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my dear family; I don’t think that we can go home ( Ireland) this year. Albert is not better, and it can take for a long time. And for myself, they can’t give so many pills that i would go in a airplane. No this year i can’t go home. Here a Irish  saying                Ireland; It may be come day i’ll go back to Ireland, If it’s only the closing of the day, Just to see the moon rise over Claddagh, And ro watch the sun go down on             Galway Bay. Love Diana. — The charter is available at:

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Whatever…it’s not that intuitive either way.  I’ve just went through the site again and there are mp3s of other things, but there is only a .rm file of ‘A sort of homecoming’ and a video. You know, just because there is audio coming from the speakers doesn’t mean its an mp3. –pete YES but I know Kev, and I know what he was refferring to, and I know what he meant, and I had picked why he probably wasn’t finding it…

Knows me far better than I think I know myself!!

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www.Womanfish.com for mp3 of A Sort of Homecoming.

Cheers Mark!!  :-)

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Whatever…it’s not that intuitive either way.  I’ve just went through the site again and there are mp3s of other things, but there is only a .rm file of ‘A sort of homecoming’ and a video. You know, just because there is audio coming from the speakers doesn’t mean its an mp3. –pete

YES but I know Kev, and I know what he was refferring to, and I know what he meant, and I had picked why he probably wasn’t finding it… CHEERS:) Nicstar (aka *The BubbleGirl of Temple Bar*) ~this love won’t let me go~

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: Just sent you an email with step by step directions kev….uh-oh…I forgot to : start from the beginning..remember: you need to have your pc on…. Whatever…it’s not that intuitive either way.  I’ve just went through the site again and there are mp3s of other things, but there is only a .rm file of ‘A sort of homecoming’ and a video. You know, just because there is audio coming from the speakers doesn’t mean its an mp3.

That’s where I was lost too. I was looking for an mp3 file!!

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www.Womanfish.com for mp3 of A Sort of Homecoming. Is it just me or can anyone else not see it there? I’m desperate to hear this again!! It must be just you, cos I was listening to it last night…..

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! I can’t find it!! Been all over the site and I can’t find it! All I can find are short video’s!! Please help me someone as I am slowly slipping down my PC monitor in desperation!!!

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Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! I can’t find it!! Been all over the site and I can’t find it! All I can find are short video’s!! Please help me someone as I am slowly slipping down my PC monitor in desperation!!!

Just sent you an email with step by step directions kev….uh-oh…I forgot to start from the beginning..remember: you need to have your pc on…. CHEERS:) Nicstar (aka *The BubbleGirl of Temple Bar*) ~this love won’t let me go~

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: Just sent you an email with step by step directions kev….uh-oh…I forgot to : start from the beginning..remember: you need to have your pc on…. Whatever…it’s not that intuitive either way.  I’ve just went through the site again and there are mp3s of other things, but there is only a .rm file of ‘A sort of homecoming’ and a video. You know, just because there is audio coming from the speakers doesn’t mean its an mp3. –pete

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www.Womanfish.com for mp3 of A Sort of Homecoming. Is it just me or can anyone else not see it there? I’m desperate to hear this again!!

http://www.supercitymania.com/Sounds/slane_homecoming.rm

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Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! I can’t find it!! Been all over the site and I can’t find it! All I can find are short video’s!! Please help me someone as I am slowly slipping down my PC monitor in desperation!!! Just sent you an email with step by step directions kev….uh-oh…I forgot to start from the beginning..remember: you need to have your pc on….

That’s where I got stuck the first time!! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – CHEERS:) Nicstar (aka *The BubbleGirl of Temple Bar*) ~this love won’t let me go~

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I’m looking for Help (live 86/8), Sarajevo 97 and Dublin 97. Will swap or buy for your originals or copies.

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HI,… can anyone tell me where I can find MP3’s from Slane 1 or a bootleg. Thanx.

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www.Womanfish.com for mp3 of A Sort of Homecoming. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – HI,… can anyone tell me where I can find MP3’s from Slane 1 or a bootleg. Thanx.

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www.Womanfish.com for mp3 of A Sort of Homecoming.

Is it just me or can anyone else not see it there? I’m desperate to hear this again!!

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www.Womanfish.com for mp3 of A Sort of Homecoming. Is it just me or can anyone else not see it there? I’m desperate to hear this again!!

It must be just you, cos I was listening to it last night….. CHEERS:) Nicstar (aka *The BubbleGirl of Temple Bar*) ~this love won’t let me go~

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The atmosphere at Slane on the 25th was electric. I travelled over from Glasgow and arrived via bus from Dublin before the gates opened. The weather was superb and totally unexpected. Relish    -    ok jj72    -    very good (nice surprise) Kellis    -    no comment Coldplay    -    great Red Hot Chilli Peppers – fantastic U2 – out of this world There was an electric feeling in the air and the performance was so emotional given the previous weeks events and the fact it was a homecoming gig etc. from the moment they played Thin Lizzy’s ‘The boys are back in town’ on the PA the place never stood still. What really got me was the sound was superb. I also went to Glasgow on Tuesday 28th, indoor much smaller very different but equally as good atmosphere. (Crowd got a pre U2 bit of excitement when the Celtic players arrived) however as usual with the SECC, the sound was disappointing. However compared to Slane it felt such an intimate gig (never thought i’d say that about the SECC!!!)

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – A friend of mine and myself travelled from Amsterdam to Belfast on 17 August. Rented a car at the airport and drove to Castleblaney where we spend the night. Then on to Galway for two nights, Killarney for two ights,( did some cycling in the Ring of Kerry) Kilkenny for 1 night and Dublin for three nights. We drove from Dublin to Slane. Highlights in the show for me were Kite ( sung emotianally by Bono), a sort of homecoming and the tribute to his dad during one. -Willy I’m back from my trip to Ireland and slane…. What can I say; it was another splendid performance !!!  Chili peppers were cool, Coldplay too. I didn’t care too much for the other bands, although Relish wasn’t bad at all. I travelled Ireland for a week and had a great time. Besides, I have can prove I was there…… take care, -Will hey will where have you been in ireland? can you write a report o f the concert? thx liffey

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A friend of mine and myself travelled from Amsterdam to Belfast on 17 August. Rented a car at the airport and drove to Castleblaney where we spend the night. Then on to Galway for two nights, Killarney for two nights,( did some cycling in the Ring of Kerry) Kilkenny for 1 night and Dublin for three nights. We drove from Dublin to Slane. Highlights in the show for me were Kite ( sung emotianally by Bono), a sort of homecoming and the tribute to his dad during one. -Willy – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m back from my trip to Ireland and slane…. What can I say; it was another splendid performance !!!  Chili peppers were cool, Coldplay too. I didn’t care too much for the other bands, although Relish wasn’t bad at all. I travelled Ireland for a week and had a great time. Besides, I have can prove I was there…… take care, -Will hey will where have you been in ireland? can you write a report o f the concert? thx liffey

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I’m back from my trip to Ireland and slane…. What can I say; it was another splendid performance !!!  Chili peppers were cool, Coldplay too. I didn’t care too much for the other bands, although Relish wasn’t bad at all. I travelled Ireland for a week and had a great time. Besides, I have can prove I was there…… take care, -Will

hey will where have you been in ireland? can you write a report o f the concert? thx liffey

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I’m back from my trip to Ireland and slane…. What can I say; it was another splendid performance !!!  Chili peppers were cool, Coldplay too. I didn’t care too much for the other bands, although Relish wasn’t bad at all. I travelled Ireland for a week and had a great time. Besides, I have the I was there…… take care, -Will

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Very VERY happy for you and all there…  but mad mental JEALOUS!  :)  I love that song and want SOOOO badly to hear it played live!         – Leenie

: How good did it feel when they started to play that last night??? I went mad : mental apeshit when I heard the opening riff!!!

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I would’ve have fallen down right where I stood from excitement, of course only to be trampled on by the masses. So maybe I’m glad they didn’t play ASOH at any of the shows I went to. It could just have saved my life. — Casey

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Sleep!!!! Are you a man or a mouse!!!!!

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – They were smoking dope and shouting all the time, fuckin’ this, fuckin’ that!!!!  And I was trying to sleep!!!  ;o) Derek. The crowd were excellent too….these Irish sure know how to let rip! The whole journey in the bus from Dublin was everyone singing and shouting at the top of their voices…..so funny; wish the lads could have been there to appreciate it! I’ve never heard the word ‘fuck/feck’ so many times in my life….they really opened my eyes and I come from Birmingham in England!!! Brilliant!!! Awwwwww I got on the wrong bus!! They were al reading papers on my bus!! (12.20 from Dublin) Had the best weekend of my life…..hope U2 understand how they make people feel. This debate about best group in the world is futile…there is no debate!!!! Mandi Can I just say that you are the only person I’ve seen that spells your name that way (I instead of y) apart from my sister!! Fantastic!!

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They were smoking dope and shouting all the time, fuckin’ this, fuckin’ that!!!!  And I was trying to sleep!!!  ;o) Derek.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The crowd were excellent too….these Irish sure know how to let rip! The whole journey in the bus from Dublin was everyone singing and shouting at the top of their voices…..so funny; wish the lads could have been there to appreciate it! I’ve never heard the word ‘fuck/feck’ so many times in my life….they really opened my eyes and I come from Birmingham in England!!! Brilliant!!! Awwwwww I got on the wrong bus!! They were al reading papers on my bus!! (12.20 from Dublin) Had the best weekend of my life…..hope U2 understand how they make people feel. This debate about best group in the world is futile…there is no debate!!!! Mandi Can I just say that you are the only person I’ve seen that spells your name that way (I instead of y) apart from my sister!! Fantastic!!

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The crowd were excellent too….these Irish sure know how to let rip! The whole journey in the bus from Dublin was everyone singing and shouting at the top of their voices…..so funny; wish the lads could have been there to appreciate it! I’ve never heard the word ‘fuck/feck’ so many times in my life….they really opened my eyes and I come from Birmingham in England!!! Brilliant!!!

Awwwwww I got on the wrong bus!! They were al reading papers on my bus!! (12.20 from Dublin) Had the best weekend of my life…..hope U2 understand how they make people feel. This debate about best group in the world is futile…there is no debate!!!! Mandi

Can I just say that you are the only person I’ve seen that spells your name that way (I instead of y) apart from my sister!! Fantastic!!

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I was hoping they would play this and ‘I will follow’ as I have not heard either live before and they are my fav’s…..amongst about fifty others of course!!!! I thought Bono gave it his all!! You could see so much emotion and effort in every song he sang. The crowd were excellent too….these Irish sure know how to let rip! The whole journey in the bus from Dublin was everyone singing and shouting at the top of their voices…..so funny; wish the lads could have been there to appreciate it! I’ve never heard the word ‘fuck/feck’ so many times in my life….they really opened my eyes and I come from Birmingham in England!!! Brilliant!!! Had the best weekend of my life…..hope U2 understand how they make people feel. This debate about best group in the world is futile…there is no debate!!!! Mandi

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How good did it feel when they started to play that last night??? I went mad mental apeshit when I heard the opening riff!!!

Slane was breathetaking! Everything about it was perfect except Coldplay and kelis. Yawn yawn yawn. I kicked back on the grass and topped up the old tan with some irish guys It was just kciking off with JJ72, then the atmospere was killed until the Chilis decided to paly like there is no tommorow. Around the World was probabaly the wildest ive ever seen a crowd going, ever. I recognised the riff from Wide Awake in America. Not everyone around me knew it though, there were wondering what it was. I was belting it out lol! How good was the lighting during WTSHNN? Brilliant effects on the stage during One and Walk on! All in all a brilliant day.

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How good did it feel when they started to play that last night??? I went mad mental apeshit when I heard the opening riff!!!

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Your not the only one

How good did it feel when they started to play that last night??? I went mad mental apeshit when I heard the opening riff!!!

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Now, the FUNNIEST one I ever heard is by my own loving hubby, who has a thing about Shania Twain (yeah, I know!)… and in her song "That Don’t Impress Me Much"… where she sings "I don’t believe you kiss your car goodnight" he thought she sings "I don’t believe you kiss your cock at night."!!!!!  Actually, it DOES sound SO like that.  Give it a try, LOL Sarah

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." The most memorable lyrical mis-hearing of which I am aware (and of which I myself am guilty) is "Alex the seal" instead of "Our lips are sealed" in the 1980s song of that name. Not sure that I’ve ever mis-heard any U2 lyrics. — http://johnno.casebook.org

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I have a friend who likes Billy Joel but butchers his lyrics.  Two of his good ones were: Instead of "Keeping the Faith" he says it was a kick in the face! And iin themes from an italian restaurant Billy Joel says Brenda and Eddie were a popular steady…and goes on totalkabout them.  My friend says Brenda Rineti were a… this then sprked a series of Billy Joel is a terrible lyricst gramatically posts. The Little Brother of Alt.Music.U2 Michael "I like to be respected. But when it goes further than that,when people wanna find out the meaning of life just because you can sing in tune,because you can write songs-well then they got the wrong guy"-Bono

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How about AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.  Dirty deeds and theyre done with sheep.   I always thought Angus Young was a little ou tthere but beastiality? I never imagined that. The Little Brother of Alt.Music.U2 Michael "I like to be respected. But when it goes further than that,when people wanna find out the meaning of life just because you can sing in tune,because you can write songs-well then they got the wrong guy"-Bono

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<< Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO What appears next is something I posted here a long time ago (6th Sept. last year). I’m posting it again, since it’s about the same subject. "Yesterday, just to kill time, it occurred to me to surf the Web and visit this site called www.kissthisguy.com, about misheard lyrics (thanks Kev! )  ), and remembered that actually there are some of U2’s songs I’ve **always** misheard, and now thinking of it and comparing *my* version of the lyrics to the original one, I can’t help laughing about it! These are the ones I’ve **always** misheard: 1 –  I Will Follow     "Wake up, wake up, wake, I will follow"     INSTEAD OF:    "If you walkaway, walkaway, walkaway, I will follow" 2 – One     "Have you come here to blame Jesus"     INSTEAD OF:    "Have you come here to play Jesus" 3 – I Trip Through Your Wire     "Angel of Heaven"     INSTEAD OF:    "Angel or Devil"     "This bird, she saw me coming round"     INSTEAD OF:    "In the distance, she saw me coming (round)" 4 – Running To Stand Still     "Singing Ho Li-Da-Da-Da-De-Days"      INSTEAD OF:    "Singing Ha La La La La De Day" 5 – Red Hill Mining Town     "You always live to hold on to"     INSTEAD OF:    "You’re all that’s left to hold on to" 6 – A Sort Of Homecoming     "Ohhh, oh, oh, know you let me run"     INSTEAD OF:    "Ohhh, oh, oh, on borderland we run" I suppose there are more, but for the moment only these ones have jumped to my mind." These are some U2 songs I’ve always misheard, but I’ll see if I find non-U2. — Andrea, The Proud U2 Fan "Oh great ocean Oh great sea Run to the ocean Run to the sea". – One Tree Hill

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Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale."

Think the website is www.kissthisguy.com or something!! I actually had my been to that site for a while so you’ve just reminded me to check it out again

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – << Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO As far as I can remember, Kev wrote a post in the NGs about this website, http://www.kissthisguy.com in which you find misheard lyrics, and on that occasion he mentioned "Shamu the mysterious whale". This is the original post: Who’s Shamu? D It’s a misheard lyric from kissthisguy.com. Y’know as in ‘It’s alright It’s alright It’s Alriiiiigggghhht Shamu the mysterious whale’  ;-p

And CRASH BANG WALLOP as if to back me up, here comes Andrea with my post from about 10 months ago or so!!

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A friend and I would often argue about the lyrics to "Out of Control"…. the line where Bono sings "One day I’ll die, the choice will not be mine. Will it be too late" etc… she swore it was "One day your violent shores will not be mine" Carrie

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now that we’re on the topic of misheard lyrics, does anyone have any other real funny misheard or misinterpreted U2 lyrics? I’m sure I had a bunch when I first started to listen to U2… Some include, "Took an open-top beetle, through the eye of a needle" – I always thought he was talking about some sort of bug… LOL… not a VW beetle Or "Sometimes I feel like I don’t know, sometimes I feel like checking out" – I for some reason never clued in he meant "checking out" like "checking out of a hotel" . When I first heard this song I was thinking Bono was singing about how sometimes he feels like checking out girls, lol… Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO

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Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale."

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LOL

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Now that we’re on the topic of misheard lyrics, does anyone have any other real funny misheard or misinterpreted U2 lyrics? I’m sure I had a bunch when I first started to listen to U2… Some include, "Took an open-top beetle, through the eye of a needle" – I always thought he was talking about some sort of bug… LOL… not a VW beetle Or "Sometimes I feel like I don’t know, sometimes I feel like checking out" – I for some reason never clued in he meant "checking out" like "checking out of a hotel" . When I first heard this song I was thinking Bono was singing about how sometimes he feels like checking out girls, lol…

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Ha ha… that would be so cool… and even more so because we would know WE made him do it!! LMAO – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – you know what’s even more funny ? Bono just read this newsgroup and will be singing this sentence during one of their upcoming performances of theire LOL!!! that is quite funny!! its alright its alright alright shamu the mysterious whale Nicky Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO

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<< Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO As far as I can remember, Kev wrote a post in the NGs about this website, http://www.kissthisguy.com in which you find misheard lyrics, and on that occasion he mentioned "Shamu the mysterious whale". This is the original post: Who’s Shamu? D

It’s a misheard lyric from kissthisguy.com. Y’know as in ‘It’s alright It’s alright It’s Alriiiiigggghhht Shamu the mysterious whale’  ;-p — Andrea, The Proud U2 Fan "Oh great ocean Oh great sea Run to the ocean Run to the sea". – One Tree Hill

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very funny, well I thought so anyway! — donna

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Shamu, she sings and swings; yeah, she dances in and out of the deep waters   Melia To rest assured that she can go on singing and dancing, Shamu must be saved from other kinds of frequencies and negative influences, more immediately from the low frequency active sonar dangers. I will cut and paste information I received a short while ago. It’s all happening now and fast action can stop her from being silenced by death. I want to hear Shamu sing mysterious ways and go on living. I imagine you do too so please read on this message,  from Lanny: Below is an opinion editorial I have submitted to the newspapers on our Island of Hawai`i and to the Honolulu newspapers.  You can help us get the word out about the dangers of low frequency active sonar by copying the editorial and submitting it to your local newspaper with a request for publication.  If you take this organizing step and have some success, please let us know. Aloha, Lanny Join the Navy and Kill the Whales? By Lanny Sinkin     Make no mistake about it.  The U.S. Navy’s new low frequency active (LFA) sonar is a serious threat to the health of marine mammals, particularly whales, and other marine life.     A NATO LFA exercise in 1998 left numerous dead beaked whales on the coast of Greece. LFA testing off the Island of Hawai`i in 1998 caused humpback whales to leave the test area, apparently resulted in separation of whale and dolphin calves from their mothers, and seriously injured a snorkeler in the water.     The Navy claims this technology is necessary to detect newer, more silent submarines.  Yet a naval admiral testified before Congress that advances in passive listening devices means that the Navy now can rapidly deploy passive devices that can detect the same silent submarines.     The truth is that the Navy invested more than $350 million preparing to deploy LFA before preparing the legally required environmental impact statement (EIS).  When the threat of legal action forced the Navy to prepare an EIS, the resulting document is, not surprisingly, designed to justify deployment rather than illuminate the truth.     For example, the EIS does not even discuss the reports filed in 1998 by whale watch boat captains, a helicopter tour pilot, and shore observers that the humpback whales left the LFA test area off Hawai`i as soon as the test broadcasts began. The EIS claims that there is no credible evidence that LFA broadcasts harmed any humans in the water.  That claim ignores the admission by the scientists conducting the test program that the tests exposed a snorkeler to a 125 decibel broadcast leaving the snorkeler in a condition her doctor described as similar to a trauma patient in a hospital.     While acknowledging that independent observers saw an isolated baby humpback whale breaching and tail slapping hundreds of times over many hours during the broadcast period, the EIS denies any LFA responsibility for this very rare case of separation.  The separated dolphin calf and separated melon headed whale calf do not warrant any concern in the EIS. At one point, the EIS argues that studies of four whale species – blue, fin, gray, and humpback whales – is sufficient to reach conclusions about all marine mammals and that these species are indicators for all the remaining whale species.     When a comment to the draft EIS directs attention to evidence that gray whales avoid very low levels of sound, the EIS adopts the exact opposite position and claims that gray whales are unique and that their experiences cannot be applied to any other species.     Disavowing a fundamental assumption of their study when the evidence suggests they have a problem is only further evidence of the Navy’s intent to deploy this system no matter what the evidence.     These deliberate omissions and contradictions are only a tiny sample of the abundant evidence available that the Navy is not interested in the truth about the threat LFA poses to marine life.  The bureaucratic momentum created by huge financial investments and careers built around this technology are pushing the Navy to deploy this system over the whales’ dead bodies.      In March 2000, various species of beaked whales stranded in the Bahamas with at least seven dead.  The investigation of this event concluded that it was highly likely that the mid-range sonar used by a passing naval fleet caused serious physical injury to the whales.  A marine biologist, who has studied the beaked whales in the Bahamas for years, recently reported that all the beaked whales studied to date have disappeared from the Bahamas. The biologist assumes that the Navy killed all the beaked whales in the area.     The mid-range sonar killing the whales is already deployed with an obviously inadequate assessment of its environmental impacts.  For the Navy to now decide to deploy LFA as well would be a deliberate decision that killing whales is not a problem for the Navy.     Stopping LFA deployment is going to take congressional action.  Your two senators and your representative need to hear from you. Please write today and ask that Congress stop deployment of low frequency active sonar.  The whales, dolphins, turtles, and other marine life will be the beneficiaries of your action. Text is 692 words The author is an attorney in Hilo, Hawai`i and has filed three law suits on behalf of environmental organizations challenging the Navy’s plan to deploy LFA systems. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – you know what’s even more funny ? Bono just read this newsgroup and will be singing this sentence during one of their upcoming performances of theire LOL!!! that is quite funny!! its alright its alright alright shamu the mysterious whale Nicky Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong. One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO

      So maybe Bono will really see this and sing, like Shamu, and with Shamu the mysterious whale". Why would not he? More mysterious things than that have already happened.      Whale away U2 And Friends, Wail us a way , oh yeah, oh yeah, mamamamama  ma!

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Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO

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LOL!!! that is quite funny!! its alright its alright alright shamu the mysterious whale Nicky

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you know what’s even more funny ? Bono just read this newsgroup and will be singing this sentence during one of their upcoming performances of theire – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – LOL!!! that is quite funny!! its alright its alright alright shamu the mysterious whale Nicky Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO

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haha now that would be taking the biscuit!!!!! That would be incredible, So Mr Bono go do it!!!! Only us NG members will have a clue what the hell he’s singing about. Have a great day Nicky – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – you know what’s even more funny ? Bono just read this newsgroup and will be singing this sentence during one of their upcoming performances of theire LOL!!! that is quite funny!! its alright its alright alright shamu the mysterious whale Nicky Someone at work found a website where people write in about lyrics of popular songs that they misheard and always sang wrong.  One of them was Mysterious Ways… the guy thought it that instead of "She moves in mysterious ways" it went: "Shamu the mysterious whale." LMAO

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I wish they could give some suprises on their set list. Songs that played during last two tours shouldn’t be played again. Like New year’s Day, Until the end of the world. It would be a suprise if they play In God’s country, Exit, A sort of homecoming, UltraViolet… — Posted via freenews.netfront.net

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I tend to agree. Nevertheless there ain’t no concert I’d rather go to than one of U2. Have they ever played Ultra Violet live anywhere? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I wish they could give some suprises on their set list. Songs that played during last two tours shouldn’t be played again. Like New year’s Day, Until the end of the world. It would be a suprise if they play In God’s country, Exit, A sort of homecoming, UltraViolet… — Posted via freenews.netfront.net

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Have they ever played Ultra Violet live anywhere?

Only at almost every show of the Zoo TV, Outside broadcast and Zooropa tours…

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I sadly missed the last tour, so I *would like* them to play a few songs from POP, like "Please", "Do You Feel Loved?" and "Gone". Songs that played during last two tours shouldn’t be played again. Like New year’s Day, Until the end of the world.

I agree (your last mentioned song maybe in a different version) It would be a suprise if they play (…) Exit (…)

Oh yeah! And also "One Tree Hill"! I

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I agree, but it wil depend on what the tour is like.  If you’re thinking in the same lines as Popmart, then yes, Elevation will be first. — Vik

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I think they’ll open with elevation Wouldn’t it be grand to A Sort of Homecoming segue into Walk On for a concert opener? I’d even be happy to take the pair anywhere in the concert actually. Think they would sound really good together.

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IMO, Beautiful day would be great because of the great instrumental intro. You can image an empty stage, lights off ; music begins, Bono singing on the rhythm loop, then the 3 others come in for the chorus playing widely. (the tour is only in 6 Months for Europ :-//////  Hope they’ll broadcast some american gigs)          Ben [[Zooropean]] (Fr) We’ll shine like stars in the summer light            "It’s a beautiful day!!!!" – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Wouldn’t it be grand to A Sort of Homecoming segue into Walk On for a concert opener? I’d even be happy to take the pair anywhere in the concert actually. Think they would sound really good together.

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Wouldn’t it be grand to A Sort of Homecoming segue into Walk On for a concert opener? I’d even be happy to take the pair anywhere in the concert actually. Think they would sound really good together.

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I think they’ll open with elevation – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Wouldn’t it be grand to A Sort of Homecoming segue into Walk On for a concert opener? I’d even be happy to take the pair anywhere in the concert actually. Think they would sound really good together.

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Can someone tell me what this is about and also tell me a good website where I can find out what other U2 songs are about please??

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Can someone tell me what this is about and also tell me a good website where I can find out what other U2 songs are about please??

It’s not about anything really.  Alright, there are good reasons for the title, but if the truth be told, Brian Eno played the drum track to ‘A Sort of Homecoming’ backwards, and had Bono free associate over the top of it.  Little did Bono know that Eno was recording it, said "it’s a wrap!!" and there’s yer song.  Still, sounds nice doesn’t it?! Lithium Boy — Anyone wanna see my blog?!: http://www.lithiumjoe.com/lithiumboy Lithium Joe:  Rock n’ roll, reggae, pop, punk, tunes!!!  http://www.lithiumjoe.com

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Its just that at the mid to end part of the song it sounds like Bono is singing, :Sell your soul to Bobby Sands" and I just wondered if he was saying this or it is something different. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Can someone tell me what this is about and also tell me a good website where I can find out what other U2 songs are about please?? It’s not about anything really.  Alright, there are good reasons for the title, but if the truth be told, Brian Eno played the drum track to ‘A Sort of Homecoming’ backwards, and had Bono free associate over the top of it.  Little did Bono know that Eno was recording it, said "it’s a wrap!!" and there’s yer song.  Still, sounds nice doesn’t it?! Lithium Boy — Anyone wanna see my blog?!: http://www.lithiumjoe.com/lithiumboy Lithium Joe:  Rock n’ roll, reggae, pop, punk, tunes!!!

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<< Still, sounds nice doesn’t it?! It’s actually one of my top five fave U2 SOngs…i was humming it obscurely just this morning. Heidi MacDonald Opinions expressed are my own, not those of Time Warner or DC Comics (remove xyz to email) "Death is the mother of beauty."                      –Wallace Stevens "Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful." –They Might be Giants

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I am looking for any information on the song "Elvis Presley and America".   I need to get the chords for guitar and the lyrics. If anyone has these or can direct me to a book I would really appreciate it. Thanks. Darren in Houston — Surf Usenet at home, on the road, and by email — always at Talkway. http://www.talkway.com

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I am looking for any information on the song "Elvis Presley and America".   I need to get the chords for guitar and the lyrics. If anyone has these or can direct me to a book I would really appreciate it. Thanks. Darren in Houston

Learn the chords to "A Sort of Homecoming" then move them down a few frets till they sound in tune. There is a web site here somewhere thsat has the words to all U2 songs and it has most of the words to it, though its not complete…

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I just picked up the new Garbage record and I am liking it very much.  I am trying to find out if they cite U2 as an influence.  I know they take a long time to make records!  They do have a U2-esque sound, Version 2.0 is like a whole record of songs like "Mofo."   Any thoughts??

I like the new Garbage record alot….however..I have 2 complaints with it….first one is I think that track 11 needs to GO FAR FAR AWAY…it sounds nothing like the rest of the album and at best is a b-side….and secondly….this one Im PISSED about.. but if U listen to track 5 the guitar intro is a BLATENT rip off of U2’s Sort of Homecoming… Butch Vig must think that now that he did some terrible remixin for U2 that he can go ahead and take from them…I think not… all of that aside…I LOVE the new album….just cant listen to tracks 11 or 5 or I get pissed off….in fact track 1, 4, 6, and 12 are high on my list of favorites… my opinion… Nico "Bring on that son of a bitch, bring on that sucker!!" –Bono Birmingham, Alabama 10/7/92

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Garbage is cool. Can’t wait to get the new album Steve – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey, I just picked up the new Garbage record and I am liking it very much.  I am trying to find out if they cite U2 as an influence.  I know they take a long time to make records!  They do have a U2-esque sound, Version 2.0 is like a whole record of songs like "Mofo." Any thoughts?? — Chris Freeman   "Love is big, it’s bigger than us             but love is not what you’re thinking of." -U2

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I like the new Garbage record alot….however..I have 2 complaints with it….first one is I think that track 11 needs to GO FAR FAR AWAY…it sounds nothing like the rest of the album and at best is a b-side….and secondly….this one Im PISSED about.. but if U listen to track 5 the guitar intro is a BLATENT rip off of U2’s Sort of Homecoming…

Funny…the riffs reminded me of that as well.  But once the song progressed the feeling soon faded.  But a "blatant ripoff", c’mon, imagine Garbage in the studio…"Ummmm, OK guys, since we are incapable of coming up with anything original ourselves, were gonna copy that U2 song!"  Yes, I know, it’s ludicrous.   Butch Vig must think that now that he did some terrible remixin for U2 that he can go ahead and take from them…I think not…

Actually, I really enjoy his U2 remixes.  I think they are some of the best ones out there. — Chris Freeman   "Love is big, it’s bigger than us             but love is not what you’re thinking of." -U2

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but if U listen to track 5 the guitar intro is a BLATENT rip off of U2’s Sort of Homecoming…

I do think that the guitar in Special has a U2 sound, but not the one at the beginning. I’m talking about the mutted/wah-wah guitar in the middle of the song. Now THAT is U2.. (I do like the song, though)

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Hey, I just picked up the new Garbage record and I am liking it very much.  I am trying to find out if they cite U2 as an influence.  I know they take a long time to make records!  They do have a U2-esque sound, Version 2.0 is like a whole record of songs like "Mofo."   Any thoughts?? — Chris Freeman   "Love is big, it’s bigger than us             but love is not what you’re thinking of." -U2

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Funny that you should ask that question. In June’s edition of SELECT MAGAZINE (u.k.) there is an article on Garbage and their new album Version 2.0. There is a sidebar to the article where Shirley Manson (lead singer) lists her dream celebrity guestlist. Bono is no. 1. She says "The band insisted we meet them at one of their aftershows. You go into the Inner Sanctum and the whole room is formed in a semi-circle around Bono, all paying court. My God, he could charm the leaves off the trees in summertime. When he looks you in the eye, you just presume everyone else in the world is dead and you’re the only one living. He’s still Jesus in a leather jacket." I’ve got tickets to see Garbage in Manchester next Sunday so I’ll let you know what they’re like live. Peter – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey, I just picked up the new Garbage record and I am liking it very much.  I am trying to find out if they cite U2 as an influence.  I know they take a long time to make records!  They do have a U2-esque sound, Version 2.0 is like a whole record of songs like "Mofo."   Any thoughts?? — Chris Freeman   "Love is big, it’s bigger than us             but love is not what you’re thinking of." -U2

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