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The album that carries U2 into its 25th year--and likely the mixed blessings of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--is one of its most frank and focused since the days of October and War. But its gestation was anything but simple, in part salvaged from '03 sessions the band deemed subpar. Enter Steve Lillywhite, the band's original producer and sometime collaborator in the decades since, who helped retool the track "Native Son" (originally an anti-gun screed) into the aggressive i-Pod anthem "Vertigo" and leaves his distinctive stamp on the muscular "All Because of You" and others. Perhaps weary of ceaseless, fashion-driven reinvention in the wake of monumental success, U2 seem only too happy here to re-embrace their original sonic trademarks in service of more daring, pop-melodic hooks than they've collected in one place in decades. The Eno/Lanois produced "Love and Peace or Else" may shimmer with the duo's electro-production conceits, but it's Edge's lugubrious, post-modern John Lee Hooker guitar swagger that drives it. Elsewhere, Bono's trademark dramaturgy is spotlighted on "City of Blinding Lights," the unabashed romance of "A Man and a Woman" and the confessional "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own." It may come wrapped in a conundrum--is it nostalgic retrenchment or sum of the band's endless musical catharsis?--but it's also the album where, Fly and MacPhisto be damned, U2 boldly claims its arena titan mantle with apologies to no one. --Jerry McCulley Recommended U2 Discography 
War | 
The Joshua Tree | 
Achtung Baby | 
All That You Can't Leave Behind | 
The Best of 1990-2000 | 
The Best of 1980-1990 |
| ARTIST: | U2 |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Interscope Records |
| FEATURES: | Enhanced, Limited Edition |
| TYPE: | Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock, Rock, Rock/Pop |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Vertigo, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Love And Peace Or Else, City Of Blinding Lights, All Because Of You, A Man And A Woman, Crumbs From Your Table, One Step Closer, Original Of The Species, Yahweh |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 602498681800 |
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 U2 is better than this
This is a decent album by general standards, but U2's least evocative work. This album is plain and forgettable compared to their other excellent work. There are several strong tracks, but the lyrical content overall is weak, and the musical content is nothing new from average pop rock. How has the studio sapped the emotion of such a great live band? If you are new to U2, check out Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby instead.
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Four goes after three
This album is a perfect example of how a band in decadence looks and sounds. When I first heard the first single `Vertigo' I thought they were joking, I could handle `All that you can't leave behind' but this one is just too much.
Let's not talk about their music but of all the marketing campaign and the commercial phenomenon they have become. In their origins U2 didn't have an image, they have ideals and they expressed them, Bono was not a public figure but an opinion leader who you just had to consider seriously, to see him now doing all the things he didn't do as a young man is one of the saddest things a fan can see, his posing for the cameras and the videos, wearing an image of a rock star... anyways, the band has chosen a path that will make them last for a while longer, they have chosen to become commercial, the political idealists and critics from `War', `Boy' and `The Joshua tree' are gone for good now.
The experience of listening to this album is easy to define, this is `All that you can't leave behind part 2', the songs sound basically the same and the vocal style of Bono has deteriorated incredibly (listen to `City of lights' for example) They stopped innovating and being experimental, their previous works like `Achtung baby', `Zooropa' and `Pop' where experimental in many ways and each one of them had a new proposal and evolution could be heard in both lyrics and sound; now, U2 has stuck in a moment in which everything they do sounds the same.
This album is ideal for young people used to many of the `one hit bands' from nowadays as a perfect introduction to a band that used to be the greatest band on earth. With this album, U2 remains as a shadow of their brilliant trajectory. Opinions may be divided among fans, I personally have followed the band for many years now and just don't like it, I have tried to find something appealing and came to like `Crumbs from your table' but that's the most I have achieved.
The Bonus DVD has nothing valuable to offer, a short documentary on the making of the album and the songs and some `videos' that are nothing but studio performances dubbed with the album songs with the exception of an acoustic performance. The sound is stereo PCM (I wouldn't listen to it in my home theater anyways, so the lack of 5.1 or higher didn't bother me) and is presented in widescreen format. I don't think the extra DVD is worth the extra money you pay from the regular version.
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