“All Because of You” by U2

"All Because of You" sits sixth on U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, and American radio had it the same day the album hit the shops in 2004, a few months before it went out properly as the record's second North American single (everywhere else, it was the fourth). It's U2 at their most scrappy and stripped-down: a big, blunt guitar riff, Bono hollering a lyric of his own, the Edge chiming in on backing vocals and Jacknife Lee tucking keyboards into the corners.

Steve Lillywhite produced and Flood mixed. It climbed to number six on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks before the airplay dried up fast, and in Britain it eventually worked its way onto BBC Radio 1's A-list.

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