{"id":22870,"date":"2014-11-29T06:36:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T14:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22870"},"modified":"2014-11-29T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T18:19:49","slug":"watch-u2-perform-every-breaking-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-11\/watch-u2-perform-every-breaking-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch U2 Perform &#8220;Every Breaking Wave&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bono-jules.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bono-jules.jpg\" alt=\"bono-jules\" width=\"647\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bono-jules.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bono-jules-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bono-jules-450x236.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bono, Edge<\/strong> and all of <strong>U2<\/strong> have (once again) become the music whipping boys following the iTunes &#8220;gifting&#8221; of their latest album <em><strong>Songs of\u00a0 Innocence<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We think this anger a bit over the top and mostly unwarranted.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s just us.\u00a0 For those that would complain bitterly about the band, we might suggest that you at least give peace and <strong>U2&#8217;s<\/strong> music a chance again.\u00a0 While the new album might not be their absolute strongest, it still has plenty to recommend it.\u00a0 <strong>Exhibit A<\/strong> in this case would be the song <em><strong>Every Breaking Wave<\/strong><\/em> as captured live twice in the last month, first on <strong>Later with Jools Holland<\/strong> and second from the <strong>MTV European Music Awards<\/strong>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fantastic song and the live arrangement is sterling.\u00a0 Not to mention <strong>Bono&#8217;s<\/strong> vocalese is nonpareil here, his rich tenor and emphatic delivery helping to bring the song alive.\u00a0 Surf&#8217;s up!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s wishing <strong>Bono<\/strong> a swift and complete recovery from his Central Park cycling accident.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MRsKO4K7rLw\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cszigsFaChc\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bono, Edge and all of U2 have (once again) become the music whipping boys following the iTunes &#8220;gifting&#8221; of their latest album Songs of\u00a0 Innocence.\u00a0 We think this anger a bit over the top and mostly unwarranted.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s just us.\u00a0 For those that would complain bitterly about the band, we might suggest that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22874,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22870\/revisions\/22874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}