Stocki’s Song By Song

The thoughts and reflections generated by NLOTH just keep flowing on the ol’ Interweb. Steve Stockman, author of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2, is posting his own “Like a Song” series over at Soul Surmise.

Looks like he’s taking each one in order and he’s just posted about “Stand Up Comedy,” which has what he’s saying might be his favorite U2 verse yet.

He begins:

Stand Up Comedy comes out all Achtung Baby strut with a Curtis Mayfield/Bob Marley spiritual/political anthemic clarion call. Around the riffs, distortion and declaration to stand up for love we get some of Bono’s sharpest lines, most accusing self critique and one couplet that holds the key to the band’s entire canon as well as nailing a critical contemporary issue.

And the rest of his analysis is here.

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