All the information you need to watch today’s AFL match between Collingwood and Brisbane, including the team news, stream, TV channel, and start time. On Saturday night, the Collingwood Magpies will welcome the top-four Brisbane Lions at the MCG, with the goal of getting back to winning ways.
At one point, Eno became so frustrated with the song that he wanted the track erased so they could start it from scratch.
At the time, Bono had traveled to Ethiopia, following Live Aid, and was inspired by the country, which started translating into a song he started sketching on an airline sickbag on his way to Africa.
“All this stuff about deserts and the parchedness of the earth, I wrote those things on Air India sick bags and scraps of paper, sitting in a little tent in a town called Ajibar in northern Ethiopia,” said Bono of the opening track. “It’s a sort of odd, unfinished lyric, and outside of the context of Africa, it doesn’t make any sense. But it contains a very powerful idea. In the desert, we meet God. In parched times, in fire and flood, we discover who we are.”
Eno was on a similar plane and wanted the timbre of the album to follow some form of an Ethiopian anthem right from the start with “Where the Streets Have No Name.” When Bono first presented the song to Eno, he only had an early rendering of it and didn’t know what it was about yet. It ended up consuming more than 40 percent of Eno’s time and he became so obsessed and then discouraged with the direction of the track that he asked the studio assistants to wipe it out.
“It was a bit of a tongue-twister for the rhythm section, with strange bar lengths that got everybody in a bad mood,” remembered Lanois in a 2008 interview with Mojo. “I can remember pointing at a blackboard, walking everybody through the changes like a science teacher. There’s a part of Eno that likes instant gratification.”
