RATTLE AND HUM
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RATTLE AND HUM
Rattle and Hum is the sixth studio album by Irish rock band U2, and a companion rockumentary film directed by Phil Joanou. The album was produced by Jimmy Iovine and was released on 10 October 1988, while the film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was released on 27 October 1988. Following the breakthrough success of the band's previous studio album, The Joshua Tree, the Rattle and Hum project captures their continued experiences with American roots music on the Joshua Tree Tour, further incorporating elements of blues rock, folk rock, and gospel music into their sound. A collection of new studio tracks, live performances, and cover songs, the project includes recordings at Sun Studios in Memphis and collaborations with Bob Dylan, B. B. King, and Harlem's New Voices of Freedom gospel choir. --Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Rattle and Hum is the sound of four men who still haven’t found what they’re looking for — and whose restlessness assures that they will be looking further still.
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BBC
Songs from The Joshua Tree became even grander in a stadium setting.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
U2 DIG UP SOME AMERICAN ROOTS ON 'RATTLE AND HUM'
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Los Angeles Times
U2 Embraces the Roots of Rock : The Raw, Experimental Sounds of 'Rattle and Hum' More Than Match the Craft of 'The Joshua Tree'
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The Chicago Tribune (Reprint)
This Irish band with a fascination for American culture has produced an album that is a unique amalgam of its own musical roots and indigenous American music: pop, country & western, gospel and the blues. The combination is musically stunning.
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All Music
...by far the least-focused record U2 ever made
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The Austin Chronicle
...this is the band's most daring album, but bands get judged on their music, and inasmuch as that's what really matters, this is U2's worst album.
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Classic Rock Review
...a collection that is both interesting and entertaining as well as uneven and disjointed
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The Vinyl Review
While the 9 studio songs that make up the album are really good, and some of the live tracks that make up the album are really good as well, Rattle and Hum was bloated by idea and concept and execution.
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People
There are certainly some dull passages on Rattle and Hum, which is neither as evocative nor as cohesive as The Joshua Tree. But U2 has grown so strong and self-possessed that even a rather casual project like this takes on the appurtenances of a big deal.
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The Online Reviews
Rattle & Hum is wonderfully schizophrenic, full of passion and ambition.
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Albumism
...captures U2 in a glorious moment of time but also at the crossroads of reaching the mountaintop and wondering where to travel next.
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Robert Christgau
This partly live double-LP is looser and faster than anything they've recorded since their first live mini-LP...
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