OMFG U2 + GREEN DAY WERE RIDICULOUS AND EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot begin to cope, I really can't. It was amazing. As soon as there's video online, I will link, but for now, you can either purchase (proceeds to
Music Rising) the main track via Real Rhapsody, which requires you to have Rhapsody and play it only through Rhapsody and other such bullshit, or, I have already burned and ripped and uploaded, in a nice mp3 format which agrees with everything:
YOU NEED TO CLICK THIS."Wake Me Up When September Ends", with EDGE!!! PLAYING!!! that amazing beautiful GUITAR OPENING!!!, followed by a scrap of "House of the Rising Sun", then BONO!!! started singing that soft sweet aching beginning of "The Saints are Coming" and I couldn't help but cry out, I.. he..... and then that all kicked in, with some New Orleans brass, and ALL OF U2 AND ALL OF GREEN DAY, three guitars and two bass and two drumsets and omFg it was insane. And they..just..it's death. All through. Bono spoke/sang his own lines amidst everything, Bono and Billie shared a mic and sang together, soclose, and then Edge joined them too, and everyone was so close and it was so, unbelievably powerful, so much power channeled into one song...
And Bono singing/speaking softly over the end, and changing words, and then you realise, he's going into the bridge of "Beautiful Day", which takes over like the sun after a rainstorm, and the whole world just *lifts*.....
(I just realised, the all singing together might've been during BD, I can't even recall, everything's such a gorgeous heart-wrenching blur...)
It... I knew it was going to be amazing, I was spazzing out all day, listening to the original and things from HTDAAB and American Idiot and when I didn't have my headphones on, I was listening to them in my head, or I was imagining what they were going to do to that song... and oh, they surpassed it. As I knew they would. It...
*takes the first deep breath she's taken in an hour and a half*
Go get that song.
*Ananda Daydream * 9:47 PM *
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