U2 - Mysterious Ways | The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 08 | August 2021

1st of January in each year is usually the day of U2 song ‘New Year’s Day’, however, we still have some debt from 2021. There are exactly 5 songs left in the 'Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project' and we want to finish them. Let's continue the line and start the new year with the song 'Mysterious Ways'. With this song, we wish everyone who follows this project a very happy new year to 2022.

Thanks to Sadie Marquardt for the beautiful and sexy belly dance!

Let's celebrate the 30th Anniversary of U2's 7th epos called Achtung Baby.
We created this project to play the whole album through 2021. There are 12 songs on the album and there are 12 months in the year. What else could we say? Stay tuned and search for the other songs here on YouTube.

U2 - Mysterious Ways | The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 08 | August 2021

"Mysterious Ways" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the eighth track from their 1991 album, Achtung Baby, and was released as the album's second single on 2 December 1991. The song began as an improvisation called "Sick Puppy", with the band liking only the bass part that bassist Adam Clayton composed. The band struggled to build a song from it, with vocalist Bono and producer Daniel Lanois arguing intensely during one songwriting session. The song's breakthrough came after guitarist the Edge began experimenting with the Korg A3 effects unit. "Mysterious Ways" features a danceable beat, funky guitar hook, and conga-laden percussion, as well as mystical lyrics by Bono about romance and women.

"Mysterious Ways" reached the top ten on the singles charts of several countries, including Canada and the band's native Ireland, where it went to number one. In the United States, the song topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts and peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. It received praise from critics after the release of Achtung Baby, many of whom called it one of the album's standout tracks and one that best illustrated the band's musical evolution on the album.

A music video for the song was filmed in Morocco and incorporated distorted images of Bono and a belly dancer, Morleigh Steinberg, who eventually married the Edge.

"Mysterious Ways" made its live debut on the Zoo TV Tour in 1992, when performances were accompanied by an on-stage belly dancer. The group has continued to perform the song on subsequent tours.

"Mysterious Ways" began as an improvised demo called "Sick Puppy" that the group recorded at STS Studios in Dublin, as vocalist Bono, guitarist the Edge, and bassist Adam Clayton jammed over a drum machine. The band liked Clayton's bassline, which originated during their recording of a cover version of "Night and Day" and for a while, consisted of little more than a "one-note groove". However, the band had difficulties completing the remainder of the song melodically. Bono said that it was "a bass line in search of a song", while the Edge stated that "the key to the song was finding ways to mess around with chords on top without having to change the bass".

As U2 continued to struggle with the song, the tense atmosphere of the recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin took its toll. Producer Daniel Lanois arrived at the studios early one morning before the band to work on ideas he had for the song. When Bono arrived, he began singing and contributing vocal ideas, but this conflicted with what Lanois had in mind for the track. Bono and a frustrated Lanois proceeded to argue intensely for over two hours, worrying sound engineer Joe O'Herlihy that a physical altercation would ensue. Bono looks back on the episode with a sense of humour: "That's why I love Danny so much. He cares about the record he's making as much and more than any band or artist he's working with."

More details you can find here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Ways_(song)

U2 - Mysterious Ways (Slane Castle 2001 version) | Cover by The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project

Original song is written by U2 from the album "Achtung Baby" (Islands Records, 1991)

The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project are:

Bono | Ireland - Lead Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/user/U2official

Francis | Philippines - Guitars, Effects
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83HiQf8fYo9BimWJ3qZ6UA

Zoltan | Hungary - Bass Guitar and Bass Synthesizer
http://www.youtube.com/user/czibzol

Laurent | France - Drums, Percussion and Synthesizer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZQX...

The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 2021

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