"Saints" full video

[adrball]

The vid is okay, but the song is much much better.

Great cause.

 

[LemonMelon]

Song - Good
Video - Average

 

[sue4u2]

I believe the vast majority of Americans wants to love their President. Why don't they? There must be something to that.
And I also believe U2's past responses toward injustice has no borders... Africa, Sarajevo, America.
IMO, this video does show the real U2.
And again, I'm grateful to them.

Well put Val. and it's true. I want the best for my country and unfortunately that hasn't happened this go round.

I'm so proud of U2 & Green Day and it's not because it's a political statement. The truth of the matter is - it should have happened that way. I turned on the tv and sat there with chills, as the video came on and caught me totally off guard.
Tomorrow morning I tape it.

 

[Ifeelnumb84]

This is probably the best U2 video of the last ten to fifteen years.
This is the U2 that we know and love. After years of alluding to the fact that they disagree with many facets of the US Government, now they have finally come out and put it on film.
This video gives so much more meaning to the song, and is absolutely a pro-US, anti-US government video...and above all, sends the message that people need to use their power to save the lives of their people, and not end the lives of others.

 

[BVS]

i agree with kayla.

don't you think that the fighter jet scenes were a bit cheesy, regardless of the message the bands wanted to convey?

and if you are so much against war as bono & co here try to express, how can you call the world's deadliest military killer machines 'saints'? sounds a bit awkward to me.

I think you missed the point...

 

[bono_212]

I think this is more of a green day video than a U2 video

*ding!* At least that's my opinion, one that I am allowed to have. Anyway, it just seemed to my like yet ANOTHER Bush-bashing video. I didn't really care for it, and it doesn't help that I don't care much for the studio version of the song either.

Yes, it was a terrible thing that happened, and yes, Bush was TERRIBLE about getting any aid down there, but please, if you're going to convey an idea about what should've happened, you need to drop a few more hints throughout the video that you're being sarcastic, rather than place it RIGHT AT THE END of the video.

IMO

 

[bathiu]

*ding!* At least that's my opinion, one that I am allowed to have. Anyway, it just seemed to my like yet ANOTHER Bush-bashing video.

But (don't remember where I read it, @u2 probably) it was U2 who called for this director to make this video...

 

[bono_212]

All I'm saying is that BECAUSE it was with Green Day, and because of the past few videos/songs they've released it just FELT like another Green Day related thing. I honestly don't know who directed it, and I wasn't sitting in the studio when they recorded the video, so I don't know whose ideas were whose, I'm just saying this was the way the video came off on me

 

[sue4u2]

but please, if you're going to convey an idea about what should've happened, you need to drop a few more hints throughout the video that you're being sarcastic, rather than place it RIGHT AT THE END of the video.

IMO

If it has to be explained then you never paid attention when it was happening in the first place. I'm not sure where you live but anyone in the world who has watched the news, even a fraction of it, over the last year or so know's what really happened.
If not, I suggest you pick up some world news magazines once in a while to find out what's going on.
Not trying to be a bitch here, but???

 

[Regina O'Numb]

MTV News Exclusive: Catch A Sneak Peek Of U2/ Green Day 'Saints' Video

Clip features Superdome performance, Abbey Road recording sessions.

by James Montgomery


Last month, as Green Day and U2 took the stage at the Louisiana Superdome, they were not only being watched by millions in the city of New Orleans and around the world, but by director Chris Milk and his small army of cameras too.

For weeks, Milk followed the two bands' every move from their initial meeting at London's Abbey Road Studio, where they recorded their version of "The Saints Are Coming," a single that benefits Music Rising (see "Green Day, U2 Take Historic Collabo One Step Further By Re-Enacting Beatles' Abbey Road LP Cover"). Milk then tracked their somber tour of New Orleans' still-ravaged Ninth Ward and continued to shoot them when they stepped onto the stage at the Superdome, where they blasted through a chill-inducing version of "Saints" (see "U2 Keeping Up Charitable Momentum Following Superdome Set").

And now he's in the final stages of compiling all that footage into the master version of the "Saints" video, a task that is proving to be quite the undertaking.

"We have footage from Abbey Road, when they recorded the song, plus news footage from when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and shots from the Superdome performance, where I had three cameras rolling," Milk told MTV News. "The whole thing is a tremendous effort. But it's absolutely a dream come true. I'm not sure how I can ever do another video again after this."

The clip will combine the stark black-and-white footage Milk shot at Abbey Road with the Superdome performance and "conceptual images" — heavily edited newsreel footage that Milk said would "make a commentary on the Katrina disaster ... from the standpoint of how things can and should be done in the future."

"I don't want to give too much of it away, but there's definitely a message [in the video]," Milk added. "But it's also important to make sure that it complements the song, so it starts off somber and dark, and then you're transported to the Superdome performance, which is big and bright and powerful."

According to a spokesperson for Interscope, U2's record label, the video for "The Saints Are Coming" could premiere in full on MTV as early as this week.

Caroline Galloway, a spokesperson for Music Rising, told MTV News that there are no immediate plans to make the "Saints" clip available for download, though she said fans can still get the Green Day/ U2 version of the song — along with footage shot in and around New Orleans — on Rhapsody.com. She also added that the Superdome performance served as the official launch of phase two of Music Rising's mission, which will provide musical instruments to churches and schools throughout the Gulf Region. For more information, check out MusicRising.org.


This report is provided by MTV News

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1543888/20061024/green_day.jhtml?headlines=true

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U2 and Green Day 'Make a Commentary on the Katrina Disaster' With New Video

Heather Adler
Published: Wednesday, October 25, 2006

There’s probably a few million fans who would have given their right testicle and/or nipple to have been a fly on the wall at the Abby Road recording session during which Green Day and U2 teamed up to record a cover of “The Saints Are Coming.” Director Chris Milk and his small army of cameramen had that pleasure, but don’t worry, they’re sharing the fun: the celluloid specialist is getting ready to release a music video for the song and is in the final stages of editing together the footage he shot of the bands.

Milk shot the musicians’ every move, from their initial meeting to their recording to their trip to New Orleans where they debuted the song.

"We have footage from Abbey Road, when they recorded the song, plus news footage from when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and shots from the Superdome performance, where I had three cameras rolling," Milk tells MTV. "The whole thing is a tremendous effort. But it's absolutely a dream come true. I'm not sure how I can ever do another video again after this."

Milk is editing together hours of his footage with heavily edited news clips to “make a commentary on the Katrina disaster.”

We’re guessing the commentary isn’t going to be, “Nice work, George W! High-fives from Green Day and U2!”

All proceeds from “The Saints Are Coming” will go toward a New Orleans charity that replaces instruments for musicians who lost theirs in the hurricane.


http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=2cc0aa9f-6ae5-47c7-913f-6dd4e9adc957&k=55948

 

[bono_212]

If it has to be explained then you never paid attention when it was happening in the first place. I'm not sure where you live but anyone in the world who has watched the news, even a fraction of it, over the last year or so know's what really happened.
If not, I suggest you pick up some world news magazines once in a while to find out what's going on.
Not trying to be a bitch here, but???

For the record, I am from Indiana. Second, I am rather very well informed on what happened. Third, I was just commenting on something I felt should've been different, because it's obvious that quite a few people were confused by the video. Note not only the comments on YouTube, but also some at the beginning of the thread. Because many people WERE aware that these events did not occur, so if you happeend to miss the idea the end of the video was trying to convey, then this video looked just as uneducated as you are now accusing me of being

 

[Galeongirl]

can somebody tell me the exact release date of Saints? I thought it was november 6, but I'm not sure now...

 

[Val]

I watched it again and again, and love it even more. It touches that anger in me for how those people were ignored. If I'm pissed, imagine how they feel. Living this disaster every day since... lives lost that didn't have to be. Kids who suffer nightmares and anxiety because they have seen first hand that adults can't protect them.
And I forgot about those people. Got on with my life.

I'm not saying what political party I am registered under, but I will say that this election I am voting Democratic. I urge you all to do the same. Checks and balances are a good thing. We need it in our congress and Senate.

 

[BVS]

Seemed fairly obvious to me...

 

[Canadiens1131]

You can do a political commentary/reactionary video without the heavy-handed callousness of a hundred Stealth Bombers dropping food parcels spliced over news footage.

Especially when a large portion of its viewing audience will be a bunch of 12 and 13 year-olds on VH1, MTV, and Youtube, who have grown up with Fox news and don't know an honest news story from a hole in the ground.

 

[bonocomet]

I'm just confused by Bono's jacket

 

[hcbiggs2002]

^Yeah I noticed that! I thought he was wearing an all black number during the live performance but there are the occasional shots of him in his BonoCop jacket!?!

 

[bonocomet]

Yes, they must be shots of rehearsal I guess?

He's wearing the plain black one and the copjacket. Glad I wasn't seeing things.

 

[AtomicBono]

You can do a political commentary/reactionary video without the heavy-handed callousness of a hundred Stealth Bombers dropping food parcels spliced over news footage.

Especially when a large portion of its viewing audience will be a bunch of 12 and 13 year-olds on VH1, MTV, and Youtube, who have grown up with Fox news and don't know an honest news story from a hole in the ground.

yeah, that's the unfortunate thing. probably a lot of people won't get this video. but many will and I think it will generate a lot more discussion than a normal performance video would have...

personally, I like it. it's unexpected, from U2 at least. also, awesome song.

 

[Canadiens1131]

Yes, they must be shots of rehearsal I guess?

He's wearing the plain black one and the copjacket. Glad I wasn't seeing things.

Yeah I think you're correct. The shots are all very close up and there are some strobe lights and whatnot that weren't in the live performance.

 

[Val]

Well, lets find other venues in which to talk about it. Maybe someoe in the press will write about a reaction to the video. Any ideas?

 

[Val]

I'm just confused by Bono's jacket

too funny!
thanks, I need a laugh to cool my heels

 

[shart1780]

Greenday are far from politically intelligent. I pray U2 doesn't make it a point to team up with them in the future.

 

[The Disciple]

Amazing.

 

[bort269]

I love the song but hate the video. I am really dissapointed that Green Day and U2 decided to turn a song designed to bring money in for musical instruments into a video that bashes the US Government. For me, the charity just lost all credibility. I loved the idea of Music Rising, I was on the field at the Superdome when they shot parts of that video!! I donated to Music Rising but if I had seen that video first I would not have donated at all. Not everyone likes to bash the US government. Katrina was a horrible NATURAL DISASTER. It wasn't like the government dropped a bomb and then didn't clean up fast enough!! It is not like the military has hundreds of warehouses with "'Terminator" like robots ready to go at a seconds notice! I won't get into how good a job they did or not, I wasn't there. I am just really surprised that Bono especially would compromise all the work he has done to be so diplomatic with both the left and right sides and then turn around and be in this video. I think he shot himself in the foot on this one. I would have really liked the video to show more upbeat footage, more on how the Music Rising Charity is HELPING the musicians of New Orleans. IMO this video was a very poor choice of venue to showcase Green Day and U2's political points of view. Seriously, where in that video does it promote Music Rising at all?????

when I read a post like this, I just have to ask myself... did you actually LISTEN to this song at all?

did you listen to the lyrics?
do you know what the song was originally about?

to me this video just follows the song perfectly!

the end is brilliant:

"I say no matter how I try, I realize there's no reply!!"

and then 'NOT seen on TV'

classic!

 

[shart1780]

I think Nuala's complaint wasn't whether or not the video and song were cool, but that they decided to use it for political grandstanding instead of pushing forward a good cause.

 

[bathiu]

I think Nuala's complaint wasn't whether or not the video and song were cool, but that they decided to use it for political grandstanding instead of pushing forward a good cause.

The clip will combine the stark black-and-white footage Milk shot at Abbey Road with the Superdome performance and "conceptual images" — heavily edited newsreel footage that Milk said would "make a commentary on the Katrina disaster ... from the standpoint of how things can and should be done in the future."

 

[BigMacPhisto]

Warplanes thing is quite nice.........although it seemed to go over half of the YouTuber's heads.

 

[beLIEve_ZOO121]

maybe just for me - but i dont really see whats so anti-US government about showing the newsreels. The moment where you see the jets flying over and you hear "The Saints -- are com-ing" ... Seems to me that its actually portraying the government differently.

(btw i never read the pages b/f, sorry if i repeated :S)

 

[Val]

maybe just for me - but i dont really see whats so anti-US government about showing the newsreels. The moment where you see the jets flying over and you hear "The Saints -- are com-ing" ... Seems to me that its actually portraying the government differently.

(btw i never read the pages b/f, sorry if i repeated :S)

I think you should read the prior pages and perhaps watch the video again.