All That You Can't Leave Behind
Occupation
Bono (vocals ) The Edge (guitar, vocals) Adam Clayton (bass ) Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums)
All That You Can not Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by Irish rock band U2. After great criticism of the fans at the more experimental album Pop, the band had turned to their traditional style. All That You Can not Leave Behind rose in more than 30 countries at number one in the charts and moved the band back into the public. The subsequent Elevation Tour was commercially the second most successful tour in music history.
Track list
Single releases
- Beautiful Day
- Elevation
- Walk On
Recording
After their previous, experimental album Pop and the accompanying tour by fans and critics has not been included as positive as their previous albums, the band its traditional style turned back to. For the production they hired this time Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. From 1998 to 2000 it was recorded in between including a two -month break has been inserted, because Lanois and Bono the soundtrack to the film The Million Dollar Hotel had to take.
Album Cover
The cover shows the band at Paris-Charles de Gaulle ( Roissy Hall 2F ) Airport. The video for the single release Beautiful Day was also rotated at the airport.
Find out more
- The title Walk On is dedicated to the Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
- The album won a Grammy, the single from the album Beautiful Day three. The other three singles Walk On, Elevation and Stuck in a Moment You Can not Get Out Of each received a Grammy. It is the only album in music history, which includes two tracks, which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, in 2001 Beautiful Day and Walk On in 2002.
- In Burma, there is an attempt to import the album to there, be imprisoned between three and 20 years since the song contained in the recorded music " Walk On " Aung San Suu Kyi is dedicated to why the SPDC has banned the song.
Commercial success
The album reached number one in over 30 countries, including, among others, Germany, Austria and the UK. In addition, it has been awarded over 25 times with a platinum record.
Critical reception
Critics recorded the album mostly positive. The calculated by Metacritic average is 79 out of 100 possible points, with the comment " Generally Favorable reviews " ( German " mostly positive reviews "). The American magazine Rolling Stone voted the album at number 363 of the 500 best music albums of all time and number 13 of the Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s. Furthermore, the Rolling Stone called the album alongside The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby as a third masterpiece of the band.
The German press had a positive opinion about All That You Can not Leave Behind. Eberhard says Dobler of laut.de that "it do good to hear good pop music also once again between hip hop, electro - Mucke, heavy guitars and all the whining of the chart plastic icons. Only a band that has 20 years of rock and pop music on the hump could write such songs. In addition, U2 would " always better " and the album "a kind quintessence of their work ". " He forgave. According to an author of rezensator.de " Album fulminant start, the next three songs were very good, then All That You Can not Leave Behind leave after but only When I Look At The World could keep up with the first song. " The author missed.