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“Elevation” is the third track and third single release from U2’s 2000 album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Featuring a thunderous beat, a variety of sound effects on the central guitar riff, and an easy rhyming lyric for the audience to shout along with, it was highly effective in its concert-opening role on the Elevation Tour (named after the song) and became a hit in the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2002, “Elevation” won “Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal”.
During live shows during the Vertigo Tour, it was played without drums and bass for the first verse and chorus before the rest of the band joins in. It has been played at every U2 concert since it debuted, and it is the only song for which The Edge uses his Gibson SG.
The version of the song released as a single was entitled the “Tomb Raider Mix” (mixed by Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers), differing significantly from the album version, in that it features guitars with a more ‘hard rock’ sound than the reggae-inspired feel of the album version. The drums in the single version are also harder, with a more traditional rock’n’roll beat. The name comes from its role in the soundtrack to the movie, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. This arrangement is how U2 have performed the song since its release.
During live shows during the Vertigo Tour, it was played without drums and bass for the first verse and chorus before the rest of the band joins in. It has been played at every U2 concert since it debuted, and it is the only song for which The Edge uses his Gibson SG.
The version of the song released as a single was entitled the “Tomb Raider Mix” (mixed by Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers), differing significantly from the album version, in that it features guitars with a more ‘hard rock’ sound than the reggae-inspired feel of the album version. The drums in the single version are also harder, with a more traditional rock’n’roll beat. The name comes from its role in the soundtrack to the movie, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. This arrangement is how U2 have performed the song since its release.
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Official Video — Added by Mercury Records Limited 23 Apr 2008
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High, higher than the sun
You shoot me from a gun
I need you to elevate me here,
At the corner of your lips
As the orbit of your hips
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zecarpediem wrote:
Morceau qui signe le retour aux sonorités plus "rock" de leurs débuts, confirmé par le dernier album "how to dismantle...". Du grand U2.'
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dadapunk wrote:
fantastica
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ozandogan wrote:
nice ;)
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scarboro wrote:
LOL then don't listen to it. :D I like it and it's awesome in concert.
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burwellian wrote:
Great band, but this song gets on my nerves so easily...
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DjYugi wrote:
love this song who doesnt like U2, cuz whoever doesnt is crazy to not like them!!!! >.<
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RaceDoctor wrote:
Almost perfection!
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izabellll wrote:
;)
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HOMEROEL wrote:
ELEVATION OK!!!!!!!!!
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Dysrianism wrote:
what a great song.
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angrybob7 wrote:
such a beastly song :)
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NutaMarzyciela1 wrote:
I love love love this band!!!! U2 the best in the world!!! Kocham was!!! Pozdrawiam!!!
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naragfelek wrote:
fly so high! ;-p
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amy_kiah wrote:
E--LE--VA--TION...!!!!
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EdgeLike wrote:
One of my least like U2 songs.
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_deeperthewound wrote:
I used to listen to this song over and over again when it came out. I was convinced it'd be my favourite song forever. I still love it, though!
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scarboro wrote:
L F A shun!
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NicoleU2lover wrote:
the goal is soul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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coldasfire1 wrote:
Best song ever...
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xlostinreverie wrote:
FAVORITE BAND, FAVORITE SONG FROM THEM. <3
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