U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (Official Music Video)

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The official video for Even Better Than The Real Thing by U2.
Filmed in spring 1992 in London, this video for the fourth single from the album Achtung Baby was directed by Kevin Godley.
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Lyrics:
Give me one more chance, and you'll be satisfied.
Give me two more chances, you won't be denied.
Well my heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between
Give me one more chance, let me be your lover tonight.
(Check it out)
You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing.
Give me one last chance, and I'm gonna make you sing
Give me half a chance to ride on the waves that you bring
You're honey child to a swarm of bees
Gonna blow right through ya like a breeze
Give me one last dance, we'll slide down the surface of things
You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing.
We're free to fly the crimson sky
The sun won't melt our wings tonight.
Oh now, oh yeah, here she comes
Take me higher, take me higher
You take me higher, you take me higher.
You're the real thing
Yeah, you're the real thing.
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing.
Even better than the real thing.
Even better than the real thing.

[@brainscott8198]

This video gives me....wait for it....vertigo.

[@strictlynorton]

Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno created high sonic on Achtung Baby... the high water mark of U2's career.

[@jacplanespotting314]

agree

[@tonyc3282]

I think Achtung Baby was their best studio album!

[@jillb2161]

Joshua tree was great too 🐦

[@tonyc3282]

@@jillb2161 Agreed and it made them a Supergroup too! 😁 That album would be my 2nd favourite after Achtung Baby which just nudges it for me! 👍

[@jillb2161]

I m of the two minds of which was better

[@gary1270]

No doubt about it....zooropa very good too!

[@mb-ms2mk]

저도 조슈아트리보다 악퉁베이비가 좋음

[@billyjoefrancis]

I recall Achtung Baby being the most anticipated album that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime. Brilliant track and album.

[@elleericson2056]

Agree!

[@Boric78]

Also a shock - many fans struggled with the new sound. I thought it was great - the sound of Pan European Harmony and the Futurism. Shame our Political Class aren't Bono.

[@WRX2001]

Absolutely i remember buying the album at midnight the day it was released..

[@jackjude]

@@Boric78 yeah, this is why the Achtung and Zooropa chapter is their best work, the music, tours, artwork are all inflected with with ideas and interesting concepts. The Irish band returning from a mythic America to a new Europe.

[@eoinoneill9596]

@Alfredo Jonstone Our political class are Bono: evading taxes and pretending to care about Africa

[@stephaneelfassi8797]

Un des meilleurs si ce n'est le meilleur album de U2 dont est tiré ce morceau ..je cite Atchung baby ..

[@FreddyRuiz]

This song recharges the energies of the human being to 100%.

[@michaelkottler]

Agreed.

[@RosebudWatt-qs1vo]

I love bono & The edge ♥️

[@nunorsm]

200%!

[@joannewilson1483]

Perfect

[@xristosmakris4477]

❤φφφφ❤φφφ

[@zitherzon2121]

Rockstars here. For real.

[@pepeanza6187]

30 years later fucking amazing song

[@keithbunyan2321]

Guitaring on this track is majestic.

[@jonathanvernot762]

Achtung Baby soars above any other U2 record.

[@gary1270]

No doubt

[@JohnCarswellJMC]

After 30 years, this song still kicks me in the ass and the soul at the same time. Absolute chills. This is basically the world since 1991 in one song.

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend an indie song called 'The Bond Villain' by Robert Nix

[@ibegream5854]

​@@redskies4530i love it

[@redskies4530]

@@ibegream5854 Glad you liked the recommendation.

[@IMTC-ri9jw]

Listen my dude, if music is good... it's ageless. People get born today and will love Led Zeppelin 15 years from now, that's the way it works :) To me Achtung Baby is one of the best albums of all time.

[@JohnCarswellJMC]

@@IMTC-ri9jw nuh duh muh bruh

[@James-pq3qq]

"YOU ARE THE REAL THING...EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING..."

[@James-pq3qq]

HENCE THIS EXERCISE WITH THE N9NE...

[@giuseppedevita1241]

The best Band of the planet

[@BlueSoulJim]

Sting 1:07 Beatles, Bryan Ferry, Johnny Cash, Everly Bros 1:12 Prince 2:05 Johnny Rotten 3:13 George Michael 3:14 Elvis Presley 3:16 David Bowie 3:19 Buddy Holly 3:20 Michael Jackson 3:22 Jimi Hendrix 3:24

[@mot00rzysta]

2:29 SIMONE ANGEL

[@Wizardofsonic]

Bono

[@horrorpowerfilms9481]

1:53 Salvador Dali, Charles Manson, and later on the star of the video Italian actress Cicciolina at 2:08, the celebrity with most screen time of them all on the video.

[@leonardopires5575]

Achtung Baby will always be a game changer.

[@IrfanAhmad-ee2ek]

I love u2 nothing better than the real thing lol 😅😅😅😅

[@elissahoran1130]

Thank you, U2, for Achtung Baby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Flashfyre-p1k]

Based on the video, this should have been called Vertigo. I'm glad I have been able to grow up with the band! They always come out with exactly what I need/want to hear next!

[@JamesMcGill-hl5lw]

U2 at those years were at their own f*cking division.

[@karl7559]

Ahhhhhhh ano de 1991, antes do lançamento desse ábum,U2 pra mim era banda ja velha,musicas piegas ,musicas que a'''irmã mais velha ouvia😅 '' e esse álbum me fez cair de 4 por adoração a banda, jovem de 17 anos em 1991 que curtia muito FNM,Happy mondays, Stone Roses e se curvou ao U2 e esse épico álbum. Amo vocês eternamente.

[@JB-xp9gk]

Achtung baby and Zooropa are my favorite U2 albums. Nothing better than this two. 😍

[@Perebynis]

"Watch more TV" - yeah right! "It´s on television so it must be true!" (Lemmy Kilmister) "Achtung Baby" is U2´s best album, so far. Great tunes and lyrics.

[@andresgc770]

90s U2 deserves more credit than it gets. Sometimes people act like U2 didn't release anything noteworthy between the 80s and "Beautiful Day" SMDH...

[@Mamapingacalixto7174]

People who thinks like this are fucking stupid

[@JamesSmith-zp4cs]

Agreed, I think 90s u2 was the best. They are at their peak here

[@chathamj73]

They ruled the world with Achtung Baby and Zoo TV. It was my Sr year in high school and ma it was a badass time indeed. Never forget it. Looking forward to Vegas this November

[@maxmeier532]

More credit? I mean, who cares. Achtung Baby is one of the best albums ever made that's quite obvious. It's basically complete. There isnt two singles and some afterthoughts. You could name every single song on that album and it's a classic in its own form. And I do believe the album is somewhat detached from anything they did before and after, although there are some songs from I think their next album that would have fit well on Achtung Baby as well, like "gone".

[@DaveTerrasidio]

my sentiments exactly my dude! there are far more of us than you thinkk tho, take heart! : )

[@watanabex]

this was U2 at its peak, just amazing music and media presentation/design, no one compares to u2 in this particular moment

[@coreyzimmerman9782]

Zoo TV stageshow was overwhelming

[@elizabethmcleod246]

@@coreyzimmerman9782 I loved it!

[@michaelkottler]

Absolutely.

[@orange58729]

Sliding the surface of things. Instant gratification. Smart and ironic song. They are an all around band.

[@chrisakersmusic]

My goodness this song is addictive.

[@wvuman98]

This song is still rockin' after almost 30 years. Love this video.

[@ultraviolethaze6212]

Great driving tune with lots of Bass

[@cathalsweeney6]

Godley and cream

[@voutespancar]

it's been 30 years already

[@cathalsweeney6]

William it's even better live or than the real thing

[@joseluisespinosa3997]

EDGE, El hombre de las mil guitarras

[@deadairconversion]

This song never gets old. Just as fresh now as it was thirty years ago

[@larrydoran1979]

Agree

[@patp8526]

👍🏼

[@elleericson2056]

Agree!

[@garymarshall4375]

Agree.

[@shamtenma5350]

Live version or studio 😏

[@frederickrose3967]

To me, the word that anchors Achtung Baby is "Zeitgeist". It captured that moment of cultural upheaval, anxiety and possibility that was the end of the Cold War and the prospect of Anglo American corporate cultural hegemony like nothing else.

[@urthondurdie]

Yes indeed, I lived in Berlin back then.

[@sandraweilbrenner67]

Everything about this band is right

[@FortBragg4eva]

Some songs are just so iconic to me and this is one. This is one I listen to and in my mind I’m like “I can’t believe I was around and remember when this was released”. There’s something satisfying about that.

[@andreadenicolo4305]

Achtung Baby...incredibile album!!! Every song a Masterpiece. And the video, wow!!! 30 years ago, but good music Is forever

[@keithhill7956]

If you look at 1.12 of video , a pic of what looks like the Beatles flashes up , right on the nose of that guitar solo riff , that sounds almost note perfect to the small couple of seconds riff on Strwberry fields , Beatles Can't help but here that riff all the time through this song I don't think that's coincidences I never linked or noticed that before the many years I've viewed this fantastic tune

[@rifqikhairul7458]

Achtung Baby is my most favorite album of the band. and this year will be 31 years anniversary.

[@MrDanilofoiani]

30 years: 18 novembre 1991

[@operationbruce3821]

Achtung baby the best album of all time.

[@rifqikhairul7458]

Thanks fo the correction bro

[@The_ATARI_King]

it's Funny as I rememeber feeling a bit flat towards it after the blues of the Joshua Tree (rattle n him was mostly live stuff with a few good tracks ) but NOW what an album... messes me up mind that it is 31 yrs old.., LOYS of life has been lived and lots of women loved since them times!! damm too fast

[@juanantonduran]

I didn't notice I was so old until I read you comment...

[@gianlucabellucci1077]

U2, the best in the world!!!!! Bono, number one, in the world!!!!!

[@scotto6314]

Still the Coolest Band 😎 ever ! Even in 2023 !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JoesCaribbeanVanLife]

This song is pre-internet and still sounds and looks like something that would come out current year.

[@greglyons2526]

whole album the same

[@jankarlsson8341]

Yeah, it has aged well.

[@samsundquist]

It sounds better to me than anything that is likely to come out this year.

[@TheBlairb09]

Even better than the current thing. Even better than the real thing....

[@LOUIS-np6be]

IT SOUNDS SOOOO YESTERDAY !!! MOOVE ON !!

[@Vantrex68]

The Fly without fly shades. This video was the real thing, one of my favorites musical videos.

[@kevpilling9821]

Thank You Mr. Larry Mullen Jnr for putting up your notice in the Mount Temple school in 1976 asking for Musicians .. Our Unique Brilliant Band would not exist today for that x

[@blackstarkitten]

Achtung Baby is amazing 😍

[@christopherjeffery8691]

The 1990's Was A Excellent Decade For Music and Films

[@RobertLeachman]

this cut was amusing once but I don't need to hear it again. Thanks U2 for not taking down the bootlegs.

[@PaulA-sy1xl]

We took part in this video as "The Doppelgangers" lookalike band, it brings back so many great memories working with U2 and staff over four days at the Zoo shop at Carnaby Street & Pinewood studios. #U2

[@RicardoZamora]

I always wondered who were the first doppelgangers. They took a similar approach for the Tomb Raider video

[@greety]

You were so good, anyone not knowing any better, thinks the ‘window band’ is the real deal 👍🏼☺️

[@willdosongwithdrakeoneday4036]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5TLdKChirZjr9k

[@theTruthLifeNWay]

Thank you for the Bono Shades brother. Marty UU2

[@PaulA-sy1xl]

@@theTruthLifeNWay hey no problem, thanks for a wonderful show and looking after so us well during our visit, good to hear from you hope all well with you and the other UU2 guys.

[@TheSpaLife69]

This song is Prophetic. We have evolved and devolved simultaneously.

[@MedalionDS9]

Joshua Tree is a really amazing album with some of U2's most classic songs ever... but Achtung Baby is the 90's rival to it... because it was the sound of U2 chopping down the joshua tree

[@lonkylaine]

Great quote from Bono.

[@rogergui1980]

Esse U2 sarcástico e debochado com esse álbum sensacional nunca mais nem o próprio U2 é capaz de se superar !!

[@Watcher4111]

And sadly they planted Puny Joshua tree after 2000 year

[@pathat3027]

Sitting under it dublin ireland ❤🇨🇮🎇✨✨✨✨✨

[@AlexaExtraordinaire]

Great song. Great lyrics. Great video. Achtung Baby made me a U2 fan and the ZOO TV Tour blew my mind.

[@jaripynnonen6404]

This is a real giant rock video. I still remeber the first time i hear and saw this masterpiece. Still get goosebumbs. Those were the days. Missing those days. ZooTv was something to remember for my whole life. U2 on it s peak

[@GerryScullion]

This is Kevin Godley ALL OVER IT. Such a distinctive producer! One of the best. I remember seeing this and thought it was from the future.

[@haraldbuit4215]

U2 in their most creative and exiting phase. AB, Zooropa en Pop. Wish they tried it again!

[@kristyansedano6758]

We will never see anything like this again... So sad

[@ilhamhasinur8871]

What a song !! What a video !! Awesome camera work and editing !! It won best music video in 1992 at MTV video music awards for its innovative camera work.

[@Bernhard2024]

Winner of 2 MTV Video Music Awards 1992: "Best Group Video", "Best Special Effects in a Video".

[@Rishiyisus]

JESUS CRIST THIS HD IS BEAUTIFUL MY EYES ARE BLESSED EASILY THE BEST ONE

[@ashokrajan5275]

How come this masterpiece has only 2.4M views? feels like a bizzaro universe???

[@jcmagnus]

Thank God for that ❤

[@viktorgencur7019]

too mutch complex, for ordinary people.

[@chrisgreene2623]

Cause it is dated and they have not been relevant in 3 decades you fool

[@jcmagnus]

@@viktorgencur7019 Viktor mi amor ...xx peace

[@crashwhitman2121]

BEST BAND ON THE PLANET, HANDS DOWN. EVERY ALBUM SINCE THEIR VERY FIRST HAS BEEN AHEAD OF ITSELF & EVERY TOUR ❤️ ! ONE LOVE ❤️

[@NZStarWarsNooB]

Whomever changed U2's image back then was a genius. Fly shades, vinyl etc... genius move

[@lmpl4156]

The best Album of all times AB, the 4th best single of any time. EBTTRT

[@jalvisrodriguez-rf4zf]

Para mí el mejor álbum de U2, no tiene desperdicio, allí se destaca la guitarra mágica de the edge, recuerdo en ese tiempo eran casettes yo lo compré por cierto, en aquellos 90'

[@TheCojeyden]

One of the best U2 songs, it makes you vibrate

[@LoneLee2022]

That whole album beginning to end.

[@mattiadei8402]

best U2 album in my opinion

[@LoneLee2022]

No doubt for sure.

[@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb]

Peak U2. I remember seeing this video when it first came out and thinking, they are untouchable.

[@brainscott8198]

Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve, 1991...6PM EST...right after work i leave my house in Jax., Florida to make it in time for turkey dinner at my parents house in Houston, TX the next day. I've got the new U2 cassette tape, Achtung Baby blasting in my 1982 Toyota Corolla...I distinctly remember speeding across the Florida panhandle dark as fuck, windows down, cool breeze rushing in and The Real Thing playing...time of my life.

[@bodies2magenta]

Simply yet another spectacularly versatile, innovative and uniquely cool song thanks to U2, owing to their legendary & outright classic record *Actung Baby.*

[@alfredroberts5886]

I am amazed only 2;2 m viewers .This is an outstanding track amongst U2 who have released 30 outstandings songs . The best band in the world the foo fighters .

[@workingZen]

I still scratch my head to how this was filmed going around them and through their legs. Great album

[@greg.murphy]

They had a track for the camera to travel in the shape of a C. They aligned it with the ceiling beam to disguise it. Some is offtrack, handheld.

[@vitahenao]

Me too!

[@birdienumnum2012]

One of my favorite albums … Actung baby

[@claudiooliveira7497]

Achtung Baby!!! Beautiful album!!! I used to hear this song while doing homework...

[@lucasharris5727]

Thanks fore the rescue U2!

[@gavinthorburn5385]

This has aged really well still relevant

[@dlracer2]

The Edge has put more “flavor” into an electric guitar than anyone ever before

[@RichyVeneno]

Thanks to this video I became a fan of #U2. Even Better Than The Real Thing is still one of my favorite songs today. I think I can only hope what they have prepared for the 30th anniversary of the glorious Achtung Baby.Greetings from Latin America

[@alexriofta7846]

Doesn't it suck that rock, notably rock like this is damn near dead on the charts today?

[@gonzalosotomayor6187]

Just listen to the song and stop saying "underrated" and making up stories, please grow up!

[@sharonannegallant3349]

Keep that sparkle and keep shining on...

[@pamela8329]

One of the best U2 songs hands down! This video, ironically, reminds me of the spinning video by the band Inhaler. Keeping those lads on their toes, are we?

[@reecewg2009]

I am not a hardcore U2 fan but god damn it, achtung baby is a masterpiece. I love almost every track on the album.

[@TimFromWinfield]

more vertigo than "Vertigo" but I love this video and this song.

[@margaretsch.3609]

I'm looking forward to hearing and seeing this for the first time in person - in the Sphere! I'm ready to be dazzled.

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix

[@timwilson7326]

Love the guitar chorus. Simple but it gets stuck in your head

[@michaelkottler]

"You are correct, sir!" EM

[@TerryKeefeMedia]

It still sounds like the future. Amazing album.

[@andrescastillo5606]

This is the best album ever made.

[@ART-fj2xh]

This video gives me the 😮😮😮😮 Bono knows. Damn, another super friggin' MASTERPIECE U Guys... U-2 4EV💕R!

[@timmaslen4766]

People look deeper than just the music you hear might lead you to the truth of this world 🙏

[@Prenzberg76]

I m still wondering how they made this video...the camera makes astonishing movements, that I can't realise. Insane!!🫨🫨

[@GeorgeMcCauley]

One of their most underrated tunes. This is why they’re the best band. Going from the Joshua tree to this. Dance music with a great groove! 🔥

[@LoneLee2022]

They peaked here!

[@osborne9255]

It's 2022 and this still sounds brilliant. Was listening to some live 1983 U2 this morning and woooo so much energy and what a great live band too!

[@sartavin]

The editing on this video is insane. Feels more relevant now, they were so ahead of their time.

[@Kiggezoo]

One of if not THE BEST music video ever made!

[@conect.2883]

XD

[@tfunk1829]

Can't believe this is the first time I've seen it.

[@youtou_13]

I know the song but never seen the video. The 90’s is a decade for good visuals.

[@sagaodym]

LOL!

[@lupowins]

Completely agree, never got tired of seeing this on MTV back in the day. Video and message have aged really well.

[@andrewphilips2457]

This concert in 92' was perhaps the Everest of epic concerts. The zenith of their Rock n Roll journey IMHO.

[@thealternative9580]

We all live in Zoo TV now.

[@MyVideos-fm7ug]

This is the ZOO NET for sure, and it’s more effective than I think they ever could have predicted

[@sound-karden7402]

In this regard, I replaced my comment slogan with «Stay more connected» which perfectly represents the current situation in which we live. Because let’s be honest, compared to this exceptional title of U2 of that time, the internet has outright supplanted TV on this side! 📺⭐️👶📱💻

[@stevabobic]

It's just that none of it is imposed. It was just offered and people rushed to accept it. Think this way...

[@MyVideos-fm7ug]

@@stevabobic it very much is imposed. Name the last time you hand written a letter, or used a rotary telephone

[@stevabobic]

@@MyVideos-fm7ug Believe it or not, you've come across a very old-fashioned 47-year-old. Namely, I use a mobile phone more than rarely, the traditional one even less often. I dread the sound of the phone. I constantly resent all those who can't unstick themselves from the garbage called a mobile phone. When it comes to writing... for the new year, holidays, from trips, I write long letters, send postcards, envelopes... What I'm writing to you is the moment I sat down in front of the computer screen, and I usually allow myself to do that on Sundays and as short as possible - the better. That's all I have to say in my defense. Greeting!

[@danielmoran9902]

This was nothing like we were expecting after the Joshua Tree. It was like a band from outer space had hijacked U2.

[@Watcher4111]

Last perfect U2 album from last perfect decade

[@BraxtonWages]

Can someone explain how they made this video? Those camera tricks are extremely impressive.

[@Standard_Jay]

It was shot with a 360-degree camera rollover rig designed and built specifically for the video.

[@BraxtonWages]

@@Standard_Jay That’s awesome thanks👍🏻

[@mariafietta6864]

Bono, If It is you, I give all chances. Super high quality remix. ⚡🤘

[@edwardchampion8891]

Just love the fact that prince pops up in the video.

[@danielerossi6371]

After this album the desert. In my opinion this is where their creativity ends.

[@efffren]

Back then “Watch More TV”, now “Watch More KZbin” 😎

[@tsns1]

Same amount of ad's 📺🥽.

[@willdosongwithdrakeoneday4036]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5TLdKChirZjr9k

[@zachdonpuroschafer8469]

If U2 does another ZOOTV thing again, it should be ZOOTube Tour. THAT would be epic!

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

@ effren, Watch more KZbin? I am already watching 24 hr per day! :-O

[@efffren]

@@WeAreAllOneNature 247365 and more 🤟🏼

[@reverb08]

The best ever video U2 made 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@karmajihad]

This song... more actual NOW then in times it was written. That's exactly the world we're living in... "even better than the real thing"... The end.

[@uchihatake01]

I don't know what happened but nowadays they no longer make this type of epic video clips, I remember seeing this as a child and it blew my mind... one of my favorite videos