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How To Dismantle An Atomic Bom
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | 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 iPod 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 |
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| | Once again, U2 has managed to create an excellent piece of work. If you enjoyed "All that you can't leave behind", "Achtung baby" and "The Joshua Tree" (my favourites) this CD will not dissapoint. Each song on the CD flows well from start to finish. The result; you will play it over and over again! There is not a poor song on here. The lyrics, guitars and vocals amazing. Worth every penny. It is proof that U2 haven't lost their magic.
| | | I loved it, it shows that after 20 years of being in the business, U2 still has the same deep lyrics, and that harmonic sound.Great for the new and the old fans!
| | | What shaped like last year's int'l best buy (and polled as album of the year in Russia, incidentally!) should be thumbed down as alternative kitsch, at best. It sure takes a lot to pack a special edition with illustrated album under a pricy hard cover and a DVD to boot (alas, unsorted, documentary and stereo). But that's all there is to the "lot". The Edge ain't no musician and Bono no singer, the way they perform -- and that's being in great shape, too. What with painy vocal and one note chord sweeps. The band lost drive altogether, fixed on long-defunct hard core / new wave and invoking the Brezhnevist ghosts of Society, morality and peace. The acclaimed "Vertigo" is in fact R'n'B-borrowed, the book layout terrible, the concept phony, the title mouthful, the drawings unimaginative, the goods generally undelivered. We never asked U2 for an atomic bomb dismantling manual, in the first place. We had enough with rain forest protection drive, haven't we?
| | | What shaped like last year's int'l best buy (and polled as album of the year in Russia, incidentally!) should be thumbed down as alternative kitsch, at best. It sure takes a lot to pack a special edition with illustrated album under a pricy hard cover and a DVD to boot (alas, unsorted, documentary and stereo). But that's all there is to the "lot". The Edge ain't no musician and Bono no singer, the way they perform -- and that's being in great shape, too. What with painy vocal and one note chord sweeps. The band lost drive altogether, fixed on long-defunct hard core / new wave and invoking the Brezhnevist ghosts of Society, morality and peace. The acclaimed "Vertigo" is in fact R'n'B-borrowed, the book layout terrible, the concept phony, the title mouthful, the drawings unimaginative, the goods generally undelivered. We never asked U2 for an atomic bomb dismantling manual, in the first place. We had enough with rain forest protection drive, haven't we?
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