Robert john bardo rebecca schaeffer1/18/2024 Violence is something I have quite a bit about. In describing "Exit", Bono said "It is all very well to address America and the violence that is an aggressive foreign policy but to really understand that you have to get under the skin of your own darkness, the violence we all contain within us. Two songs from The Joshua Tree, " Bullet the Blue Sky" and " Mothers of the Disappeared", focused on the foreign policy of the United States. Another Hot Press contributor, Bill Graham, said "Exit" allowed U2 to "finally confess their gradual recognition of the Anti-Christ in everybody." īassist Adam Clayton said that the line "He saw the hands that build could also pull down" was a jab at the US government's conflicting roles in international relations. Hot Press editor Niall Stokes stated the song "trawls the area occupied by either or both, getting inside the head of a protagonist who's careening into psychosis." He added that the point of "Exit" was "to convey the state of mind of someone driven, by whatever powerful urges, to the very brink of desperation." Stokes felt that "the undercurrent of religious imagery" in the song was a response to "the fanaticism implicit in faith", and that the song allowed U2 to " own demons, their own anger and fury at the vicissitudes fate had thrust upon them. "Exit" portrays the mind of a psychotic killer. It is played in common time at a tempo of 120 beats per minute. But the rhythm of the words is nearly as important in conveying the state of mind." Some see it as a murder, others suicide – and I don't mind. "'Exit' – I don't even know what the act is in that song. Although the song begins with Adam Clayton's bassline, some CD releases of the album mistakenly feature the coda from the previous track, " One Tree Hill", at the beginning of "Exit". "Exit" is featured as the penultimate song on The Joshua Tree album, which was released on 9 March 1987. He noted that, although 30 songs were in contention for inclusion on the album, he "wanted a song with that sense of violence in it, especially before ' Mothers of the Disappeared'." He picks it up off a preacher on the radio or something and goes out.". It's just about a guy who gets an idea into his head. Further reading of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver inspired him to try to understand "the ordinary stock first and then the outsiders, the driftwood – those on the fringes of the promised land, cut off from the American dream." Bono described the lyrics as "just a short story really, except I left out a few of the verses because I liked it as a sketch. Lead singer Bono had read both novels and wanted to try to write "a story in the mind of a killer". The lyrics were inspired by Norman Mailer's 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Executioner's Song, written about serial killer Gary Gilmore, and by Truman Capote's 1966 novel In Cold Blood "Executioner's Song" was the track's working title. Lanois said, "it's a very, very dirty guitar sound like the sound of a machine that's alive, grunting and grinding." After the Edge and Eno began playing with the instrument, they were impressed by its sound and subsequently added it to "Exit". The only gear remaining was a Roland Chorus guitar amplifier and a Bond Electraglide guitar in a closet that had been given to the Edge as a promotional item Lanois said that the guitar "was considered to be just a piece of junk". One day, during the album sessions, the Edge was looking to record a guitar part, but due to a miscommunication with the road crew, most of his equipment was removed from his house and put into storage. Out of control in the sense that you don't know what it is anymore, it just takes on a life of its own, and it makes people do things." and sometimes things get out of control, sonically, in a good way. And it really, for me, it brought me there, it really did succeed as an experiment." Lanois said: "There's something that happens when U2 bash it out in the band room. Guitarist the Edge said, "it started off as an exercise in playing together with a kind of mood and a place in mind. Producer Daniel Lanois said, "it was a long jam, and there was just this one section of it that had some kind of magic to it, and we just decided to turn it into something." Producer Brian Eno edited the jam down to the end length. It developed from a lengthy jam that the band recorded in a single take. "Exit" was created on the final day of recording for The Joshua Tree. But if you can capture the moment and edit it into some kind of a shape where people overlook any timing or tuning discrepancies, then you don't lose the inspiration and momentum and you kind of capture the pearl." "If you try dissect a jam and then reconstruct a jam, you can get to the point where you've killed it.
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