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How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Collector's ... [CD & DVD] - U2 (CD 2004)

Track Listing
1. Vertigo
2. Miracle Drug
3. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own
4. Love and Peace or Else
5. City of Blinding Lights
6. All Because of You
7. Man and a Woman, A
8. Crumbs From Your Table
9. One Step Closer
10. Origin of the Species
11. Yaweh
12. Fast Cars

Details
Producer:Brian Eno, Carl Glanville, Chris Thomas, Steve Lillywhite
Distributor:Universal Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
This Limited Edition of HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB includes a bonus DVD that features a documentary film and live performances. It also includes a 45-page book featuring illustrations, paintings, and photography by U2.
U2: Bono (vocals); The Edge (guitar); Adam Clayton (bass guitar); Larry Mullen Jr. (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Carl Glanville (keyboards, percussion).
Recording information: 2004.
Much in the manner of their previous album, ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND, U2 largely strips down the stadium-sized approach of years past on the provocatively titled HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB. Whether they were inspired by the garage-rock revival that took place in between the two records, or just felt like making some visceral rock & roll, this 2004 release has as much unbridled energy as such early U2 benchmarks as BOY or WAR. The album starts with a bang, courtesy of the charging, angular "Vertigo," whose driving bass line and shouted vocals announce the band's intentions in no uncertain terms.
The bluesy "Love and Peace or Else," and the fuzz-guitar-fueled "All Because of You" follow suit in a similarly high-energy manner. That's not to say that this is a mere rockfest from start to finish, though. There are an equal number of reflective, mid-tempo tunes whose direct emotional impact recalls the more elegiac tracks on OCTOBER, giving the whole album a dynamic depth of field. Whether rocking like madmen or getting in touch with their inner selves, though, the band sounds totally committed throughout ATOMIC BOMB, which has always been the first requirement for a great U2 album.

Editorial Reviews
Ranked #35 in Uncut's Best New Albums of 2004 - [A] brilliantly expansive album and their best since ACHTUNG BABY.
Uncut

[I]t's their most unabashedly strident record since THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE....Though the band rattle and strum with their old '80s vigour, the lines that stay with you speak of a creeping malaise.
Uncut

4 stars out of 5 - [T]hey continue to pioneer a new future for rock music....What is clear is that there's a new maturity to Bono's lyrics.
Mojo

'Crumbs From Your Table' is the type of glorious gallop this band can write in its pub nap, but no one does it better. - Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly

Ranked #29 in Spin's 40 Best Albums of the Year - An '80s rock band making a great 11th album.
Spin

Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - U2 soar to adult glory with a guitar-driven vigor that hearkens back to 1980's BOY...
Rolling Stone

4 stars out of 5 - This is grandiose music from grandiose men, sweatlessly confident in the execution of their duties.
Rolling Stone

Ranked #17 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2005 - HTDAAB harmonised post-punk U2 and the modern, humanistic concerns of Bono Inc...
Mojo

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    Reviews
      Great, with an extra track to boot!
    Review created: 11/05/06
    by:

    I've owned U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb for about two years, and I have to say that as a U2 fan, it certainly ranks among the top material the band has produced over the past 30 years or so.

    Most bands will have a good song or two on an album, and the rest of the tracks will be filler, something that's great to hear once, but never again. The only track that has not dawned on me yet is "One Step Closer", but everything else is great.

    I cannot wait for U2's new album, supposedly being released in 2007.

    This set comes with an extra track "Fast Cars", which is well worth spending the extra few dollars for.


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      How To Dismantle CD & DVD 48PG BOOKLET Box Limited U2
    Review created: 05/03/06
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    EXCELLENT.CONTAINS THE REAL LAST TRACK FAST CARS ,WHICH IS MORE OF A ROCKER .THE BOOK OF SCRAWLED LYRICS,ARTWORK BY THE BAND & THE DVD WHICH HAS ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF SOME OF THE ALBUM TRACKS ,PLUS AROUND ANOTHER 1/2 HR. OF THE WORKING PROCESS CALLED U2 AND 3 SONGS ,WITH INTERVIEWS ,INSPIRATIONS .ANY U2 FAN WOULD ENJOY THIS HUMBLE LITTLE PACKAGE .


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