U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
|
List Price: Our Price: $9.97 You Save: $4.01 (29%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $0.10 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for All That You Can't Leave Behind
Free Music Review: U2 Reconnects with Essential Cargo: Passion
Hit: 4 Stars
'All That You Can't Leave Behind' is a thrilling comeback for U2. They are still high-tech, but they reinvent their sound more modestly in a manner that brings back the passion of earlier classics. The quality of the lyrics and the variety of musical endeavors, make this album a classic.
Lifting themselves and their listeners up from the despair and high-tech experimentation of 'Pop' and 'Zooropa,' U2 connect with some loving inspiration that is both divine and human. "A Beautiful Day" kicks off the C.D. with a propelling song that celebrates the beauty of nature and life. It is the perfect wake-up song. Then, they embrace the every day loser with the heartwarming "Stuck in a Moment". Much of the rest of the album showcases the vitality of romantic and spiritual love. "Elevation" could celebrate Lord or lover, much like George Harrison did. Similarly, "Grace," which ends the album, is equally ambiguous. (Do they mean personification like Dante did with Beatrice in 'The Purgatorio' or is it more New Age?) "Walk On" intricately and expertly caresses the listener out of despair and into a new day. (It is no surprise that soon after its release, it became a healing song in the aftermath of 9/11.) "New York" is frenetic musically and lyrically a celebration of the vitality of the beleaguered city. One of the best moments is when they add the acoustic variety with the playful love song, "Wild Honey". Then, there is the pensive encouragement of "When I Look at the World," but this is countered by the angry weariness of "Peace on Earth," vocally taken up with Job-like beligerence by Bono.
Summing it all up, "All That You Can't Leave Behind," is an uplifting comeback which finds U2 recapturing their old passion and the determination to embrace hope and beauty in a fallen world. Brilliantly, they make a variety of songs that resonate with the theme of the theatre classic 'You Can't Take It with You'. Passion and determination are aspects the band can't afford to leave behind. (4 1/2 *'s)
Free Music Review: Safe and Predictable U2 Pop
Hit: 3 Stars
When All That You Can't Leave behind (ATYCLB) first hit the stores the term return to form seemed appropriate for U2. After spending the 90's experimenting and stretching their sound into at times a completely different group (see The Passengers), ATYCLB seemed like a return to the groups 80's sensibilities.
The resulting success of the record that Rolling Stone called U2's third masterpiece seemed to be a huge compliment to the quality of ATYCLB. However as time has moved on and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (HTDAAB) has been released , ATYCLB seems like it was a success based on what the group had done not what the group had actually accomplished.
There is a very blah feeling to this record as while Beautiful Day and Walk On might have been catchy singles, the overall feel of ATYCLB is one of a group retreating. Songs such as Kite and Wild Honey might sound okay, but they seem more like safe choices not artistic accomplishments. One thing U2 was never previous to this record was boring. Pop in particular challenged listeners. ATYCLB didn't and doesn't, it is a safe and inviting step into the band's established sound.
U2 tried to wrap ATYCLB up in the term simplicity. But really this record accomplishes what the band said they were trying to create with Pop as it is a straight forward collection of U2 pop rock tunes with none of the previous dabbling in other styles of music. The end result is as pop as a record you will hear, with the simple difference that it is copying the previous style of the band, not current trends on radio, leading to a type of repetitive feel that U2 never had in the 80's.
Free Music Review: Stunning
Hit: 4 Stars
I bought this CD to complete my collection of all the new U2 CD's. U2 are such a stunning group and masterful writers of music.
This CD is a must for all U2 fans. I have yet to hear anything U2 have done that I don't like.
Free Music Review: U2 For Sale
Hit: 3 Stars
"U2 sold out!" That's right folks. Before All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2 were an underground band that only had 40 or 50 fans who had to decipher a special code to find a map that led them to a secret passaged tunnel where U2 were playing from 1979 to 1999.
An objective person can look at U2's career and notice that U2 always aimed for the mainstream. Why does every song on Boy sound anthemic? Why do they sound like Bono is screaming for his life. Because Bono & Boys envisioned those songs being belted out in stadiums, not in the underground. Why do you think they adopted a softer sound on The Unforgettable Fire? To appeal to the masses. U2 have always been calculated regarding their exposure.
U2 always desired the mainstream. They've always wanted the attention. The only difference between NOW and THEN is that the music NOW is just not quite as good.
Detractors turn to the music of Pop to support their argument of a past U2 that didn't care about mainstream acceptance. They say that Pop was non mainstream, and that U2 were in it to take risks and defy mainstream expectations. But these people seem to forget that the Pop album was accompanied by the largest marketing scheme in U2 history with their Popmart tour.
I love U2. But let's take them for what they are: a mainstream band that has always aimed for the mainstream attention even when they didn't have it.
This music is more sedated and pedestrian than past efforts, but can we really expect a bunch of fortyish multimillionaire rockers to have the same flare and passion and earnestness as a bunch of twentyish poor rockers? U2 pretending they have so much to be angry about in this stage of the game would just be disingenuous.
U2 fans: the well is by no means dry. It just takes more elbow grease to pump.
Free Music Review: Exclusive!: New album 2006 Details revealed!
Hit: 1 Stars
According to the always updated [...] The New Album is defined as "the best collection of songs ever created", and the manager Paul McGuinness said about the album: "Best since Joshua Tree". Also Bono, the frontman of the band talked about it "Our third masterpiece. It's reak punk rock from venus, dry to the bones. It's going to shake the world. I feel this is a back to our roots album, everyone in the band feel it's possibly our best record ever".
The details were revealed as follows:
- It contains 11 songs.
- The first singe it's the first track of the album, and also the name of the upcoming tour.
- 3 different versions: standard, special edition (CD+DVD) and collector's edition (CD+DVD+book)
- It will be released on November 2006, of course a U2 album must be released before Christmas
chattering among close friends to the band who were allowed to listen to the album also revealed more details:
- It's a return to classic U2. Truly best since Joshua Tree.
- from the 11 songs, we can say that there're 3 rockers, 4 mid tempo and 4 ballads.
- Steve Lillywhite, Daniel Lanois and Brian eno produced the album, along with several others we don't remember and we don't care
- We don't want to say the album title, we won't spoil the surprise but we can say it's another long and cliched one.
Rolling Stone Magazine reviewed the record as "5 stars out of 5: Album of the Year and best since Achtung Baby". Moreover, Grammy Awards already have 7 Grammies waiting to be given to the band for the following categories: Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Album, Producer Of The Year and Best Short Form Music Video
Finally, the new Tour will start in USA on March 2007, then the band will tour Europe and they'll return back to USA for the third leg of the tour. 2 DVD's will be released, the first one from the North American tour and the second one from Europe.
All the songs will be available on iTunes. Don't miss special features of your membership. Pay 100 dollars and you'll have the latest news, the best arenas seats, DVD previews and other exclusives.
Best wishes
U2 team