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{{Infobox song
{{Infobox song
| name = Mofo
| name = Mofo
| cover = U2 Mofo.png
| cover = U2 Mofo.png
| alt =
| alt =
| caption = CD single cover
| caption = CD single cover
| type = single
| type = single
| artist = [[U2]]
| artist = [[U2]]
| album = [[Pop (U2 album)|Pop]]
| album = [[Pop (U2 album)|Pop]]
| released = 8 December 1997
| released = 8 December 1997
| recorded =
| recorded =
| studio =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|[[Techno]]<ref>{{cite newspaper|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/andy-gill-on-albums-u2-pop-island-314-524-334-2-1280989.html|title=Andy Gill on Albums; U2 Pop Island 314 524-334-2|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|first=Andy|last=Gill|date=28 February 1997|access-date=26 May 2018|quote="MoFo" is a juddering techno maelstrom in Chemical Brothers style}}</ref>|[[dance-rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/011011-u2-2496101552.html|title=Is There Nothing Left?|website=[[Popmatters]]|author=Popmatters Staff|date=October 10, 2001|access-date=February 11, 2020}}</ref>}}
| genre = {{hlist|[[Techno]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/andy-gill-on-albums-u2-pop-island-314-524-334-2-1280989.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/andy-gill-on-albums-u2-pop-island-314-524-334-2-1280989.html |archive-date=2022-05-15 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Andy Gill on Albums; U2 Pop Island 314 524-334-2|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|first=Andy|last=Gill|date=28 February 1997|access-date=26 May 2018|quote="MoFo" is a juddering techno maelstrom in Chemical Brothers style}}</ref>|[[dance-rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/011011-u2-2496101552.html|title=Is There Nothing Left?|website=[[Popmatters]]|author=Popmatters Staff|date=October 10, 2001|access-date=February 11, 2020}}</ref>}}
| length = 5:49
| length = 5:49
| label = [[Island Records|Island]]
| label = [[Island Records|Island]]
| composer = U2
| composer = U2
| lyricist = {{hlist|[[Bono]]|[[The Edge]]}}
| lyricist = {{hlist|[[Bono]]|[[The Edge]]}}
| producer = [[Flood (producer)|Flood]]
| producer = [[Flood (producer)|Flood]]
| prev_title = [[If God Will Send His Angels]]
| prev_title = [[If God Will Send His Angels]]
| prev_year = 1997
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = [[Sweetest Thing]]
| next_title = [[Sweetest Thing]]
| next_year = 1998
| next_year = 1998
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|w0GY1fCgbYc|"Mofo (Phunk Phorce Mix)"}}}}
}}
}}


"'''Mofo'''" is a song by Irish [[rock band|rock]] band [[U2]]. It is the third track on their 1997 album ''[[Pop (U2 album)|Pop]]'', and was released as the album's final single on 8 December 1997. The song was partially written about lead vocalist [[Bono]]'s mother, who died when he was 14 years old. Other songs which Bono wrote about his mother include "[[Lemon (U2 song)|Lemon]]", "[[I Will Follow]]", "Iris (Hold Me Close)" and "Tomorrow". Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' considers the song to be "the only legitimate evidence" of U2's supposed dance-orientated direction on the album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/|title=Stylus Magazine|website=stylusmagazine.com|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref> He said the song was "Underworld-esque house frenzy."<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Andrew|title=U2 vs REM|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/u2-vs-rem.htm|website=Stylus|access-date=26 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529222918/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/u2-vs-rem.htm|archive-date=29 May 2015|date=6 November 2006}}</ref>
"'''Mofo'''" is a song by Irish [[rock band|rock]] band [[U2]]. It is the third track on their 1997 album ''[[Pop (U2 album)|Pop]]'', and was released as the album's final single on 8 December 1997. The song was partially written about lead vocalist [[Bono]]'s mother, who died when he was 14 years old. Other songs which Bono wrote about his mother include "[[Lemon (U2 song)|Lemon]]", "[[I Will Follow]]", "Iris (Hold Me Close)" and "Tomorrow".


"Mofo" opened every concert from the 1997–1998 [[PopMart Tour]]. It appears in the concert film ''[[PopMart: Live from Mexico City]]'' and also on ''[[Hasta la Vista Baby! U2 Live from Mexico City|Hasta la Vista Baby!]]'', a live album from the same show.
"Mofo" opened every concert from the 1997–1998 [[PopMart Tour]]. It appears in the concert film ''[[PopMart: Live from Mexico City]]'' and also on ''[[Hasta la Vista Baby! U2 Live from Mexico City|Hasta la Vista Baby!]]'', a live album from the same show.


British electronica band [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]] also recorded a remix that was never released.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u2.com/discography/index/album/albumId/4050/tagName/singles |title=> Discography > Albums > Mofo |publisher=U2 |access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref>
British electronica band [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]] also recorded a remix that was never released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.u2.com/discography/index/album/albumId/4050/tagName/singles |title=> Discography > Albums > Mofo |publisher=U2 |access-date=2012-03-04 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170331/http://www.u2.com/discography/index/album/albumId/4050/tagName/singles |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==Recording and composition==
==Recording and composition==
"Mofo" originated from a songwriting trip that guitarist [[the Edge]] and lead vocalist [[Bono]] took to [[Nice]], France,<ref name="stokes">Stokes (2005), pp. 128–129</ref> before U2 began the recording sessions for ''[[Pop (U2 album)|Pop]]''.<ref name="sound">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/jul97/flood_u2.html |title=Flood & Howie B: Producing U2's Pop |magazine=[[Sound on Sound]] |date=July 1997 |first=Paul |last=Tingen |volume=12|issue=9|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607055529/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/jul97/flood_u2.html|archive-date=7 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The song originally had a [[blues]] feeling to it, with Bono playing [[wah-wah (music)|wah-wah]] guitar, but it evolved after the band began working on it in the studio and bassist [[Adam Clayton]] added a [[bassline]] in the style of [[Motown#Motown Sound|Motown]]. Producer [[Flood (producer)|Flood]] said that it was a relatively traditional [[R&B]] song at that stage. As the lyrics began to take shape, the band felt that they needed to make the music tougher to "capture a kind of rage as well as the inherent sexiness of rock 'n' roll". Flood thought that the song had more potential and advocated for them to "go further". The group spent months working on it before Bono said "Let's give it one more night", at which point they told Flood, "let's hip-hop it, let's strip it back, let's get a beat together, let's see where it goes". Flood and producer [[Howie B]] subsequently spent a weekend deconstructing the song. As Flood described, "Howie B was acting the maverick, playing different ideas to [U2] for feel and rhythm and they had to take it on from there." Flood singled "Mofo" out as the song from ''Pop'' on which he had the greatest influence. The resulting changes pushed the song into a more [[techno]] direction reminiscent of music by [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]] or [[the Prodigy]]. Producer [[Steve Osborne]] also contributed a "blaring" [[Moog synthesizer]] part, against which drummer [[Larry Mullen Jr.]] was able to create rhythms.<ref name="stokes"/>
"Mofo" originated from a songwriting trip that guitarist [[the Edge]] and lead vocalist [[Bono]] took to [[Nice]], France,<ref name="stokes">Stokes (2005), pp. 128–129</ref> before U2 began the recording sessions for ''[[Pop (U2 album)|Pop]]''.<ref name="sound">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/jul97/flood_u2.html |title=Flood & Howie B: Producing U2's Pop |magazine=[[Sound on Sound]] |date=July 1997 |first=Paul |last=Tingen |volume=12|issue=9|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607055529/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/jul97/flood_u2.html|archive-date=7 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The song originally had a [[blues]] feeling to it, with Bono playing [[wah-wah (music)|wah-wah]] guitar, but it evolved after the band began working on it in the studio and bassist [[Adam Clayton]] added a [[bassline]] in the style of [[Motown#Motown sound|Motown]]. Producer [[Flood (producer)|Flood]] said that it was a relatively traditional [[R&B]] song at that stage. As the lyrics began to take shape, the band felt that they needed to make the music tougher to "capture a kind of rage as well as the inherent sexiness of rock 'n' roll". Flood thought that the song had more potential and advocated for them to "go further". The group spent months working on it before Bono said "Let's give it one more night", at which point they told Flood, "let's hip-hop it, let's strip it back, let's get a beat together, let's see where it goes". Flood and producer [[Howie B]] subsequently spent a weekend deconstructing the song. As Flood described, "Howie B was acting the maverick, playing different ideas to [U2] for feel and rhythm and they had to take it on from there." Flood singled "Mofo" out as the song from ''Pop'' on which he had the greatest influence. The resulting changes pushed the song into a more [[techno]] direction reminiscent of music by [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]] or [[the Prodigy]]. Producer [[Steve Osborne]] also contributed a "blaring" [[Moog synthesizer]] part, against which drummer [[Larry Mullen Jr.]] was able to create rhythms.<ref name="stokes"/>


"Mofo" features a "divebombing-jet" guitar sound that the band dubbed the "[[Boeing 747|747]]".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Scratching the surface|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|first=David|last=Fricke|author-link=David Fricke|date=6 March 1997|issue=755|pages=21–22}}</ref> Flood said it was named as such because it resembled a "ridiculous jet plane taking off and going absolutely mad". The Edge achieved the sound with several [[effects unit]]s and a creative [[signal chain]]; a [[Korg]] SDD [[delay (audio effect)|delay]] pedal was fed into several [[distortion (music)|distortion]] pedals, one of which was a [[Fuzz Face]], which then fed into a [[DigiTech Whammy]] [[pitch shift]]ing pedal.<ref name="inexcess">{{cite magazine|title=In Excess|magazine=[[Guitar World]]|date=September 1997|volume=17|issue=9}}</ref> <ref>{{cite magazine|title=A Deluge of Guitar Sounds|magazine=[[Guitar World]]|first=Alan|last=di Perna|date=September 1997|volume=17|issue=9}}</ref> Whereas most songs on the album featured Clayton playing bass guitar with a heavily processed sound, most of the bassline on "Mofo" was played on a [[keyboard bass]]. The song also features vocal and guitar [[Sampling (music)|samples]] made by the band and then played back by the Edge on a keyboard. Some guitar parts on the song were processed through an [[ARP 2600]] synthesiser.<ref name="sound"/>
"Mofo" features a "divebombing-jet" guitar sound that the band dubbed the "[[Boeing 747|747]]".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Scratching the surface|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|first=David|last=Fricke|author-link=David Fricke|date=6 March 1997|issue=755|pages=21–22}}</ref> Flood said it was named as such because it resembled a "ridiculous jet plane taking off and going absolutely mad". The Edge achieved the sound with several [[effects unit]]s and a creative [[signal chain]]; a [[Korg]] SDD [[delay (audio effect)|delay]] pedal was fed into several [[distortion (music)|distortion]] pedals, one of which was a [[Fuzz Face]], which then fed into a [[DigiTech Whammy]] [[pitch shift]]ing pedal.<ref name="inexcess">{{cite magazine|title=In Excess|magazine=[[Guitar World]]|date=September 1997|volume=17|issue=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=A Deluge of Guitar Sounds|magazine=[[Guitar World]]|first=Alan|last=di Perna|date=September 1997|volume=17|issue=9}}</ref> Whereas most songs on the album featured Clayton playing bass guitar with a heavily processed sound, most of the bassline on "Mofo" was played on a [[keyboard bass]]. The song also features vocal and guitar [[Sampling (music)|samples]] made by the band and then played back by the Edge on a keyboard. Some guitar parts on the song were processed through an [[ARP 2600]] synthesiser.<ref name="sound"/>


By the time the final version of "Mofo" created, the band had scaled back their experimentation by removing [[Loop (music)|loops]] and any electronic percussion from the song so that it anchored on one drum performance by Mullen that was "layered on top of some of the elements of a more techno arrangement". The Edge said that this creative process was a microcosm of how ''Pop'' was written and recorded.<ref name="inexcess"/> During the album's [[Audio mastering|mastering]] in New York in November 1996, Flood created the final mix of "Mofo" by editing together segments of three separate mixes of the song on half-inch tape. Flood eschewed digital editing, describing himself as a "bit of a diehard analogue fan".<ref name="sound"/>
By the time the final version of "Mofo" created, the band had scaled back their experimentation by removing [[Loop (music)|loops]] and any electronic percussion from the song so that it anchored on one drum performance by Mullen that was "layered on top of some of the elements of a more techno arrangement". The Edge said that this creative process was a microcosm of how ''Pop'' was written and recorded.<ref name="inexcess"/> During the album's [[Audio mastering|mastering]] in New York in November 1996, Flood created the final mix of "Mofo" by editing together segments of three separate mixes of the song on half-inch tape. Flood eschewed digital editing, describing himself as a "bit of a diehard analogue fan".<ref name="sound"/>

==Critical reception==
Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' considers the song to be "the only legitimate evidence" of U2's supposed dance-orientated direction on the album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/|title=Stylus Magazine|website=stylusmagazine.com|access-date=2020-02-05|archive-date=2012-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507015252/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/arthur-russell/calling-out-of-context.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He said the song was "Underworld-esque house frenzy."<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Andrew|title=U2 vs REM|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/u2-vs-rem.htm|website=Stylus|access-date=26 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529222918/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/u2-vs-rem.htm|archive-date=29 May 2015|date=6 November 2006}}</ref>

==Music video==
A promotional video directed by Maurice Linnane was created for "Mofo"; using an edited version of the Phunk Force mix, it consists of footage from the PopMart Tour, including screen visuals. The video was later released on ''[[The Best of 1990–2000]]'' DVD.


==Track listings==
==Track listings==
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==Charts==
==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1998)
! Chart (1998)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
! Peak<br />position
|-
|-
| Australia ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=U2&titel=Mofo&cat=s|title=australian-charts.com - U2 - Mofo|website=australian-charts.com|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref>
!scope="row"|Australia ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=U2&titel=Mofo&cat=s|title=australian-charts.com - U2 - Mofo|website=australian-charts.com|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref>
|35
| align="center"| 35
|-
|-
| Italy ([[Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana|FIMI]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hitparadeitalia.it/indici/per_interprete/au.htm|title=Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: U|website=www.hitparadeitalia.it|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref>
!scope="row"|Italy (''[[Musica e Dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=[[Musica e Dischi]]|language=it|access-date=28 May 2022}} Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "U2".</ref><br>''Remix''
| 23
| style="text-align:center;"|26
|}
|}


==References==
==References==
'''Footnotes'''
'''Footnotes'''
{{reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


'''Bibliography'''
'''Bibliography'''
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"Mofo"
CD single cover
Single by U2
from the album Pop
Released8 December 1997
Genre
Length5:49
LabelIsland
Composer(s)U2
Lyricist(s)
Producer(s)Flood
U2 singles chronology
"If God Will Send His Angels"
(1997) 		"Mofo"
(1997) 		"Sweetest Thing"
(1998)
Music video
"Mofo (Phunk Phorce Mix)" on YouTube

"Mofo" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the third track on their 1997 album Pop, and was released as the album's final single on 8 December 1997. The song was partially written about lead vocalist Bono's mother, who died when he was 14 years old. Other songs which Bono wrote about his mother include "Lemon", "I Will Follow", "Iris (Hold Me Close)" and "Tomorrow".

"Mofo" opened every concert from the 1997–1998 PopMart Tour. It appears in the concert film PopMart: Live from Mexico City and also on Hasta la Vista Baby!, a live album from the same show.

British electronica band Underworld also recorded a remix that was never released.[3]

Recording and composition[edit]

"Mofo" originated from a songwriting trip that guitarist the Edge and lead vocalist Bono took to Nice, France,[4] before U2 began the recording sessions for Pop.[5] The song originally had a blues feeling to it, with Bono playing wah-wah guitar, but it evolved after the band began working on it in the studio and bassist Adam Clayton added a bassline in the style of Motown. Producer Flood said that it was a relatively traditional R&B song at that stage. As the lyrics began to take shape, the band felt that they needed to make the music tougher to "capture a kind of rage as well as the inherent sexiness of rock 'n' roll". Flood thought that the song had more potential and advocated for them to "go further". The group spent months working on it before Bono said "Let's give it one more night", at which point they told Flood, "let's hip-hop it, let's strip it back, let's get a beat together, let's see where it goes". Flood and producer Howie B subsequently spent a weekend deconstructing the song. As Flood described, "Howie B was acting the maverick, playing different ideas to [U2] for feel and rhythm and they had to take it on from there." Flood singled "Mofo" out as the song from Pop on which he had the greatest influence. The resulting changes pushed the song into a more techno direction reminiscent of music by Underworld or the Prodigy. Producer Steve Osborne also contributed a "blaring" Moog synthesizer part, against which drummer Larry Mullen Jr. was able to create rhythms.[4]

"Mofo" features a "divebombing-jet" guitar sound that the band dubbed the "747".[6] Flood said it was named as such because it resembled a "ridiculous jet plane taking off and going absolutely mad". The Edge achieved the sound with several effects units and a creative signal chain; a Korg SDD delay pedal was fed into several distortion pedals, one of which was a Fuzz Face, which then fed into a DigiTech Whammy pitch shifting pedal.[7][8] Whereas most songs on the album featured Clayton playing bass guitar with a heavily processed sound, most of the bassline on "Mofo" was played on a keyboard bass. The song also features vocal and guitar samples made by the band and then played back by the Edge on a keyboard. Some guitar parts on the song were processed through an ARP 2600 synthesiser.[5]

By the time the final version of "Mofo" created, the band had scaled back their experimentation by removing loops and any electronic percussion from the song so that it anchored on one drum performance by Mullen that was "layered on top of some of the elements of a more techno arrangement". The Edge said that this creative process was a microcosm of how Pop was written and recorded.[7] During the album's mastering in New York in November 1996, Flood created the final mix of "Mofo" by editing together segments of three separate mixes of the song on half-inch tape. Flood eschewed digital editing, describing himself as a "bit of a diehard analogue fan".[5]

Critical reception[edit]

Andrew Unterberger of Stylus Magazine considers the song to be "the only legitimate evidence" of U2's supposed dance-orientated direction on the album.[9] He said the song was "Underworld-esque house frenzy."[10]

Music video[edit]

A promotional video directed by Maurice Linnane was created for "Mofo"; using an edited version of the Phunk Force mix, it consists of footage from the PopMart Tour, including screen visuals. The video was later released on The Best of 1990–2000 DVD.

Track listings[edit]

CD release[edit]

All lyrics are written by Bono and The Edge; all music is composed by U2

No.TitleRemixed byLength
1."Mofo" (Phunk Phorce mix)Matthew Roberts8:43
2."Mofo" (Mother's mix)Roni Size8:56
3."If God Will Send His Angels" (Grand Jury mix)Gerald Baillergeau (aka Big Yam) and Victor Merritt (aka Vino)5:40

12-inch release[edit]

All lyrics are written by Bono and The Edge; all music is composed by U2

Side A
No.TitleRemixed byLength
1."Mofo" (Phunk Phorce mix)Matthew Roberts8:43
2."Mofo" (Black Hole dub)Matthew Roberts6:45
Side AA
No.TitleRemixed byLength
1."Mofo" (Mother's mix)Roni Size8:56
2."Mofo" (House Flavour mix)Roni Size7:16
3."Mofo" (Romin mix)Johnny Moy5:50

Charts[edit]

Chart (1998) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[11] 35
Italy (Musica e Dischi)[12]
Remix 		23

References[edit]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gill, Andy (28 February 1997). "Andy Gill on Albums; U2 Pop Island 314 524-334-2". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 26 May 2018. "MoFo" is a juddering techno maelstrom in Chemical Brothers style
  2. ^ Popmatters Staff (October 10, 2001). "Is There Nothing Left?". Popmatters. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  3. ^ "> Discography > Albums > Mofo". U2. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
  4. ^ a b Stokes (2005), pp. 128–129
  5. ^ a b c Tingen, Paul (July 1997). "Flood & Howie B: Producing U2's Pop". Sound on Sound. Vol. 12, no. 9. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  6. ^ Fricke, David (6 March 1997). "Scratching the surface". Rolling Stone. No. 755. pp. 21–22.
  7. ^ a b "In Excess". Guitar World. Vol. 17, no. 9. September 1997.
  8. ^ di Perna, Alan (September 1997). "A Deluge of Guitar Sounds". Guitar World. Vol. 17, no. 9.
  9. ^ "Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  10. ^ Unterberger, Andrew (6 November 2006). "U2 vs REM". Stylus. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  11. ^ "australian-charts.com - U2 - Mofo". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  12. ^ "Classifiche". Musica e Dischi (in Italian). Retrieved 28 May 2022. Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "U2".

Bibliography

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