|
}} "Beautiful Day" is a song by the Irish rock band U2. It is the first track from their 2000 album, ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'', and it was released as the album's lead single. It was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, and is one of U2's biggest hits to date. Like many tracks from ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'', "Beautiful Day" harkens back to the group's past sound. The tone of the Edge's guitar was a subject of debate amongst the band members, as they disagreed on whether he should use a sound similar to that from their early career in the 1980s. Lead singer Bono explained that the upbeat track is about losing everything but still finding joy in what one has. The song received positive reviews, and it became their fourth number-one single in the UK and their first number-one in the Netherlands. The song peaked at number 21 in the United States, the band's highest position since "Discothèque" in 1997. In 2001, the song won three Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The group has played "Beautiful Day" at every one of their concerts since the song's 2001 live debut on the Elevation Tour. ==Writing and recording== "Beautiful Day" was written in several stages, originating from a composition called "Always" (later released as a B-side) that the band created in a small room at Hanover Quay Studio.〔 However, they were initially unimpressed with it, as guitarist the Edge said, "As a straight rock song, it was pretty ho-hum."〔 After lead vocalist Bono came up with the "beautiful day" lyric, the song went in a different direction.〔 The Edge's backing vocals for the chorus were improvised one night with co-producer Daniel Lanois,〔 an addition he called "the key" to the chorus and its new lyrics.〔 During the recording process for the ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'' album, the band decided to distance themselves from their 1990s experimentation with electronic dance music in favour of a "return to the traditional U2 sound". At the same time, the band was looking for a more forward-looking sound.〔 This led to debate amongst the band when the Edge was playing the song on his Gibson Explorer guitar with a tone used in much of their early material up to their 1983 album ''War''. Bono was particularly resistant to the guitar tone the Edge was playing with, but the Edge ultimately won the disagreement. As he explains, "It was because we were coming up with some innovative music that I felt a license to use some signature guitar sounds."〔McCormick (2006), pp. 296, 299–300〕 Although the group wished to establish a more stripped-down, conventional sound, one of the song's breakthroughs came after co-producer Brian Eno provided "electronification of the chords with a beat box" and a synthesised string part to the beginning.〔 The Edge believes the contrast between these more electronic qualities of the track and his backing vocals with Lanois benefited the song.〔 The mixing process proved difficult, lasting two weeks.〔 Several changes were made during this period; Bono added a guitar part that played the song's chord progression to double the bass, an addition that "solidified everything", according to the Edge.〔 The Edge also changed the bass line in the chorus and converted a keyboard idea of Bono's into a guitar part that added a "sour quality" to balance the track's positivity.〔 Lanois described the completed song as "one of those little gifts where you think, my god, we've got it!"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beautiful Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|