U2 — Instant Karma
Album: Instant Karma - The Campaign To Save Darfur (compilation)Avg rating:
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Here's the point:
Four years into the conflict in Darfur, conditions continue to deteriorate for the civilian population of this war-torn region. To date, as many as 400,000 civilians have been killed. Up to 2.5 million Darfuris have been forced to leave their homes and now live in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) throughout Darfur, or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad and the Central African Republic. While significant political developments have taken place over the past months, the daily agony of Darfuri civilians continues unabated.
esotericderek wrote:
See, I'd like to lambast this one as well, but it's a benefit for Amnesty International, so we're just plain screwed.
Indeed. But good cause aside, this is as lifeless and disinterested as their cover of Dancing Barefoot, and that's really saying something. Talk about phoning it in. It's especially unforgivable given that this was an AI project. And on this of all Lennon songs, U2 ought to be showing us something ... that is, if they have anything left to show, and I'm beginning to have serious doubts about that.
I was half-listening to this in the background...would never have guessed that it was U2.
obzidian wrote:
for them.
NO! no! NO!!!!!!!!! Forgive them John, for they know not what they do.
So let's for them.
queenjill wrote:
I'd much rather hear the original, thanks.
I don't know what you people are talking about. This is actually a decent cover! Which is quite surprising, because usually when U2 does a cover the results are lame at best and embarrasing at worst.
that was pretty awful.
See, I'd like to lambast this one as well, but it's a benefit for Amnesty International, so we're just plain screwed.
acetheface wrote:
This doesn't sound like Bono...Oh no Bono!
No, it does not. Blech.
It's an ok cover. But unless a cover is better than "ok" it doesn't have much reason to exist.
Exactly the same as the original. Why did they even bother?
I want to like this more than I do...not U2-ish enough. It barely even sounds like Bono. 
This is blasphemy. Terrible.
Absolutely nothing intersting about this at all and I like U2.
Lonestar wrote:
Can someone bring me a bucket?
...and just one wafer thin mint!
I bought this. There are some fantastic versions and some less fantastic, but still good. One too many versions of Imagine. Ben Harper's version of Beautiful Boy made me cry.
What did they add to this song? Nothing! Even the drum beat is identical.
This doesn't sound like Bono...Oh no Bono!
I'd much rather hear the original, thanks.
Can someone bring me a bucket?
No, no, no - and I like U2.
NO! no! NO!!!!!!!!! Forgive them John, for they know not what they do.
Highly skeptical of this, or any other cover of this tune. It's just too strongly identified with John, IMHO.
Nope.
It's all too beautiful...