... All that You Can’t Leave Behind carries on triumphantly in this fashion and ignites a blazing trail into the twenty-first century for the Irish rock pioneers. I stood on line yesterday evening for the midnight sale at my local record shop, and opted to buy the special edition version ... Read review
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Advantages: Bono's passion is back in spades, the Edge decides to pull his guitars out of their dusty cases Disadvantages: Its a relatively short album
...Zooropa and Pop - they all rely on comparable themes, but ultimately give the listener something fresh and new with every listen.
Chalk this band up another one. All that You Can’t Leave Behind carries on triumphantly in this fashion and ignites a blazing trail into the twenty-first century for the Irish rock pioneers. I stood on line yesterday evening for the midnight sale at my local record shop, and opted to buy the special ... ...to end. Advanced reviews of All that You Can’t Leave Behind were incredibly favorable, and I’ll admit that throughout my first listen I could feel goose bumps attacking my arms and legs.
As I listened to the first track (and first single) Beautiful Day, the lyrics got to me. The line “You’re on the road but you’ve got no destination , you’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination , you love this ... more
U2 never sold out; they never lost their way. This is a band that’s just never been complacent. Continually expanding and re-vamping their sound, it’s hard to find any two U2 albums that truly sound alike. The biting political edge of War. The somber pseudo-religious love ballads of The Joshua Tree. The soulful exploration of American blues on Rattle and Hum and the sonic journeys of Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop - they all rely on comparable themes, but ultimately give the listener something fresh and new with every listen.
Chalk this band up another one. All that You Can’t Leave Behind carries on triumphantly in this fashion and ignites a blazing trail into the twenty-first century for the Irish rock pioneers. I stood on line yesterday evening for the midnight sale at my local record shop, and opted to buy the special edition version for the “bargain” price of £9.99. The special edition includes the acoustic tinged Summer Rain, a B-Side that I highly recommend. When I got home I turned off the lights, lit a room full of candles and experienced the album uninterrupted from beginning to end. Advanced reviews of All that You Can’t Leave Behind were incredibly favorable, and I’ll admit that throughout my first listen I could feel goose bumps attacking my arms and legs.
As I listened to the first track (and first single) Beautiful Day, the lyrics got to me. The line “You’re on the road but you’ve got no destination , you’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination , you love this town even if it doesn’t ring true” perfectly describes my relationship with U2 for the better part of the nineties. I loved the band, but many of their songs just didn’t ring true. As front-man Bono’s voice launches into the chorus of “It’s a beautiful day , don’t let it get away , touch me, take me to that other place”, I began to feel this album. The realization that U2 had once again achieved past glory slapped me in the face when Edge’s guitar starts to ring from speaker to speaker.
That’s right, I used the phrase “past glory”. For one, All that You Can’t Leave Behind marks the return of producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Also, listen for mixing by Steve Lillywhite, the man behind the band’s original sound. Together, they have the ultimate ability to bottle up the band’s passion and release it in gobs all over each track. The once virile and youthful Bono sounds completely rejuvenated and reinvigorated – his personae of “The Fly” has perhaps flown away, and his voice soars from track to track with an effervescent beauty that I’ve honestly not heard since The Joshua Tree. It would also appear that The Edge decided to pull his guitars out of their dusty cases once and for all as his patented sound of anthemic chorus sears itself into note after glorious note. Bass player Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. haven’t lost a bit of their skill, and Mullen Jr. especially sounds like a man with something to prove. Perhaps he felt an urge to put away the drum machines, to stop tinkering
In any case, the remarkable thing about All that You Can’t Leave Behind is how human it sounds. Ultimately, it’s the most organic album this band has released in years – and even on the heels of a brilliant experimental album like Radiohead’s Kid A it sounds fresh. It’s truly a Godsend – a blessing in these dark days of rock.
Oh yes, a return to true form. Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of opens with the line “I’m not afraid of anything in this world , there’s nothing you can throw at me that I haven’t already heard”. Perhaps true for Bono, a veteran who’s seen it all for over twenty years. Me, I like what I’m hearing – an inspired beat, some great pipe organ synth work from both Bono and Eno. Bono’s voice sounds so great, and near the end it seems to melt into the slipstream of Edge’s guitar understatement and Eno’s gorgeously paced faux brass section.
Elevation opens with a particularly heavy distorted bass lick and blares on into something that sounds better than anything you ever heard on Achtung Baby. A U2 rock-dance tune is always something special - think Mysterious Ways - but the ante is upped when the ruckus turns to a swirl of Bono breathlessness as he pleads “Love, lift me out of these blues , won’t you tell me something true , I believe in you”. Walk On may be the best song on the album with its gorgeous layering and effortless lyrics. It’s at once a blending of every single U2 style coupled with Pink Floyd’s Eclipse (From Dark Side of the Moon), just listen to the final twelve or thirteen lines. Bono also conveys sage words of wisdom when tells us “Love is not an easy thing , the only baggage you can bring , is all that you can’t leave behind.” It’s been too long since I’ve connected with a lyric like I did when I heard Bono wail “And I know it aches , and your heart it breaks , and you can only take so much , walk on, walk on…”
Yet another instant classic – and a band favorite – is Kite. Perhaps it’s the compact George Harrison like guitar licks thrown in the middle, or the once-familiar sound of Bono letting every ounce of blood pump from his heart into his microphone for the listener. In a Little While has a bittersweet blues feel to it, and The Edge’s imaginative string play complements the lyrics quite well. Directly afterward is another perfect track, Wild Honey. It reminds me of a latter-day Beatle's tune, the harmonies working off each other much like those of John Lennon and Paul McCartney on gems like Two of Us. It definitely has a winsome folk-rock feel, and shouldn’t be missed.
All that You Can’t Leave Behind takes a dramatically religious and deeply political turn with the next two tracks, Peace on Earth and When I Look at the World. With Peace on Earth, Bono lays it all on the line – his experience in growing up amid the bloodshed in Northern Ireland, his quest to vanquish third world debt, and his drive to free political prisoners. Bono pleads with his savior when he lets slip “Jesus could you take the time , to throw a drowning man a line , peace on earth.” At times Bono’s lyrics seem almost childish – but remember, even John Lennon was hailed a genius for his simple ideals in Imagine. Bono’s on the right track here and I’ve always felt that his political tunes were his most effective – see Bullet the Blue Sky on The Joshua Tree.
When I Look at the World could be taken literally as wonderment at a lover or friend, or deeper (as I like to interpret it) as a wonderment towards God – the aforementioned Jesus. Amid a ringing chorus of guitar, Bono intones “When there’s all kinds of chaos , and everyone is walking lame , you don’t even blink now, do you , or even look away.” He goes on with “So I try to be like you , try to feel it like you do , but without you it’s no use , I can’t see what you see , when I look at the world.” This is a great song, and especially so because you can draw many meanings from it.
It’s all about mid-life crisis and affairs in New York as the closest thing to a drum machine on the entire album revs things up. Soon the rest of the band joins the drum loop and Adam Clayton’s booming bass line, and Bono starts in with the usual descriptions of the big city. What’s Bono getting at when he sings “In New York I lost it all to you and your vices , still I’m staying on to figure out my mid life crisis , I hit an iceberg in my life , but you know I’m still afloat , you lose your balance, lose your wife , in the queue for the lifeboat.” Nothing else matters when the band crashes into the chorus with reckless abandon and ferocity. And then out of nowhere, Grace ends the album. A gorgeous little tune that’s quite hard to describe, it’s a wave of sound that’s built upon a basic Brian Eno synthesizer part. You name the metaphors and similes for the word grace, and Bono uses every one of them in describing “Grace, it’s the name for a girl , it’s also a thought that changed the world , and when she walks on the street , you can hear the strings , grace finds goodness in everything.” This is the perfect tune to end such a perfect album.
U2 are back with a bullet. This in my mind could very well be their best album since 1987’s The Joshua Tree. With All that You Can’t Leave Behind the band has proven – and secured that fact – that it belongs in the very upper echelon of rock bands. I’ll say it now, U2 is absolutely the best rock band in the world today and they have shown it in spades with this gorgeous, organic and human album. If you buy only one record this year make sure this is the one. It’s the best I’ve heard in a year that’s seen a plethora of good albums from old bands. Take my word on this one, go down to your record shop and treat yourself to a beautiful day.
Advantages: very good material Disadvantages: not as politically-conscious as earlier albums
...the most political song of all - being dedicated to Aung San Suu Kui, a Myanmar opposition leader who is under arrest in Burma. I love this track as it is so emotive and contains the idea on which the whole album is based; "And love is not the easy thing / The only baggage that you can bring / Is all that you can't leave behind". This is certainly one of the peaks.
"Kite" is about a conflicting couple, whose relationship is on the rocks; "Something ... .../ I think I know what it means". It's a particularly sad song and very touching. The beautiful kite imagery "Who's to say where the wind will take you…" keeps the track floating along and the music is fantastic. "In a Little While" evokes the easiness and surrender of a Sunday morning, yet is full of sexual tension: "Slow down my beating heart / A man dreams one day to fly" - which offers some more optimistic relief from the pain of the previous ...
Eudora 24.01.2001
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Advantages: it's u2, its easy to listen to, it has meaning Disadvantages: i cant figure out the meaning to two of the songs!!
...unlike conventional thinking, are not all born and bred in Dublin. In fact only two members are and that's the gorgeous Bono (lead vocals) and Larry Mullen Jnr (drums and percussion). The Edge (lead guitar, keyboard and vocals) was in fact born in Wales with welsh parents and was moved to Dublin when we was very little. Adam Clayton (the sexiest bassist on the planet) is from England, oxford and is described by Bono as the poshest member of the U2 ... ...It was produced in studios all around Dublin and some in the south of france making the albums song influences often varied.
*** The Tracks ***
There are 11 tracks altogether but only 4 of them came out on singles. 1) Beautiful Day (released) 4 mins 06 secs
This is the most aired and the most popular of the albums songs. It features on match of the day as the theme tune and as mentioned earlier, won 3 Grammys. The song however is a "fun song" ...
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Advantages: Some cracking tracks Disadvantages: Slightly under-par overall
...and how adulthood can change all sorts of fancies and pansies.
There once was a growing boy called Poppadom, we'll call him Pop (as in snap, crackle and...) for short (It'll save me from repetitive strain injury, writing his long name over and over again). Pop was a nice, good-looking, intelligent, charismatic (enough about me) young lad. He had a small failing at times, he tended to listen too much to the then current mainstream popular music, ... ...me nothing - now it's all I've got'
The full track listing is as follows:
1 - Beautiful Day
2 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
3 - Elevation
4 - Walk On
5 - Kite
6 - In A Little While
7 - Wild Honey
8 - Peace On Earth
9 - When I Look At The World
10 - New York
11 - Grace
I was going to award the album three stars (shame on me). Upon repeated visits, better comprehension of the lyrics and music, I changed my mind. I suppose, being ...
kleft 22.01.2002
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Advantages: 11 Superb Songs Disadvantages: It Ends
Well anyone who knows me or has read my U2 best of review will know that up until a few weeks ago I didn’t own any of U2’s album’s and only liked the odd song but a few weeks ago I took the plunge and bought not 1 but 2 U2 album’s.
Of course as already mentioned this is the second review of U2 and to be honest I wasn’t as impressed with this but then again it’s not there greatest hits so it wouldn’t be. However it is still a superb album and well ... ...they’re who doesn’t know who U2 are or that Haven’t read my Best of op then this is the band;
Bono: Vocals and Guitar
The Edge: Guitar, Piano and Vocals
Adam Clayton: Bass Guitar
Larry Mullen: Drums and Percussion
So without further a do onto the songs:
Track 1: Beautiful Day
This is one of those songs that you just can’t help but love. Ideal for having on whilst driving around on a sunny day with sunglasses on and the windows down. This is ...
Andy.mack 24.02.2003
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Advantages: A superb, listenable album. Disadvantages: Not quite up to the standard of Achtung Baby or the Joshua Tree
...was exactly what they intended all along. Quite why some of their material has been a commercial flop totally escapes me, as I have never yet heard what seems to me to be a dud U2 album. I even liked the much-maligned ‘Pop’. A more ironic album I have not heard. Anyway, U2 have dreamt it all up again for this offering.
In a way, this is very much a return to the ‘old-style’ U2. O.K, Edge has discovered a few new dials and ... ...go as a band, and all four of them are holding the map. The album clearly has more commercial appeal than any other release since “Achtung Baby”. And no wonder. One listen to “Elevation” is enough to elevate a lead balloon. The haunting lyric of “Stuck in a Moment” will cause many a reflective tear to drop, and a couple of plays of “Wild Honey” will cause a myriad punters to mutter, “Didn’t ...
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Product details
Title
All That You Can't Leave Behind
Performer
U2
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Alternative
Release Date
30/10/2000
Recomended Retail Price
14.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2000
Label / Distributor
Island / Universal Music
Engineer
Richard Rainey
Producer
Daniel Lanois; Brian Eno
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
731454809528
Catalogue Number
CIDU 212
Additional notes
Album Notes
U2: Bono (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); The Edge (guitar, piano, synthesizer, background vocals); Adam Clayton (bass); Larry Mullen (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Daniel Lanois (guitar, background vocals); Paul Barrett (brass); Brian Eno (synthesizer, programming, background vocals). Recorded in Dublin, Ireland and France. "Beautiful Day" won the 2001 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year, for Song Of The Year and for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Walk On" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Record Of The Year. "Elevation" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. Seldom has an album title been as appropriate as ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND. Here, U2 returns to its pre-irony '80s glory days with a straightforward rock approach, leaving behind the electronics and intentional mock-decadence of POP and ZOOROPA. It quickly becomes clear however, that the band had to make those albums in order to get to the ego-free state from which this one emerges. While Larry Mullen's driving beat, Adam Clayton's insistently throbbing bass, the Edge's chiming guitar, and Bono's soulful vocals mesh as in the days of yore, there's a less messianic feel to the proceedings that must have resulted from the group's ego-deflating '90s endeavors. While POP and ZOOROPA were the sound of four guys having fun, on this album U2 manages to combine unpretentious joy with the open-hearted rock power of its early recordings. From the spiritual warmth of "Grace" to the soul leanings of "In a Little While," the band regains the organic quality that had been missing from its music of the previous decade. What sounds like an unusually hands-off approach on the part of producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois can only mean that they were smart enough not to fix what was clearly not broken.
Album Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (12/29/00, p.138) - Ranked #2 in EW's Top 10 Albums of 2000. Rolling Stone (1/4/01, pp.106,118) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 Albums of 2000" - "...They sound emotional, intense, sincere and full of themselves..." Spin (1/01, p.73) - Ranked #20 in Spin's "Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000]" - "...A warm, relaxed album....Thesis: THE JOSHUA TREE. Antithesis: ACHTUNG BABY. Synthesis: this great record." Q (1/01, p.94) - Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000". Q (12/00, pp.116-7) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...U2 have turned the clock back to doing what they used to do..." Entertainment Weekly (11/3/00, pp.79-80) - "...It's as if they decided it was time to write and record an album of very good, extremely substantial traditional rock songs with an underlying inspirational bent....unwaveringly assured..." - Rating: A Mojo (12/00, p.102) - "...The performances are sparky and committed..." NME (10/28/00, p.41) - 7 out of 10 - "...Possibly their most straightforward, honest record...modern enough to sound new, but sufficiently evocative of their prime JOSHUA TREE days..." CMJ (10/30/00, p.4) - "...You are now entering an irony-free zone, where you, too, can get back in touch with the 'real' U2..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Beautiful Day
2.
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
3.
Elevation
4.
Walk On
5.
Kite
6.
In A Little While
7.
Wild Honey
8.
Peace On Earth
9.
When I Look At The World
10.
New York
11.
Grace
12.
Ground Beneath Her Feet (bonus)
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