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Four teenage musicians - Paul Hewson (Bono), Dave Evans (The Edge), Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton formed rock band U2 in Dublin in 1976. Initially, the band comprised three more members and had the title The Larry Mullen Band, but it changed several names and was left by three members, thus reducing to the quartet called U2. In 1978, on the Saint Patrick's Day, the musicians won in a local talent competition and got the money for the record of a demo. The music by U2 for that period was rather cheerful. Singles Three and Another Day brought moderate fame in Ireland to the band. In 1980, U2 signed a contract with Island Records and created their debut Boy with the hit I Will Follow. After the tours along the UK, the artists recorded their second attempt October, which became the most religiously themed full-length in the whole U2's discography. In 1983, the band already finished its third album War with piercing hits Bloody Sunday and New Year's Day. The tour along Europe and The USA was a sound success.
The next disc The Unforgettable Fire became the real breakthrough of the band, combining the elements of classical rock and daring sound experiments. The group changed not only the sound; the lyrics also became deeper and filled with semitones. The song about Martin Luther King, called Pride (In The Name Of Love) became the hit. Around the same time, U2 and especially its soloist Bono started to take an active part in numerous movements for the civil rights - including The Amnesty International. The follow-up The Joshua Tree featured the fusion of rock and national Irish music, jazz, country and gospels. The album got two Grammies and produced two smash hits - With Or Without You and I Still Haven’t Found What I'm Looking For. The work over the album Achtung Baby took place in Berlin with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who collaborated with U2 over The Unforgettable Fire. Achtung Baby saw light in 1991, and got darker moods than the previous long-plays (the consequence of The Edge's divorce) and had innovative character. The supporting tour for Achtung Baby became one of the most spectacular multimedia shows in the world's rock history.
On the album Zooropa U2 left rock traditions more bravely - the full-length had elements of techno and electronica, noticeable on the singles Lemon, Numb, Stay (Faraway, So Close!) and Zooropa. After this album, U2 made soundtracks for films Batman Forever, Mission Impossible and wrote the theme song for the picture about James Bond GoldenEye, performed by Tina Turner. The Pop album with rhythmic and memorable single Mofo saw light in 1997 - this time the artists focused on sampling and programming, combining it with techno. In 2000, the disc All That You Can't Leave Behind marked the U2's comeback to the rock of 80's. Such tuneful tracks as Beautiful Day, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of and Elevation became hits all over the world, while the disc itself presented U2 with six Grammies. The work over the How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb long-play began in 2003, but in the summer of 2004 the material was stolen. However, the members of U2 managed to preserve control over the situation and the album was released the same year, producing the bright rock hit Vertigo. In 2005, Bruce Springsteen inducted U2 into the US Rock-n-roll Hall Of Fame. In 2006, the band included its best singles on the U218 Singles compilation.
The next studio album by U2, No Line on the Horizon, was released in February 2009. It was U2's first album in nearly five years and their best since 1991's Achtung Baby. It was recorded in the Moroccan city of Fez. Despite the playful exhortation of the lead single Get on Your Boots, No Line on the Horizon was mostly reflective. It featured intriguing stylistic experiments like the soul ballad Moment of Surrender; the gang vocals of Unknown Caller; and the Middle Eastern-flavored Fez-Being Born, inspired by Morocco.
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On its twelfth album No Line On The Horizon U2 has turned away from the classic rock tendencies present on the last two records as if remembering to have a lot of sensual, soft and breathtaking melodies in its repertoire
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Having redeemed itself big-time with classy throwback All That You Can't Leave Behind, the graying Irish quartet now delivers a totally explosive follow-up with this passionate, well-aged release. A slower album
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Compilation albumsU218 Singles
Bearing a simple name U218 the album offers a very lucky collection of most popular songs with a couple of nice surprises – U2 has recorded two new compositions which are both included. Besides some songs are in versions unheard before
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By DOUG COLLETTE
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Given the controversy that arose around the unilateral download of U2's Songs of Innocence, it's either brave, foolish or greedy to see the issue of the album in various physical forms in such short order. Yet the group confounds even further in the way they can, when playing and singing, leave behind the posing, pomposity and lethal careerism. Thus, the prospect of unreleased material and alternate takes of tracks from the original list can't help but pique the curiosity.
It's safe to say 'Lucifer's Hand' boasts a more immediate hook than anything on the original album and it's as provocatively self-referential as anything on the record, particularly as it juxtaposes images of clubland the likes of which U2 are known to frequent on a regular basis with the biblical reference 'if I can't change the world...'It begs the question if the (un)knowing self-awareness that crept into these songs is taking hold or representss simply the germination of the process. 'The Crystal Ballroom' may even deepen the conundrum though, as its lyrics, set over a metronomic beat and interrupted by a fluid yet somewhat mechanical guitar solo, read like a daydream from a scene where the speaker finds himself alone in the proverbial crowd. Bono's stilted delivery doesn't enhance the credibility the words aim for, but his vocal on the opening of the 'Acoustic Sessions' proves he can still be a great singer without overreaching to his now-caricatured histrionics. In fact, he understates himself beautifully as the track crests with washes of strings before dissolving back to a single acoustic piano. Besides 'Every Breaking Wave,' this suite of stripped down arrangements is only relatively sparse, as 'Raised by Wolves' features a baroque horn chart far removed from the unplugged guitars that form the foundation of this version of 'Cedarwood Road;' the U2 nucleus of musical and personal chemistry that transcends their collective contemporary persona only rises further above the psychic clatter when touches of strings come and go. 'Song for Someone' in this outlined version brings to mind the spacious fluidity of October (Island,1981) and the spontaneity of Rattle and Hum (Island, 1988) , that prolonged gestation of Songs of Innocence which so contradicted those virtues. And this take of 'The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)' sounds like nothing so much as an impromptu singalong springing from the completion of its lyrics, the sound of hand claps its only instrumentation besides acoustic guitars. The layered production of this alternative version of 'The Troubles' is cinematic in its mix of textures, yet there's little sense of the quartet playing here: a solo Bono cut might well sound like this. In contrast, Tchad Blake reminds of his creative slant on recordings of Los Lobos and Phish with his 'Alternative Perspective Mix' of 'Sleep Like A Baby Tonight:' he gives a shifting 3D depth to the vocal and instrumental components in which U2 sound they are truly using the recording studio as an instrument in itself. Listed as only five tracks on the double CD package, their running time clocks at close to forty-five minutes and with inserts of lyrics, production details and other folderol included, this 'Deluxe Version' of Songs of Innocence is capped off by the 'secret' inclusion of 'Invisible,' originally made available as a one-off during a Super Bowl commercial in February 2014 (and subsequently as a free download for a limited time for the sake of charity): its patently transparent lyrics set in the context of this package and, with the benefit of brief hindsight, make for a fitting conclusion of deliberate or accidental self-commentary. It's a listening experience that, if U2's paradoxical personae are temporarily shunted aside, hearkens to the days of The Joshua Tree (Island, 1987), when b-sides of singles and additional tracks on their twelve-inch counterparts made collecting records a joy and another means to give due to a band as loyal to its fans as it hoped they were to the group itself.
Track Listing: CD 1: The Miracle (of Joey Ramone), Every Breaking Wave, California (There Is No End to Love), Song for Someone, Iris (Hold Me Close), Volcano, Raised by Wolves, Cedarwood Road, Sleep Like a Baby Tonight; This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now, The Troubles. CD 2: Lucifer's Hands; The Crystal Ballroom; Every Breaking Wave (from Acoustic Sessions); California (from Acoustic Sessions); Raised by Wolves (from Acoustic Sessions); Cedarwood Road (from Acoustic Sessions); Song for Someone (from Acoustic Sessions); The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) (Busker Version); The Troubles (Alternative Version); Sleep Like a Baby Tonight (Alternative Perspective by Tchad Blake).
Personnel: Bono: lead vocals, keyboards, guitar, dulcimer; The Edge: guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, programming; Adam Clayton: bass guitar, keyboards; Larry Mullen, Jr.: drums, percussion, backing vocals; Additional musicians Brian Burton: keyboards (CD 1 tracks 1–2, 7–11; CD 2 tracks 2, 8-12), programming (track 7), additional percussion (track 10), choral arrangement (track 6); Ryan Tedder: keyboards (CD 1: tracks 1–2, 4–5; CD 2: 2,4,5), programming (track 1), acoustic guitar (track 1); Paul Epworth: keyboards (CD 1: tracks 1, 3, 8; CD 2: 1,2,4,8 ), programming (track 1), additional percussion (track 1), claps (track 6), slide guitar (track 8); Flood: keyboards (track 4); Declan Gaffney – acoustic guitar (CD 1: tracks 1, 6; CD 2: track 6), keyboards (CD 1: tracks 2–8, 10–11; CD 2: tracks 3-6, 8-10), programming (tracks 3, 7, 9), backing vocals (tracks 3, 10), claps (track 6), additional percussion (track 7), vocal effects (track 7); Lykke Li – vocals (track 11); 'Classy' Joe Visciano: claps (track 6), backing vocals (track 10); Leo Pearson – keyboards (CD 1: track 9; CD 2: track 15); Caroline Dale – cello (track 11), string arrangement (CD 1: track 11); Natalia Bonner: violin (track 11); string arrangement David Richard Campbell(CD 2: track 3); string section ((CD 2: track 3): Charlie Bisharat, Josephine Vergara, Andrew Duckles, Erica Duke- Kirkpatrick, Michael Valerio; horn section ((CD 2: track 3): Nate Wolcott, Sean Billings, David Moyer, Adam Schroeder; string arrangement and cello: Caroline Dale (Cd 2: track 4; violin (CD 2, track 4: Natalia Bonner; Greg Clark: choir (CD 1L tracks 1, 6; CD 2: tracks 1, 6); Carlos Ricketts: choir (tracks 1, 6; Tabitha Fair: choir (tracks 1, 6); Kim Hill: choir (tracks 1, 6); Quiona McCollum: choir (tracks 1, 6); Nicki Richards: choir (tracks 1, 6); Everett Bradley: choir (tracks 1, 6); Bobby Harden : choir (tracks 1, 6); Ada Dyer: choir (tracks 1, 6).
Title: U2: Songs of Innocence Deluxe Edition | Year Released: 2014 | Record Label: Interscope
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