I hope that everyone reading this is enjoying the holiday season and that you all had a magical Christmas day. Today, I am continuing this small kind of mini-series On U2’s Christmas videos within the larger series on the band’s promotional videos in general. We are discussing the promo video for “I Believe in Father […]
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U2 has been making much better use of their YouTube channel as of late, posting remastered videos from days past at a pretty good clip. Now available on the band’s YouTube channel are the updated videos for their two Christmas songs, “I Believe in Father Christmas,” and “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home).” Since ’tis the […]
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For a long time, I would have argued with someone if they told me that U2 had made a promotional video for “Mofo.” It never occurred to me that the band might make a video for a song’s remix and not one for the “proper” studio version, and so I assumed that this video was […]
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There are a handful of directors who have helmed several music videos for U2: Kevin Godley, Anton Corbijn, Meiert Avis, and a few more. Of all of these repeat contributors, though, I think that my favorite, and the most consistent, would have to be Phil Joanou. Mr. Joanou simply has a knack, a feel, for […]
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Someone recently said to me that there is a new biggest band on the planet, a K-pop group called BTS. The title of world’s biggest band is open to debate, for several reasons, but I will concede that there are currently several bands that could lay claim to the crown. What I will not concede, […]
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The first promotional video for “Please” is quite different from the videos made for the Pop album before it. Unlike “Discotheque” and “”Staring at the Sun,” which are bright, colorful affairs, the Anton Corbijn directed video for “Please” is mostly in black and white, and even when it is in color, it is quite somber. […]
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U2’s promotional video for “Last Night on Earth” might be the strangest video that the band has ever made. The video starts out with the four members of the band riding in an old green muscle car down a mostly deserted highway. They come across an overturned truck, which has spilled lemons all over the […]
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This video has always been a bit of a hard one for me to swallow. I am talking, of course, of the second video for U2’s 1997 single “Staring at the Sun.” The video was directed by Morleigh Steinberg, who is now wife to The Edge, and I have to confess that I am a […]
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Today we are taking a look at the first video filmed for “Staring at the Sun,” which was directed by Jake Scott, son of famed filmmaker Ridley Scott. To be frank, I like this video quite a bit, and I definitely prefer it to the second video, although the members of U2 don’t seem to […]
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“Discotheque” was the lead video from U2’s 1997 album Pop, and, despite the somewhat cooler reception that that album received, it seems that Discotheque, and its video, remain well-liked by fans. “Discotheque’s” main video is very kitschy and fun, and heavily references club culture and the 1970s disco era. The video starts out with a […]
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