Looked through a list of eighties songs and thought I could do this one from U2’s ouevre.  When I found some sheet music for it online, I started working off one version and saw that it was based on a live version by Death Cab for Cutie.  Small world!

I had a blast making this one.  It took me a while to stumble upon the hook though… i started out trying to get a good chugga chugga sort of thing going, thinking of The Pretenders and the Replacements or what-not.  But then I did a doubling trick, recording the same lead riff two separate times and layering it and it had that Allman Brothers dual guitar thing and I was feeling like the cat that ate the cream.  I dont have enough time to make it as perfect as I should, but it is a nice touch.  I like listening to the guitar riff with headphones because you can really hear the seperation of the parts to the left and right channels respectively.  If I were to work all the parts out I think it would be really fun.

Tamara rocks the baseline on this one and we sang the chorus a few times together in order to make us sound like a choir.  My high point has to be the opening riff, and my big sticking point is that the vocal track overloads and fuzzes out a few times.  Overall, I think this is the most solid of my little tunes so far.

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