MERGED-->Gangs of New York video + Hands video

[SkeeK]

Gangs of New York video

not sure if this is the video proper... i would assume so, as it's official

http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/aol/us/aolmusic/artists/universal/u2/u2_gangsofny_bb8.rm

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Hands video

U2Log.com's got a link to the video for The Hands That Built America... cool video, but woulda liked to see, or hear, rather, the soundtrack mix used... ah but what the hey.

 

[bonosloveslave]

Thanks for the link

I am shocked if this is the actual video - the in-studio video that's on the Best Of was cool to have, but I can't believe they would actually use the vocals from that take for the mainstream video - it's the WORST of the 3 out there, you know I love B but he is soooooo flat at the end of "on the spray of the new land star" and the word 'early' when he sings "it's early fall" - it's like nails on a chalkboard to me

Anybody who's seen the movie - the shot of someone on the bridge who tosses the Bible in the water - is that from the movie? Wondering about it's significance.....

 

[oliveu2cm]

Re: Hands video

U2Log.com's got a link to the video for The Hands That Built America... cool video, but woulda liked to see, or hear, rather, the soundtrack mix used... ah but what the hey.

I'm confused, so which mix is which? the soundtrack one is the one released on the best of?

thanks,
Olive

 

[typhoon]

The soundtrack mix is the one on the, uh, soundtrack.

 

[bonosloveslave]

Olive-
There is the version from the soundtrack that is actaully on the Gangs Sdtk that is in stores (but be warned the rest of the cd blows chunks), the version from the Best Of dvd, and the version from the Best Of cd.

 

[oliveu2cm]

Thanks for clearing up the video confusion BLS! I wasn't sure which video was on the best of (which I just got and ).

Anybody who's seen the movie - the shot of someone on the bridge who tosses the Bible in the water - is that from the movie? Wondering about it's significance.....

Leonardo Dicaprio's character throws the Bible into the water. It's one of the first shots we see of him as a grown up, and a priest has just given him the Bible (I think he responds with a "fuck off") and then tosses it over the bridge into the water. If you have seen the movie you'll understand the animosity he feels- and it's not exactly toward the church, but toward one of the sects under Christianity that was trying to run the town and had, when he was a child, done him harm. Hope that makes sense!

 

[bonosloveslave]

Thanks Olive!

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

the closing scene of gangs, where they finally use Hands in the movie, is absolutely brethtaking... when the orchestra part blasted at top volume in the movie theatre... truely a moment of u2 zen

 

[wertsie]

the closing scene of gangs, where they finally use Hands in the movie, is absolutely brethtaking... when the orchestra part blasted at top volume in the movie theatre... truely a moment of u2 zen

I agree. That completely blew me away. I was just staring open-mouthed at the screen!