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U2
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Many Will See and Hear: U2’s Prescient YouthU2's first three albums are an opportunity to try and remember what their youth was like, to contemplate how they grew into mega-mega-mega-superstars, with action-figure-ready personas and their own blockbuster-sized iconography. [25 February 2009] Columns
Behind the MusicIt's impossible to listen to music in a vacuum, to take the sound of a band on its own merits. There are so many outside factors at play – reviews, friends opinions, larger cultural influences . . . [27 March 2007] (more Mixtape Confessions) ReviewsU2: 18 October 2009 - Norman, OKThis is, to be sure, U2 at their touring highpoint. [12 November 2009] 
U2: Medium, Rare & RemasteredWith long-lost B-sides, fantastic one-off experiments, drastically different alternate versions of some of their biggest post-millennial hits, U2's latest rarities collection proves to be one of their most surprisingly satisfying releases in recent memory. [22 May 2009] 
U2: No Line on the HorizonHip-hop drum beats, strange reflections in ATM machines, mournful church organs, and a female boot fetish. Without question, No Line on the Horizon sounds like no other U2 album that came before it; whether that's a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen ... [2 March 2009] 
U2: Live at Red RocksA Red Rocks show which became not only a watershed moment in U2's career, but also a piece of rock history. [6 November 2008] 
U2: The Joshua TreeThe original album, no doubt, deserves a 10, but the same cannot be said for these reissues. [26 November 2007] 
U2: The DVD Collectors Box [DVD]U2: The DVD Collector's Box didn't have a chance, quite frankly. [18 July 2007] 
U2: Achtung Baby [DVD]A half-dozen rock critics talk about a classic U2 album, arguing its "audacity" with precious little musical evidence. [2 April 2007] 
U2: U218 SinglesEverything about U218 Singles, from the radio-programmers tracklisting and disjointed running order, to the cheap, mulleted photographs that stare out from the sleeve, gives the impression of a compilation that has been cobbled together in a greedy hurry. [11 January 2007] 
U2: Zoo TV, Live From Sydney [DVD]A new DVD from U2's Zoo TV tour is a worthy testament to the powers of one of the greatest live acts of all time. [21 November 2006] 
U2: U2: The Joshua TreeOriginally released in 2000, this film explores the making of U2's masterpiece that forever changed the landscape of rock. [12 November 2006] 
U2: Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago [DVD]Bono sets an example for us all, putting in a full night's work on his birthday. [8 December 2005] 
U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic BombUnlike so many of their younger peers, U2 aren't writing protest music. They also aren't trying to shift musical paradigms. Instead, they're writing pop songs for a large and expectant public (a populist step in its own right). [23 November 2004] U2successfully wooed a near sellout crowd for it's first D.C. show on this tour. The crowd loved the band; the band loved the crowd. We all loved one another. [13 June 2001] Blogs
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