song of the week(end)

Today I was adding some songs to our blog playlist and I remembered this cool, lesser-known song by U2, but not completely by U2, that I wanted to add. The writer and some of the vocals were done by Michael Hutchence, the front man for INXS back in the day. I know INXS is a band from the 80s, but if you asked me to name of one of their songs, I couldn't. (Side note: I just looked them up. I know who they are. I immediately recognized the first song listed, "New Sensation". How could I not know that? My older siblings would be so disappointed in me. They probably loved INXS.)

Back to the song at hand, "Slide Away". It's great, but hard to find. Here's the twist with it, some of the vocals were performed by Michael Hutchence, but he died suspiciously before the song was officially released or created. Bono took it and made it magically mysterious. Yes, mysterious. It is such a funky, spooky-ish song. I can't decide if the slight chill factor in the song is due to the music and lyrics or because I know the guy wasn't alive when the song came out. Not sure, but I hope you enjoy it.

(By the way, it's located on the right-hand side of this post in case you missed it. Playlist.com didn't have it and neither did iTunes, so I couldn't add it to the blog playlist.)