U2 Love is blindness

[@isingjazz83]

Cassandra Wilson with her deep toned jazz infused voice really does this song justice, amazing version

[@pantherstealth]

this has to be one of my favorite songs...ever..i remember being 13 and listening to the lyrics- they don't make songs like this anymore-it all faded away in 1994..........

[@kerawin]

James007magic, your vivid & loving descriptions of life & music are making my heart bleed & weep. At the age of 7, I realized God made a bewildering choice when He plunked an old Celtic soul on Canadian soil, to be raised in the bosom of Chinese immigrants. I look Asian, speak English & French, yet feel utterly Irish; Pete McCarthy wrote "McCarthy's Bar" for folks like me. Your own lovely and eloquent writings are a balm to my imagination & soul; you deserve the beauty you're surrounded by.

[@Renee_ok_-_-]

And let the fighting begin, Who did it best, Jack or U2? I loved this song before it was cool. Jack has a very unique style which changes the whole colour of the song when he performs it. The two interpretations are incomparable, and are exactly that...interpretations. U2 is legend, and Jack never hesitates to put his own style into everything he touches. Now lets all shake hands and play nice.

[@alenemarie]

A good song is a good song. Period. I am NOT a U2 fan, I actually only just heard the Jack White version today. Kudos to U2 for writing this, and kudos to Jack White for making this song his art in his own way. That's what art IS...interpretation. Thank God for artists. The world would be dead without them.

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

More proof of U2's greatness. "Love is Blindness" is completely buried on side 2 of their 1991 masterpiece Achtung Baby-- and it might be the best song on the album.

[@albag74]

I suppose love is everywhere our eyes are able to find it... never stop falling on my knees to thank The U2 for this masterpiece,every time I listen to it!

[@mrc307]

Where can you find such poetic beauty more beautiful than "Love is drowning in a deep well. All the secrets and no one to tell"? Their strained relationship and what what was going in their personal lives actually helped shape such a gem of an album which makes you want to listen to it over and over again.

[@MaximeL59]

5 étoiles à cette chanson assé éloignée du style U2 mais qui résonne dans mon coeur comme l'une des plus belles...magnifique

[@soulcornflake1]

Personally I think the song is about obsession and love gone wrong. That line 'A little death without mourning, no call and no warning/Baby a dangerous idea that almost makes sense' absolutely chills me to the core.

[@LittleQueenie55]

This is the first U2 song I've listened to and liked. Jack White does it again, broadening my musical horizons!

[@bostonbear]

Maybe their greatest song, always wondered why it wasn't released as a single or gotten more attention. Same with Acrobat. Was disappointed when they didn't play this on their last tour.

[@sgallagher27]

It may be one of the best solos ever written. Simple and emotional.

[@Celta34]

Undoubtedly my favourite U2 songs. This reaches deep into the soul.

[@actung74]

U2 performing this live is just incredible.

[@carlyturnbull6616]

The haunted truth of the soul wrote the great lyrics to this song, and any copy of the original creation will always be lesser, the pain of existence in this world right now is defined by these lyrics.

[@fabulousvintage]

I'm a year older & I stll see U2 as one of my favorite bands! Personally I think they're one of the very few bands from the 80's/present that are TIMELESS! I also enjoy big band era music & have listened to all types just as you have, but in my opinion there is nothing good out today. Most seem to sound too much alike or simply are not good. The best music ever made was in the 1960-70's from disco to rock & others. U2 is a rare exception.

[@frontrow11]

one of my favorite songs from this album...achtung baby is a classic..

[@treelala]

Amen! What brotherly love they have for watch other. It is inspiring and amazing. It makes me want to forgive people I usually would be ok with never having in my life again. Yeah They have an anointing and when the express affection for one another it pours out even more.

[@TheMrMT66]

First of all- the song just smashes the system :) The both versions make it perfect. It depends on the mood or certain situation. U2 performance is in that deep tone so that someone can think of easily. Jack's cover is for idealist who just need great amount of energy...for a guy who is dramatic, and dramatically goes through his destroyed relationship. Artist decides how to perform we just receive the ready stuff :->

[@opheliajade1986]

haunting......heart bruising song but so beautiful ..... amazing lyrics Achtung baby, hands down best album EVER

[@9GodsMusic]

what's really amazing is my favorite band U2 wrote this AND my favorite guitarist Jack White covered it.both did incredible versions of this song.

[@HAPPINESSINTHEMIDDLE]

There are sensuality, decadence and french essence in this magic song.

[@KenfromDublin]

Perfect soundtrack to a tour of a cemetery, but hauntingly sublime at the same time.

[@LoyalRaiderFan]

one of their most intense songs ever, and that's saying something. A forgotten song on a brilliant album.

[@bostonbear]

U2s greatest album, by far, was Achtung Baby, and on that album the 2 greats songs are Acrobat and Love Is Blindess. I thought that from the first time I played that album. So figures that neither of those songs got any radio play that I know of. This song gives me chills

[@noitsnotgood]

I love how nobody's fighting over whose version is better! Two different feelings to one great piece.

[@GSB876]

All that you cant leave behind - was also something of a masterpiece :-)

[@Muldfeld]

Great looking video. Nicely done! I wish U2 wrote songs like this nowadays!

[@jlopezraygon4]

I totally agree with your comment, very well put. I have been listening to Achtung Baby nearly all my life. I only partially understood what the song was about but after reading your comments it makes total sense. Cheers!

[@james007magic]

Thanks Kerawin, your writings on this are pretty impressive. Yes I'm still living in Dublin and by chance I ended up buying a house next door to one in which some of the Joshua tree songs were conceived - its a pretty inspirational place - in the foot hills of the Dublin mountains, where fairy stories seem plausable and one can take walks at night and look out at the Dublin city lights screaming away to the horizon..

[@Depechexb]

Absolutely perfect ending to a nearly perfect album.. Really soothing, yet dark.

[@carolinosalgado]

the edge is really a genious,and this is one of his masterpieces(they are all genious)

[@kathleenirish]

This song could just have a black screen with no visuals and that would be just fine! It feels like he was in a black hole when it was written; edges' guitar is so cut, so hard! Excellent.

[@opheliajade1986]

@dfp2101 haunting......heart bruising song but so beautiful ..... amazing lyrics Achtung baby, hands down best album EVER

[@smillernewmom]

I loved the Zoo TV tour! Great song, too.

[@kerawin]

Why, thank you most kindly. You've, very simply, made my day.

[@seamus2204]

yes joint best U2 album - and this is just brilliant ...............

[@LemmingdeMerciless]

by far the greatest U2 song both lyrics and music

[@und13s]

"squeeze the handle, blow out the candle". Great lyrics.

[@friendsoffilip]

and i think that every conscious music fan will have to admit that jack white is one of the most important and iconic musicians of our era.i don't know how you can miss the emotions in jack white's version.and nobody who plays 15 minute guitar solos is emotionless.

[@debray05]

This has to be the darkest, most intensely romantic songs ever written. The subtle sexual reference......"A little death (actual meaning of the word orgasm), without mourning.....combined with the haunting tones and guitar....What a MASTERPIECE!!!!

[@jailbreak852]

There's a lyrical, poetic quality the Irish possess - no doubt.

[@fabulousvintage]

I freakin' AGREE! Unless we see U2 themselves explaining their songs on a talk show....nobody knows for certain. So, meanwhile let's simply ENJOY....

[@pantherstealth]

Most of the tracks on Achtung Baby were written in reference to Edge and the breakdown of his marriage at the time. In this song (during the guitar solo) he gets it all out- and according to Bono, actually snaps a couple of guitar chords in the process- if you listen carefully you can actually here them snap.

[@james007magic]

My theory is that the song was inspired by a famous scene in the film 'The Snapper'. However this song evokes a powerful memory for me of when I first moved to Dublin in 1994 and I went to a pub in Temple Bar called 'the Crane', which was so dimly lit the patrons were simply dark profiles, occasionaly moving amongst the darkness and shadows. And then this song came on and having had more than a few pints of Guinness, I felt my self sinking back into the wall behind me..

[@misshulya]

Love this song, it is beautiful, the music and the lyrics, just awesome...

[@jasanlo]

really?! I didn't know, watching the video the band gives you their complete message, that proves once again how great are U2 songs

[@EricUSnavY]

My favorite U2 song, hands down.

[@gl1968]

You did an outstanding job with this video! BRAVO!!!!

[@opheliajade1986]

haunting......heart bruising song but so beautiful ..... amazing lyrics

[@StarBurstWaters]

I came here for U2 and just U2. I just heard of the great gasby and the only reason im seeing it... well U2 of course and the hunky leonardo DiCaprio not too mention the book is fantastic!

[@marise92]

what a shame !!! i've never heard this video before, but what a beautiful song......!!

[@MadeOfCrazyWood]

I have known this band so long as i can remember. okey im only 14 years old but steel. my brothers have always lisen to theme and therefor dose this song always remember me of old times

[@kangurome]

no words... just fantastic !

[@mainramtajogi]

The great Gatsby dragged me here and m loving it.

[@nichtswiezuvor]

You can hear the pain of the Edge :( So sad and beautiful at the same time..

[@giuliarosasirtori715]

20 years and still magnificent

[@kerawin]

I absolutely adore your retelling of your experience; it's seductively transporting, as well as incredibly evocative in its atmosphere and situation. Although I don't believe I ever found myself in the Crane, I picture myself late in the night at a darkened Duke (my favourite in Dublin), listening to the song while gently inebriated -- and can thus enjoy your experience vicariously. Thank you for that. And you're living in Dublin? Oh, the envy continues to pour. ;-)

[@LuckyJrEskie]

@dfp2101 I completely agree with you! I've enjoyed all their albums after, but I keep coming back to Achtung Baby. It was like a musical wake up call to me in the early 90s.

[@zakilaouira]

u2 the best band of all time

[@kangurome]

stunning, a musical miracle !

[@davlor86]

100% agree with you at that....especially The Fly...my fav song!

[@shadowheart52]

I like U2 and don't normally care for Jack White, but I have to admit his cover of this song is one of the greatest covers I've ever heard.

[@beyonce29able]

uwielbiam tę puiosenkę i U2!!!

[@u2akrobata]

ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER!!!

[@zakilaouira]

the best band of all times

[@jerrycancan]

Achtung Baby was the first U2 album I ever bought (it was in cassette then--the year 1991!). I love all the songs that I memorised the lyrics of every one of them. AB will remain my favourite U2 album of all time. I think their succeeding albums, Zooropa and Pop, were a let down though.

[@andyt1313]

I agree. They each fulfil different moods in me.

[@Pyrethryn]

Great song off of an amazing album

[@johannesjuanes]

what an awesome piece of music. !!!!!!

[@angryranter1]

It just appeals to a different audience, I like both, there's no need to trash what others enjoy.

[@Marx7100]

listen to this song and smoking ..Remembre my love ! what emotion i fell :))

[@rosignole]

don't know - but I feel the same listening to it and I love it and I can listen to it endlesly till the end of the world... and one day longer

[@hpdreamz]

Great song - beautiful lyrics. Originally I thought they were about a relationship breaking down, but it looks like the video proves what a friend of mine said; this song is about terrorism

[@88jazzorama]

Both the Jack White version of this and the original U2 version are both awesome. :D

[@seferbalcarce]

It is the twelfth and final track on their 1991 album Achtung Baby.

[@MAustin7997]

Cassandra Wilson does an excellent cover of this as well. I knew her version 1st. S/O to the Gatsby trailer for the exposure. Fits VERY well.

[@bfbIII]

@bfbIII I just went back to TMR,and listened again,DAMN JACK!!!

[@irisartck]

Ufffff U2 por siempre!!!

[@shinystuffff]

I love that solo.

[@RejoiceU2]

this song was taken from another planet

[@SocialParasit3]

@TariqtheMann And what an amazing cover.

[@DonutFromOuterSpace]

The way U2 plays it gives me chills. Jack White's version just makes me go insane.

[@peteatrov231]

my heart bleeds when i hear this. i really do bleed. i am ripped apart and torn and thrown away. that is what love and the dismissal of love gives. It is the opposite of what everyone trys to get. Love... I want to see if it is possible, again, but I fear the consequenses if it is not

[@U2HL]

love this,beautiful song!

[@Axillence]

Achtung baby-totally epic album!

[@sinisapfc]

great,strong,amazing song!!!

[@ithinkthisisitthen]

my favorite u2 song. which sais a lot considering im a huge u2 fan....

[@p8ru2]

This is great! I don't recall ever seeing this! Thx! :)

[@DanasLilMakeup]

U2 are unique, this song is exquisite, Jack was pretty decent, a little different and well done, but the original is, the original ;)

[@runningtortoise2]

Despite all the many great bands from England and America, I think that Ireland still stands up there just solely for producing U2.

[@OnnaMushaGozen]

I didn't think that there's somebody else who can be sad in the same way, so deeply as I was. But than I heard Love is Blindness ...

[@solblomma1]

The great thing about u2, u can se the text in another way too. This song could also be about the Edge and his wife. "Love is clockworks and cold steel, fingers too numb to feel." Guitar strings are made out of steel, and when you play too much, your fingers will go numb. "The thread is ripping, the knot is slipping" - when you marry, you tie the knot, if the knot slips, the marriage slips. So The Edge spending too much time away from his wife for his music could be the culprit.

[@SheWoreLemon83]

this is haunting...love that.

[@DaddysRockGirl]

No cover will ever be as good as the original. End of story.

[@caponetobibobi1]

favorite song from "ACHTUNG BABY". it's realy good beauty U2

[@EclipseMusicCenter]

I LOVE that both top rated comments are about the TRUE legend; Mr. Jackie White

[@30secondsflat]

I made a CD for a friend of mine with Wilson's cover. I described the song to her using pretty much the exact words you did.

[@carlyturnbull6616]

Also. Any state of mind which sees through materialistic eyes of the ego judgement, will never find any real answer, the very fact that he wanted to ask the question takes him further from the truth! They are DIFFERENT that does not make one better or one worse, it makes them different aspects of creation.