Favourite music videos

[Casamares]

Which music videos do you like most?

 

[Galeongirl]

One, Anton Corbijn version
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
The Fly
Discotheque
Staring at the sun


I smell a theme.

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

'Where the Streets Have No Name': Favorite U2 song. Favorite live U2 song. Favorite U2 video

 

[Casamares]

'Where the Streets Have No Name': Favorite U2 song. Favorite live U2 song. Favorite U2 video

 

[Sicy]

The Sweetest Thing is one of my favorites.. for sentimental reasons.

And Electrical Storm for.. um Larry hotness reasons.

 

[lauramullen]

Electrical Storm
Streets
The Fly

 

[waynetravis]

City of Blinding Lights

 

[Earnie Shavers]

Most of their 90's clips were brilliant. Not sure of a single favourite.

80's and 00's... not so much. One or two from both that aren't too bad, but the majority were at best forgettable, at worst really embarrassing.

 

[zooropop40]

Lemon
Numb
Please
Until the end of the world
The Fly
Staring at the sun

 

[Jeannieco]

As every good PLEABAN knows it's HORSES and ELECTRICAL STORM for obvious reasons.
B and L at their most visually stimulating shall we say!

 

[alanah]

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses is probably my favorite video..
edit: ah, and I love The Fly and One too.

 

[An Cat Gav]

City of Blinding Lights

I love the song but don't like the video at all, i just think the song deserved so much better than just a performance video.
My favourites would be The Fly, Stay, Unforgettable Fire, Lemon,One(anton cobjinn. I dont think u2 videos have done the music justice down the years, too often they revert to performance pieces and shots, sometimes this works like in the one video but normally it doesnt, such as the electrical storm video.

 

[Casamares]

My types:

1. ONE - version with Bono in a restaurant. All video is just perfect. Unique atmosphere.

2. ELEVATION - so funny Especially The Edge with Lara Croft and Bono's flying baguette

3. DESIRE - great views and Bono's hair ^^

Moreover there are so many others cool videos like Sometimes you can't make it on your own with turning a room into an opera, I still haven't found what I'm looking for with Bono's face which has never looked as joyful as in this video, Where the streets have no name near the sky etc....

I must stop at this point, but the list could be soooooooo looooong

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

Electrical Storm, One (both versions, but I like the Anton one better), WOWY, Stay, Discotheque, Beautiful Day, Mysterious Ways...

And, what the hell, I like Gloria too.

 

[Casamares]

And, what the hell, I like Gloria too.

Gloria! I love it! ;D

 

[corianderstem]

I love the song but don't like the video at all, i just think the song deserved so much better than just a performance video.

Ditto. Plus, the video is just so dark! That always bugged me.

Love Electrical Storm, love the Corbijn and the bar version of One, love Even Better Than the Real Thing.

Streets, Lemon, Stay ... lots of good ones.

Oh, I also really like If God Will Send His Angels. I don't think that one gets many mentions.

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

Gloria! I love it! ;D

I love the setting and simplicity. Not your typical '80s video, lol.

 

[juliaguliaxo94]

Oh, I also really like If God Will Send His Angels. I don't think that one gets many mentions.

I totally forgot that one! Great song, great video. Really unique.

 

[digitize]

Lemon
Lemon
Lemon
Lemon
Lemon
Stay
Numb
Lemon

Also, Disco and BD are great.

 

[VintagePunk]

Oh, I also really like If God Will Send His Angels. I don't think that one gets many mentions.

Ha! As soon as I saw this thread title, that one came to mind for me. Love it.

So much video goodness in the 90s that I could probably list all of them and attempt to rank them, but the three that come to mind instantly for me are the above, Wild Horses, and Stay.

 

[The_Edge89]

As a reminder I'm throwing this one in here. I added the No Line On The Horizon-era videos myself so maybe I forgot something.

[B]Year	Title							Director[/B]
1980	I Will Follow						Meiert Avis
1981	Gloria							Meiert Avis
1982	A Celebration						Meiert Avis
1983	New Year's Day						Meiert Avis
1983	Two Hearts Beat As One					Meiert Avis
1983	Sunday Bloody Sunday					Gavin Taylor
1984	Pride							Donald Cammell
1984	Pride (Version 3: Faces)				Anton Corbijn
1985	The Unforgettable Fire					Meiert Avis
1985	A Sort Of Homecoming (Live)				Barry Devlin
1987	With or Without You					Meiert Avis
1987	With or Without You (Version 2: Verona)			Maurice Linnane
1987	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For		Barry Devlin
1987	Where the Streets Have No Name				Meiert Avis
1987	Spanish Eyes						Barry Devlin
1987	In God's Country					Barry Devlin
1987	Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)			??
1988	Desire							Lowenstein & Milburn
1988	Desire (Extended Video Remix)				??
1988	Angel of Harlem						Richard Lowenstein
1989	When Love Comes to Town					Phil Joanou
1989	All I Want is You					Meiert Avis
1990	Night and Day						Wim Wenders
1991	The Fly							Klein & Smyth
1991	Mysterious Ways						Stephane Sednaoui
1992	One (Berlin version)					Anton Corbijn
1992	One (Buffalo version)					Mark Pellington
1992	One (Bono in bar version)				Phil Joanou
1992	Even Better Than the Real Thing				Kevin Godley
1992	Even Better Than the Real Thing (Dance Remix)		Richie Smyth
1992	Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses			Phil Joanou
1992	Until the End of the World				Ritchie Smyth
1993	Love is Blindness					Matt Mahurin
1993	Numb							Kevin Godley
1993	Numb (Video Remix)					Pearson & Post
1993	Lemon							Mark Neale
1993	Stay (Faraway So Close!)				Wim Wenders
1995	Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me			Godley & Linnane
1995	Miss Sarajevo						Maurice Linnane
1997	Discothèque						Stephane Sednaoui
1997	Staring at the Sun					Jake Scott
1997	Staring at the Sun (Miami Version)			Morleigh Steinberg
1997	Last Night on Earth					Richie Smyth
1997	Please							Anton Corbijn
1997	If God Will Send His Angels				Phil Joanou
1997	MOFO							Maurice Linnane
1998	Sweetest Thing						Kevin Godley
2000	The Ground Beneath Her Feet				Wim Wenders
2000	Beautiful Day						Jonas Åkerlund
2000	Beautiful Day (Eze version)				Jonas Åkerlund
2001	Stuck in A Moment					Kevin Godley
2001	Stuck in A Moment (USA version)				Joseph Kahn
2001	Walk On (Version 1: Brazil)				Jonas Akerlund
2001	Walk On (Version 2: London)				Liz Friedlander
2001	Elevation						Joseph Kahn
2002	Electrical Storm					Anton Corbijn
2002	The Hands That Built America (Studio version)		Maurice Linnane
2002	The Hands That Built America (Movie version)		Gareth O'Neil
2004	Vertigo							Alex & Martin
2005	Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own	Phil 		Joanou
2005	Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own (Version 2)	Phil Joanou
2005	City of Blinding Lights					Alex & Martin
2005	All Because of You					Phil Joanou
2005	Original of the Species					Catherine Owens
2005	Original of the Species (Bono Version)			Catherine Owens
2006	One (With Mary J. Blige)				Paul Hunter
2006	The Saints are Coming (With Green day)			Chris Milk
2006	The Saints are Coming (With Green day) (Version 2)	Chris Milk
2006	Window in the Skies					Gary Koepke
2006	Window in the Skies (Version 2)				??
2006	Window in the Skies (Beatles Edit)			Gary Koepke
2008 	Get On Your Boots					Alex Courtes
2008 	Get On Your Boots (Punk version)			Alex Courtes
2008 	Magnificent						Alex Courtes
2008 	I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Barcelona)	Alex Courtes
2008 	I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Animated)	David O' Reilly

Source: // u2boy.nl // U2 Music Videos

As for my own reply, I'll have to think about it for a while.
Meanwhile, here's my favourite fan-made U2 video, put together by the extra-ordinary U2Mixer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lla2RRPLRrU

 

[Gabi_Clayton]

Please, One (Anton Corbijn version), The Fly, WOWY, Walk on (both versions), Stay

 

[trojanchick99]

'Where the Streets Have No Name': Favorite U2 song. Favorite live U2 song. Favorite U2 video

This.

I also love Numb, Even Better Than the Real Thing and The Fly.

I enjoy for different reasons, Elevation and Discotheque.

 

[Casamares]

I forgot about The sweetest thing

 

[JoRu]

Beautiful Day
Elevation
One
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Sweetest Thing
The Fly

And then of course...

DISCOTHEQUE!!

 

[alanah]

Oh yeah, I also LOVE Beautiful Day and Crazy and Lemon...

Spoiler

edit: and Electrical Storm...

 

[Tim Wallach]

I'm not sure anything fit the song, fit the era and fit the general zeitgeist like The Fly.

That was the only "blow me away" moment a music video has ever given me.

 

[nielsgov]

The Fly, Discotheque, Lemon, Streets...

But I haven't even watched them all.

 

[Zoo360]

The Unforgetable Fire
Last Night on Earth
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
One (Buffalo)

 

[Gabi_Clayton]

Please, One (Anton Corbijn version), The Fly, WOWY, Walk on (both versions), Stay

I forgot Original of the species and Staring at the sun (both versions)