The war in Sarajevo was a time of pure atrocity. Thousands of people died, and the city of Sarajevo, once a beautiful cosmopolitan city, was reduced to rubble. If you are interested in the details, there is a very informative and well-written Wikipedia page on the siege. We’re here today to talk about the videos […]
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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 […]
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U2’v promotional video for “Stay (Faraway, So Close) is a fun and interesting little movie, directed by the German Film-maker Wim Wenders. Wenders is a friend of the band’s who has worked with them on several projects, but of all the U2-related projects that he has directed, this video is probably my favorite. The video […]
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If you are living in the United States, you might have subscribed to U2 X-Radio, U2’s channel on Sirius XM Radio. If you haven’t, you really ought to, because, in addition to playing a full set of U2 tracks every day, they also play the occasional song by other artists that might introduce you to […]
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The single for “Numb” is kind of an odd duck. As opposed to the traditional vinyl, cassette, or CD single with audio tracks, the single for “Numb” was released as a VHS cassette. The “A-side” is the promotional video for “Numb,” which we discussed last week. As you might expect, there are also “B-sides,” or […]
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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 […]
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I don’t mind experimental art. Heck, I even like the Passengers album, but sometimes a little avant-garde goes a long way. Such is the case with U2’s video for “Until the End of the World,” directed by Richie Smyth. I know that Smyth is capable of making good videos because he was one of the […]
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When I was younger, I used to think that music videos were a natural offshoot of being a musician. I imagined that all one had to do to make a successful music video was to show up, strike a pose or two, and that was the end of it. When I was a little older, […]
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In addition to the main video for “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” which we examined last week, there was a secondary video for the song that saw very little airplay. In fact, I have never seen it on MTV or any other channel that plays music videos…the only place that I have ever seen […]
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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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