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Beck breathes new life to U2 single
After releasing a remix of U2’s Songs Of Experience track "Lights of Home" earlier this year, this week solo artist Beck unleashed a remixed version of another U2 single from the album titled "Love is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way" to a rapturous response.
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This file photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows (left to right) Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr. and The Edge of U2 performing onstage during The Joshua Tree Tour at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. (Agence France -Presse/Suzanne Cordeiro)
It's one of those rare occasions where the remixed version is better than the original version.
After releasing a remix of U2’s Songs Of Experience track "Lights of Home" earlier this year, this week solo artist Beck unleashed a remixed version of another U2 single from the album titled "Love is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way" to a rapturous response.
Stereogum said the remixed version, with few cosmic synth-funk dropouts, sounded even more widescreen than before.
Billboard, meanwhile, said the cover took a more rock-influenced, echoey anthemic feel, ramping up the energy and pace from the original U2 track.
U2's latest album, Songs of Experience, released in December last year, has been panned by critics and so far has failed to make a bigger splash.
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U2 is currently traveling the United States with their 2018 Experience + Innocence tour, after wrapping up their tour for The Joshua Tree last year, held in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the critically acclaimed record.
Beck has been hailed as one of 1990s' true originators in rock with his slacker anthem "Loser" and his baroque pop record Sea Change.
