U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
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Artist: U2Edition: Music CD
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Vertigo
- Miracle Drug
- Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own
- Love and Peace or Else
- City of Blinding Lights
- All Because of You
- Man and a Woman
- Crumbs from Your Table
- One Step Closer
- Original of the Species
- Yahweh
Music reviews of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Music Review: Did not instruct me on how to dismantle bomb.
Rating: 4 Stars
Though the music is entertaining (see other 1300+ reviews) I am disappointed in that the disc did not contain instructions for dismantling an atomic device. That kept me from rating it 5 stars. I apologize that this is a brief review, but I have the pressing issue of an atomic bomb ticking away in my basement and need to act fast. In retrospect I should not have paid for expedited shipping.
Description of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
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 antigun screed) into the aggressive iPod anthem "Vertigo" and leaves his distinctive stamp on the muscular "All Because of You." 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, postmodern 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 a sum of the band's endless musical catharsis?--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
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