Lemon (U2 song)

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"Lemon"
"Lemon" cover
Single by U2
from the album Zooropa
Released September 1993 (Australia / Japan only)
Format CD single, cassette, Vinyl (12")
Genre Rock
Length 4:39 (single)/6:58 (album)
Label Island
Producer(s) Flood, Brian Eno and The Edge
Chart positions
U2 singles chronology
Numb
(1993)		 Lemon
(1993)		 Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
(1993)
Promo Cover
5" CD Single
5" CD Single
Zooropa track listing
"Numb"
(Track 3)		 "Lemon"
(Track 4)		 "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"
(Track 5)

"Lemon" is the second single from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa. This song, like no previous U2 song, showcased Bono's falsetto skills, aided by atmospheric vocals from The Edge and Brian Eno. The song has been described as a futuristic German disco.

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[edit] History

The single and promo releases were complete with different dance remixes, as well as a shortened edit of the title track (the version in the album was almost 7 minutes long).

This song was played live a handful of times towards the end of U2's Zoo TV Tour in 1993. The song was played live at 10 different shows throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, and was played during the show's encore. During each performance, Bono would perform the song dressed as Zoo TV character "MacPhisto," a former cabaret performer with devilish horns. Each performance was immediately followed by the band's "With or Without You".[citation needed]Paul Oakenfold's "Perfecto Mix" of the song was used on the Popmart Tour, being played as the band walked out of their Spinal Tap-like rock prop, a 40-foot mirrorball lemon, onto the B-stage for an encore.

The music video for "Lemon," directed by Mark Neale, was filmed in black and white with a grid-like background as a tribute to Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge was a photographer who was the first person to successfully capture fast motion on film, using his device, coincidentally named the Zoopraxiscope. His work showed humans doing basic tasks with respective subtitles, such as "Walking" and "Ascending an incline," similar to the various scenes in the video. The video also featured Bono dressed as both "The Fly" and "MacPhisto."

The allusion to film in the 'Lemon' video was also partially based from the fact that the song was conceived after Bono watched an old filmstrip of his late mother. The song's lyrics are about using film to recreate memory.

[edit] Track listings

[edit] Single Version 1

  1. "Lemon" (Bad Yard Club Mix) (10:13)
  2. "Lemon" (Morales Bad Yard Club Version Dub) (6:35)
  3. "Lemon" (Perfecto Mix) (8:56)
  4. "Lemon" (Oakenfold Jeep Mix) (5:30)

This was the American 12" release.

[edit] Single Version 2

  1. "Lemon" (Edit) (4:39)
  2. "Lemon" (Oakenfold Jeep Mix) (5:30)
  3. "Lemon" (Album Version) (6:56)
  4. "Lemon" (Morales Bad Yard Club Version Dub) (6:35)

This was the CD and cassette release in Australia and Japan.

[edit] Promo Version 1

  1. "Lemon" (Bad Yard Club Mix) (10:13)
  2. "Lemon" (Serious Def Dub) (6:24)

This was a 10" release.

[edit] Promo Version 2

  1. "Lemon" (Bad Yard Club Mix) (10:13)
  2. "Lemon" (Momo's Beats) (4:25)
  3. "Lemon" (Bad Yard Club Version Dub) (6:35)
  4. "Lemon" (Serious Def Dub) (6:24)

This was a 12" release.

[edit] Promo Version 3

  1. "Lemon" (Perfecto Mix) (8:57)
  2. "Lemon" (Trance Mix) (9:14)

This was a 12" release.

[edit] Promo Version 4

  1. "Lemon" (Edit) (4:39)

This was a single track 5" CD release.

[edit] Promo Version 5

  1. "Lemon" (Edit) (4:39)
  2. "Lemon" (Lemonade Mix Edit) (4:16)
  3. "Lemon" (Album Version) (6:56)
  4. "Lemon" (Lemonade Mix) (6:40)

[edit] Chart positions

Year Single Chart Position
1993 "Lemon" US Modern Rock Tracks #3
1993 "Lemon" US Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1
1993 "Lemon" US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #16
1993 "Lemon" Australian ARIA Charts #6
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