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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0042284229920 Format: Live Label: Island Manufacturer: Island MPN: 842299 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Island Release Date: June 15, 1990 Studio: Island Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A U2 CLASSIC! LIVE!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. Rating:  - helter skelter.....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. Rating:  - Great studio tracks. Pity about the live tracks.This album is considered the poor relation of U2's output up to and including Achtung Baby. But in fairness it could have been a great studio album and amazingly for a band who excel in live performances, the live tracks here show Bono at his pompous, self-important worst. It was released with the forgettable movie of the same name, showing four Irishmen (really three and one Englishman)and I hate this expression "searching for America". Dear Bono. America has been found and has been doing pretty ... Read More Rating: - "This song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles, now were steeling it back". "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. ... Read More Rating: - Not as bad as I expected. (3.5)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 ... Read More |
