So, does Bono actually know that catorce means fourteen and not four?

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someone here surely must have tapped into his brane by now

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I noticed this, too. Maybe his count-off is a joke, which makes it by far the best thing about the track.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Can someone translate/decipher the bit in Spanish from this song?

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

1, 2, 3, 14...

He's Bono. He doesn't have to count like us mortals.

― molly, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

14th album. Do I win a prize?

― peter dee (peter dee), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

duh

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I WILL NEVER MOCK BONO AGAIN maybe

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

14th counting two greatest hits and that Passengers thing, maybe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

1980 Boy
1981 October
1983 War
1983 Under a Blood Red Sky
1984 The Unforgettable Fire
1987 The Joshua Tree
1988 Rattle and Hum
1991 Achtung Baby
1993 Zooropa
1997 Pop
1998 The Best of 1980 - 1990
2000 All That You Can't Leave Behind
2002 The Best of 1990 - 2000
2004 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

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or 14th counting two greatest hits and the million dollar hotel sdtk but not the passengers

or 14th counting million dollar hotel sdtk and the passengers thing and the two early live eps as half an album each but not counting the two greatest hits

math is fun

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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but, um, what about 1985 wide awake in america?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

That's an EP.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link

but so is under the blood red sky.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.u2wanderer.org/disco/album.html

Not according to this discography (which isn't official).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

In summary: Bono can't count.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe he means this is the 14th ipod you're gonna have to buy. first you got the 5-gig version. then you threw it away and replaced it with a 10-gig. then the battery died and you got another ... and so on and so forth until you got your 40-gig ipod, and then replaced it with a mini just 'cause it was cuter, and now of course you'll be buying the u2 pod.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe they include the Negativland album

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's more like ... four? Fuck four. This is ten more than that!

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

"One, louder."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

It's like turning the countoff amps up to 11

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

it's more baroque. a good joke.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Bono XIV, the Sun Bono

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

AMG has them with 14 albums - they count Blood Red Sky and Wide Awake and also some live in Mexico City thing, but not the best ofs.

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

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He was just trying to tap into the mathemagic Jimi laid on with "If Six Was Nine."

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link

laid on us.

Or maybe he had been watching the Holy Handgrenade sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail the night before he went into the studio.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Bono's a shitty singer, but I've decided he's more punk-rock than any of his critics

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I think he knew the one everyone would forget is Live in Mexico City and that's why he counted in Spanish.

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

The List Is Humor At Its Purest

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, I dig Bono, I just ain't feelin' this single.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe you guys haven't caught this yet. The first, second, third, and fourteenth U2 albums (Boy, October, War, and ...Atomic Bomb, respectively) are the only ones produced by Steve Lillywhite.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link

He had a hand in The Joshua Tree though didn't he?

― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:00 (nineteen years ago) link

and two in the bush, HA HO

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sure he says unos instead of uno too, "Some, two, three fourteen!"

― lupine lupin (lupinelupin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

The obvious reason for this being that Steve Lillywhite produced albums 2, 3, 14 and some of the others aswell.

― lupine lupin (lupinelupin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

does bono think it's u2's fourth lp ?

― me, Thursday, 25 November 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

the song is called "vertigo" you know

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely there is a reference to 2pac's current whereabouts contained within.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Thursday, 25 November 2004 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link

from a gbv message board:

>Not trying to rehash the Mexican thread, but I had made a similar >remark on another forum. There I found out that the uno, dos, tres, >catorce intro is a tribute to returning producer Steve Lillywhite, who >produced the first three albums, and now this one, the (you guessed it) >fourteenth U2 album. (I still don't like it, but whatever )

― aa, Friday, 26 November 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Am I the only one who clearly hears The Supremes' "Keep Me Hanging On"?? It irritates me every time the iPod commercial is on.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 26 November 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TDyLOvqdA

― Raz Turned Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link

disappointed when it turned out to be neither chad kroeger or ben roethlisberger

― dutch_justice, Saturday, 17 October 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

Bono playing the crowd at Stade de France: "we all want America to succeed because America is an idea. A French idea". pic.twitter.com/TkkHTjdJJ3
— Benjamin Haddad (@benjaminhaddad) July 26, 2017

― sciatica, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link

I want U2 to fail because U2 is an idea. a bad ida.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link

idea

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link

My first girlfriend was a bad ida.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link

my first girlfriend was a bandida

― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link

bono just PWNED the usa holy shit

― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link

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