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U2 "Get Out Of Your Own Way" (Broken Fingaz Crew, dir.)

A very Pop, mixed-media look at the awful reality of today.

Broken Fingaz Crew, director: "The video addresses the current political situation: 2017 for us was the year fascists worldwide felt confident enough to raise their heads again, encouraged by Trump and other world leaders, who use people's fear to build more walls and segregation. 

The song is both a personal letter and a clarion cry to the global situation, and in the same way, we've combined our psychedelic pop style with political imagery; shot entirely analogue, using paper cut and stop motion animation techniques" [via YouTube]

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Woody Harrelson in U2 "Song For Someone" (Vincent Haycock, dir.)

Wise men enter prison with a brave face, but they also leave with fear as they step out into the unknowns of freedom. That's the crux of this short story of a music video Woody Harrelson as a long incarcerated man reconnecting with his daughter — played by real-life daughter, Zoe Harrelson — and the rest of his life. 

"Song For Someone" serves as a thematic tie-in with Sundance series RECTIFY, about a perhaps innocent man who gets freed after 19 yers on Death Row.

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U2 "Every Breaking Wave [NSFW]" (Aoife McArdle, dir.)

This short film released through The Creators Project uses the U2 song of the same name (and another one of their "free" songs, "The Troubles") as the soundtrack and inspiration for a love affair trying to last through the turbulent days and nights of early '80s Belfast.

It's deeply personal for director Aoife McArdle.

And for The Edge, who says, "The Aoife McArdle short film expands on the theme of Songs of Innocence which was largely rooted in our experience growing up in the early eighties in Dublin. Aoife chose west Belfast in the same period, as it was the neighborhood that was so formative to her. We think her work is something pretty extraordinary.”

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U2 Premieres "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)" Video at iTunes (of course)

OK, you ingrates. Now you can't even buy the U2 album at iTunes. It's up for "pre-order" for $6.99, so if you're realizing now that maybe you shouldn't have removed it from your library in a fit of meme rage, your only choices are to stream at Beats, or you can buy a fancier physical version for more than that. Happy now?

Freeloading music fans still get one thing for free, however: The video for "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)," which is available for free streaming from, where else, iTunes. It's not drastically different from the iTunes commecial, except with an edgier post treatment, more colors and some lyrical shout-outs to the song and The Ramones.

Watch the video at iTunes, if you can find it: Direct linkage seems impossible — sharing is not caring — so look for the big banner in the Music carousel.

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New U2 Lyric Video "Ordinary Love" for Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

"Ordinary Love" — no relation to Sade — is the first new music from U2 since the band's 2009 No Line On The Horizon. There's no drastic stylistic shifts — although an organ vamp takes precedent over The Edge's chiming guitar — and it's unclear if this will be viewed as a return to form, or how U2 fits into the modern music landscape, but it's a fitting tie-in to the Mandela biopic Long Walk To Freedom, and the lyric video has a classy handmade vibe that befits all involved.

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U2 "One" (Anton Corbijn, Mark Pellington, Phil Joanou, dir.) 2992

First off, we have Anton Corbijn's version, which is the one I most associate with the song. Shot on-location at and around Berlin's Samsa Studio where U2 recorded Achtung Baby and is probably best remembered as the video where U2 is dressed in drag (which overshadowed the fact that Bono's dad has a cameo in it, and made the band think that it wasn't appropriate since all single sales proceed were going to AIDS charities).