The song is about unity, finding the commonality with people who might otherwise have nothing in common with, and having the opportunity to carry each other. It’s not that we have to carry each other, we get to carry each other. It’s an honor to be able to

I recall reading an interview with Axl Rose in which he said that he cried the first time he heard this song.

this song is a goddamn stone cold masterpiece, top 10 rock songs of all time period. This song made Axl Rose contemplate quitting music because he was so in awe of it

U2 became huge for a reason...every album up to Achtung Baby is a masterpiece. They OWNED the 80s....

This has to be my favourite U2 song.

Deep lyrics and a haunting melody. U2 has always been beyond the ordinary. React to this same song with Mary J. Blige joining Bono and the boys. Mary J. kills it!

I heard this song for the first time in July 1993. I had been discharged from the army a few days ago and I was 21 years old and during the service, in the place where I was, I not had a chance to hear it. No spotify at the time, only used tapes passed from hand to hand and no radio in the barracks. When I heard it for the first time on July 7, 1993 at the Flaminio in Rome, I was completely amazed. Coming home that night, the whole train was full of boys and girls who goin home frome the gig singing this song incessantly. Just a month later I set off on an aimless tour of my country, Italy and, on a beautiful beach, I met the first true (and perhaps only) love of my life and we became One. Well, not forever sadly, but this song always brings me back to that summer in which I discovered so much. Bye.

The BEST concert I've ever been to was U2 when Joshua Tree first came out. Bono took us to church!

Pride! about MLK..... Still haven't found what I'm looking for! people hate on U2, but early U2 put out several masterpieces

Bono, lead singer of U2 has a great & unique voice...my favorite song by them...Thank you...

Been a U2 Fan since back in the day, ( one of my all time fave concerts was seeing them in 86) and I love this song, but I have to say...Mary J. takes us to Church when she does this. Damnation...that Girl can SING !! One of those people that was born with music in her DNA. So good !

“All I Want Is You” is another masterpiece on this level. Couldn’t count how many times I’ve listened to both these songs.

Pride in the name of love by U2, it's about Martin Luther King Jr.😁 & it's EXCELLENT!!!!

Thank you so much for playing this song, I have loved U2 since I first heard them, and its been way too long since I listened to them, this is one of their best, and the performance is fantastic.

Where the Streets have no Name!

With or without you -U2 One of their biggest hits. Has a similar feel to this one but I would argue it’s even better.

This was such a heart ❤️ felt song to me. Made me work to live life as ONE ☝️

I haven't heard or seen bono in forever. Brings childhood memories back

My favorite band of all time Since I saw them at red rocks way back in the 8Os when I was 16 then have real lyrics and what a band and I don't have to say about Bono He's always tried to do what he can to make the world a little bit Better place to live .

"I cant be holding on to what yo got, when all you got is hurt..." Lyrics on this song are so powerful.

U2's 1987 album The Joshua Tree made them global superstars, but it also typecast them as the earnest, self-important street preachers of rock & roll. Very little of their playfulness, self-deprecating sense of humor, or punk rock willingness to test all boundaries came thru. The 1988 documentary/live album Rattle and Hum only reinforced this image. What audiences loved in these big emotional sound textures the critics often hated. By 1991, the band felt the need to reinvent themselves. They went to Berlin to record Achtung Baby, an album that was sonically and lyrically unlike anything they had done before. It had to be. The album's lead single, "One," was a powerful ballad about the band's relationship with each other. It was a critical and commercial success, and it helped U2 to shed their old image and emerge as a more modern, relevant band. I think Bono once said something like: "this song walked into the room and saved the band." It's got a lot of the heartbreak of Edge's at-the-time very recent divorce and the band's anxiety about what it would take to stay together. It's almost entirely about four headstrong Irishmen with spats that almost come to blows but friendships that win out in the end. It's wide open to romantic and spiritually transcendent interpretations because their songwriting had achieved an artful level of ambiguity by 1991, 15 or so years into their careers. They formed in '76 as teenagers. Had it together to record their first album by '81. The youthful, naive sketches of "Boy," (1981) are more sonically pleasing than lyrically sophisticated. The Joshua Tree is glorious but strident, bringing some fans along enraptured and leaving the pop music intelligentsia cold. Achtung Baby is their first mature masterpiece. It dares to paint with darker colors and it succeeds wildly.

I love the way this song builds as it goes.

From the album “Achtung Baby” (1991). I played this CD on a daily basis for several months, it’s probably in my top twenty albums, and this song is in my top one hundred songs.

Damian Rice sang a beautiful version of this song. It's definitely my favorite U2 song. I was lucky enough to see them a number of years back, it was an incredible concert!! Great reaction!!

There have been several meanings posited about the story behind the song: the band nearly breaking up, The Edge's marriage crumbling, the AIDS epidemic. The band were at a crossroads. The Joshua Tree launched them to legendary status, and they were the biggest band in the world. After three years of touring, they saw the need to evolve their sound, and so they went away to "dream it all up again", as Bono said in the last concert of the tour. They went to Hansa Studio in Berlin (where Bowie and Lou Reed had recorded previously), but struggled to get anything down. There was a lot of tension, which made them wonder if they should call it quits for the sake of preserving their friendships. As the band puts it, this song appeared out of nowhere, and was a turning point.

U2 were the biggest band in the world for a time back in the 80's. Fantastic

My favourite U2 song has to be, All I want is you.

Hey u2 fan here and so I'm glad to see your perspective of this song. It is deep. The song is about from what Bono has quoted, it's about a father son relationship and the son coming out that he is gay. The song was inspired by A friend of Bonos who was going through this. However Bonos relationship with his father was off and on. His father and him were close but it is known that his headstrong father was abusive in his childhood . Bono comes from a strong religious background, So this line sinks deep with me "LOVE IS A TEMPLE, LOVE IS A HIGHER LAW YOU ASK ME TO ENTER BUT THEN YOU MAKE ME CRAWL AND I CAN'T KEEP HOLDING ON TO WHAT YOU GOt 'CAUSE ALL YOU GOT IS HURT" This can also be about a torn family and siblings that judge by Gods word yet forget their hearts. The video was a whim call Bono has said their was a model there at the set (something like that) and they were trying to decide what to do for the video. So the video displays the song as such in what you spoke. Also ONE is the song that saved u2 because during recording the album it was a disaster no band mate could agree until the drummer played the reel to ONE. And that was the eye awakening to stay together. They've been together sense they were in high school.

I bought this album when it was released. One of the best songs of all time in my opinion. To me, it’s never felt like a romantic song at all. “We’re one, but we’re not the same”. It’s about one race or country trying to oppress another… Spoken from the conscious awareness of the oppressed. U2 is from Ireland where there has been centuries of strife, conflict and violence with England.

Check out "In the Name of Love" and Sunday Bloody Sunday" . The last one do the Live at Red Rocks version. Early U2 and they were cutting edge at the time.

This song reunited the band when they were distancing themselves while trying to record achtung baby LP. Back in 1991 . All four of U2 members are friends first ,band second.

This is actually a song about change in society. People living together as ONE. We get to “Harry each other, Harry each other” first verse, stating that we make it a point to make life difficult for each other. We get to “Carry each other, Carry each other” at the end, stating that we have the ability to be there for each other in times of sorrow and great need. All the injustices in the world, explained either as those suffering to find peace and love, or searching for forgiveness and asking for the healing from within.

Fine work as always sir. Eleven songs from U2 that are absolute must listens: Gloria, Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live at Red Rocks versions); The Unforgettable Fire; Pride (In the Name of Love); Where the Streets Have No Name; With or Without You; All I Want is You; Stay (Faraway So Close); Mysterious Ways; Even Better than the Real Thing; So Cruel. Enjoy!

I remember like it was yesterday sitting there watching him lay the vocal track down it was a tough tough stressful week for us I remember my eyes watered we almost ended the band that week this song is what saved us and made us come together.

Great song....Aucting Baby...one of the greatest Modern Rock albums!!

You choose some pretty good requests. Keep em coming. I think you and a lot of your followers would like the song by Live called "Lightening Crashes"

Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own is another great U2 song. Bono who's the lead singer wrote it about his father.

U2, New Years Day, Hearts Beats as One.

IN the 60s you had many, many bands singing about the problems of the word.... that faded away in the 70s and it returned in the 80s with U2. This is a band from Ireland and this bad grew up right in the middle of severe political and social strife in Ireland. U2 has probably done more for people in the world than any band of the 80s. I was never a huge U2 fan, but there is no denying the relevance of this band.

To this day this is perhaps U2s most popular song (not best just most popular) and they still play it in concert and award shows and even at the Super Bowl half-time show. The song has taken on many meanings over the years, originally a love song it has also, in more resent years, been played as a rally song to bring people together as ONE. Definitely one of their greatest hits.

Was immediately sold on U2 back in the early/mid 80's when I heard "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day". "Pride" (In the Name of Love) about M.L.K. is also a great song. They made so many great ones over the years.

U2 are excellent! Irish band from the 80s. Sunday Bloody Sunday- (true event in Ireland. )and with or without you! X

It is very simple: One (people, human race); Not the same (some black, some white); Carry each other (you're in trouble I help you, I'm in trouble you help me).

In many of U2's songs, there is a distinctly vulnerable quality to Bono's vocals. I like that.

U2-(Walk On) is an awesome song!

After the huge success of their previous album The Joshua Tree, they went to Berlin to record a new album. It was not gong well at all until The Edge started playing the riff to One. The lyrics by Bono were about the band being one.

One is a very beautiful song from U2 ... it comes from the 1990 Achtung baby album... This is what the song can be about: Maybe talks about how at some time someone or something was One alone in love, in life, the same blood... mentions claiming or demanding that despite being one, he have doubts that if he was not good enough for that someone or something. One is a song that talks about sentimental relationships About the guilt that a person feels when he leaves the love he had felt for another for a long time. You can also interpret the lyrics of the song as exalting the most important feeling for humans: love... We all want to love and be loved, but apparently love is not that simple, one must suffer at first to be happy. Here I leave you the lyrics of the song, so you can understand it better 😉: Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you now You got someone to blame You say One love One life When it's one need in the night One love We get to share it Leaves you baby if you don't care for it Did I disappoint you Or leave a bad taste in your mouth You act like you never had love And you want me to go without Well, it's Too late Tonight To drag the past out into the light We're one, but we're not the same We get to carry each other Carry each other One Have you come here for forgiveness Have you come to raise the dead Have you come here to play Jesus To the lepers in your head Did I ask too much More than a lot You gave me nothing Now it's all I got We're one but we're not the same Well we hurt each other Then we do it again You say Love is a temple Love a higher law Love is a temple Love the higher law You ask me to enter But then you make me crawl And I can't be holding on To what you got When all you got is hurt One love One blood One life You got to do what you should One life With each other Sisters Brothers One life But we're not the same We get to carry each other Carry each other One One

Saw them June 5th 1983 at Red Rocks Under a Blood Red Sky concert. One of my first favorite Irish punk groups I was 13 years old and my 22 year old bought the tickets surprised me. This song was released I think in 89 or 90.

Bono’s lyrics are almost always open to interpretation. This song was inspired by “The Edge”’s (guitarist) bitter divorce. But it was also written while U2 were in Berlin in 1990,. This was right when the wall had fallen and Germany had to deal with trying to unify East Vs West Germany. Hence also why the song also has the unity message. “We’re one, but we’re not the same”.

The line "We get to carry each other" always brings tears to my eyes. As if it's a privilege to be able to do that. And it should be, even if we don't treat it as such. I know some people will recommend the version with Mary J Blighe performing with them, and it's a good version. But this one, raw, simple, emotional, spare...this is the one that moves me most. Stripped bare.

Huge selection of tunes from U2 you could select, my favourite is Bad, first saw them in '84, and numerous times since, love and respect from Ireland

Another good reaction vid. This song was written while they were recording their album Achtung Bany in Berlinwhen the wall was going down. The band hit a road block and couldn’t agree and considered breaking up. This song brought them together. Bono later went on to say his wife Aly inspired some of the lyrics and the comment before me from the Last Iof the Rock Stars got it right too. Later the song became an anthem celebratory diversity and unity among all people.

This song was basically about Bono's father and the cold relationship he had with him

You’ve GOT to do U2’s Pride (In the Name of Love). SO many cool “layers” in this song. One of my all time favorites to listen to as LOUD as it will go. I really think you’ll love it. ❤️

It’s about the band. They were going through a difficult time personally etc but they had this music so Bono wrote the lyrics and it brought the band back together

U2 is a giant of the music industry. Bono is the lead singer and The Edge has developed his signature guitar sound. There is so much of their music book for you to explore.

Love U2 and Bono....😄👍💘. One of those iconic voices. Great songwriter. How about some Sting? ( yes it is his stage name) original with group called police . .sting is same genre as Bono or Phil Collins etc...amazing talent.

Which U2 album is the greatest is debatable, but to me The Joshua Tree was a complete masterpiece, that turned U2 from medium stars to megastars. Every cut is a classic, but take a listen to "Running To Stand Still" - a song about the devastation of drug abuse. Still chilling and haunting to this day.

I recall....in the 1990s when this album was released, my roommates and I had an 'Achtung Baby' release party in our house. We also had a new large "cd boombox" to christen. The first listen was great...we enjoyed the production and U2's creativity. It's funny ....we knew the songs were gonna get lots of airplay...but it was good to hear them fresh before they did. We even tried to do a lyric analysis too.

I adore this song but the one I have on my playlist right now is U2 & Mary J Blige singing this....so so GOOD!!

The U2 live super bowl halftime show in 2002 was epic. It was the first superbowl after 911 and they were the perfect band for it.

I love this one! So glad I raised my kids on a variety of music ,they turn me on to great stuff now.next lyric ,"We got to carry each other."

In The Name Of Love excellent, they were an Irish group and sang a lot about the wars of the Catholic and Protestant

Check many of their early songs, as others have noted. U2, particularly Bono, have always had thoughtful lyrics, and he's been involved in philanthropic work for years. Very good stuff. They're become more mainstream over the years, but that early unrest, that need for change, still peeks out and at times, it's like their early days.

Awesome song. I love Bono's voice. They have another video with this song featuring Mary J. Blige thats fantastic.

The song was written about the band, especially the Edge's relationship ending at the time.

They had also done a duet with Mary J. Blige with this song.

ONE ☝️ of my favorite songs .

Bless you sweetheart. I pray every day that people have the basics. If they don't, I pray they find peace. We're all One, as this song says, but, we're not the same, some of us come here to learn harder lessons. We'll all be in Heaven one day soon, laughing about this life!! Being Irish, I grew up with U2, often sat at a table next to them in out capital city, Dublin, we'd look, but, in our culture, it's very rude and vulgar, to ask for an autograph. Even our president doesn't need security, as people may look, smile and say hello, they respect his right for privacy. Please review any of U2's stuff, Sinead O'Connor's - especially "Nothing Compares to You" , The Cranberries (from my city of about 300,000), I used to bump into Dolores, all over town, she was a lady. A friend of mine is living with her brother mow, Brendan, he's a lovely man. Oh, another genius, is John Prine, American man,. an Angel From Montgomery, best song ever.

A Reason why they are the greatest rock band & export from my country 🇮🇪

U2 greatest new wave/rock band to come out of Ireland. They just as good live or studio!

I had to Google the song... "One" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the third track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby, and it was released as the record's third single in February 1992. During the album's recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin, conflict arose between the band members over the direction of U2's sound and the quality of their material. Tensions almost prompted the band to break up until they achieved a breakthrough with the improvisation of "One"; the song was written after the band members were inspired by a chord progression that guitarist the Edge was playing in the studio. The lyrics, written by lead singer Bono, were inspired by the band members' fractured relationships and the German reunification

VH1 did this top 100 songs of the 90s like 15 years ago, and my sister and I used to watch them when we were on the phone together. For five nights, we were arguing about whether One or Smells Like Teen Spirit was number one. I won’t ruin it because you can watch it on KZfaq. She swore One would be it, I swore it would be Smells Like Teen Spirit. Either way, those were definitely two incredible songs from that decade.

Some of the greatest lyrics of any song ever written. Deep, moving, and warning. Is it getting better Or do you feel the same Will it make it easier on you now You got someone to blame You say... One love One life When it's one need In the night One love We get to share it Leaves you baby if you Don't care for it Did I disappoint you Or leave a bad taste in your mouth You act like you never had love And you want me to go without Well it's... Too late Tonight To drag the past out into the light We're one, but we're not the same We get to Carry each other Carry each other One... Have you come here for forgiveness Have you come to raise the dead Have you come here to play Jesus To the lepers in your head Did I ask too much More than a lot You gave me nothing Now it's all I got We're one But we're not the same Well we Hurt each other Then we do it again You say Love is a temple Love a higher law Love is a temple Love the higher law You ask me to enter But then you make me crawl And I can't be holding on To what you got When all you got is hurt One love One blood One life You got to do what you should One life With each other Sisters Brothers One life But we're not the same We get to Carry each other Carry each other One...life One

I read in an interview that he wrote this song about the relationship he had with his father.

It's amazing how music can bring you back to that emotional place you were in when it was popular. I miss those days.😏😊😉

People hate on U2, but you can’t deny that their songs grab you and pull you in. They are in my top 10 of all time.

Aw, I was looking at a reaction to this by another content creator when your's popped up, Nov 1, 2018. And now it's Oct 11, 2020 and you've been to the White House! Could you even imagine the roads your life would take? :))) No words to express how thrilled I am for you!

The fuzz tone on the the lead riff Edge has when the rest of the band kicks in is very reminiscent of the lead guitar riff on The Guess Who's "No Time Left For You".

U2's Angel of Harlem is another song you need to listen to!---WONDERFUL!!

My favorite song from their Achtung Baby album. The lyrics are powerful and I love the build-up.

Eric Clapton ,,tears in heaven he wrote this when his son ran out of a window in a apartment and fell to his death he was young and was an accident sad story great song

This is a guy who loves music...Good on you brother.

U2 'When Love Comes To Town' or 'Love Rescue Me'. One is about our relationships as human beings. How we hurt each other, but we also carry each other.

If you are in the groove it’s the nicest song to play along with on acoustic guitar- therapy.

Not too terribly long ago they sung at the half time at an nfl super bowl game. Was amazing!!

One of the greatest songs ever written!

One of my very favorite songs of all time

Love love love U2 !! So deep !! He is a mighty mighty christian !!!!

You have to hear the version of this song that U2 did with Mary J. Blige

Irish have a way with words, emotionally & musically.

'You say: Love is a temple, love the higher law' ...and DOG walks in the room.

"You gave me nothing now that's all I got." Love it!

My favorite favorite all time band!!! You should react to U2 Desire, Even Better Than the Real thing, or Mysterious Ways. They haven’t got a bad song.

My all time favorite U2 song!

"You ask me to enter and then you make me crawl. I can't keep holding on."

Johnny Cash did a wonderful version of this song. There's a song Bono wrote for Johnny called The Wanderer that's definitely worth checking out.

Totally off the subject but I love the dog coming in at 3:45 and trying to get into the video (at least his tail made it) :)

This song starts out about a love relationship then evolves into a message of unity for a generation. GenX

This original is great. The collaboration with Mary J. Blige is epic for this song. I would love to see you react to that.