How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Remastered 2024) U2

• 1 Vertigo (Remastered 2024) 03:14
• 2 Miracle Drug (Remastered 2024) 03:59
• 3 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (Remastered 2024) 05:08
• 4 Love And Peace Or Else (Remastered 2024) 04:50
• 5 City Of Blinding Lights (Remastered 2024) 05:47
• 6 All Because Of You (Remastered 2024) 03:34
• 7 A Man And A Woman (Remastered 2024) 04:30
• 8 Crumbs From Your Table (Remastered 2024) 04:59
• 9 One Step Closer (Remastered 2024) 03:51
• 10 Original Of The Species (Remastered 2024) 04:41
• 11 Yahweh (Remastered 2024) 04:41
• 12 Fast Cars (Remastered 2024) 03:43
• Total Runtime 52:57

Info for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Remastered 2024)

Newly remastered! In 1991, U2 received much critical kudos for Achtung Baby. The four-piece band had reinvented themselves as an entirely new group, abandoning their chiming moonwalk atmospherics for the explosive, impending electronica age. However, the '90s didn't turn out quite as they planned and by 2000 the band were back with their old producers trying to re-find their inner U2.

Can you go home again? Well, it seems you can bury the point all together by simply writing and recording songs that make it feel as if you never took the detour in the first place. Atomic Bomb, much like the previous All That You Left Behind, features trademark U2 moves delivered with their sonically commanding depth and unashamed emotional range. "Vertigo" opens the album with a stark, yet full-bodied, blast.

"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own," "Crumbs From Your Table," and "Yahweh" yearn with spiritual concerns that no amount of material success seems to satisfy.

The 11 tracks included the songs 'Vertigo' and 'Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own', both of which debuted at No. 1 in the UK charts, the first time a U2 album produced two chart topping singles. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and its singles won a total of eight Grammy Awards, sweeping all of the categories in which the band were nominated, with 'Vertigo' alone winning three in 2005, including Best Rock Song. The band were the night's big winners in 2006, taking home the Grammy for Album of the Year, as well as Song of the Year for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' and Best Rock Song for 'City of Blinding Lights', with Steve Lilywhite also winning Producer of the Year.

The album that carries U2 into its 25th year--and likely the mixed blessings of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--is one of its most frank and focused since the days of October and War. But its gestation was anything but simple, in part salvaged from '03 sessions the band deemed subpar. Enter Steve Lillywhite, the band's original producer and sometime collaborator in the decades since, who helped retool the track "Native Son" (originally an antigun screed) into the aggressive iPod anthem "Vertigo" and leaves his distinctive stamp on the muscular "All Because of You." Perhaps weary of ceaseless, fashion-driven reinvention in the wake of monumental success, U2 seem only too happy here to re-embrace their original sonic trademarks in service of more daring, pop-melodic hooks than they've collected in one place in decades. The Eno/Lanois produced "Love and Peace or Else" may shimmer with the duo's electro-production conceits, but it's Edge's lugubrious, postmodern John Lee Hooker guitar swagger that drives it. Elsewhere, Bono's trademark dramaturgy is spotlighted on "City of Blinding Lights," the unabashed romance of "A Man and a Woman," and the confessional "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." It may come wrapped in a conundrum--is it nostalgic retrenchment or a sum of the band's endless musical catharsis?--It's also the album where, Fly and MacPhisto be damned, U2 boldly claims its arena titan mantle with apologies to no one. (Jerry McCulley)

Bono, lead vocals, additional guitar (tracks 2, 9, 11), piano (5)
The Edge, guitar, backing/additional vocals (1–7, 9, 11), piano (2, 4–5, 10–11), keyboards (3), additional percussion (7), synthesizer (10–11)
Adam Clayton, bass
Larry Mullen Jr., drums, percussion, backing vocal (2)
Additional musicians:
Jacknife Lee, additional synthesizers (1–2, 4–5, 7–10), programming (2, 4), keyboards (6), additional guitar atmospherics (8)
Daniel Lanois, additional guitar and pedal steel (9), mandolin (11), shaker (4)
Carl Glanville, additional percussion and synthesizers (2)
Brian Eno, synthesisers (4)
Fabien Waltmann, programming (3, 5)

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With its textured guitars, U2's sound was undeniably indebted to post-punk, so it's slightly ironic that the band formed in 1976, before punk had reached their hometown of Dublin, Ireland. Larry Mullen Jr. (born October 31, 1961; drums) posted a notice on a high-school bulletin board asking for fellow musicians to form a band. Bono (born Paul Hewson, May 10, 1960; vocals, guitar), the Edge (born David Evans, August 8, 1961; guitar, keyboards, vocals), Adam Clayton (born March 13, 1960; bass), and Dick Evans responded to the ad, and the group formed as a Beatles and Stones cover band called the Feedback, before changing their name to the Hype in 1977. Shortly afterward, Dick Evans left the band to form the Virgin Prunes. Following his departure, the group changed its name to U2.

U2's first big break arrived in 1978, when they won a talent contest sponsored by Guinness; the band were in their final year of high school at the time. By the end of the year, the Stranglers' manager, Paul McGuinness, saw the band play and offered to manage them. Even with a powerful manager in their corner, the band had trouble making much headway -- they failed an audition with CBS Records at the end of the year. In the fall of 1979, U2 released their debut EP, U2 Three. The EP was available only in Ireland, and it topped the national charts. Shortly afterward, they began to play in England, but they failed to gain much attention.

U2 had one other chart-topping single, "Another Day," in early 1980 before Island Records offered the group a contract. Later that year, the band's debut, Boy, was released. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the record's sweeping, atmospheric but edgy sound was unlike most of its post-punk contemporaries, and the band earned further attention for its public embrace of Christianity; only Clayton was not a practicing Christian. Through constant touring, including opening gigs for Talking Heads and wet T-shirt contests, U2 were able to take Boy into the American Top 70 in early 1981. October, also produced by Lillywhite, followed in the fall, and it became their British breakthrough, reaching number 11 on the charts. By early 1983, Boy's "I Will Follow" and October's "Gloria" had become staples on MTV, which, along with their touring, gave the group a formidable cult following in the U.S.

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