 | U2 Rattle and Hum
3.2
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| Ranking: #40 for 1988 | |
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| 3.0 good | JohnTheSavage | January 19th 15 |
3.5 with a few less live tracks and random snippets of other artists' music. Specifically the cover of Helter Skelter is pointless and messes up the words, and Pride adds nothing interesting to the album version. Most of the other songs are more interesting than good anyway. The strange part is that the movie contained probably their greatest ever performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday, why didn't they put that on here?
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| 3.5 great | lz41 | February 12th 12 |
Although the arrogant and misguided gospel-soul-blues hollow the feeling slightly, there is no doubt that the music on 'Rattle and Hum' has genuine quality. 'Desire,' 'Angel of Harlem,' 'When Love Comes To Town' and 'All I Want Is You' are four of U2's biggest and best songs, and the live versions of 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' and 'Bullet the Blue Sky' are excellent. The covers ('Helter Skelter,' 'All Along The Watchtower') are simple minded yet fair, and if you plumb the depths far enough to find the beautiful 'Van Diemen's Land,' the gritty 'Silver and Gold' and the poetic, touching 'Heartland,' good for you. While the crowd interplay is butt-clenchingly embarrassing at times on 'Helter Skelter' ("This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles-we're stealing it back"), 'All Along The Watchtower' ("All I got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth...the rest is up to you"), 'Silver and Gold' (Am I buggin' you? Don't mean to bug ya") and all of 'God, Pt 2', which hurt the finished piece slightly, you have to remember that, without this slightly misguided field trip there would've been no 'Achtung Baby.'
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| 3.5 great | pencils3 | November 28th 11 |
Some of the material on here is excellent, but there is too much preachy drivel and filler to make it better than it is.
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| 4.0 excellent | AngryCrabFaces | April 18th 10 |
I like U2 well enough, but this is the only album I can listen to straight through and love. It's a bit of a mishmash, but is paced well with explosive, joyful rocking scattered throughout and a great, climactic ending. It's a great snapshot of a time when U2 was a band that really played rock and roll.
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| 0.0 | Patrick | August 5th 06 |
For some reason I love the cover songs on here. Some songs, like Bullet The Blue Sky, even sound better live.
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| 3.0 good | doofy | January 8th 24 |
| 1.5 very poor | PTGS | April 19th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | sambu | April 14th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Rick64 | March 19th 23 |
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