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U2 — Even Better Than the Real Thing
Album: Achtung Baby
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Released: 1991
Length: 3:37
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Give me one more chance
And you'll be satisfied
Give me two more chances
You won't be denied

Well my heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between
Give me one more chance
There will be a lover tonight

(Check it out)

You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing

Give me one last chance
And I'm gonna make you sing
Give me half a chance
To ride on the waves that you bring

You're honey child to a swarm of bees
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze
Give me one last chance
We'll slide down the surface of things

You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing

We're free to fly the crimson sky
The sun won't melt our wings tonight

Oh now
Here she comes

Take me higher
Take me higher
Can you take me higher?
Will you take me higher?

You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing

Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing.
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Perfecto version (re mix)  is Even better than the real thing!  get it, even better.. oh suit yourself.,.,
Posted 10 months ago by john24    [ Reply ]
 xnumber11x wrote:

WEF trash



Truth. I set up for them at Toronto Sky Dome (Rogers Centre now?) - it was WAY over politicalised 100% virtue signalling shite. Pretending to be "green" - they brought their gear over by boat (?!) as if a massive barge carrying a train of diesel powered tractor trailers, tour busses, massive cranes and a gigantic set - had no carbon footprint LOL. The amount of sheer Waste for that 2 day show was Obscene. Expected in this industry unfortunately, but when the artists claim they're saving the planet, it all just reeks of blatant hypocrisy. 
Posted 11 months ago by pyrateparadox988    [ Reply ]
WEF trash
Posted 1 year ago by xnumber11x    [ Reply ]
Fabulous. I believe they are the longest running mega band. No replacements, same 4 guys.
Posted 1 year ago by keenevision    [ Reply ]
 basketcase wrote:

What a bunch of talentless tossers




And, you wonder why you are sitting alone in your mommy's basement. ...eh?
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 basketcase wrote:

What a bunch of talentless tossers



..much too easy to be hard
Posted 2 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
 paloeguevo wrote:

1991, 30 fucking years...




Still refer to it as the new album after joshua tree... lol
Posted 2 years ago by xrdstv    [ Reply ]
Crazy- I brought this album with me to Swaziland.  91'-93'. Walkman with little speakers- rocked out best we could.  Whats up with the Peace Corp, Achtung Baby thing!  Music sure did help me keep it together!
Posted 3 years ago by mjaded    [ Reply ]
 gregskrtic wrote:

Achtung Baby was, in my opinion, their greatest album!  I was on home leave after serving 2 years in the Peace Corps in Botswana when this came out--and it was like a fucking epiphany!  



I finished Peace Corp in the mid-80s in Nepal and came home to U2. I remember similarly... wow.
Posted 3 years ago by catchersmitt    [ Reply ]
 DigitalJer wrote:

I feel that.  Ugh where did they all go


I had a great time living them; what have you been up to?  
Posted 3 years ago by zinzarin    [ Reply ]
Also known as Feedback and The Hype.

Yup.
Posted 3 years ago by MattRudely    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Don't be so hard on yourself.


somebody missed their naptime
Posted 3 years ago by twohearted    [ Reply ]
 paloeguevo wrote:

1991, 30 fucking years...


I feel that.  Ugh where did they all go
Posted 3 years ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
1991, 30 fucking years...
Posted 3 years ago by paloeguevo    [ Reply ]
A gorgeous blond with the sexiest sweaters once gave me a mix tape with this track on it....mmm...miss those days...where are you now Julia?
Posted 4 years ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
Love every note of this album. It seems unusual for a band to make such a departure from previous material and still sound "at home" and just as  brilliant.
Posted 4 years ago by nickferrante10    [ Reply ]
 eileenomurphy wrote:
I LOVE this song!
 

Me too!
Posted 4 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
I LOVE this song!
Posted 4 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
 baronsylte wrote:
Under normal circumstances I don't care what political views band members might have. But when it comes to U2 I have to take a stand.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=TjIORAjYWng

Here, B0n0 lashes out at the Sweden Democrats(SD) and others. Even though one might not agree with other people's political views, I think it's absolutely outrageous to compare SD with the nazi party in 1930's Germany. I don't agree with SD, but I know enough of european history to recognize exactly the behavior from B0n0 -which in itself very much resembles nazi propaganda.

This makes me sick and results in a rating of minus 10 on every bloody song they have on RP.

As Ruth Whitefeather Feldman would say: Focksticks!
 
Well, the SD party has it's roots in Swedish Fascism.  It has been described as right-wing, populist, national-conservative, anti-immigration, and far right.  Their slogan is "Keep Sweden Swedish".   (Third Reich 1930's Motto:  'Germany for Germans')

Doesn't seem so outrageous to me.  What seems more outrageous to me would be to consider a h8ful racist/fascist ideology just "other people's political views". 

You don't want to get another Nazi Germany... because that's how you get another Nazi Germany.
Posted 4 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
Achtung Baby was, in my opinion, their greatest album!  I was on home leave after serving 2 years in the Peace Corps in Botswana when this came out--and it was like a fucking epiphany!  
Posted 4 years ago by gregskrtic    [ Reply ]
 redmachine wrote:
Typical smug bulls**t from the patron saint of smugness
 Yeah, Bono spouts such hypocritical bullshit.

Posted 4 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Part of me wishes new bands will come along with great songs.  Part of me loves that established superstars just pile it on.  These guys were amazing back then, and they continue.  You just wonder what it is that clicks in a band.
Posted 4 years ago by cely    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:
I was sitting in Roisin Dubh, The Black Rose, in Boston, gettin' drunk off my Irish ass, and a fiery lass — and her mother, no less! sits down across from me, and asks me, How'm I doing? and I smiled, and this came on behind us, and proceeded to BLOW US AWAY...
 

Go on....
Posted 5 years ago by CowboyJJ    [ Reply ]
 baronsylte wrote:
Under normal circumstances I don't care what political views band members might have. But when it comes to U2 I have to take a stand.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=TjIORAjYWng

Here, B0n0 lashes out at the Sweden Democrats(SD) and others. Even though one might not agree with other people's political views, I think it's absolutely outrageous to compare SD with the nazi party in 1930's Germany. I don't agree with SD, but I know enough of european history to recognize exactly the behavior from B0n0 -which in itself very much resembles nazi propaganda.

This makes me sick and results in a rating of minus 10 on every bloody song they have on RP.

As Ruth Whitefeather Feldman would say: Focksticks!
 
I agree with that and yet I was a fan of U2 since Joshua tree .... 8 instead of 9 on this song. And to answer Bono: "All that is excessive is derisory."
Posted 5 years ago by guilhem34    [ Reply ]
Under normal circumstances I don't care what political views band members might have. But when it comes to U2 I have to take a stand.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=TjIORAjYWng

Here, B0n0 lashes out at the Sweden Democrats(SD) and others. Even though one might not agree with other people's political views, I think it's absolutely outrageous to compare SD with the nazi party in 1930's Germany. I don't agree with SD, but I know enough of european history to recognize exactly the behavior from B0n0 -which in itself very much resembles nazi propaganda.

This makes me sick and results in a rating of minus 10 on every bloody song they have on RP.

As Ruth Whitefeather Feldman would say: Focksticks!
Posted 5 years ago by baronsylte    [ Reply ]
 redmachine wrote:
Typical smug bulls**t from the patron saint of smugness
 
Don't be so hard on yourself.
Posted 6 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Typical smug bulls**t from the patron saint of smugness
Posted 7 years ago by redmachine    [ Reply ]
I was sitting in Roisin Dubh, The Black Rose, in Boston, gettin' drunk off my Irish ass, and a fiery lass — and her mother, no less! sits down across from me, and asks me, How'm I doing? and I smiled, and this came on behind us, and proceeded to BLOW US AWAY...
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Yeahhh…. {#Dancingbanana}
Posted 7 years ago by tfioreze    [ Reply ]
 (former member) wrote:


Now this is awesome...

 
So much better than their last album. 
Posted 8 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 .coloradojohn wrote:
In concert, up close, the tasty bass and guitar washed over us like a wave, while the voice and the drums hit us in the chest and gut...

 
yep, sums up my experiences with them live.
Posted 9 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
Put me on the side of the fans; great album and great track.
Posted 9 years ago by Ag3nt0rang3    [ Reply ]
In concert, up close, the tasty bass and guitar washed over us like a wave, while the voice and the drums hit us in the chest and gut...
Posted 9 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 TJOpootertoot wrote:
The funny thing about the U2 bashers is that they'll slam a song like this and also slam "Running to Stand Still" and also slam "Bad," saying how boring  and monotonous the band is; as if the songs even sound remotely the same. They may be "past their prime" at this point but this was an epic, and bold, album and it doesn't have a weak track on it.

The first time I heard "The Fly" I didn't know what to make of it but it didn't take long to appreciate how the band (successfully) made an effort to reinvent themselves, and now it stands as just an all-time classic.
 
Agree on all counts, TJO!
Posted 9 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
The funny thing about the U2 bashers is that they'll slam a song like this and also slam "Running to Stand Still" and also slam "Bad," saying how boring  and monotonous the band is; as if the songs even sound remotely the same. They may be "past their prime" at this point but this was an epic, and bold, album and it doesn't have a weak track on it.

The first time I heard "The Fly" I didn't know what to make of it but it didn't take long to appreciate how the band (successfully) made an effort to reinvent themselves, and now it stands as just an all-time classic.

(The video for this song was pretty great too...) 
Posted 9 years ago by TJOpootertoot    [ Reply ]
The first ressurection of a great band!
Posted 10 years ago by Lessard0570    [ Reply ]
Great song
 
Posted 10 years ago by Tony0600    [ Reply ]
Annoying. If they don't have decent lyrics why not just shut up?
Posted 10 years ago by GeorgeMWoods    [ Reply ]
wayyyy over played.  hated it in the 90s and still today
Posted 10 years ago by rlr511    [ Reply ]
  ... wake me up when it's finished
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:

I love this song... Dancing now... (Hey, romeotuma, I have a space free on my dance-card...) {#Dancingbanana}
 

Miss you so much, Cynaera...

love this song...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Love the guitar interaction....!{#Bananajam}
Posted 11 years ago by d48m02h1918    [ Reply ]
TEN! Can it get any better?!   
Posted 12 years ago by Berph    [ Reply ]
 oilydwarf wrote:
After having listened to this album for hours and hours on end when I bought y first CD player it's become hardwired into my brain!!  A top tune!
 
I love this song... Dancing now... (Hey, romeotuma, I have a space free on my dance-card...) {#Dancingbanana}
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
After having listened to this album for hours and hours on end when I bought y first CD player it's become hardwired into my brain!!  A top tune!
Posted 13 years ago by oilydwarf    [ Reply ]
My first CD, the albums have been sleeping for awhile but starting to awaken
Great music
Posted 13 years ago by k_trout    [ Reply ]
Amazing song.  Perhaps my fave from this great album.  Great live.
Posted 14 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
One of the greatest albums ever.
Posted 14 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
 passsion8 wrote:


What happened to physicsgenius? After a steady stream of posts, he vanished last January with nary a snub. If so, we have to reset the range meter for comment depths.
 
I think he resurfaced under the name" PAPERNAPKIN".

Posted 14 years ago by boober    [ Reply ]
U2 - Even Better Than the Real Thing
Muse - Uprising
New Order - Ceremony
{#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 14 years ago by Danny_G    [ Reply ]
Top 10 album in rock history.
Posted 14 years ago by Jeff09    [ Reply ]
A class act!!
Posted 14 years ago by oilydwarf    [ Reply ]
Ahhh played this album to death one summer. It never left my car! its all coming flooding back....
Posted 14 years ago by mattcol99    [ Reply ]
ummm.. yummy...
Posted 14 years ago by ddbz    [ Reply ]
 smackiepipe wrote:
Yeah, this album really got me back into U2 in a big way, after falling out with them through The Joshua Tree and Rattle & Ho-Hum.
 
Falling out with them through the Joshua Tree???

Posted 15 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
lemmoth wrote:
One of the best songs on one of the best albums by one of the best bands of all time. Amazing live.

A classic.  Made my afternoon (in spite of the fact that Achtung Baby has taken up permanent residence in my car...)

Posted 16 years ago by velvetglove    [ Reply ]
 lemmoth wrote:
One of the best songs on one of the best albums by one of the best bands of all time. Amazing live.
 

Feelin' the love!
Posted 16 years ago by xc_para_puravida    [ Reply ]
lemmoth wrote:
One of the best songs on one of the best albums by one of the best bands of all time. Amazing live.
I would have to agree. Has not aged a day!
Posted 16 years ago by nigelr    [ Reply ]
What a great song to wake-up! According to Danny Lanois the new album seems to be a lot more inovative than the last two!
Posted 16 years ago by mabra70    [ Reply ]
One of the best songs on one of the best albums by one of the best bands of all time. Amazing live.
Posted 16 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
Still like U2 after all the years.
Posted 16 years ago by pushkinjim    [ Reply ]
physicsgenius wrote:
AWESOME I'm always happy when I have a fresh opportunity to 1 rate a U2 song, but a very, very, very overplayed song really highlights the experience. Thanks!
What happened to physicsgenius? After a steady stream of posts, he vanished last January with nary a snub. If so, we have to reset the range meter for comment depths.
Posted 17 years ago by passsion8    [ Reply ]
had a dream lastnight where my 4yr old was lounging wearing this ridiciulous pair of sunglasses, something out of Brazil (the movie), acting totally cool, telling me she liked Bono. Very funny to me.
Posted 17 years ago by araujokrl    [ Reply ]
T-REX?
Posted 17 years ago by werner    [ Reply ]
so burnt out!
Posted 17 years ago by FluorideFreeMN    [ Reply ]
What a bunch of talentless tossers
Posted 17 years ago by basketcase    [ Reply ]
First, I thought, it's Simple Minds...
Posted 17 years ago by Nabla    [ Reply ]
coloradojohn wrote:
Wow, amazing how this still can sound so good... I was in the Roisin Dubh club in Boston when they dropped this baby onto us out of the sky, and it blew us all right away... Rock on, even better than!
sure holds up doesn't it? I dig it.
Posted 17 years ago by Wizzuvvoz    [ Reply ]
Wow, amazing how this still can sound so good... I was in the Roisin Dubh club in Boston when they broke this baby on us over the killer sound system, and it blew us all right away... Rock on, even better than!
Posted 17 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Joshua Tree. By a long ways. anruler wrote:
I'll third that. These guys have become insuferable of late but, in my opinion, this album represents their peak.
Posted 17 years ago by xkolibuul    [ Reply ]
MickMan wrote:
Great song, great album, great video.
The clever thing about the video was the fact that everyone who appeared in it was a U2 impersonator. Fits with the lyrics don't chya think? :-)
Posted 18 years ago by chirpie    [ Reply ]
Amazing the way they reinvented themselves on this one. Not many bands can successfully pull that off. Hard to believe this came out 15 years ago.
Posted 18 years ago by savoyard    [ Reply ]
PeeBee wrote:
Yeah! Mine too!
I'll third that. These guys have become insuferable of late but, in my opinion, this album represents their peak.
Posted 18 years ago by anruler    [ Reply ]
Posted 18 years ago by cypress    [ Reply ]
hippiechick wrote:
My favorite U2 album.
Yeah! Mine too!
Posted 18 years ago by PeeBee    [ Reply ]
well..what to say?..the album that shocked all U2 fan's in 1991....what? even U2 can make butts shake and not only heads think? oh my gosh....well...the times they are a changin' tell us a day bowie....
Posted 18 years ago by exciter76    [ Reply ]
Yeah, this album really got me back into U2 in a big way, after falling out with them through The Joshua Tree and Rattle & Ho-Hum.
Posted 18 years ago by smackiepipe    [ Reply ]
My favorite U2 album.
Posted 18 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]
If you saw them perform this song during their ZooTV tour, you'd be rating it a 10 too..
Posted 18 years ago by davin    [ Reply ]
not the best song on this amazing album
Posted 18 years ago by jtdiver    [ Reply ]
tiggers wrote:
That is the virtually same comment you made last week - if you must post about your dislike of U2 on every track at least try coming up with a different comment each time.
Which makes sense, as every single `song' of U2 is of the same low standards, or are you saying you hear a difference?
Posted 18 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
someone here has a permanent burr under their saddle...perhaps its rendered from their ill-earned, exhaustively inflated ego. or maybe its just a negative attitude from thinking they have the last call on the quality of everything under the spread of the universe. it seems to me that if a person doesn't like the majority of what they hear on a station, they'd listen to something else? just an idea. have a nice day.
Posted 18 years ago by luminousjune    [ Reply ]
physicsgenius wrote:
AWESOME I'm always happy when I have a fresh opportunity to 1 rate a U2 song, but a very, very, very overplayed song really highlights the experience. Thanks!
That is the virtually same comment you made last week - if you must post about your dislike of U2 on every track at least try coming up with a different comment each time.
Posted 18 years ago by tiggers    [ Reply ]
AWESOME I'm always happy when I have a fresh opportunity to 1 rate a U2 song, but a very, very, very overplayed song really highlights the experience. Thanks!
Posted 18 years ago by physicsgenius    [ Reply ]
Thanks for ending my Friday on such a fantastic note
Posted 18 years ago by chinchita    [ Reply ]
MickMan wrote:
Great song, great album, great video.
and nice transition from Doves' Catch the Sun
Posted 18 years ago by Danny_G    [ Reply ]
How about one of the best albums...ever! This will forever remind me of moving to Alaska, when I was nineteen, alone.
Posted 18 years ago by grassfolk420    [ Reply ]
Great song, great album, great video.
Posted 18 years ago by MickMan    [ Reply ]
From the sublime...
Posted 18 years ago by bigstory    [ Reply ]
Where did these blokes go?
Posted 18 years ago by Beastie    [ Reply ]
thewiseking wrote:
one point about U2 worth making. this band is far better than they were in the early days.
But still not better than one point. Ouch this hurts my ears.
Posted 19 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
one point about U2 worth making. this band is far better than they were in the early days. when i first saw them in 1980 they were way too serious, pious, pretentious. they emerged from a stagnant period in the nineties and have since been raging, creating their very best work. i cant recall any other band pulling off a feat like that.
Posted 19 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
fluorophore wrote:
RP, for whatever reason, has a fantatical obsession with U2. Now I like U2 as much as the next guy, but there are already more than enough outlets for them. I've shelved Achtung Baby for a reason.
I think if you really examined the playlists, you'd find there's really not a ton of U2 on here.
Posted 19 years ago by trempel    [ Reply ]
rgj13 wrote:
:-k Yes.
It's from the video....
Posted 19 years ago by mrselfdestruct    [ Reply ]
mr.selfdestruct wrote:
Is it pornography or is it art?
:-k Yes.
Posted 19 years ago by rgj13    [ Reply ]
Thanks for playing this song, Bill!
Posted 21 years ago by mdlong    [ Reply ]
Sweet! Dude! Sweet!!
Posted 21 years ago by DH    [ Reply ]
I feel like I\'m hearing lots of U2 today. Maybe I\'m hallucinating again...
Posted 21 years ago by FeatFanMike    [ Reply ]
This album was all over the grocery store--everything from flat pop (no pun not intended) to crunchy guitar. This song was somewhere in the middle, more filler than a song with a message, IMO.
Posted 21 years ago by ludwig7    [ Reply ]
RP, for whatever reason, has a fantatical obsession with U2. Now I like U2 as much as the next guy, but there are already more than enough outlets for them. I\'ve shelved Achtung Baby for a reason.
Posted 21 years ago by fluorophore    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by rgj13: This is "old-school" U2? What areyou, like, 12? (jk)
never could get into this 'new' stuff.....
Posted 21 years ago by throwback    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by jdwhit76: Heck yeah! Love the "old-school" U2 ;)
This is "old-school" U2? What areyou, like, 12? (jk)
Posted 21 years ago by rgj13    [ Reply ]
Best band of all time!
Posted 22 years ago by trancefussion    [ Reply ]
Makes me wanna go to the soda machine and get a Coke...
Posted 22 years ago by TheLoneIguana    [ Reply ]
Sounds pretty much simular to Get It On by T-Rex (speeded up, of course) especially in the verses.
Posted 22 years ago by Johray63    [ Reply ]
Heck yeah! Love the \"old-school\" U2 ;)
Posted 22 years ago by jdwhit76    [ Reply ]