One might almost imagine U2 would get bored of New York, but they keep coming back. Their new video for “You’re The Best Thing About Me” finds the lads cavorting merrily around New York City in one of those double-deckered tourist buses, and stopping to have beers and disreputably procure $1 pizza (I’ve warned you against this). Most of the shots find them around Rockefeller Center and Times Square -– to my mind two of the most cliched locales you could choose, but whatever. Their hearts were doubtlessly in the right place.
That all said, they kind of already did this back in 2005 with their video for “All Because of You,” which featured the band taking a page from the Rolling Stones (and Bjork, for that matter) and renting a flatbed truck and driving around NYC.
Prior to that, of course, there was also the now comparatively ancient video for “One,” which found our Bono lounging stylishly in Nell’s on West 14th street before manfully repairing to the streets to join his bandmates on –- wait for it -– Times Square.
There’s probably at least one other video that features them in New York in some capacity, but I can’t think of what it is. That all said, I did stumble up on the video below which -– topically speaking -– arguably should boast some footage of New York, but does not.
Honestly speaking, while I still quite like them, I stopped buying new U2 albums around the era of All That You Can’t Leave Behind. I just sort of felt I had everything I needed from them, by that point. As such, I am less aware of their more recent work. I am especiallly unfamiliar with 2014’s Songs of Innocence, which is the album they controvertially diseeminated by way of Apple prodicts. I suppose I must own in as result (don’t get me started about Apple products), but I’ve yet to give it a spin.
That’s why I’d never really listened to this song until today. This is “The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone),” which documents U2’s reverence for da brudders, despite sounding nothing like the fabled Queens ensemble.
I already knew that story, however, as I’ve mentioned here at least once (and, knowing me, I probably revisited it needlessly, as I’m doing now), I interviewed Bono in 2001 upon the death of Joey Ramone. You can read that whole saga here.
When I saw U2 this past summer, they didn’t play their new song above, they didn’t play the song below, they didn’t play “All Because of You.”
They did play “One.”
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