Dirty Day
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| "Dirty Day" | ||
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| Song by U2 | ||
| from the album Zooropa | ||
| Released | July 1993 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 5:24 | |
| Label | Island Records | |
| Producer(s) | Flood, Brian Eno and The Edge | |
| Zooropa track listing | ||
| "The First Time" (8) |
"Dirty Day" (9) |
"The Wanderer" (10) |
Dirty Day is the ninth track on U2's 1993 album, Zooropa. The lyrics "these days, days, days run away like horses over the hill", repeated over the outro to the song, are quoted by Bono in tribute to Charles Bukowski.[1]
Two remixes of the song, the "Bitter Kiss Mix" and the "Junk Day Mix", are on the band's "Please" single. The "Junk Day Mix" was mixed at Smart Studios in Madison, WI, home of Butch Vig and the band Garbage.
The song was played live during every show of the band's Zoomerang leg during the Zoo TV Tour. Thus, it was part of the release Zoo TV: Live From Sydney.
On the live performance of the song, Bono would perform the first half of the song without a guitar, and began using one after singing the lyrics "father to son." With the Zoo TV effects, blue and yellow appeared in the background, and during the upbeat parts of the song, the stage was lit primarily by strobe lights. It includes a solo by The Edge not originally on the album. Larry Mullen's drum beat for the first verse is also slightly altered from the album version.
The Edge played the song both with his Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul in the live setting.
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