Kevin Godley has directed some of U2’s best videos, from “The Sweetest Thing,” to “Numb” and the original video for “Even Better Than the Real Thing.” To this list of superior videos we can add the International version of “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of.” This video was, for me, one of […]
Read MoreU2 VidWorks – The Sweetest Thing
As I sit and ponder what I want to say about this week’s featured video, it occurs to me that U2’s promo video for “The Sweetest Thing” seems to be one of their most well-known and popular videos, even with very casual fans, those who hardly know the band at all. A lot of U2’s […]
Read MoreU2 VidWorks – Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Right from the beginning, I should tell you that there is a lot going on in this video. Firstly, we have scenes from the live-action film Batman Forever, the soundtrack to which is where the song initially appeared. I don’t know a lot about how these kinds of music videos are made, so I don’t […]
Read MoreU2 VidWorks – Numb
Whenever I get involved in a conversation about U2 with anyone who is of a certain age, I cam predict, almost verbatim, how the conversation is going to go. The gist is that the other person will say that they like U2’s older stuff, but that the band got too weird in the 1990s. I […]
Read MoreU2 VidWorks – Even Better Than the Real Thing, Version 1
Through writing these articles, I have come to realize something about myself: I like videos with meaning that relates to the song that the video is for. Put another way, videos that have a correlation with the lyrics from the song. To that end, I am going to make the declaration that the first video […]
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