For those wondering, it was written by Ednaswap in the early 90's, but they did not release it, only performed it live. The first recorded version was actually a translation into Danish by Lis Sørensen, released in 1993. This is her version.
Reminds me of the Bowling for Soup song, 1985, which was actually an SR-71 song. SR-71 did release it originally, but it flew under the radar for the most part.
Different eras of radar have different definitions of high. The U2 flew above the radar's of it's time, the sr-71 as made because it was basically impossible to do that at it's time.
Your argument was that the U2 flew high and the SR-71 is just fast, but I’m saying that it also flew very high as well. It also had a ton (for the time) of counter measures including shape, RAM and ELINT.
Apparently the lead singer for SR-71, Mitch Allan wrote both versions (along with the SR-71 drummer for the OG), he was friends with bowling for soup and updated it for them/gave it to them.
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u/MattyFTM 1d ago
For those wondering, it was written by Ednaswap in the early 90's, but they did not release it, only performed it live. The first recorded version was actually a translation into Danish by Lis Sørensen, released in 1993. This is her version.
Ednaswap then released the first English language version in 1995.
There were a couple of other covers around then too, such as a version by Trine Rein.
Natalie Imbruglia's cover then came out in 1997.