Before we get into today’s topic, I want to mention quickly that if you haven’t had a chance to check out the 4k stream of Berlin 2018, available for viewing on U2.com as I type this, do yourself a favor and watch it right now…before you read the rest of this article. The video is […]
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This week’s topic is just a tad different from most of the videos that we have covered so far in this series. The video for “A Sort of Homecoming” is the first “live” promotional video that U2 had created up to this point in their career, and as such it has a different feel from […]
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With the promotional video for “The Unforgettable Fire,” U2 once again turn to director Meiert Avis, who had worked with the band on all of their videos to this point, save for the one which came immediately prior to this one, the video for “Pride (In the Name of Love).” Some of the videos that […]
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Starting in the early 1980s, the power and importance of the music video cannot be overstated. MTV was a bona fide hit-maker, and it is hard to imagine a song doing well on the music charts without also having a popular music video. I say that to say this: I don’t know if U2 would […]
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I know that you have all read in the past about my mixed feelings regarding The Unforgettable Fire album. Well, this song, “Elvis Presley and America” probably encapsulates those feelings more than any other. To start with, the music is just a slowed-down version of the backing track from another song on the same album, […]
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“4th of July” is one of those songs from The Unforgettable Fire that I feel would have been better as a B-side. Honestly, it’s not that I dislike the song, although it isn’t my favorite, I often wonder what The Unforgettable Fire would have been like if it had contained one more “real” song instead of this […]
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I’ve written in the past about that magical year at boarding school when I was first introduced to and became interested in U2. One memory I have of that time is that the CD of The Unforgettable Fire that I had access to was scratched so that the beginning of “Indian Summer Sky” skipped. For […]
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I have mixed feelings about the album The Unforgettable Fire. On one hand, my all-time favorite song is on this album, in “Bad,” but on the other hand, I also think that the only tracks that U2 has ever recorded that sound dated are on the same album. I don’t care much for the inclusion of […]
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Ever since “Disappearing Act” was first released, I have struggled with some of the lyrics. I like to think that I am pretty perceptive, and that I can get “deep” with the best of them, but this song has some sections that I just don’t get. That’s unfortunate too, because I think that the song […]
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My mother once told me that her favorite song was “MLK”. I think that this opinion has changed since then, but many years ago, when she first realized how important the band is to me and so made an attempt to familiarize herself with them, “MLK” was probably the first song that really spoke to […]
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