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" Stay (Faraway, So Close!) " is a song by the U2 rock band. This is the fifth song on their 1993 album, Zooropa , and was released as the album's third single on November 22, 1993. The song is a top ten hit in Ireland, Australia, Britain and several other countries. The music video was taken in Berlin, Germany. The initial incarnation of the song was developed during the sessions for the 1991 album group Achtung Baby . It was written for and inspired by Frank Sinatra and gave birth to the surname as the title of the original work. Alternative recording is used in the Wim Wenders film Faraway, So Close !.
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Well received by critics and nominated for Golden Globe for Best Original Song. The song made its live debut on the Zoo TV Tour but was only intermittently performed in acoustic versions during the next tour. U2 members consider it as one of their favorite songs; The Edge guitarist named it the best song on the album, while vocalist Bono stated that it was one of their best creations.
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Initial incarnation of "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Was developed during the recording sessions for Achtung Baby . While working at Hansa Ton Studios in Berlin, The Edge guitarist and vocalist Bono created the stanza. The song was titled work "Sinatra" refers to the artist who inspired his music. The group is working on it again in preparation for Zooropa . The Edge notes "it came to us in installments". Bassist Adam Clayton said "it's hard to know how we're going to do it.I mean, no one would think of us as a Frank Sinatra support band.Simple little combo voices are what we face and it really works." The Edge added, "I was playing the piano with some old school glory chords that tried to awaken Frank Sinatra's spirit, which is certainly not from the rock and roll tradition." He works the chords based on Tin Pan Alley's old songs.
During the recording session, Wim Wenders approached the band and asked them for a song for the next movie, Faraway, So Close! . The Edge says "we heard Wim Wenders was looking for a song... so I had to finish it." U2 watch the movie, Faraway, So Close! , for inspiration on how to make a song. Bono said "the movie is about an angel who wants to be human and who wants to be on Earth but to do so they have to be human.That is a great picture to play with - the impossibility of wanting something like this, and then the cost of having it." Two versions of the song made; which was first released in Zooropa, and the second, nearly two minutes longer and featured "edgier guitar and drum show," including on the Far soundtrack, So Close! . Close to completion of the recording Bono renamed the song "Stay." Wanting to further reference the movie Wenders he then changed it once more, to "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)".
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Composition and theme
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Walking for 4:58 (4 minutes, 58 seconds). According to the Universal Music Publishing Group music sheets published on Musicnotes.com, this is played in the same time as 86 beats per minute in the E key? main. Vocals extend from low note B 3 to high D ? 7 .
Third Way contributor Graham Cray writes that the song "[explains] more directly a culture that consists of noise and image noise but has no soul or direction." Hot Press Editor Niall Stokes notes that the lyrics are unclear if they happen in reality or fantasy, which he likens to the theme of the album. Writer David Kootnikoff believes that "pop melodies hide the dark theme of the lyrics about victims of physical violence that cause the pain to disappear with the line 'When he hurts you, you feel alive.'" Mark Brown from The Orange County Register described it as "a desperate story of a woman being abused with no place to go but returning to her home." He compared it to the 1982 U2 song "Running to Stand Still", saying "It's sort of descriptive but far away description is what makes it so powerful."
Release
The promotional single was released in the fall of 1993. The 12-inch vinyl and CD version contains an album version of the song. The 7-inch vinyl promotion also includes the cover of "I Have You Under My Skin". "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Released internationally as the third single from Zooropa on November 22, 1993, following the release of "Numb" and "Lemon" at the beginning of the year. It is available in 7-inch vinyl, cassette and CD formats in four versions. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Included in the 2002 U2 compilation album The Best of 1990-2000 , and the accompanying video release. An alternative recording of the song was released on the soundtrack to Faraway, So Close! . Craig Armstrong covered it on his 2002 album As If to Nothing ; Bono recorded a new vocal capture for the song. The song also featured in the 1993 episode "Fools and Horses" episode "Fatal Extraction."
B-sides
Six B-sides are included in four versions. "I've Got You Under My Skin" is the only B-side on the 7 "format and the tape is also available on a version dubbed" The Swing Format, "which contains two remixes of" Lemon. "I 've Got You Under My Skin" is a cover of the 1936 Cole Porter song, recorded as a duet by Bono and Frank Sinatra.The song was also released on the Sinatra 1993 album Duets . Lemon (Perfecto Mix) "Remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne." Lemon (Bad Yard Club Edit) "mixed by David Morales, who added his own percussion to the track.
"The Live Format" includes the first studio release "Slow Dancing" and live versions of "Bullet the Blue Sky" and "Love Is Blindness" from the Zoo TV Tour. "Slow Dancing" is an acoustic song by Bono and written for Willie Nelson. It debuted at a concert on December 1, 1989 in Osaka, Japan, on Lovetown Tour, almost four years before its release, and has been rarely done ever since. While recording the element "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", Bono took the guitar and started playing the song. When done, he asks Flood if he wants to record it; without his knowledge, the microphone is on and the tape is recorded. The second take is then done. It is considered to be included on Zooropa ; although producer Brian Eno liked it, the song was not selected for the album. The second version, which was recorded with Nelson, was later released as B-side on the 1997 single U2 "If God Will Send His Angels." "Bullet the Blue Sky" was recorded on August 28, 1993 in Dublin. "Love Is Blindness" was taken from a U2 concert on August 30, 1992 in New York City.
Music video
The music video for "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Directed by Wim Wenders, produced by Debbie Mason, and edited by Jerry Chater. The video was filmed in Berlin for three days, mainly in black and white but with several color sequences. It contains the brilliant acting of some of the actors who appear on Faraway, So Close! , including Otto Sander, as well as niece Wenders. Some scenes taken directly from Faraway, So Close! and Wenders 1987 Wings of Desire , which also serves as the main inspiration for the video premise. Wenders says that "making a video is a very different ballgame.You have a script, so to speak, because you have a song, and all you do is to help the song shine... you want to make the song look as good as it can and sound as good as possible and as interesting as possible. "Several pictures depict the band members standing on a statue of Victoria, a monument at the top of the Victory Column of Berlin; angel models were created for the scenes. The rest of the military equipment from the Cold War, including the Soviet MiG, was inserted in the background.
The video depicts a band playing "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)". U2 was instrumental in the role of guardian angel band, overseeing the position corresponding to their instruments on U2. Meret Becker is the lead actor of the video, playing the band's vocalist. Wenders stated that they "liked the idea that Bono's voice would be sung by a girl in this video." Throughout U2 video helps the musicians play a song; drummer Larry Mullen, Jr is shown helping in a tap, while The Edge tunes the guitar, which according to the Wenders is "what would you do if you were a guardian angel for a lead guitarist." The video took turns between the band's play, a U2 member standing in Victoria, and a scene from both Wenders movies. At the end of the video, Bono left the band alone. The last shot shows him falling to earth, personifying the last lyrics "Just bang and the sound of a thump like an angel touching the ground."
Live show
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Debut on July 31, 1993 in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fourth leg of the Zoo TV Tour. It was done at all the remaining concerts on the tour. It was not played on the PopMart Tour. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Back to the live setting on April 20, 2001 in San Jose, California, on the first leg of the Elevation Tour, making it the first song from
Live performances of the song appear on Zoo TV: Live from Sydney (1994), Elevation 2001: Live from Boston (2001), "Walk On" and "Stuck in Moment You Can not Can not Out Of "single (2001), Zoo TV Live (2006), and live album U22 (2012). The Zoo TV Live performance is rip audio from the performance of Zoo TV: Live from Sydney . Versions of the track "Walk On" and "Stuck in a Moment You Can not Get Out Of" were recorded in Toronto, Ontario, on May 25, 2001.
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Reception
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Recognized critically. Music journalist, Sam Richards, rated the song with four stars out of five, calling it "a tweaking '90s alt. Rock balladÃ, - Radiohead's cousin" High and Dry "and Smashing Pumpkins'" 1979 "- who almost managed to keep the lid on impulse to looking for the nearest peak. " Hot Press Editor Niall Stokes says" the show is full of gentle beauty, a humble kind of emotion that seems to conflict with disorientation in the lyrics. "
Writing for Time , Josh Tyrangiel compares it to the previous hit U2 "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "One", says "'Stay (Faraway, So Close!)'... [ perhaps - to be meaningful to millions of people - precisely because [it] is very unclear. "David Bauder of the Associated Press called it" the most beautiful album song. " Peter Howell of Toronto Star said it was "the most conventional U2 song on the album." The Orange County Register ' Mark Brown notes "The casual guitar line on' Stay 'incorporates songs with the tension that fits perfectly with the subject". The Bergen Record reviewer Barbara Jaeger calls it "a very beautiful ballad." Writing for The Dallas Morning News, Manuel Mendoza said it was "absolutely beautiful, with Bono's hoarse voice evoking a warm longing."
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Nominated in the Best Original Song category at the 51st Golden Globe Awards. In 2005, Bono said "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Is "probably the greatest U2 song," says it has "the most incredible melodic contours.This is really very sophisticated.Lyrics never lags," and notes that they "never turn 'Stay' into a single that deserves it." She named it as one of her two favorite songs, along with "Please." The Edge calls it "a prominent track on the recording." Wenders described it as one of his favorite songs.
Format and list track
All tracks are written by U2 and done by U2 except "I've Got You Under My Skin," written by Cole Porter and performed by Frank Sinatra with Bono.
Credits and personnel
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Sales and Certification
See also
- U2 cover list - Fixed (Faraway, So Close!)
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External links
- "Fixed (Faraway, So Close!)" in MusicBrainz
- "Fixed (Faraway, So Close!)" on YouTube
- Lyrics on U2.com
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