All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2

...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 ...
...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 ...

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...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 ...

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...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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...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 ...

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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 · Read full review
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...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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...nothing they haven't been doing all their career but it wins through on the strength of strong songwriting. The following song and second single 'Stuck in a moment you can't get out of' is a lumpen and overwrought ballad.Bono spends a lot of time being very emotional but the lyrics are cliched and dull.It feels sterile and hollow when it should be powerful and immense. 'Elevation' is the nearest U2 get to hard rock, with wooh-hoos staright out of ...
...re-capture their youth and losing a lot of dignity in the process. 'Walk On' is a power ballad too far. This kind of thing would be acceptable in the 1980's just about. 'Kite' is pretty similar and equally uninspirational. 'In a little while' is great. It has a yearning Spanish guitar and bittersweet lyrics. No pomp and bluster, just a great song. 'Wild honey' also has a Spanish feel, but fails to repeat the success of the previous song. 'Peace ...

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...in a moment, and elevation, all of which I had heard on the radio. But, I perservered, and tracks with names such as peace on earth grated on my nerves as I searched for tracks of magnificence akin to with or without you, one and desire. But suddenly, after being too lazy to change the cd, my brain is beginning to like this album...no wait, actually love it. Bono's voice wasn't a disappointment on the first run, it was great. But it was the lyrics ...
...rhyming lyrics coming out seemingly all at once and the staggering of the words. How it didn't reach number one is beyond me! Track number four, Walk on, is also a belter. I like the husky spoken words at the start, the tambourine action endured throughout the song, and the chorus is definirelt one of the most enjoyable, the verses totally build up to it, and it all seems worth it, and mid song there's an excellent guitar solo punctuated by Mr. Bono, ...

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...help the poor?). But now all is forgiven because U2 have released their best album yet and one of the best albums of the year. Passionate U2 fans will already hate me after the first paragraph and have probably hit the 'Back' button on their browser. They don't need me to tell them how good this album is because they have already cued up to buy it on the day of its release and would have bought it even if it was 12 tracks of U2 sitting round a table ...
...of you who haven't bought it who need convincing, so I'll get down to the nitty gritty. The album opens with the blatant rip-off of 'The Sun Always Shines On TV' by A-ha that is 'Beautiful Day' (which is thankfully not a 3 Colours Red cover). The song may be inferior to the one which it plagiarises but it's still an excellent opener. The next track is a folksy laid back one called 'Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of' and despite competing with ...

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...as they used to be. All That You Can’t Leave Behind was universally acclaimed on its release last November, and in turn became a huge seller. It is, in fact, set to outsell the previous favourite The Joshua Tree during the year. ATYCLB is a very important album for U2, after the relatively poorly received Pop there was a chance they would fizzle out like many before them. But not so, songs like Stuck in A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of and ...
...Again, as with pretty much all U2 albums of the last fourteen years, there’s no bad tracks. Not all of them are awe inspiring but they’re all good in they’re own right. As long as they don’t end up like the Rolling Stones, here’s to another twenty years. ...

markhobbs 07.09.2001 · Read full review
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...just play you favourites. We all do it. So it’s with great joy that I got this album and listened , and listened , and listened. Not once do you feel the need to reach for your remote. Perfect. This is doubly amazing. Remember that its twenty years since U2 came on the scene with “Boy” , and fifteen since they finally went supernova with “The Joshua Tree”. You may have gathered by now that my opinion of the album is ...
...I could list all the songs on the album, but that becomes slightly tedious, though I should mention that “Wild Honey” is a superb acoustic driven song very reminiscent of The Beatles. The only slight downer is that this is another of those “Special Edition” CDs which contain an extra track not available in other countries. The extra track is “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”. The reason for doing this is so that people ...

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...(1993) and Pop (1997) comes All That You Can't Leave Behind, which was officially released this week. Whilst Beautiful Day has been trapped in my cerebellum for about a month now, there are other tracks on this album that could have been the first single instead. I for one welcomed their return to form, after the last two lacklustre albums, which were certainly a departure from the U" we knew and loved from the 80s and very early 90s. The return ...
...Eno and Daniel Lanois to produce this album, and the album is a lot more polished than their recent offerings. As usual there is the usual pseudo-altruistic dedications section, the urges to join Greenpeace, Amnesty International and other causes, and in comparison with previous albums the album is more down to earth, although there are the trademark Bono posing photos... Somewhat bizarrely the lyrics appear to "The Ground Beneath her Feet" but it ...

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...new album is aptly titled All That You Can't Leave Behind, as it neatly encapsulates both the musical content of the record, and also the band's current predicament. For U2's past has caught up with them, the basic four-piece approach of their early years revisited if not exactly recaptured. No longer spotty adolescents with raw ability and burning ambition, the clash between old and new, past and present, makes All That You Can't Leave Behind their ...
...3rd or 4th single from All That You Can't Leave Behind. That said, singles as an entity in themselves are virtually redundant nowadays for an act such as U2, other than providing impetus for extra album sales. They will be judged upon the amount of copies the album manages to shift in comparison with previous releases, rather than the Top 40 peaks of each single. Pop yielded no fewer than five Top 15 hits, yet total sales in the UK for the album ...

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...album, especially as it doesn't all follow the hype that it's a return to the echo guitar of the Edge yesteryear, however it is an album that without reservation says 'we are U2' and we are the greatest rock band in the world rather than 'Pop' which though accomplished did seem to say we were the greatest rock band in the world. In tone the album is to me , more Achtung Baby than Joshua Tree but it is the honesty of this product that appeals to ...
...it's execution is magnificent. From the pulsating entrance of three strong tracks, the anthemic 'Beautiful Day', through the sombre but unforgettable melodies of 'Stuck in a Moment' and then the almost HipHop underpinned moment that is 'Elevation' U2 are back on top form, gone is the post modernism and the supposed irony laden lyrics and image. Walk On and Kite just segue from the first 3 songs perfectly and the album does seem to have a flow about ...

mezzaninedoor 14.11.2000 · Read full review
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...(1993) and Pop (1997) comes All That You Can't Leave Behind, which was officially released this week. Whilst Beautiful Day has been trapped in my cerebellum for about a month now, there are other tracks on this album that could have been the first single instead. I for one welcomed their return to form, after the last two lacklustre albums, which were certainly a departure from the U" we knew and loved from the 80s and very early 90s. The return ...
...Eno and Daniel Lanois to produce this album, and the album is a lot more polished than their recent offerings. As usual there is the usual pseudo-altruistic dedications section, the urges to join Greenpeace, Amnesty International and other causes, and in comparison with previous albums the album is more down to earth, although there are the trademark Bono posing photos... Somewhat bizarrely the lyrics appear to "The Ground Beneath her Feet" but it ...

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