Rare Puddlejumpers clips!

[trinityofone]

Well...not really. Obviously. But I discovered that YouTube has suddenly started working for me, so I went and looked up some U2 Puddlejumpers U2 clips...

Oh, choose your own level of reality. I give up.

The Ocean - Live, Belfast, January 1981
They're younger than I am in this. (It could totally be a Wilcox Avenue-era gig.)

The Ocean/11 O'Clock Tick Tock - Live, February 1981
The shitty quality actually makes this for me. It's a relic. (Leather pants alert!)

The Fly - Live, Boston, 2001
(Definitely from the same tour as the Melbourne gig.)

Love is Blindness - Video
And...I'm not even going to tell you why I'm including this. Just watch it.

I'm...very confused in the head. Yes.

Comments

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Huh. I can't hear it, but then, I'm notoriously tone deaf. When's it from?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Np, I didn't want to say anything to hear if you heared it too. One or two years before Achtung, Baby.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I'm not a good judge. I can't recognize even songs I know and really like until the lyric starts--I have no natural musical inclination or understanding at all. So, I don't know, you could be right!

(But does the video to that song have Bono and The Edge kissing in it? *g*)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Huh? That's odd.

Yours does, at least a peck. I doubt mine had a video.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yup. I love music--even more, because it's so alien to me.

It's a Judas-kiss, really. I don't mind. ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Sorry to harp on this but I im intrigued and confused ... you can't be tone-deaf if you love music ... that's just ... I realise many people value the lyrics more than the sound, but ... you are exaggerating, right? You don't recognise your favourite songs? I mean, I remember recognising Stuck in the Moment on the radio from the first breath Bono took, even though I no longer listened to them. *frowns* Do you read about music? How do you listen or experience music then?

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm exaggerating a little. There are of course songs I recognize. It just...takes me longer than most people. And there are honestly songs that I adore that, say, if my iTunes is on random or I'm listening to the radio, I need the lyric to start before I can go, "Ohhh..."

Melodies do move me, if not as much as lyrics, than in their own very strong, very compelling way. Certain songs--instrumental ones--can reduce me to tears. But I couldn't write a song if my life depended on it. It's like math (and the two are related): my brain just doesn't work that way.

Does that make sense?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

The similarity of music and maths has often been noted, though both can be approached instinctively or intellectually, and with different degrees; then again I don't subscribe to other strict brain seperations like "women are better at languages, men are better at maths", my experience is different.

The not-writing-music bit makes sense.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I definitely do not think that women are better at languages and men are better at math, but I KNOW that I am better at languages (or language, I should say--English only, I'm afraid) than I am at either math or music. I can't get anywhere with either math or music on an instinctual or an intellectual level, but I learned long ago to see the beauty in the latter, and am learning to find it in the former, too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Most women still do seem more attracted to the word, though I'd still like to smite that guy who said comics were 95% half-naked Barbies because guys were visual (and women tactile hence women like to be touched and men do the touching etc.).

But I should state that I despite owning two guitars I never seriously considered creating music myself (erm, IIRC) and also think the enjoyment is greater and purer for that. I am very good at recalling it (notes?strains?) in my head though. Hm.