“U2’s tenth studio album and third masterpiece, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, is all about the simple melding of craft and song. Their first masterpiece, 1987’s The Joshua Tree, imagined cathedrals of ecstasy; their second, 1991’s Achtung Baby, banged around fleabag hotels of agony. But on All That You Can’t Leave Behind, U2 distill […]”
“The title can work both ways. For the band, "all that you can't leave behind" implies facing up to their platinum salad days of the Edge's trademark echo shimmers and Paul "Bono Vox" Hewson's Lexus-honk vocals. For the general public, the title reifies our struggle to leave behind the image of Bono hatching from a disco lemon, dressed in that rayon six-pack t-shirt. For a band settled into four-le”
