all that you can't leave behind
It's disconcerting/somewhat unsurprising how words written of a record from seventeen years ago still ring true. According too allmusic.com, "Rattle and Hum" is
...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."
posted by hotrod at 8:42 PM
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"Rattle and Hum" has its good moments, one or two, anyway. Among them are the Hawkmoon 269 song with Bob Dylan on the electric organ. I also like the gospel I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, the part where other people sing... the real black people.
not to mention, their best song "love rescue me" is on that record. it hardly strikes me as coincidental that their best song was written by bob dylan.
"Love Rescue Me" is a great song.
I could make a list of U2 songs I like. It would actually be rather lengthy, but for the most part they are the ones where Bono's ego doesn't quite burst through like the gasses from a bloated, half-eaten African animal (that's pleading for debt relief of course).
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