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U218 Singles
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compilation
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" I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For "
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2
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"'''Pride (In the Name of Love)'''"
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3
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" With Or Without You "
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4
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"" is the second song on
U2 's 1984 album, ''
The Unforgettable Fire '' and was released as the album's first single. Written about
Martin Luther King, Jr. , "Pride" is one of the band's most recognized songs, and appeared as the opening track on the compilation ''
The Best Of 1980-1990 '', and on the 2006 compilation ''
U218 Singles ''. The song was a mixed critical but major commercial success for the band.
The melody and the chords came out of a 1983 . These caused Bono to ponder the different sides of the civil rights campaigns, the violent and the non-violent.
1 In subsequent years, Bono has expressed his dissatisfaction with the lyrics, which he describes, along with another ''Unforgettable Fire'' song "
Bad ", as being "left as simple sketches." He blames this on being swayed by Edge and producers
Brian Eno and
Daniel Lanois , who played down the need to develop the lyrics as they thought the impressionistic nature was more important to the songs' 'feeling', particularly when heard by non-English speakers.
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Critical opinion on "Pride" was mixed. Besides Loder, wrote of "Pride": "I hated it, and I hate it still.... What kind of overweaning, sanctimonious little amateur-ass parson wrote that simpering idiocy? If you ask ME, when you bleed to death from the bullet, you ain't got anything left to be proud with."
