Is the new fucking X-factor winner.

A.N.Other Reason to dislike youknowwho. ("We're in the same exalted company. In fact we tower above them. Cos I am God")

that was a great video, very effective in summarizing the so many facets of our planet. Great U2 song too, I hope they put out more like this. At times, they get bland, but when they plunge again into some reflection expressed in video and music, the result is always breath-taking.

Nice post! :)

Wonder if the likes of Mr Cash, Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Elvis or Moz for that matter are happy having their images used to play sing along to Bono.

I don't like U2 at all, but this song is not that bad...

I love the video.

Morrissey never gets played on the radio anymore.....

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of U2 at all, this video made me sad!

I am a huge fan of The Smiths and Morrissey. I've seen Moz live three times live (which isn't bad for someone who lives in Finland) and I have a sleeve of Morrissey's shirt he threw to the audience last summer (which sais that I'm quite pathetic :P) I have every Smiths and Morrissey albums.

Queen Is Dead is the best album of the 80's for me, but even though I love 'Vauxhall and I' (I find it better than Viva Hate or Your Arsenal) I think there are at least couple of better ones made in the 90's. The other is Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind and the other is U2's Achtung Baby.

Anyway, this Window in The Skies is quite boring.

Almost every track on Achtung Baby or Zooropa is much more interesting or should I just say better than this. But the video is nice.
U2 giving some respect to their idols (the band members can be seen in the crowd)

how did they get approval froma all those living and dead artists? Even if you are paying tribute to those artists you have to at least be somewhere near the same level of status and U2 are way off by a long shot! There are a couple of questionable choices in there too. How did Moz say yes to this?

Moz is at approximately 1:43 in this video, and it's footage from the "What Difference Does It Make?" appearance on Top of the Pops.

Hope this helps those who don't want to sit through...

InF

Moz has always spoke quite favourably about Bono. They were quite friendly at the Hotpress Awards in Belfast back in 98. Moz even presented U2 with an award. They sat at the same table and walked off the stage arm in arm.

How dare he?
Some of these icons are dead and can not defend themselves. He has gone to far with his "I am Bono, I bring world peace, hear me roar"-shit.
I hope the ghosts of Billie, Joe, Johnny and the rest of these poor souls haunt Bono in his sleep untill he runs of a cliff.
I am so sick and tired of this and I don't care if Morrissey has been friendly with Bono once or twice, there is no excuse for this behavior. He is repulsive in the extreme and always exploiting these starving children from a third world country to look like Messiah. Shoot him, please!

Love, peace and harmony. Very nice, very nice, very nice.
Maybe in the next world..

Alain is also in the video wearing a red shirt playing alway in his Les Paul!

This is a good thing for Moz. Like them or not, U2 is one of the biggest bands in the world. This video will be seen by millions.
thetexasbloke

I would love to see the actual Morrissey in the U2 video because I think now he looks better than ever, and when I go
to sleep at nigth I ask god (?) to please send me a Morrissey dream...
he is so handsome!
From Guadalajara with love!

After looking at this video (approximately at 18"), don't you think Martin Gore resembles Art Garfunkel quite a bit? :P

Japi Jolideis from Tijuana

intresting.

... what a headache the editor must have had trying to synch all of those singers and instruments from all of those icons to match the song- very impressed!

Moz at his Smithiest

Blink and you'll miss him, but it's pretty cool that the U2 boys (love em or hate em) lumped him in with this elite group of historical rock figures.

You could've avoided the red-light trail: it is such an identifiable iPod ad visual gimmick (see last campaign) and we all know that you've got a contract with them... What the hell are you trying to do ? Or is it because you put that thingy on the video that you were allowed to use all those artists footage??? huh??? Simply put: it is despicable.

Okay Bono, you are going to save the worlds starving, so why then do you not, instead of using the £1 Billion equity fund investment through 'Elevation Partners' in a series of money making ventures, to bank roll some useful publicity to expose the reasons for it (Globalisation, World Trade Organisation/World Bank, Imperialist West/Control of Oil)? Oh Christ no, then the machinery that generates the estimated $400million personal fortune of Bono in the next 10 years will be gone!

Ok Bono - saviour of the poor, why invest in what is widely regarded as bible of capitalism of 'Forbes Magazine' (40% buy out at close to £160M)? Hey Bono - they do loads for the poor of the world. You going to close it down? Thought not.

Why not save some poor people rather than have a property portfolio that includes a Villa in the South France, Italian Style Plazzo overlooking Dublin, the £15M Penthouse in Manhattan (12ft Nickel doors and floor to ceiling windows at £40k a piece)? You even bought your neighbours house for £3 million just to link it with your own! Good man, lots of poor people saved so far!

Check out Bonos mates. Go on, Google them!!!

Steve Forbes (Editor of Forbes magazine 'Bono is an avid reader');
Frank Quattrone - real nice guy
Roger Macnamee Oh - you did a jam session for him at his birthday bash did you not? With a song specially written for the occasion!

Saint Bono, I hope I am all wrong and you have an ultimate quest to use the wealth and power for some ACTUAL good in the world and not just great PR.

Please please, oh never mind.

Hearing the repellent squawl of U2 over the top of such beautiful giftd people (Ella Fitzgerald! Kurt Cobain! Smokey Robinson for Christ's sake!) has made me sick down to my boots. Who do they think they are? Bongo has ruined Christmas. I barf in their general direction.

... but perhaps after 20 years he has no longer any rights on the old video pics.

Come on now...Anybody that says U2 don't belong in the league of many of those featured in the video are not really facing the truth. They are legends and are nearing Beatles status as all-time greats. I put The Smiths in that category too of course. Granted, U2's more recent output is a little too adult contemporary for my tastes, but Achtung Baby is possibly the best album ever. Oh, and Joshua Tree isn't half bad either! Has anyone ever heard some of their more experimental B-sides??? (Alex Decends into Hell, Race against Time, etc..) Brilliant. They have evolved over 30 years and survived, and I give them props. I also respect other people's opinions, but whilst knowing that I am right :)

i really doubt frank zappa would have liked to be added to the group of people in this video...frank alone is a better musician than any of the guys from u2

awful song & great idea for the video-too bad RHCP did it before them.

You don't NEED permission if the clips are this short. Same with songs. They assume you can't do anything to break copyright with such a small clip. They're concerned with bootlegging, not small snippets.

Poise.

Was the irony not lost on anyone else that U2's (or whomever put the video together) chosen clip was of the ONE song of the Smiths ("What Difference Does It Make?") that Moz claims
he doesn't like anymore?

Veddy interesting...

InF

and how come none of the beatles made it into the video??
excepting for morrissey's and bowie's cameos, this is rubbish.

Bono giving less pompous and irritating performance then normal.

And video is original and naice to watch.

Good Job.

And out man gets his 0,3 sec of fame too

this sounds like a bad James' track.
around the 'Laid' album era.

happy new year u miserable bastards.

bono, please make another unforgettable fire.