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U2 - Mysterious Ways

submitted by Zifnab

1 decade 6 years 4 months 1 week ago

"Mysterious Ways" is the eighth track on U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby and was released as the album's second single.

The song reached #9 on the Hot 100 (the previous single, "The Fly", had only managed to reach #61) making it one of the band's highest-charting singles in the U.S.; only three other U2 singles ("With or Without You", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", and "Desire") have reached higher positions. "Mysterious Ways" also topped both the Modern Rock Tracks chart and the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

When played live on the Zoo TV Tour, this song featured a belly dancer on stage. The version played was extended, including a longer introduction with a piano part from The Edge. Also, a slide solo is featured after what was the end of the studio version of the song. Both the added intro and outro features added lyrics from Bono, much of which is sung in the falsetto. One of the dancers, Morleigh Steinberg, later married The Edge. It has been played on every tour since it debuted, appearing on every live video release since except for Elevation 2001: Live from Boston. Edge has always used a Rickenbacker 330-12 for this song.

The video had a belly dancing theme, which included distorted shots of Bono dancing, and other mystical images. It was filmed by Stephane Sednaoui in Morocco. (Thanks Wikipedia)

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'u2, mysterious, achtung baby, bono, belly dancing, 1991, 90s, music video' to 'u2, mysterious, achtung baby, bono, irish, belly dancing, 1991, 90s, music video' - edited by kronosposeidon

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 1:35pm PDT - promote requested by kronosposeidon.

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