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"Please" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the eleventh track on their ninth album, Pop (1997), and was released as its fourth single on 22 September 1997 by Island Records. As with "Sunday Bloody Sunday", the song is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The single cover for this song features pictures of four Northern Irish politicians – Gerry Adams, David Trimble, Ian Paisley, and John Hume (clockwise from top left). Two months before the release of the single, live versions of "Please" and three other songs from the PopMart Tour were released on the Please: PopHeart Live EP in September 1997.
This song was played live during every performance of the PopMart Tour, with an outro similar to the drumbeat of "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Each performance segued directly into "Where the Streets Have No Name". During the Elevation Tour, the song was initially played in electric form before being played acoustically by Bono and the Edge at about 20 different shows. The song has not been played in full since the final show of the Elevation Tour. However, it was frequently sampled along with "The Hands That Built America" during "Bullet the Blue Sky" on the Vertigo Tour. It was later sampled in the outro of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" on the U2 360° Tour to lead into the beginning of fellow Northern Ireland Troubles song "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
Kevin Courtney from Irish Times commented, "Still in subdued mood, Bono remonstrates with an imaginary lover about imagined wrongs, begging her to 'Please, get up off your knees'. The song is steeped in an atmosphere of suppressed sexuality, and The Edge restrains his guitar lines, as though dying to break loose from the chains of repression." British magazine Music Week rated the song four out of five and Alan Jones wrote, "U2's 'Please' has attracted more attention for its sleeve — depicting Northern Ireland's political leaders in Warholian style — than it has for its musical merit, which is a shame, since it's vintage U2, eschewing the dance beat which they have pursued of late in favor of a more traditional style. It's helped on its way by some fine guitar licks, and some nicely judged percussion work." David Fricke from Rolling Stone noted Bono's "arcing anguish" on the track.
All lyrics are written by Bono & The Edge.
Note
The "Please" singles were backed with the following B-sides:
Two remixes of "Dirty Day" from Zooropa were made for the single, both by Butch Vig and Duke Erikson of the alternative rock group Garbage.
This song was recorded for the soundtrack for Wim Wenders' The End of Violence, in collaboration with Sinéad O'Connor. The version featured here is an instrumental remix, with few differences from the original version.
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Please (U2 song)
"Please" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the eleventh track on their ninth album, Pop (1997), and was released as its fourth single on 22 September 1997 by Island Records. As with "Sunday Bloody Sunday", the song is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The single cover for this song features pictures of four Northern Irish politicians – Gerry Adams, David Trimble, Ian Paisley, and John Hume (clockwise from top left). Two months before the release of the single, live versions of "Please" and three other songs from the PopMart Tour were released on the Please: PopHeart Live EP in September 1997.
This song was played live during every performance of the PopMart Tour, with an outro similar to the drumbeat of "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Each performance segued directly into "Where the Streets Have No Name". During the Elevation Tour, the song was initially played in electric form before being played acoustically by Bono and the Edge at about 20 different shows. The song has not been played in full since the final show of the Elevation Tour. However, it was frequently sampled along with "The Hands That Built America" during "Bullet the Blue Sky" on the Vertigo Tour. It was later sampled in the outro of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" on the U2 360° Tour to lead into the beginning of fellow Northern Ireland Troubles song "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
Kevin Courtney from Irish Times commented, "Still in subdued mood, Bono remonstrates with an imaginary lover about imagined wrongs, begging her to 'Please, get up off your knees'. The song is steeped in an atmosphere of suppressed sexuality, and The Edge restrains his guitar lines, as though dying to break loose from the chains of repression." British magazine Music Week rated the song four out of five and Alan Jones wrote, "U2's 'Please' has attracted more attention for its sleeve — depicting Northern Ireland's political leaders in Warholian style — than it has for its musical merit, which is a shame, since it's vintage U2, eschewing the dance beat which they have pursued of late in favor of a more traditional style. It's helped on its way by some fine guitar licks, and some nicely judged percussion work." David Fricke from Rolling Stone noted Bono's "arcing anguish" on the track.
All lyrics are written by Bono & The Edge.
Note
The "Please" singles were backed with the following B-sides:
Two remixes of "Dirty Day" from Zooropa were made for the single, both by Butch Vig and Duke Erikson of the alternative rock group Garbage.
This song was recorded for the soundtrack for Wim Wenders' The End of Violence, in collaboration with Sinéad O'Connor. The version featured here is an instrumental remix, with few differences from the original version.