Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Slug (song)
Slug (song)
[edit]- This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.
The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 7, 2025 by SchroCat (talk) 12:54, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
"Slug" is a song by Passengers, a side project of rock band U2 (pictured) and musician Brian Eno. It was released on 7 November 1995 on Passengers' sole release, the experimental album Original Soundtracks 1. The song 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 a desolate soul with the confusion of romance and faith. U2 and Eno 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" has been praised as one of the best songs on the album by critics from various publications. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): "How You Get the Girl", Oct 27
- Main editors: Dream out loud, Melicans
- Promoted: August 12, 2016
- Reasons for nomination: never TFA, 30th Anniversary
- Support as nominator. MisawaSakura (talk) 17:05, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment I currently get a count of 909 on this. MisawaSakura (talk) 21:14, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- now it's 1014 and good to go. Thanks! MisawaSakura (talk) 21:34, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- Support as main editor. Current character count is 1025. –Dream out loud (talk) 02:26, 27 August 2025 (UTC)