Episode 3108
Slug (song)
Fri, 2025-Nov-07 00:31 UTC
Length - 2:02
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The featured article for Friday, 7 November 2025, is Slug (song).
"Slug" is a song by Passengers, a side project of musician Brian Eno and rock band U2. It is the second track on Passengers' sole release, the 1995 experimental album Original Soundtracks 1. The track was originally titled "Seibu" and was almost left off the album before it was rediscovered later during the recording sessions. Though Eno made most of the creative decisions during the sessions, "Slug" was one of the few tracks that the members from U2 tried to craft themselves.
Lyrically, it portrays the thoughts of a desolate soul with the confusion of romance and faith. As Eno and U2 were writing songs for fictional soundtracks, they tried to create a visual suggestion from the music that was more important than the story within the lyrics. In "Slug", the instrumentation is intended as visual music representing the lights turning on in a city at night. The group primarily drew inspiration for the song from U2's experiences in Tokyo at the conclusion of their Zoo TV Tour in 1993. "Slug" was praised as one of the best songs on the album by critics from various publications, both at the time of its release and in retrospective reviews.
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