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'PopMart: Were U2 Making a Joke or was the Joke on Them?'. 'U2's 'Pop': A Reimagining of the Album 20 Years Later'. Archived from the original on 24 July 2009. It appeared in the live videos/ recordings Please: PopHeart Live EP, ' Please' single, PopMart: Live from Mexico City, Hasta la Vista Baby! and U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland. It was performed as a live staple of the North American leg of the 2018 Experience + Innocence Tour.' Sometimes it also appeared as a snippet in ' Discothèque'. It had several appearances on the Elevation Tour, being the only Pop song to be performed on all three legs of the Elevation Tour. The song was performed acoustically for most of the rest of that tour. Bono singing at the wrong tempo was to blame for the mistake. However, during the first concert at Las Vegas, U2 failed to time the song correctly and had to start over. 'Staring at the Sun' was played at most of the PopMart Tour shows. Does He have a choice?' Live performances Big.' David Sinclair from The Times wrote, ''God is good, but will He listen?' Bono asks in this solid return to traditional U2 territory. They added, 'Possibly the most obvious single on Pop, this track is awash with a melancholy that's amplified by The Edge's plangent, keening guitar signature. Critical reception īritish magazine Music Week rated the song five out of five, picking it as Single of the Week. Ī kaleidoscope bearing the single's logo in gold was distributed to promote the single. During the summer of 2002 recording sessions in which ' Electrical Storm' and ' The Hands That Built America' were recorded, parts for four U2 songs were re-recorded, including 'Staring at the Sun.' The song has been compared to the work of Oasis. The band felt the song was a potential 'anthem to rival ' One'.' A new mix of 'Staring at the Sun' was released for the compilation, The Best of 1990-2000. The song was written with the line 'Stuck together with God's glue,' which was taken directly from the title of the album by the Irish band Something Happens, who are good friends with U2. It also reached the top 10 in Finland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Norway. In the US, it topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Alternative Songs charts. It peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, number one in Canada and Iceland and number 26 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

It is the fifth track on their 1997 album, Pop, and was released as its second single on 14 April 1997. ' Staring at the Sun' is a song by Irish rock band U2.

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