en todos los sentidos. Pico creativo. Brian Eno ... grandísimo. Recuerdo cuando salió este disco a un amiguete super fan de ellos que me decía que U2 ya no hacía música ... Yo me quedé loco con este disco desde la primera escucha. Lemon es de mis favoritas de todos los tiempos.
His voice peaked on this song man.. it’s sad but it’s true. Those high notes can be heard in the Zooropa dvd from 93 in Australia listen to the version of this song up there
Hermosa cansion de limón U2 de 10 dios los bendiga por darnos música hermosa dios les siga dando mucha salud y sabiduría para alegrarnos saludos a los chicos desde Veracruz
In retrospect, Bono as Macphisto, in my view, resembles the late Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk. I wonder if Florian was an influence, especially from the Man Machine era with the makeup and lipstick. Hmm, Achtung... Hansa...Berlin... I've always thought Bono was also channeling Lou Reed Metal Machine with Bono's The Fly persona. Again, machine... man... machine... This video is also a great tribute to and draws inspiration fro the automatic electro-photographs of Eadweard Muybridge's 'The Horse in Motion'. For me, this 'remaster' of the Numb video is a nice surprise, floods me with memories too bittersweet to digest.
Bono references “man machine” in ‘Iris’ on Songs of Innocence, an album influenced by Kraftwerk (most notably, ironically, on the non-album track, ‘Invisible’).
Lawd, Bono doing the MacPhisto makeup/character gig through this era was my FAVE. THING. EVER. So theatrical, so arty, so avant-guarde, so HOT. 🔥🎭 Always loved this song (and the remix/dance version, which is even better).
I think subconsciously or consciously Bono was influenced by Peter Gabriel's performance art of Genisis in the early-mid 70s. I remember interview quotes from PG saying how much he enjoyed the Zoo TV tour.
A detail, in the dvd commentary, the director said that Bono got angry and left the room because it was not filmed in color (as he thought), then he came and he accepted it. But its obviously that MacPhisto is better in color. I can't get tired of the remastered videos, thanks.
I remember listening to this album in 1993 at Phipp’s Plaza in Atlanta. Bought the cd, so many memories from that weekend. This is the perfect song to sum up that weekend.
When I first heard this song circa 1994 I was like, “Wtf is this?” It was outrageous. My friend who was a U2 fanatic loved it! As I grew up I realized this was straight … uncut … dope!
Bono’s voice, his high notes are mind blowing, I loved the Zoo TV Tour at the NEC, to have Achtung Baby and then tracks from the Zooropa album as well was genius.. LEMON 🍋
Asi fue como yo empeze a apreciar a U2, con la cancion Numb y despues el resto del disco de Zooropa. Ahora, yo habia escuchado una que otra de sus canciones en la radio pero me parecia algo comercial comparado con la intensidad que U2 tiene en Zooropa. Despues de eso entendi que este grupo tiene un catagolo de musica increible al cual yo no le estaba prestando mucha atencion. En ese entonces yo estaba obsecionado con Heavy Metal y Prog Rock. Lo mismo me paso con Madonna, pero eso es otra historia.
Sitting waiting for my flight to Mexico City the sound of u2 in the waiting area ...went to cdmx and bought zooropa on a cassette ,, love it good memories
Striking song! I remember where I was the 1st time I ever heard it. I deployed soon after and didn’t hear it again until 25-30 years later. However, this song stuck with me all those years as one of my favorite U2 songs. Really takes me back to time I miss.
U2 fan since 1982 and after all this time still think they are great.... Hope they'll stay active for a while. Even if they wouldn't tour any more I hope they'll make new albums or some other projects. I like them as artists.....
I used to be a big fan of U2 at some point, but I don't know what happened that made me stop listening to their music. However, one thing is for sure: this song is a masterpiece
Genius. Almost "Achtung" level of breakout invention and straight after, almost as a "more B-sides" After haunting a radio station many years I used to work in a record bar at the time. (Remember those?) Used to love playing this album back to back with "Unforgettable Fire" just to watch people's minds get blown.
I love the story the director told about how when they were making this video Bono saw the final cut and was mildly horrified bc he had never seen himself doing MacPhisto and it was a lot, especially with the effect the wide angle lens gave. He wanted to redo his parts of the video bc he felt insecure about it and Larry stepped in and said that there was no way he was going to redo it, that it was one of the best performances Bono had given. So Bono's original performance was what they used. It is funny to think Bono had never seen himself doing MacPhisto, but I actually think it explains a lot about how he was able to commit to such an outrageous character. That era of U2 was so amazing and it was awesome how willing they were to take such huge risks. Lemon is a truly incredible song that manages to be strange dance music on the surface with moments of heartbreaking beauty and fragility at its core. It has a complexity that is a signature of all of the best U2 songs and is completely unexpected at the same time. I love that this album has ended up being deeply beloved by the fans bc it was so ahead of its time and has aged extremely well.
Larry is such an important part of U2. It's not the same without him.
Alex,well put.....pop doesn't delv near this deep anymore...or shallow either
Hey would love to read that, do you have a source ? :)
@@thomas.deliot I believe I heard it from the directors commentary on the "Lemon" music video from the Best of 1990--2000 dvd. That dvd is kinda worth checking out for the directors commentary on all of the music videos. The commentary on the "Discotheque" music video is hilarious...
I think i love you....man i feel lucky in a way to have been there in that year totally digging the song and alblum.Many years later i still listen,still can't believe the tune,and i still here things i "hadn't" heard before.I don't know if their is a word for what U2 is.Killer comment
A lot of the critics of U2 nowadays need to really look into this era from 90’s. They were doing some incredibly bold and impressive stuff and this song and video is one of their finest realized concepts.
100 percent. Obviously the big stuff is overly well-known, but stuff like this flies under the radar. Such an underrated song / album, but it's fun to see all the people here who recognize its brilliance.
So true. AB, Zooropa and Pop are pure gold
Joshua, Achtung, Zooropa & Pop - the Mighty 4
The fact U2 did so much stuff like this in the 90's earns them the right, in my opinion, to make the straightforward stuff they make now. They've been everywhere musically, they can do whatever they want from here on out.
@@reecord2 Honestly, I think that's a totally fair opinion. I don't think it's plausible for any band with the longevity of U2 to also be at a creativity / songwriting peak for that entire time. I appreciate the fact that they're still dedicated to writing and playing new music rather than just doing all nostalgia tours, as they could easily have done. Sure it's not as good as the run from like 83-98, but few bands have runs that good.
Hell, yeah, Bono! Still one of the best songs I've ever heard in my whole damn life!
Back when I first heard this song, it took me a minute or two to even recognise it was Bono singing in falsetto. Even when I realised it was Bono I thought he was making a guest appearance with a completely different band. When I finally realised it was in fact, U2, I was blown away. This was such a radical reinvention that they were almost unrecognisable. It's still impressive today. There are very few artists or bands that can deconstruct their own sound and reinvent themselves like this.
Experimental. Odd. Weird. Innovative. Unique. Amazing... U2 pushed the envelope throughout the 90s and chose to stand out while others would keep on doing the same old thing. I'm glad U2 pushed that boundary and I love and respect their work from the 90s👌👍
gay.
They were the only band doing new and pushing-the-envelope things? Please. Love U2 but they too drank too much fine wine in my opinion after this album, but to say they were the only band that pushed boundaries has "I love, love, love, love, love U2" written all over it.
@@Brooklyn3955 "Under a Blood Red Sky" shows U2 at the height of their egotistical gluttony and a prime example of what "being a rockstar" means and why you should avoid that - the fans consume it like crack addicts, though.
In "Achtung Baby" they start to realize it's time to stop trying to emulate U.S. music, The Smiths and Joy Division and it's a great album...
But after that, Bono indulged in excessive cynicism and had no idea what he was doing on "Pop" and later went on to try "being U2" again... the messianic, faux humble, goody-goody U2.
@@plasticweapon You would know
They didnt push anything they just pushed crap out for money stop making it more than it is
"Lemon" is one of the biggest acts in U2 history. Very underrated. I waited a lot for this video.
Midnight is where the day begins 🍋love from Brazil, we miss u, guys! 💛
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why people when they don't know much about music or history of music say that songs are underrated, this was number 3 in US Modern Rock Tracks ranking and number 1 in US Hot Dance Music/Club Play.... That you did not about that does not make it underrated
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Not underated at all
This is still one of my favourite songs of all time.....its one of those tunes that you can't put your finger on but really strikes a chord deep down. Timeless.
Beautifully spoken, it speaks to my innermost self. For me it is profoundly deep, an echoing expression of love, and the vitality of our beingness.
But what acceptance maybe ,,, Put that in your pipe and Smoke It player
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This entire album was way ahead of its time.
I am 50 now in 2023
I knew it in 1993.
Masterpiece.
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For sure! Zooropa was so ahead of time.... i do had this cd, too!
Same, I still have the cassette tape.
Brilliant band changed so many times way ahead of time this could be 2023
Same as that pal. I couldn’t believe how some U2 fans were nonplussed with it. The Pop album and Zooropa were their most interesting records, so full of texture. Nothing afterwards reached the same level.
Same situation here... 48 now... and when I listening Zooropa in 1993 was incredible!
For me, one of the best albums... followed by Achtung Baby!
Bono will never have these type of beautiful falsetto notes ever again. Sad but true. He's literally a top 10 pop singer in the world at this time. That includes the heavy weight divas like Whitney Houston, Mariah, Madonna. Zoo tv era bono is one of the greatest singers in history. You could train all your life and never be able to hit the falsetto notes that Bono hits here and he hits them so clearly and cleanly. It's impressive as hell. Still today.
Sounds very gay
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@@guitaristssuck8979 wow what a original insult.
@@angelofdeath2898 if you think it's an insult then you're very homophobic
@@guitaristssuck8979 What exactly makes it sound “gay”?
"Lemon": one of the best U2´s songs. Big fan from Brazil since 80´s.
I’m sorry but that is a lie 😂 how can you say that when they have “one”, “with or without you”, “In the name of Love” “Sunday Bloody Sunday” “where the streets have no name” even recent songs like “song for someone” are better so no way this one of the best songs.
Pop and zooropa are in my opinion the worst U2 albums hence why they never returned to that style of music again.
Definitely one of my favourites.
@@jackbauer5455 While most of the list are all time obviously classics Song for Someone doesn't come anywhere near Lemon in any way shape or form!! SFS is beyond Biege, Lemon is beautiful!!
@@barryrowlings83 Song for someone is not beige at all its beautiful take that back 😂 seems like our opinions are completely reversed when it comes to Lemon but I guess we will have to agree to disagree. If you like the Lemon song then power to you but it’s definitely not going to be in the top 10 songs (probably even top 20 ) where U2 will be remembered for.
@@jackbauer5455 I prefer 13 to SFS! Lemon is U2 at their creative peak for me, the falsetto, the piano, the harmonies for me are all wonderful! While it won't be in their all time top ten (neither will SFS) it perhaps should be!! 🤣
*_The piano riff and bassline in this song is incredible._*
Totalmente de acuerdo amigo.
Citation not needed
yeah the groove is so good.
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Clayton!
I remember when Achtung Baby and Zooropa came out people said that U2 had lost their way. I don't think they lost their way they had just traveled in another direction and both albums are masterpieces which show their versatility and adaptability.
I hated, HATED, Achtung Baby when it came out. Now it’s my favorite U2 album. It was such a departure, I just couldn’t accept it at first.
Damn right. Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop were up there with Bowie's Berlin trilogy. And I do NOT make that comparison lightly.
It was their best period!
best albums
Achtung Baby is one of my all-time favorite albums. I Canister to it all the way through without skipping a song.
Oh yes, finally! LEMON!
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This is so MTV in the 90's... What a good time that never comes back...
what you said...exactly
@@BrickBlacktoe this video played a lot on MTV. And those were very good days. And they don't come back anymore.
mate I was thinking EXACTLY the same I MISS my MTV when it played a proper mix of all sorts.....and I REALLY miss my 80s / early 90s U2 .
Great band ...great albums.
..gteat days and times
@@TheSlighty everything was very new, smelling new, new format... besides us... less age, body aches, but I like the way I am... and we always have the internet to kill my nostalgia!!!
Be happy that we could live in such a great time like 90's with ambitious, great music television. We had a luck! Greatings from Poland. 🇵🇱
U2's *Lemon* track was way beyond its time - along with its proper album *Zooropa* in its entirety. Furthermore, *PoP* is also another brilliant U2 record that people were not even close to being ready for yet. *PoP* is my favourite U2 album release ever. Songs like Discotheque, Do You Feel Loved, MOFO, Staring at the Sun, Gone, Miami, The Playboy Mansion, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, Please, and Wake-up Dead Man - spectacular versatility and stellar musical performances, a complete absurdly underrated album of near experimental perfection.
Nothing compare to 90's U2.
Finally, U2's "No Line on the Horizon" is their greatest album past the year 2000, alongside one of their most impressive tours, their *360° Tour.*
POp é fantastico mesmo❤❤❤❤❤
One of U2's most criminally underrated songs. Never gets a mention in any compilation album they do
As a long-term U2 fan, I personally think this is more of an 'artistic' statement than a 'musical' statement.
@@blackporscheroadster6415 What's the difference
Zooropa and The Wanderer too
Song? The whole damn record was underrated, Numb and Stay are played every so often (5 or 10 years) but silence on the rest.
My Favourite disc from them.
@@ubermenschb Can never play Zooropa just once, Think I'll listen to it now.
One of the coolest songs they have ever made. Zooropa is amazing album.
Most def
Oh agreed. Even if the band has mixed feelings about it, for us, as a fanbase, it's fantastic to see themselves putting themselves out there and stretching the limitations of what we expect. Brave album.
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Agreed. Dont mention U2 before listening to Zooropa.
Probably my favorite by U2.
"Midnight is where the day begins"
I needed so much this song today. Thank you.
30yrs has gone faster than you ever can imagine..
Man watching.
Man appreciating underrated rock song.
Man posting comment denoting approval.
Add this to the original pls
More like; Man enjoying the smell of his own farts
It's not a rock song
Crap is walking
This piece of crap found a guitar
man wondering: hmm, this tea needs a kick. i wonder what to add..
u2: stop right f*cking there and listen carefully.
This went over my head as a teenager but now as an "adult" I recognize it's genius
Same here
@@WrathofArminius
And no one is forcing you, you listen to music that irritates you simply because you want to. Go see what you like, just don't want to change the opinion of others as if you were an expert judge, because here, nobody even knows you.
I came here to say the same thing. 30 years ago, I wasn't ready for this song. Way ahead of it's time. Masterpiece!
Same here!
@@huksohuksovich1945 The lyrics are based on a home video of Bono's mother where she is wearing lemon (yellow). She died when Bono was 14. "I have very few memories of my mother because my father never talked about her after she died," Bono writes in the band bio U2 by U2. "So it was a very strange experience to receive, in the post, from a very distant relative, Super 8 footage of my mother, aged 24, younger than me, playing a game of rounders in slow motion. This beautiful, young Irish girl, with a narrow waist, curvaceous figure, dark gypsy hair. The film was early color and it looked extraordinary. It was a wedding, where she was the maid of honor in this beautiful lemon dress."
Of the lyrics Bono says, "There were two things going on at once, memory and loss, a portrait of a girl in a shimmering lemon dress that kept it sexy and playful and the pathos of a man separated from the things he loves... 'Lemon' is about leaving home, versus not leaving home."
One of the weirdest yet coolest u2 songs
I know right? Only U2 could make a song about lemons so f****ing cool!
@@Neucod55 Bono said he’d received old super 8 films from a distant relative and one of them was of his deceased mother as a bridesmaid wearing a lemon yellow dress. This inspired him to write a song about how we use film and photos to try to preserve our memories.
@@joermnyc they recently used some of that footage while performing the son Iris
@@joermnyc .
Yess 😎 cool
when U2 wasn't afraid to delve into new musical adventures.
I love U2 from the 90s.
AB, Zooropoa and Pop ... are part of a decade long journey💫
Bass line just killing it. Tension and passion and cold doomed melancholy. Electronic Greta Garbo. Away from standard brutal masculinity. Fabulous. And the great video. Best U2 song.
This song is really a piece of art, I'm wish everybody feel the same one day, it's really amazing....the voice, the sound, the creativity.....!!!!!!!
I agree with you!!
Couldn’t agree more👍
1993. Masterpiece.
The way they all move and act is majestic
Totally agree with you. The vocals are godblessed delight for the ears😌
It’s funny to think how weird this song was from U2 in 93 and also how it sounds like absolutely nothing else. Great tune that ages well!
The sample is a plagiarism of this song: ruclips.net/video/76v5j_TWYUU/видео.html
it is plagiarism because Soda Stereo did not receive credit for the song, it is said that during the Zoo TV Tour, in Mexico in 1993, Bono, asked a radio programmer for a copy of "Dynamo" and upon hearing "Claroscuro" he was inspired to " Lemon ", even the covers of both albums look alike.
Believe it or not, this was when I first discovered U2, so I thought this was their look and sound. It was only later that I discovered how unique this song was on the album, and how unique the album was compared to everything that preceded it.
After 30 years it still grabs my gut and floods it with intoxicating emotions. Thank you guys for this one. Just my cup of tea.
Hi bro! Iam laughing. 😁 I can imagine that situation! 😁 Nice one. Enjoy. ❤
30 years!!!! Fab tune
Lemon is a great song Zooropa is definitely one of U2's most underrated albums
it won the Grammy for best alternative album in 1993
@@awesomebeard1973 It did and it was well deserved
It's not underrated, most U2 fans put it in their top 6 albums.
This song has one of the best ending tones I ever heard(album version) ...magical..great lyrics too
When it's just bass,drums and cello, yeah very deep emotional sound 👍
Criminally underrated song!
Yes. In this video, Bono's role as an actor / performer / entertainer is formidable.
He's a natural-born superstar.
@@alexbrasilien Oh. You didnt like it?
@@alexbrasilien Yeah, most people don't think it's underrated, my opinion is not part of the majority
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Yes, I'd agree. It's beautifully constructed. One of my favourite U2 songs but the album was indeed a bit of a lemon.
Lemon has great elements combining dance music and alternative rock. Bono I find was very comical in a lot of scenes, dancing like a Russian dancer, grabbing onto his bandmate, twiddling his fingers over his neck and total outrageous expressions and movements! U2 is amazing in this one!! You go boys! ❤❤
This video is going to be so much more cooler 10 years from now.
One of those U2 songs that puts to the test Bonos vocals. Breathtaking.
Man, I love the contrast of this song/video with “I Will Follow.” The band evolved so much in just 11-12 years
And yet both songs are essentially mining the same seam as they are both about Bono's Mother. You could say that Lemon was the second song in a suite of four songs, I Will Follow, Lemon, Mofo and Iris.
@@colinmcdonough4034 Totally!
I agree with both comments!
Yup, exactly! They way their sound changed over time is amazing. The difference in their sound only 13 years later is crazy. The 90s is my favorite U2 decade, but all of their music is great!
@@colinmcdonough4034 don't forget Tomorrow
I Feel Like I'm Slowly, Slowly,
Slowly Slippin' Under
And I Feel Like I'm Holding on to Nothing...
MASTERPIECE OF THE 90´S
This era is where the true U2 fans were!! Awesome through all the years!!
A much overlooked and underrated song. Love that chorus.
Buenísima
Stunning vocal range, top rhythm, amazing melody. And no matter how their music evolves, they stay true to the original band formation.💚👍
Hello dear how are you doing over there?
if you like this song you have a great taste in music and I wish you a happy and long life with lots of music with this quality.
this song is a beautiful blend of delay, amazing vocals, and beautiful atmosphere
One of the best! This song reminds me of my teens when I fell in love with U2.
Same!
My high school years (1998 to 2002) are when I really got into U2. I liked them ever since I was a kid but it was my teenage years finding U2's "Zooropa" and The Cure's "Disintegration" that blew my mind out of the water.
One of their many masterpieces in this era. This whole record is an underrated classic in the alt rock cannon in general.
Cierto 😢
It won the Grammy for best alternative album in 1993
@@awesomebeard1973yet never talked about again afterwards. strange
@@mar15115 Auchtung Baby and Zooropa are my top 2 U2 albums. My top 2 songs are One and Please( the album version, I hate the rerecord version in the video)
Underrated and sometimes unknown beautiful song from U2. A masterpiece which let U2 in the olimpus from top bands. Since 1993 wishing Lemon
Adam the master of the solid , minimal yet soulful bass lines
Adam's been on the gravy train since day one. Lives off Bono and Edge's creativity. Larry's almost as bad, but IS a great drummer. Adam is the only member who is replaceable.
@@blackporscheroadster6415 U2 as a band should have called it a day in 2001.Their career output before that is brilliant.And where their greatest albums are.Their live shows maybe extended a couple of years further.Great band to grow up to, especially seeing them live a few times.I don't care for musos, just songs.
@@StratsRUs I think their later output post 2001 is patchy and not as great but does contain some incredible nuggets. I think it is definitely worth they carried on. One of my favourite albums is 2014s No Line on the Horizon. Criminally overlooked and produced by Eno. It has some great if more understated tunes and goes more for atmosphere than stadium chants. Apart from Get on Your Boots it's a classic. Whereas 'Songs of Innocence' is by far the worst album they have made. Strangely their album art also massively deteriorated too. The cover of Songs of Innocence is just plain terrible and NLOH is one of the most dull album covers in history. Surrounded by too many 'yes' people at that stage.
@@blackporscheroadster6415 I have nothing against them lasting so long.Adam Clayton is a cool solid player.That band of friends made each other rich too.I was lucky to have REM and U2 soundtracking my youth.That will always be special.
@@StratsRUs R.E.M. were like the American U2 to me. Got all their albums. Incredible band. Actually some of REM's later stuff has been overlooked too. Reveal is a fantastic album, but no one seems to rate it, because it was a post-Bill Berry release. Same with Pink Floyd and Division Bell which was a post Roger Waters release, so everybody dismissed it. There will never be bands like U2 and REM again. They were alternative in lyrics and intelligence, but had a mainstream appeal too. A VERY difficult feat to pull off. I remember seeing U2 on the Zoo TV Tour in Leeds in 1993 and seeing them fly in on helicopter and the TV screens and the buzz of the fans was just other-worldly on a rainy miserable night in north Yorkshire. What a life they have had.
Bono had such a great falsetto/ head voice back then.
This song opens my eyes, the lyrics, the vocals, THE EMOTIONS it transmits. Also, this is PURE ART as the lyrics are subjective, in my case I think they’re singing to the Morning Star, the Sun (Midnight is where the Day begins) 🙌💜 also beginnings, transmutations, and the list is endless 🌞🍋
Love or hate them , serious band,,,
Would love this to be on some Netflix teen drama and get the appreciation it richly deserves. A whole new generation will be grateful for the introduction.
If that's what it takes.
"A man melts the sand so he can see the world outside... " Watching movies to see the past. Great lyric about the past and he builds the future.
Me impresiona la calidad vocal de Bono en esta canción.
Incredible la verdad Genial❤️
Impresionante Voz y un video fuera de contexto pero que envuelve visualmente y siempre a la vanguardia en crear un estilo VIDEOMUSICAL DIFERENTE
Uma voz única ( Bono Vox) boa voz...bons gostos!
I wasn't a big fan of u2... I just liked a few songs of them back on the 80's.... but in the early 90's they really blow my head with this song and The Fly!! Masterpieces both!
Totally agree, two brilliant songs!
This band has always broken the norm in every era. Could anyone believe this band has been around for 47 years!
Zooropa - The first cyberpunk album in history!
Check Tears for Fears' Elemantal. It might surprise you. Same release moment. Zooropa and this one from tff where the two casettes that were always playing in my headphones ... great summer.
Billy Idol: *cries*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_%28album%29
Billy Idol LITERALLY released an album called Cyberpunk less than a week before zooropa.
@@ThomasBanksDrBoon You can argue that Devo or even Kraftwek did it first... But U2 they just nailed it! 👌
@@DirtyDayMix I'm just really amused at the irony. Also re your name, I love the Dirty Day Remix ;)
that's a masterpiece. lyrically and musically on another level.
Bono’s most Avant Guard histrionics… reminds me of The Joker and a Carny Circus Ring Master… Great Falsetto!
Lemon
See through in the sunlight
She wore lemon
But never in the daylight
She's gonna make you cry
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
And when you're dry
She draws her water from the stone
And I feel Like I'm slowly slipping under
And I feel Like I'm holding onto nothing
She wore lemon
To colour in the cold grey night
She had heaven And she held on so tight
A man makes a picture
A moving picture
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close
A man captures color
A man likes to stare
He turns his money into light to look for her
And I feel Like I'm drifting from the shore
And I feel Like I'm swimming out to her
Midnight is where the day begins
Lemon
See through in the sunlight
A man builds a city
With banks and cathedrals
A man melts the sand so he can
See the world outside You're gonna meet her there
A man makes a car She's your destination
And builds roads to run them on You gotta get to her
A man dreams of leaving She's imagination
But he always stays behind
And these are the days
When our work has come assunder
And these are the days
When we look for something other
A man makes a picture
A moving picture
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close You're gonna meet her there
A man captures colour She's your destination
A man likes to stare There's no sleeping there
He turns his money into light She's imagination
To look for her Lemon
She is the dreamer
She's imagination She had heaven
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close She wore lemon
Das Der Da Kind Experience en Gurn
Amazing!! Thanks U2 for uploading your music videos again. They were deeply missed in RUclips.
The U2 I love and miss. There was such a quirky yet haunting quality to this entire album. Iconic. Legendary.
My favorite DJ Mark just gave me a link to this video. Thank you Mark 😊❤😊
Anything ' The Flood' has a hand in producing is Gold. Credit to Brian Eno, as well. This track is gorgeous.
Finally, I needed this video.
Lemon, Numb, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - absolute art. Three tracks of unbridled, burning genius.
Testament? Time, within reason, like a fine wine, it just keeps getting better...
Hello, how are you doing it’s nice meeting you here.
Album al tempo molto sottovalutato dalla critica. Io l'ho sempre ritenuto un capolavoro. Troppo avanti!
U2 in the 90s a period of pure Art. 👌
May b 🤪
Cuando U2 era la banda más grande del rock en todos los sentidos. Pico creativo. Brian Eno ... grandísimo. Recuerdo cuando salió este disco a un amiguete super fan de ellos que me decía que U2 ya no hacía música ... Yo me quedé loco con este disco desde la primera escucha. Lemon es de mis favoritas de todos los tiempos.
Era????????????
Sigue siendo la más grande banda de todos los tiempos!..
🙄🙄ok
disse tudo. ponto.
His voice is brilliant…
Simply the best 👊🏻
His voice peaked on this song man.. it’s sad but it’s true. Those high notes can be heard in the Zooropa dvd from 93 in Australia listen to the version of this song up there
@@Thatguy55595 Smoking caused damage plus I believe Bono had or has a wine allergy that was causing him problems in the Pop era.
And he's gorgeous xxx
@@Thatguy55595 when bono was singing to this song, it sounded like a little falsetto.
This song take me back to my youth, I'm 42 now. The good old days.
Same as my friend
Eu n tenho nem palavras pra dizer d uma banda d rock igual a essa vai ficar na minha memória pro resto d minha vida
Hermosa cansion de limón U2 de 10 dios los bendiga por darnos música hermosa dios les siga dando mucha salud y sabiduría para alegrarnos saludos a los chicos desde Veracruz
In retrospect, Bono as Macphisto, in my view, resembles the late Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk. I wonder if Florian was an influence, especially from the Man Machine era with the makeup and lipstick. Hmm, Achtung... Hansa...Berlin...
I've always thought Bono was also channeling Lou Reed Metal Machine with Bono's The Fly persona. Again, machine... man... machine...
This video is also a great tribute to and draws inspiration fro the automatic electro-photographs of Eadweard Muybridge's 'The Horse in Motion'.
For me, this 'remaster' of the Numb video is a nice surprise, floods me with memories too bittersweet to digest.
Ah yes, the Horse in Motion. No wonder this whole concept feels so familiar! I see you're a man of culture~
Oh, right!! I knew that Mr MacPhisto felt somehow familiar.... Florian Schneider, yep.
Bono references “man machine” in ‘Iris’ on Songs of Innocence, an album influenced by Kraftwerk (most notably, ironically, on the non-album track, ‘Invisible’).
@@michaelgriffiths8068 Very interesting, Thank you for the U2 insight!
blvprint lp ?
pull a leg string v v ?
Lawd, Bono doing the MacPhisto makeup/character gig through this era was my FAVE. THING. EVER. So theatrical, so arty, so avant-guarde, so HOT. 🔥🎭 Always loved this song (and the remix/dance version, which is even better).
I think subconsciously or consciously Bono was influenced by Peter Gabriel's performance art of Genisis in the early-mid 70s. I remember interview quotes from PG saying how much he enjoyed the Zoo TV tour.
They were incredible with that album Zooropa. Great album, me and my wife dance to Lemon ❤❤❤❤❤
A detail, in the dvd commentary, the director said that Bono got angry and left the room because it was not filmed in color (as he thought), then he came and he accepted it. But its obviously that MacPhisto is better in color. I can't get tired of the remastered videos, thanks.
This is completely underrated. Hell half the album is. I’ve been a fan of this band since I can remember.
I remember listening to this album in 1993 at Phipp’s Plaza in Atlanta. Bought the cd, so many memories from that weekend. This is the perfect song to sum up that weekend.
When I first heard this song circa 1994 I was like, “Wtf is this?” It was outrageous. My friend who was a U2 fanatic loved it! As I grew up I realized this was straight … uncut … dope!
Even if it lasted 30 minutes, I wouldn't get tired of listening to it
I would!
@@letmetellyousomething123 you can't be this empty!
@@letmetellyousomething123 Yeah its good, but not that good, 4:36 is just enough!
The Perfecto mix is my favourite remix of Lemon.
Same! 🎶☮🧡
Bono’s voice, his high notes are mind blowing, I loved the Zoo TV Tour at the NEC, to have Achtung Baby and then tracks from the Zooropa album as well was genius..
LEMON 🍋
The world as a giant lemon with a shopping cart. circling it. That's why she holds on to Heaven so tight.
YAASSS 💖
Between all U2 songs, this was always one of my favorites EVER. Don't know why. Just epic. 💞💕
Los años no pasan y esta pieza me sigue impactando desde niño. Que exquisito es Zooropa
Asi fue como yo empeze a apreciar a U2, con la cancion Numb y despues el resto del disco de Zooropa. Ahora, yo habia escuchado una que otra de sus canciones en la radio pero me parecia algo comercial comparado con la intensidad que U2 tiene en Zooropa. Despues de eso entendi que este grupo tiene un catagolo de musica increible al cual yo no le estaba prestando mucha atencion. En ese entonces yo estaba obsecionado con Heavy Metal y Prog Rock. Lo mismo me paso con Madonna, pero eso es otra historia.
So true
One of Its Best Songs. Shame that never played Live after zoo TV tour
Probably because the vocals are just too tough to do, frankly.
Sitting waiting for my flight to Mexico City the sound of u2 in the waiting area ...went to cdmx and bought zooropa on a cassette ,, love it good memories
Excellent track (different) extraordinary music vedio, great combination
Don't forget "Wild Horses" upscale in HD please!!!! 😭🙏❤
UM DOS MELHORES CLIPES DO U2 FINALMENTE NO CANAL OFICIAL, SIM ESTOU GRITANDO!!!!!!!!!!
Emoção demais😍
😍👏👏👏eu também
U2 best band ouvindo sempre🤙🤘🤟👍👊
Tava esperando faz tempo kkkkk
😂
99% of people who hate U2 have never heard this song,.....or anything other than With or without you, Streets, I Still haven't...and Pride. .
I will never forget picking up the War album at a garage sale. Shortly after, I bought this one.
Oh dear, these paintings, this mouth, this style, I've always loved
I WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS!!!
The sound of Lemon is incredibly vibrating. Every song in Zooropa has its own.
Striking song! I remember where I was the 1st time I ever heard it. I deployed soon after and didn’t hear it again until 25-30 years later. However, this song stuck with me all those years as one of my favorite U2 songs. Really takes me back to time I miss.
The U2 of 90 times, dessapear now, but the legacy is universal.
U2 fan since 1982 and after all this time still think they are great.... Hope they'll stay active for a while. Even if they wouldn't tour any more I hope they'll make new albums or some other projects. I like them as artists.....
Midnight Is Where The Day Begins.
U2 came up with shit that nobody else could come up with & it was amazing & exactly what we needed
Claroscuro from Soda Stereo…one year prior
Prince would have loved this song. Great job U2 Bono, so incredible.
No one likes Prince.
I used to be a big fan of U2 at some point, but I don't know what happened that made me stop listening to their music. However, one thing is for sure: this song is a masterpiece
U2 gave a new dimension to the term pioneering. Even when they were semi-successful
Essa música é muito boa, clip anos 90
O saudades MTV Brasil
U2 melhor banda do mundo 👏👏👏🇧🇷
I'll never forget the first time i listened to this album, blew my mind. Great times, amazing music!
Genius. Almost "Achtung" level of breakout invention and straight after, almost as a "more B-sides" After haunting a radio station many years I used to work in a record bar at the time. (Remember those?) Used to love playing this album back to back with "Unforgettable Fire" just to watch people's minds get blown.