"With a red guitar on fire - DESIRE!" THE SPEED OF SEX - U2 - "Desire" charts, calibrations, YouTube

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Meanspeed-Carlton Analysis
standard tempo=108.5 beats per minute.
mean-emotion=lustful, in a pure desire format.
beat frequency=1.808 beats per second.
average beat length, 1/4 note=553 milliseconds per beat.
mean space, one measure of four 1/4 notes=2212 milliseconds per measure.
mean phase expressed as hertz=1.808 cycles per second
corresponding pitch=462.93 Hertz, 88 cents above A4=440.000 Hertz and 12 cents below A#4/Bb4=466.164 Hertz.

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Desire (U2 song)

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“Desire”
Single by U2 from the album Rattle and Hum
Released	September 1988
Format	CD, cassette, 12"
Genre	Rock
Length	2:59
Label	Island
Producer	Jimmy Iovine
U2 singles chronology
"One Tree Hill" (New Zealand only) (1987) "Desire" (1988) "Angel of Harlem" (1988)
Rattle and Hum track listing
"Van Diemen's Land" (2) "Desire" (3) "Hawkmoon 269" (4)
The Best of 1980-1990 track listing
"Sweetest Thing" (10) "Desire" (11) "When Love Comes to Town" (12)
U218 Singles track listing
"One" (12) "Desire" (13) "Walk On" (14)

"Desire" is the lead single from U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum. It was also their first #1 single in the UK. It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, and reached #1 on both the Mainstream and Modern Rock Tracks charts, the first song to reach the top of both of these charts.

Contents [hide] 1 Song 2 Track listings 2.1 MC: Island / 99250-4 (US) 2.2 MC: Island / CISX400 (UK) 2.3 7": Island / IS400 (UK) 2.4 12": Island / 12IS400 (UK) 2.5 12": Island / 12ISX400 (UK) 2.6 CD: Island / CIDP400 (UK) 3 Chart positions 4 Covers 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Song

"Desire" debuted live on the first night of the Lovetown Tour on 21 September 1988, and appeared at almost every concert on that tour.^[1] It segued into a cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower", and the Lovetown performances of this song are considered by fans to be far superior to the one found on Rattle and Hum. On the Zoo TV Tour, "Desire" was re-invented with different effects on The Edge's guitar, and it opened most encores. Bono would use the song to accentuate characteristics of his onstage alteregos Mirrorball Man and MacPhisto.^[2] On the PopMart Tour, Bono and Edge would play the song acoustically.^[3] For the Elevation Tour, it was a stripped-down electric version played at the tip of a heart-shaped walkway that extended into the audience. Adam Clayton would join in with bass just before the bridge, and Larry Mullen played along on a single drum. On 15 October 2004 at an appearance on British television promoting the How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album, Bono and Edge performed a rough electric version.^[4] On the Vertigo Tour, "Desire" was not played at all on the tour's first three legs, and appeared just once in an acoustic form on the fourth leg in response to a fan's request in São Paulo.^[5] It made a full electric debut at the beginning of the fifth leg at the second show in Sydney;^[6] this performance was ramshackle and it was refined before appearing at four subsequent concerts.

The riff is influenced by The Stooges' 1969^[7].

"Desire"'s B-side "Hallelujah (Here She Comes)" has never been played in full live by U2 but was debatably snippeted once during "Bullet the Blue Sky".^[8]

"Desire" has appeared on two U2 compilation albums, The Best of 1980-1990 and U218 Singles.

An early version of the song appears in the form of a studio performance in the Rattle and Hum film.

[edit] Track listings

[edit] MC: Island / 99250-4 (US)

1. "Desire" (2:59)
2. "Hallelujah (Here She Comes)" (4:12)

[edit] MC: Island / CISX400 (UK)

1. "Desire (Hollywood Remix)" (9:23)

• Promo cassette

[edit] 7": Island / IS400 (UK)

1. "Desire" (2:59)
2. "Hallelujah (Here She Comes)" (4:12)

• also available in a gatefold sleeve (ISG400)

[edit] 12": Island / 12IS400 (UK)

1. "Desire" (2:59)
2. "Hallelujah (Here She Comes)" (4:12)
3. "Desire (Hollywood Remix)" (5:23)

• also available in a gatefold sleeve (12ISG400)

[edit] 12": Island / 12ISX400 (UK)

1. "Desire (Hollywood Remix)" (9:23)

• Promo 12"

[edit] CD: Island / CIDP400 (UK)

1. "Desire" (2:59)
2. "Hallelujah (Here She Comes)" (4:12)
3. "Desire (Hollywood Remix)" (5:23)

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1988	"Desire"	Australian Singles Chart	#1
1988	"Desire"	UK Singles Chart	#1
1988	"Desire"	US Billboard Hot 100	#3
1988	"Desire"	US Modern Rock Tracks	#1
1988	"Desire"	US Mainstream Rock Tracks	#1
1988	"Desire"	US Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#37

Preceded by "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" by The Hollies	UK number one single October 2, 1988	Succeeded by "One Moment in Time" by Whitney Houston
Preceded by "All That Money Wants" by The Psychedelic Furs	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number one single November 5, 1988 - November 19, 1988	Succeeded by "Orange Crush" by R.E.M.

[edit] Covers

• An orchestral version of Desire was covered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on their 1999 album Pride: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays U2.
• The song was covered in bossa nova style by Italian group Nossa Alma Canta for the 2008 album I Was Made For Bossa.

[edit] References

1. ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, Lovetown Tour, accessed 22 May 2007
2. ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, 1992-02-29, Lakeland Arena, accessed 22 May 2007
3. ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, 1997-09-11, Estadio Jose Alvalade, accessed 22 May 2007
4. ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, 2004-10-15, BBC carpark, accessed 22 May 2007
5. ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, 2006-02-21, Morumbi, accessed 22 May 2007
6. ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, 2006-11-11, Telstra Stadium, accessed 22 May 2007
7. ^ U2 The Complete Guide to Their Music
8. ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, Setlist Of The Week #7: B-Sides Live, accessed 22 May 2007

[edit] External links

• Desire's performance history at U2-Vertigo-Tour.com - Lists all concerts at which "Desire" has been performed.
• Discography entry at U2 Wanderer - Comprehensive details on various editions, cover scans, lyrics, and more.
• "Desire" video at YouTube
• "Desire (Hollywood Remix)" video at YouTube

all meanspeed conjecture assertions are based on the James N Neumann Standard Tempo Scale below -

"One" - Mary J. Blige and U2 - mean emotion according to the measpeed music conjecture=enthusiasm

The song "One" by Mary J. Blige and U2 is one of the best known songs in the world. An elementary Google search of the actual TEMPO of the song gives me nothing except, well, my own work. Thousands of Ph.D's doing absolutely nothing because, well, they are not in the right field. The academic language they use is intended to scare us all off. However, New York lawyers do not scare easily, and when I saw that the number of posts and sites devoted to "MUSIC COGNITION" that had no real application as real applications were, of course, something these overpaid Ivory people could only do themselves. As virtually every "study" or "research design" or "paradigm shift" (do any of you Ph.D's know what that even means?) ending a music cognition "analysis", translated from the academic jargon - Thank you Hamilton College for teaching me not to ever be intimidated by ANY assertion, no matter how cleverly worded - "[We spent a lot of money. Did a lot of testing. Found nothing. Give us more money. no one can do it like us.]" To those of you in the know musically and academically, I can hear your ears ringing - literally.





Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
The contiguous calibrations for One by Mary J. Blige and U2 are -
mean speed/objective tempo=93.0 beats per minute
mean emotion according the the meanspeed music conjecture=enthusiasm
mean beat=1.55 beats per second
mean space=645 milliseconds between beats
mean space=2581 milliseconds between measures
mean slow phase=1.55 cycles per second
mean pitch=396.80 Hertz, 21 cents above G4=391.995, 79 cents below G#4/Ab4=415.305 Hertz.


Ian Andrew Schneider
July 9, 2008

In the International language, music, "One" by Mary J. Blige & U2 Emeerges as the most widely loved song - continguous bpm line Implies -> ENTHUSIASM

The song "One" by U2, and later by Mary J. Blige, has become the international language's ultimate song. According to the meanspeed conjecture, both versions are between 90-92 beats per minute.  In terms of mental speed, pr as some say 'cognitive tempo', there simply is no better speed at which to process thought.

Take a look at the songs in this group.  I take as the book FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS as one of the  of  brilliant works of nonfiction written in the past quarter century.  The speed at which this song is known, the speed I used to call Ronald Reagan Speed because the songs, in a disproportion that I have not been able to label, are full of confident anticipation. CONFIDENT anticipation, ie, "enthusiasm" - rather than another anticipatory speed territories. For example, MYSTERIOUS anticipation can be found with reliability at the speed I call "foreboding" - songs between 114-117 3/4 beats per minute.  

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary, supervised by Jammes C.C. Manning - 

song title=One

performer=Mary J. Blige and U2
average velocity/meanspeed=93.0 beats per minute
mean emotion according to mean speed music conjecture=enthusiasm

composer=Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Junior, david Evans, best know as "The Edge"
mean slow phase=1.55 cycles per second
average beat =645 milliseconds
corresponding pitch=396.80 Hertz


Ian Schneider

April 22, 2008

From Ireland, U2, released a Deluxe version on iTunes of their new album U218 Singles.

Track #12 on the album is called, composed by under the genre of "Rock."

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary, supervised by James C.C. Manning
mean speed, (average tempo)=90.7 beats per minute
mean emotion according to the mean speed conjecture=enthusiasm
mean slow phase=1.51 beats per second
corresponding pitch=387 Hertz.


Meanspeed Music Research Labs, New Jersey
Ian Schneider
Sarah Jane Bristol
Mike The Spike
April 22, 2008
Kendall Park

"Instant Karma" - Two versions compared - original, by John Lennon, meanspeed=120.2 beats per minute - U2, meanspeed=118 beats per minute

speed summary
song="Instant Karma"
composer=John Lennon, 1940-1980
performer=John Lennon, 1940-1980
trials measured=10
beats per trial=388
mean time per trial=193.71 seconds
average beat=0.4992 seconds
meanspeed=120.2 beats per minute
mean phase=2.00 cycles per second
corresponding pitch=512.9 hertz
meanemotion according to meanspeed music theory=victory


speed summary
song="Instant Karma"
performer=U2
composer=John Lennon, 1940-1980
beats per trial=368
mean time=187.18 seconds per trial
mean slow phase=1.9666 cycles per second
meanspeed=118.0 beats per minute
average beat=0.5085 seconds
corresponding pitch=503.5 hertz
meanemotion accoding to meanspeed music theory=foreboding



Instant Karma is a song written and originally recorded by John Lennon. It is a song that was rerecorded in 2007 for reasons only known to Bono.



In order to add BPM to my BPM column on iTunes®, I
1) highlight the song;
2) hit COMMAND and "I" at the same time;
3) enter information.



Ian Schneider
August 22, 2007

#36 on the Rolling Stone Magazine List of The Greatest 500 Songs of All-Time: U2, "One," meanemotion=enthusiasm

© 2006 by Julianna Photography, use by permission only.




The frequencies for One U2 from Achtung baby are:
meanspeed=90.7 beats per minute
meanemotion=Enthusiastic
meanbeat=1.511 beats per second
meanspace=662 milliseconds between beats
meanspace=2647 milliseconds between measures
meanphase=1.511 cycles per second
meanpitch=386.77 Hertz, 76 cents above F#4/Gb4=369.994, 24 cents below G4=391.995 Hertz.

Ian Schneider
meanspeed.com
June 5, 2007

Ownership of 140.0 beats per minute as pure speed: U2, "Vertigo," live in Milan, 2005

This month, the band from Ireland, U2, released a Deluxe version on iTunes of their new album U218 Singles.

In addition to the 18 singles plus the bonus 19th track, 9 tracks were released from a concert in Milan, Italy in 2005 in anticipation of a DVD which was recorded during a concert.

Track #1 of 9 in the live iTunes Deluxe version of U218 Singles is called "Vertigo," composed by Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen and The Edge under the genre of "Rock."

We measured the frequencies of this song as:
a) meanspeed=140.0 beats per minute,
b) meanemotion=mixed fast,
c) meanspace=429 milliseconds per beat,
d) meanphase=2.33 beats per second,
e) meanpitch=597.44 hertz, 29 cents above D5=587.330 hertz, 71 cents below D#5/Eb5=622.254 hertz.

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music Trust
December 10, 2006
New Jersey, US

U2 and Green Day, "The Saints Are Coming," meanspeed=152.1 beats per minute

This month, the band from Ireland, U2, released a Deluxe version on iTunes of their new album U218 Singles.

Track #17 features U2 playing along with the American band Green Day in a song called The Saints Are Coming composed by Richard Jobson and Stuart Adamson under the genre of "Rock."

We measured the frequencies of this song as:
a) meanspeed=152.1 beats per minute,
b) meanemotion=mixed fast,
c) meanspace=395 milliseconds per beat,
d) meanphase=2.53 beats per second,
e) meanpitch=644.53 hertz, 29 cents above D#5/Eb5=622.254 hertz, 71 cents below E5=622.254 hertz,

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music Trust
NJ, US
December 9, 2006