U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday

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  General Comment:"There's been a lot of talk about this song- maybe, maybe too much talk" - Bono

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  General Comment:The first U2 Piece to make an impact on the Classic Rock charts, Sunday Bloody Sunday took U2 out of the college/alternative ghetto clique for good. The song is a hard-hitting aggressive Fender and Yamaha Metal Rocker about the Troubles of Ireland-but many years have gone by to the point where the song is a Rebel Song of Militant Peace from Dublin, Tehran and Washington D.C.-for anyone looking for a way out of conflict. For it is here on Sunday Bloody Sunday that Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry come together to make an American Dream for themselves so that each of us will go to the Riverside and Study War No More. Sunday Bloody Sunday then is U2's version of the Civil Rights Field Holler Spiritual Rock Anthem Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. U2-Four Irishmen who made the trip. This Rebel Song was and will always be-their Gateway to America.

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  General Comment:How long, how long must we sing this song?
  
  - Repeated wars throughout history leading up to the big one
  
  And it's true we are immune
  When fact is fiction and TV reality
  And today the millions cry
  We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
  
  - The elite eat and drink while staging fake mainstream TV news, justifying their created wars and crimes and brain washing the majority of the public to believe their lies. TV "programming" is to program you via their news puppets.
  
  Jesus Christ ends it all and the battle is already won, but prophecy must be fulfilled this way, that's how scripture is written. It's the script.

  Flagged soulfreedomon March 17, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:The Song is about 'Bloody Sunday' in the bogside of Derry NI. It was written years before the events in Enniskillen! A young Bono was a politicly active Irish lad, as many were and still are! This song was a direct angry attempt at describing the situation in the north at the time. 13, then a fourteenth, innocent people were killed by the British Paratroops, during a peaceful Cival Rights march, organized by a Protestant politician. This event and others, almost single handedly was responsible for the number of new volenteers that joined the Provisional IRA in the following years, to attempt to fight the British occupation of NI. Although thought of as a Rebel Song, after the the Enniskillen incident and with Bono's new reputation of the 'Champion of World Peace', he started the song live by proclaming, "This is NOT a Rebel Song", which upset many North Irish and Irish people! In 1997 Sinead O'Connor released, 'This IS a Rebel Song' as a response to Bono!
  
  Although not as thought of, since the release of the U2 song in 1983, John Lennon wrote and sang the origonal song titled 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', released in 1972 on the heals of the event in Derry. the songs lyrics are much more directed toward the occupation of Northern Ireland and very anti British, which was surprising to many, as obviously, he was English! He and Paul McCartney had much sympythy for the Irish plight at the hands of the British people! McCartney followed with his own song,'Give Ireland back to the Irish' after! The Irish Nationalists have always prefered the Lennon song over the U2 one, as Lennon never wavered in his support, unlike Bono in '87! The lyrics are also right to the point and very harsh, describing the British actions!

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  General Comment:I agree in the general opinion that this is about the bloody sunday massacre... But this has also strong tieds to the conflict troughout history... like: "the trench is dug withim our hearts" saying that this leads many more years back.. Way before the bloody sunday massacre.. There have been nummerous events troughout history, with LOTS of casualties and massacres. And indirectly saying that this is a two-sided war. Between protestants and catholics: "the real battle just begun. To claim victory jesus won" - the same character builded around two religions, not just one of them.. Both sides have contributed, but ofcause shouldn't the brits have invated ireland in the first place many hundred years back..
  

  Flagged Teuzon May 13, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:I think the song originally had been about a specific event but over time it has taken the form to be about many terrible things therefore lost its reference to a specific Sunday.

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  General Comment:This song perfectly encapsulates the frustration of Sunday... y'know you get up, hung over, there's no milk, the kids are going mental, the car needs washed, the in-laws come round - and you just throw a fist in the air and think '' SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY '' !

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    omfg u are the best sir :)

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  General Comment:There are also covers by Paramore, Evergreen Terrace, OAR, Pearl Jam and Pillar (:

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  Memory:I love this song gives me chills everytime

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  My Opinion:hot damn, whenever the little drum-schtik in the beginning comes on my ipod, i immediately get up and do this ridiculously embarassing little hoppy dance around my room >.<
  
  er... great song, though. in SO many ways.
  
  SeLeNa
  
  

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