Music : Rattle and Hum
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0042284229920
Format: Live
Label: Island
Manufacturer: Island
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Island
Release Date: June 15, 1990
Sales Rank: 5355
Studio: Island
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Album Description:
Limited edition double LP vinyl pressing of U2's soundtrack to their documentary of the same name. **Please note that this vinyl pressing features 'For Promotional Use Only' printed on the artwork. 2007
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The ill will that initially greeted Rattle and Hum--the follow-up to the band's massively successful Joshua Tree album--was due in large part to the bloated and self-important feature film that accompanied it, which showed the band as being simultaneously naive and pretentious as it "discovered" America. But as the film mercifully slips from memory, the music has remained, from the furious swirl of "Desire" and a clutch of live hits to insightful musical nods to heroes such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Billie Holiday. Songs like "When Love Comes to Town," a supercharged blues duet with B.B. King, suggests the quartet knew more about America from listening to its music than Phil Joanou's unintentional mockumentary suggested. --Daniel Durchholz
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After having read a lot of the mid to negative reviews of Rattle & Hum I must confess that many of them are right about several things.
Could be nice if U2 gave it a makeover in a future extended cd version. They could for instance put the live tracks on one CD and add some more of those from the movie and make 1 CD of the studiomaterial+some of the b-sides from that period. I have played a litle with the tracklisting and a studio album of Rattle & Hum could look like this:
Desire
Angel of Harlem
Hallelujah (Here she comes) (B-side)
Hawkmoon 269
Van Diemen's Land (Complete version without the early fade please!!)
Silver and Gold (studio version b-side Joshua tree period)
Love come rescue me
When loves come to town
Heartland
Dancing Barefoot (B-side)
God part II
A room at the heartbreak hotel (B-side)
All I want is you
Unchained Melody (b-side)
This order makes for a dark americana album and is quite a ride and perhaps gives a little more of an underplayed version of the whole "discovering america in a flagwaving position", instead giving the album more of a coherent flow and the point still comes across but in a more subtle way that I personally think gives it a whole new life.
The live version of the disc? Haven't got a clue to that since I'm not to keen on that side of U2... at least not in this period...
Rattle and Hum
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This album is one of their best. A great LIVE cut for this band. Bono's passion for what he sings ignites the audience. The Edge and the rest of the band putting forth extraordinary energy in every note. Buy this and enjoy it for years.
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U2 don't deserve to be allowed to cover that awesome song. Get motley Crue and the BEatles up there to kick bono's arse.
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"This song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles, now were steeling it back".
Bono "singing" Helter-Skelter sounds incredibly unprofessional, he can't seem to get the timing or the lyrics right. Check it out if you get a chance it is ridiculous!
In my opinion remaking a Beatles song is a sin!
The pompous moron who calls himself Bono is the last person who should be remaking Beatles songs. Bono has always compared his inept, politically motivated band, U2 to the Beatles. If U2 were going to be the next Beatles they missed their window back in the Eighties! The Beatles did it in 7 Years; U2 has had 28 years to do it! Compare the two bands total Number 1 singles. U2, 4 UK and 2 US Billboard Hot 100. Yet the Beatles have released a 79 minute album called Beatles 1. This album contains 27 Number One Hits from a band that released their first studio album in 1963, Please Please Me, and their last studio album in 1970, Let it be. The Beatles had 7 years total time releasing original studio recorded music not 30!
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You know, there was a time when I really hated U2's more "Americanized" phase. This is basically the work they did in the mid and late '80s in particular and I always felt at once like it was ill-fated and arrogant. I hadn't yet touched this album, either. And then later on I recognized some of it wasn't bad at all. The Joshua Tree was the greatest thing the guys had done by the point it was out but for awhile I always was more into the post-punk early records and the electronic later work, and some of the new stuff too. The band has shown though that they can pull that type of thing off and that it's really even entertaining at times. Most U2 stuff is.
I heard a lot of bad rap about the album. So when I found it recently for only FIVE bucks used, I was somewhat skeptical. Only "somewhat" because I was aware of "All I Want Is You" which is one of my favorite U2 songs and "Desire" and "Angel of Harlem" were pretty good songs as well.
I don't really consider this a studio album, if that makes any sense. It's a compilation of sorts, with some being live and some studio, and two interludes that technically aren't even U2. There's enough studio work to make a long EP or a short album, which the album could have done if that was what they wanted to. And also it may have been more effective with the length. Although I would have liked less of the gospel choir in the song I otherwise found the live "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" to be fantastic, ... Read More
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