U2 is one of my favorite bands. A legend in the music industry. Of all the U2 songs, my all time favorite is "All I Want You". The song just simply wrenches my heart out and brings me to 7th heaven. My statement sort of clashes, but I think most people will understand what I'm trying to say.
While tinkering with Apple's latest addition to iTunes, Ping, I realize that several bands have tributes to U2's songs. I went to Wikipedia, researched and found out that there are exactly 13 different covers of "All I Want You". Perfect enough to be my topic for this week's Thursday 13.
Here's a stub from Wikipedia:
"All I Want Is You" is the 17th song on U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum and was released in 1989 as the album's fourth and final single. It is the closing song from the movie Rattle and Hum.
Year Covered by Album 1999 Absolute Rock A Tribute to the Greatest Hits of U2 1999 Mission UK We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 1999 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Pride: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays U2 1999 Tufts Beelzebubs Infinity 2000 Kane With or Without You 2000 Vitamin String Quartet Strung Out on U2 2002 Bellefire After the Rain and All I Want Is You 2004 Jars of Clay In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa 2005 Les Paul and Johnny Rzeznik American Made World Played 2005 Mark Geary Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 3 2006 Sugarplum Fairies Country International Records 2007 Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of U2 2008 Glen Campbell Meet Glen Campbell
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3 comments:
i love me some u2! lol. i love the lullabies & jars of clay!
I like U2 2 but don't know the history of their music as well as you do.
@Ms Snarky: The Strung Out on U2 is one of the many things in my wishlist for Christmas.
@Colleen: Wikipedia is my bestfriend. =)
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