Rattle and Hum U2

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  • Release Date: 06/15/1990
  • Original Release: 1988
  • Sales Rank: 9,877
  • Label: ISLAND
  • UPC: 042284229920

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Rattle and Hum

1LISTENHelter Skelter Live 3:07
2LISTENVan Diemen's Land 3:05
3LISTENDesire 2:59
4LISTENHawkmoon 269 6:22
5LISTENAll Along the Watchtower Live 4:24
6LISTENI Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Live 5:53
7LISTENFreedom for My People 0:38
8LISTENSilver and Gold Live 5:49
9LISTENPride (In the Name of Love) Live 4:27
10LISTENAngel of Harlem 3:49
11LISTENLove Rescue Me 6:24
12LISTENWhen Love Comes to Town / B.B. King 4:15
13LISTENHeartland 5:03
14LISTENGod, Pt. 2 3:15
15LISTENThe Star Spangled Banner / Jimi Hendrix 0:43
16LISTENBullet the Blue Sky Live 5:36
17LISTENAll I Want Is You 6:30

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Functioning as both the soundtrack to the group's disastrous feature-film documentary and as a tentative follow-up to their career-making blockbuster, Rattle and Hum is all over the place. The live cuts lack the revelatory power of Under a Blood Red Sky and are undercut by heavy-handed performances and Bono's embarrassing stage patter; prefacing a leaden cover of "Helter Skelter" with "This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles, and now we're stealing it back" is bad enough, but it pales next to Bono's exhortation "OK, Edge, play the blues!" on the worthy, decidedly unbluesy "Silver and Gold." Both comments reveal more than they intend -- throughout the album, U2 sound paralyzed by their new status as "rock's most important band." They react by attempting to boost their classic rock credibility. They embrace American roots rock, something they ignored before. Occasionally, these experiments work: "Desire" has an intoxicating Bo Diddley beat, "Angel of Harlem" is a punchy, sunny Stax-soul tribute, "When Loves Come to Town" is an endearingly awkward blues duet with B.B. King, and the Dylan collaboration "Love Rescue Me" is an overlooked minor bluesy gem. However, these get swallowed up in the bluster of the live tracks, the misguided gospel interpretation of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and the shameful answer to John Lennon's searing confession "God," "God, Pt. 2." A couple of affecting laments -- the cascading "All I Want Is You" and "Heartland," which sounds like a Joshua Tree outtake -- do slip out underneath the posturing, but Rattle and Hum is by far the least-focused record U2 ever made, and it's little wonder that they retreated for three years after its release to rethink their whole approach. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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It's an essential document.by Anonymous

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January 03, 2003: It's impossible to understand the evolution and adaptation capability of this band whitout the release of this album. It isn't a Joshua's live version, but a fully and complementary stand alone creation. Although they finally fell into the American influence, it's difficult to find stroger and rawer versions of Pride, Silver and Gold, Bullet The Blue Sky, than in this album. It shows a mainstream band playing powerful Rock and Roll and beautiful tunes- Heartland, All I Want Is You- in an age where the techno music and pop rock took the topcharts-Does it sound familiar?-. It captures the meaning of U2's live act at the end of the youth age.

A fab albumby Anonymous

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August 22, 2002: I don't know what your critic was smoking when he heard this album but I find it to be the best album that U2 have written. The selection of songs is varied and interesting. Perhaps your critic failed to understand the lyrics which made him lose the impact of this album. This album is a personal favorite and, to those who understand the lyrics, is very inspirational.